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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: WheelTop EDS TX Full Wireless Groupset (Chinese SRAM)
« on: Today at 12:03:58 PM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on Today at 11:51:44 AM
This is pretty dumb. How hard is it to assign a serial # to each groupset? Their warranty process is just pure laziness. The EDS TX is already in Shimano 105 Di2 AliEx pricing territory. At least with the 105 Di2, spare parts are plentiful and quality assurance to chance buying from a reseller is much better.

Agreed. Business wise, it's akin to shooting yourself in the foot. It's even remarkably stupid. Unless ofc they actively want the west not to buy their stuff, which might be the case, after all, as China is probably big enough for them to thrive. But then they wouldn't be selling to Aliexpress vendors. So it's probably just stupid.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: Today at 10:12:16 AM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on May 19, 2024, 10:34:18 AM
They work fine! I double checked my gravel bike brake pads which does long descents on dirt trails and there are no deep track lines on the pads. My 2x160mm rotors are 1.6mm thick and feel quite sturdy. For someone to toast their rotors and dig tracks into their brake pads suggest to me they weighed like 130kg and had zero clue how to feather and modulate front/rear braking! There's a reason they have bigger rotors for bigger riders!

A bad design is a bad design though. Glad it's working for you, but as a fat ass myself, i dont want half of my rotor surface to be air.

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Maintenance, Mechanics, & Tools / Re: Stuttering front disc brake SRAM Rival Centerline X on LCR017-D
« on: Today at 10:09:19 AM »
+1 on the loose headset. Be careful, because that sounds like a bad case of headset play. The sort of thing that prematurely wears out a carbon steerer. If you're really heavy and really unlucky, you end up snapping the steerer, jump over the bike, and have a really bad day.
Given you're on a lightcarbon frame, it's probably user error rather than bad tolerances, so should be an easy fix once you find the issue.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TFSA JH-37
« on: Today at 10:05:43 AM »
Quote from: TidyDinosaur on May 22, 2023, 03:40:42 AM
I have also ordered a road frame from TFSA 3 weeks ago. They claim they will ship in 10-20 days, but yesterday they asked for an extension of the processing time because the frame is not ready... So if there are no more delays the processing time will be closer to a month. So total time between order and receiving will indeed be closer to 2 months... Communication is good (I ask them for an update every few days to keep them on their toes) but the long wait is not that great...

How did your build go? How is riding going?
Looks like there's very little info on here about TFSA.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Lightcarbon: New LCR017-D (or Yishun R1058-D)
« on: Today at 08:12:38 AM »
Quote from: PaxiH on Today at 03:15:32 AM
I know this post is a little bit older.
Can you tell me if 20 days was the complete delivery time from China or only after arriving in Europe?

typically 20 days is total transit time, once it's in europe you have it within 1 week, for experience. it is true that tracking data sometimes goes dark for no apparent reason between china and europe. presumably because of VAT shenanigans with DDP schemes. Once it resurfaces, you get it pretty fast.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: WheelTop EDS TX Full Wireless Groupset (Chinese SRAM)
« on: Today at 08:10:27 AM »
Quote from: jfcb on Today at 05:11:26 AM
What they are stating is fair. As far as in Europe (and maybe in other countries as well), it's the store who needs to provide warranty cases with the consumer and not the company of the product. So if you claim warranty, you need to contact your seller rather than directly Wheeltop.

This is different. they are saying that the only way to buy their products is via their website.
what you are saying is what LTWOO is doing for eg, which is, in case of warranty issues, you contact your reseller, and the reseller liaises with LTWOO. I know that 1st hand, given i'm now on my 3rd dead ER9 RD, and every time i go through the reseller, which is torture.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Wheelset for 30mm tire recommendations
« on: May 19, 2024, 02:49:21 PM »
Ask them. Peter by email and Leon by WhatsApp. Their details are on the forum

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Wheelset for 30mm tire recommendations
« on: May 19, 2024, 07:48:55 AM »
Speed carbon has such rims (Peter from speed carbon on the forum)
Yuanan as well (OEM for Elite, also on the forum)
Farsports for sure
Basically you want rims that are at least 31-32-33-34mm wide.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: WheelTop EDS TX Full Wireless Groupset (Chinese SRAM)
« on: May 19, 2024, 07:45:05 AM »
Agreed. That's ridiculously shitty of them.
Has South park cable network vibes of like "ooo, you didn't buy your product directly from you and now you have a problem with it and it's clearly something we made and we sold it to a reseller? Right right, oh we're sorry but we're not going to provide any service nor honour guarantee on that product you see"


