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Of course it's possible if the groupset itself is not damaged. With rare high end exceptions where mechanical groupsets can't be installed on some frames, it should be just a straight swap with the exception of new brake hoses and fittings. A few other compatibilities to look out for would be clearance for tire, chainrings, disc rotors but everything is probably fine
By the way the UCI certification is completely worthless and nothing but marketing if you don't race in UCI events. Not indicative of quality in any way

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Read somewhere else that SRAM lost their lawsuit against wheeltop and had some patents invalidated in china, meaning all chinese groupsets can be fully wireless from now on
Not sure how trustworthy that is until a local or insider confirms but this seems huge

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Steel pedal expanders. Mine are from Risk I've seen them branded differently
Strongly recommend if you don't like having clean threads or skin on your knuckles. I thought the threads would still be fine but no, it took me an hour to remove them despite all the grease I used. Metal is very soft and bends when uninstalling, threads are toast after 1000km.
Thankfully the threads on my PM crankset are still okay. My look pedals were ruined so I'm gonna try the ultralight zeray pedals as a replacement. Hope I don't give an update from the hospital


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Looks like Rhinowalk finally has a bolt on top tube bag.

$24.90 | Rhinowalk Bike Top Tube Bag With Bolt Mounted and Strap Waterproof Aerodynamic Low Drag Fit For Triathlon Gravel MTB Road Bicycle
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOJO57k
Seen it last week and it looks like the cervelo/focus one, but it's not even cheaper. Got one at the LBS for 25CHF, seen it even cheaper on bike24

Anyone see this new carbon crankset? It has 165mm, 170mm and 172.5mm crank arm lengths. The Riro and Racework cranksets are only 170mm.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805742548463.html


What are the 150/102/135mm sizes?

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There's a lot to cover. Why are they advertising "1x13", what does this imply? Are they making a "full" groupset with cassette discs and cranks? Are they locking us into 13 speed now?
The crankset looks like the senicx PR4 but it's not, the back of the cranks is different. Calipers are not the zrace ones and I don't recognize the rotors. The pic is blurry but it looks like the levers are exactly the same

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To me 3 buttons means the same as the TX groupset. 2 on the right shifter 1 on the left shifter. I don't know why a gravel groupset would ever have more especially if it's 1x

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Inspired by sharks? The chinese are now doing meaningless bullshit marketing, they are learning so fast!
Is it 1x only?  :( No word on clearance or capacity, would be nice if you could purchase the gravel RD with road levers and FD and run something like 50-34 11-42

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Maintenance, Mechanics, & Tools / Re: Lower headset gap?
« on: May 16, 2024, 06:57:31 AM »
I also have the same problem with my LC MTB and that was provided headset.  Provided compression is nice and tight and there is no play, I haven't had any issues with the gap
I've been rudely told elsewhere that was normal and I was a cretin for even asking. From all the 696 pictures I've seen none had such a gap but I couldn't find a closeup of the headtube. If a 696 owner can confirm? Also are the ZTTO or viaron headsets any good as a replacement?

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You MAY be able to reuse barbs and olive if you can get it out and if you haven't tightened the olive too much but it's heavily recommended to cut and put new barb/olive as you likely lose some seal. This is why you are often advised to leave as much hose as possible in the bike. If crimped properly the olive shouldn't come off anyway
You can pick up a pack of olive/barb/hose kits for 4 bucks on ali, or for 30 at your LBS who will urge you not to get them from aliexpress as they might explode. The olives are universal afaik but the barbs and hoses are not, i think the standard Ltwoo uses is BH59, same as shimano road
You seal the open hoses with a toothpick
And yes both ends of the hose have a barb and an olive

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Hello,
I realized yesterday, watching TraceVelo video about bike rack, he is testing the eRx blue edition. Were checking videos and shorts (to know from when) but he did not mention anything about it. He will want to make a good evaluation before giving an opinion.
Greetings!!
His is eRX "blue" "v1". A revision but not the latest Joe showed with usb c

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Why
Subcompact options that are hard to get with BCD, plus the rings are very pretty

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PM Cranks are mechanically speaking an inferior design to spider PMs. For spider PMs they are build with a pair of sheer gauges that can naturally filter out components of applied torque that are not due to rider pedaling, while crank based PMs rely heavily on post-processing to clean the data to a usable level. You also only need one side to measure true L/R combined power (though the power decomposition to L/R is still more or less guess work), which is especially good if you have a pretty big L/R difference (For me it's 56/44, so a left-side-only setup would overestimate my power by quite a lot)
I just really want directmount chainrings

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Wonder how eGR will be charged if it gets redesigned since there's no FD. Not very streamlinely of them

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After ride number 5 where the shifters stopped working, I have finally reached the point of permanently moving forward. Is there a way to use parts (such as the breaking calipers) in a shimano groupset?
Yes, the brake calipers use BH59 and mineral oil same as shimano, you can use them with shimano shifters
The battery, derailleurs and shifters however you can't reuse, they are a package deal

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