I am searching for a wheelset for my upcoming Yoeleo R12 and these came up. Has anyone given a thought or bought these wheels? There's plenty of information on LB, Elite wheels, or Farsports but not these and definitely not on this forum. Hambini did review a set and praised it. Their 35mm deep road wheels are 1209 grams for the pair and seem to use their own hubs with 36t ratchet system. Expensive and lighter CD series' 45mm deep wheels are under 1200 grams. Prices are comparable to Light Bicyle.

Hambini's comment -

A Chinese company has made a wheelset and specifically a hubset that is superior to the brand leading western counterpart (DT Swiss) and sells it for significantly less. 9 Velo does not have anywhere near the brand appeal of the larger western brands but there is little doubt that this wheelset is manufactured to a high technical standard.

 The copyright text at the bottom says "Xiamen NineVelo Technology Co., Ltd." Xiamen sounds eerily familiar but I guess that's because its a very common name.

I like chunky frames. Can’t find any reviews or anything on this absolute chonker though. What is it, anyone bought it? Have a R8000 rim brake groupset that I want to put to use and this looked…interesting.

https://airwolfcarbonbike.com/product/yfr029-700c-road-bike-t1100-3k-full-carbon-fibre-bicycle-frame-carbon-forkseatpostclampheadsets-v-brake/

My wheelset is an odd 12x135mm TA (rear) per Specialized's SCS format that they were pushing in mid 2010's. I am trying to convert it into standard 12x142mm. Can anyone confirm if the 12x142 end caps are all what I need or a specific 135 to 142 conversion kit? I am seeing on Alix there are numerous sellers selling 12x142 end caps for 240s hubs while Universal and other some bike specialty websites sell 135 TA to 142 TA conversion kit for $48~. From the photos, the end caps and conversion kit end caps look all same and no one specifies the dimensions. I could wager the "135 to 142 conversion kit" is a money grab but...thoughts?

So, as I understand cancellation is not a right on Alix but rather a privilege and entirely at seller's mercy but does anyone have any tips on how to successfully cancel order and get refund? In the past I have cancelled may be two orders and both were accepted by seller immediately and purchase refunded, while on one occasion the seller asked me to cancel which I did - no big deal.

This time though, it is turning into a pickle. I intended to order a frame and seeing how frame ordering can be a chore on Alix I checked with seller if they had the size and color that I wanted. The seller confirmed they had it in stock and would ship immediately if I was to order it. So I ordered and the seller basically did nothing for 3 days. When I asked when will they ship the frame, the reply came as in next few days. I then asked didn't they have it in stock? The seller says no its out of stock and has given order to factory. I asked if other colors are in stock, if they are I will okay with other color to which he says every color and every size is out of stock.

Another 3 days pass and nothing. Some more back and forth later, I cancelled the order which the seller rejected and said I will send free gift with the frame for all the trouble and will ship soon. Another 2 days passed and when I enquired, he said 5-7 days more as the factory is still processing orders.

I then cancelled again and seller didn't act on it. The timer started with 48 hours for refund. Just 2 hours before the refund would be processed automatically by Aliexpress, damn seller marked the frame as "shipped" and provided a tracking number that didn't have any information.

At the same time he sent a message that, wait for 2 days and it will start showing update (which I am aware) but I didn't like the feel of this transaction. Did some Google-fu and found out that you can raise a dispute by talking to customer care, which is what I did.
The customer care raised a dispute on my behalf for refund and communicated same to the seller.

This morning, the seller messaged saying "please confirm the order first and refund will be processed within 15 days but if you go ahead with dispute it will take longer." No idea what that means. I have never gone thru this process and I am confused :S is seller bullshitting me? Has anyone raised a dispute before...what exactly needs to be done here. Just wait or confirm the order as seller is saying? The customer care is dicey at best - some of them understand exactly what I am saying, the others make you pull your hair in frustration. Fortunately the person who raised dispute was pretty well conversant and gave me the support ticket immediately. Unfortunately, to check the status of that ticket there is no direct system - you have to jump thru hoops and find a (real) customer care person.

I would like to know how do folks here know when to change the cassette? My chain is skipping on 6/7th cogs and I am wondering if its time to change?

Recently built up a Salsa Journeyer with Deore M5100 and earlier a Diamondback with M6100 - both with Sunshine cassette before switching to SRAM NX and Shimano XT. Because the shifting was terrible. While it improved with SRAM cassettes, I can never get the same feeling as my road groupset - Ultegra/105 or even Tiagra 4700 all of which are positively smoother shifting with almost no "bad" spots. The Ultegra especially is near perfect despite being years old at this point.

On the other hand my M5/6100 groups always have 2 or 3 indexing problems which I can't seem to get rid of. I tried changing their default shifters to SLX and XT (M8100) but that didn't help. So apparently shifters aren't the problem.

Should I just assume that jumps between cogs are much larger on MTB compared to road cassette causing the inferior shifting performance? Or is there a trick to index mtb groups which is different from road groups? I read that you should let your brand new chain and cassette run in for some period to settle them down with each other which I did. The M6100 has about 200 miles while the M5100 has close to 300 but shifting hasn't improved. Do they need even longer run in period? I'm baffled.

State is selling a new CF frame with BSA BB for $1300. Simple geometry.

https://www.statebicycle.com/collections/undefeated-road-bikes-fixed-gear-and-single-speed/products/undefeated-carbon-disc-road-frame-fork-set-graphite-prism

Any idea who makes it or what it is based on?