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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
« on: May 18, 2024, 11:28:54 PM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on May 18, 2024, 03:46:07 PM
It probably wasn’t a good idea to buy 5 ER9 groupset especially since it seems LTwoo hasn’t ironed out their issues.
I agree very much, but we had 4 bikes to build up day 1 and I bought a spare in case we had one dead on arrival or breaking right at the outset.
At the time of purchase, it was pretty much the only electronic option available, and I definitely have mixed feelings with sensah mechanical, my experience has been very mixed. And routing 4 hoses in the bike instead of 2?... L-TWOO mechanical I didn't like the thumb shift thing. And Shimano/ SRAM were way out of budget.
So we're now paying the price of beta testing.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
« on: May 18, 2024, 11:50:40 AM »
And the disaster continues. 3rd dead er9 RD. again, randomly and for no reason. Was riding with my friend, who really hasn't used his new bike much, less than ten rides for sure. Dry, 20 Celsius, smooth asphalt, largely flat. 35km into the ride, his RD dies like the other 2. So there's my er9 on which I've put almost 4k km that's working fine (sometimes it charges weird, but at least it's working), and the fifth one isn't being used because the front wheel on that bike broke during a crash and we're still waiting for a replacement.
At which point can I preemptively ask for extra spare RDs? I'm happy to beta test, but we can't be 6 weeks without derailleurs every time one kills itself.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: May 18, 2024, 09:53:28 AM »
Quote from: FabioZang on May 17, 2024, 10:59:41 PM
I have to say that I strongly discourage the use of this disc rotor. It completely neglects mechanical simulation and the bracket itself is prone to fracture. Furthermore, the pattern design is a mess, with hollow patterns distributed unevenly on several concentric circles. As a result, the friction rate of the entire disc rotor in the radial direction cannot achieve consistency, leading to the formation of grooves on your brake pads... It's a design that leaves me speechless.

Lol those holes are the most retarded pattern imaginable, it's almost funny. imagine the donkey who came up with the design.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Cheap Chinese Gravel frames under USD 500
« on: May 17, 2024, 11:07:53 AM »
Aluminium then. you can find cheap ass frames on Alibaba, you can order one as sample.
In carbon, to be significantly cheaper than velobuild is asking for trouble. We know velobuild is safe, but they are running a tight ship. they dont really do discounts, they dont really do marketing, they are a lean operator, they clearly compete on price.
If you buy the cheapest carbon frame you find on aliexpress, there's so much that can go wrong, the risk of time & energy you may have to waste trying to get shit to work...
China will absolutely sell you trash if you ask for it.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: What are some of the unanimously loved frames?
« on: May 17, 2024, 11:02:07 AM »
Quote from: dsveddy on May 17, 2024, 10:32:34 AM
I think the only one that has really built an enduring reputation is the Winspace T1550.

I would strongly disagree with that. I wouldn't single out any company or frame, as there's absolutely no GOAT on Chinertown. The likes of Cam Nicholls, one of the few guys who created content about that bike without getting stuff for free / getting paid has been rather vocal how much he disliked that bike, and he's reviewed a LOT of bikes. So it's not just price that's questionable.
The one thing winspace has done very well is influencer marketing. Doesnt mean their frames are better than peers. Joe from Panda was there between 2019 and 2023 as VP of marketing, and the rest is history...

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Delihea CK-Two/One Framesets
« on: May 17, 2024, 02:20:32 AM »
Not familiar with the name Delihea.

I note the shop listed on AliX on Oct23 only. Their business licence says ... ELECTRONIC commerce, established Mar21. So...
There are a few YT videos of people reviewing Delihea bikes, from much before 2023. From people buying on AliX.
Can't find a website for Delihea.

the ck-two that takes 32C looks VERY interesting. But that frame ticks all the boxes for 2024, i'd say.

I dont think i've seen this frame before. The other one with 28C looks much less future proof and relevant in 2024.

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