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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Tavelo Aero Frame
« on: May 08, 2024, 06:52:33 AM »
look at this graph and think about all the people that complain about the price of high end western bikes and components increasing over the years, yet people are still buying them. Just because theyre chinese doesnt mean they have to be 'cheap' to sell.

Search 'tavelo' on 小红书(redbook) and you can scroll for hours seeing all the people that buy and post pictures of their tavelo bikes if you dont believe me haha

Dont forget china has a population of 1.4+ billion. 3.5x united states. There are bound to be some people that like the paintjobs that you think are awful XD

I don't see how any of that is relevant.  To reiterate: again, no other pret a porter molds are being sold this expensive by a Chinese brand ... and the existing customers are paying much less for the Attack than the Arrow.  And it looks shite vs stuff like Seka / Bross etc.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: RIRO cassette failure
« on: May 06, 2024, 06:23:22 PM »
It shouldn't break like that if it's a decent grade of well machined alu.  But it probably isn't, hence the result.  If you have an all alu cassette, then the smaller cogs are vulnerable.  But big cogs after very little riding is a sign of poor quality.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Tavelo Aero Frame
« on: May 06, 2024, 06:08:15 AM »
Keep in mind that retail price in china is 11500rmb(usd1600) and 14500rmb(usd2000), not pandapodium prices

And i think a lot of these chinese brand's target market are in china, not overseas so theyre priced accordingly to the market there

But this is way more expensive than any other catalogue frame from a Chinese brand. 

I don't see how they can sell these at either the PP or domestic Chinese price.  Disregarding the frame itself, just look at the paint jobs ... they look awful for this price.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Seka Spear
« on: May 03, 2024, 05:57:08 AM »
Before factor opened a new factory in Taiwan, Seka and Factor were made in the same factory I think.

Factor don't have a new factory in Taiwan, and Seka and Factor are still made in the same factory in China.

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Here is a drawing of the seatpost. It really seems to be just -15mm.

Edit: But wait ... now that I see the image a second time, I wonder where the blue reference line is.

Maybe this drawing explains why this seatpost appears to have such massive setback.  Setback is measured on the horizontal of course ... if their 'engineer' went for 15mm of setback relative to a line up through the bb and seat-tube, then ...  ???

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Sorry for my mistake, it is for 700*32C for the new mold FM-CR068.

Thanks

So are you really just going to ignore the discussion about the cut off seat tube / looped top tube etc?  No comment on how it's been designed and why?

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 24" bmx carbon frames
« on: April 22, 2024, 08:25:00 AM »
Gave up.  All the 24" carbon frames are super narrow tire clearance.

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Component Deals & Selection / 24" bmx carbon frames
« on: April 21, 2024, 08:34:39 AM »
Moving just round the corner from a pump track soon.  Don't really want to get air or have additional service complication of a dirt jump bike, so decided to get a 24" (cruiser pro) bmx.

Carbon ones definitely exist, and I've found a few Chinese suppliers selling 20" ones, but none so far advertising 24" ones.  Anyone know of a source?

Don't really want to pay $2k for a branded one which is open mold anyway.


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The Revolt fits a 2.1" rear in road 2x chainline.  There's nothing about carbon frames that precludes such setups.  Gravel bikes are just generally regressive upscaled roadbikes still rather than downscaled MTBs, hence the mostly crap geo and tire clearance.  It's mostly smaller 'boutique' brands - who typically do Ti / Steel to avoid mold costs for carbon - who do bigger clearance.

Writing's on the wall though now at least wrt tire clearance, with a lot of racers wanting to do 2.1" rear and 2.25" front.  Better geo will take longer probably.

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I really wish they'd included auxilliary buttons on this.  Though I'm sure if an app is made, long presses or whatever could control Garmins pages.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Winspace SCL 2 disc
« on: April 07, 2024, 07:13:19 AM »
I just finished building a Winspace SLC 2 disc, size 52.
I previously had a Ridley Xtrail carbon which I was using as a road bike. Unfortunately I had a crash with a car back in November. The car was coming in the opposite direction, turn left, cut my lane and I crashed into it at 44 km/h. "Only" the hip dislocated, 4 days in hospital and 8 weeks of crotches.

Ordered the frame end of December on sales, around USD 1000 all in. The first frame was not perfect, headset bearing seat oversized and bottom bearing undersized 
They replaced with no discussion based on my pictures and video.
Replacement frame better but not perfect either.

I mostly used the parts I recovered from the Ridley

What a BB ... wall thickness way higher in places than others, looks like they've used an electric sander with 50 grit sandpaper to 'smooth' it, and it doesn't look round even to the naked eye.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Tavelo Aero Frame
« on: April 05, 2024, 01:19:39 PM »
I am pretty sure these values are not correct, given the weight of the current attack bike. Maybe if they would use a lot more t1000 carbon wich would cause a big increase in price.

Man hours are far more expensive than higher modulus carbon.  But they may choose to charge a lot more if it has a competitive and desirable feature (light weight).  I doubt those figures for anything except an XS or S though.

Waiting to see geo.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: New G056 on it's way !
« on: March 28, 2024, 07:20:57 AM »
Or you could post in the 5 page thread on the first page of this sub-forum ... http://chinertown.com/index.php/topic,3739.0.html

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Suspect IMO.  Why would you have that indent in the arm of the crank?  It looks like they tried to make it look 'cool' like a CNC machined alu crank.

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Interesting ... the SRoad ones were much more durable than the ZTTO ones last time I looked, but the Goldix / ZTTO looks to have changed design since then.  I'm assuming the Riro alu ones will fall apart if you weigh more than 45kg and do over 250W out of the saddle at low cadence?

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