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Component Deals & Selection / Magene l508 vs garmin radars

« on: April 16, 2024, 08:44:28 AM »

Lots of reviews I've read on the magene are older (8+ months every time) and they always end up saying it's not quite as good as the garmin radars. A few false negatives, several false positives, clearing up the alert way too soon etc.

This is also valid for all the other "clones" as well, from Bryton etc.

Anybody still have that experience with the latest firmwares? I had a friend tell me the magene is amazing a year ago but he never actually had a garmin one, in a group ride we had both and it was clear the garmin one was a lot more accurate. I really love having a radar but I hate having to buy a micro-usb one like the garmin if that's the only one that's working decently, so was wondering if the firmwares made them better now or if it's really a hardware issue for most of them.

Component Deals & Selection / Any good CX style short pull cantilevers?

« on: April 12, 2024, 02:10:58 PM »

There's tons of road and disc brakes calipers on aliexpress, but finding cantilever style calipers is hard (not v-brakes). I'm building a budget retro bike with cheap parts but just finding good cantis (even used) is going to eat up most of my budget, any decent chinese options out there?

Thanks!

Component Deals & Selection / Powermeter pedals (Cycplus?)

« on: October 22, 2023, 06:12:34 PM »

I know Magene make some pretty nice spider crank based powermeters, but I'm wondering if any chinese brands currently offers pedal based powermeters?

Shane Miller does mention that the Cycplus at Eurobike 2023 booth seemed to have some sort of prototype here https://youtu.be/CxBxJ4zWe5s?t=288 but I couldn't find anything about them anywhere. If anybody knows more about it please share infos/news here

Component Deals & Selection / Racework road crankset issues

« on: November 28, 2022, 05:32:29 PM »

Hi guys,

I got this crankset

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003136515216.html

And my road bike has a BSA BB with a Shimano Tiagra threaded BB. The old crankset was a Shimano Tiagra crankset. BB has no spacers and the old crankset worked fine.

With the new Racework crankset I put it in the Shimano BB, but when I use the pre-load screw on the NDS arm no matter how tight I turn there's still lots of play in the crank (from left to right). Heck I even end up bottoming the screw and it does nothing on the preload. Only way I managed to remove the slack is pressing the crank arm and the crankset together, and then tightening the NDS crankarm pinch bolts. So all in all the preload screw isn't doing anything for me since there's too much slack in the system.

Am I missing anything here? I'm thinking maybe the crank is made for a MTB bb (73mm vs 68mm) and it's the only way that would work with the preload screw. I thought road bikes didn't need the spacers for a BSA BB when using a road crankset, that's why I never put the spacers...

Thanks!