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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Velobuild VB-R-218
« Last post by Chiyou on Today at 11:13:10 AM »
A total noob question: What kind of software are you using to design stuff like this? Some sort of CAD-software? Is it free/open source? I’d be interested to design a storage box to mount inbetween the water bottles in the frame triangle on my TT-X38.

Yes, CAD / 3D-modeling software. Commercial products such as Fusion 360 are very slick and can do a lot of thinking for you; licenses for personal use may be available. On the opensource side, FreeCAD* has been around for a good long time but takes some getting used to, depending on how your brain works. Either way, expect a steep learning curve.

* Ondsel ES is built on top of FreeCAD and to an extent takes the sting out of FreeCAD's somewhat spartan approach.
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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« Last post by Serge_K on Today at 10:12:16 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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+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: LTWOO eGR
« Last post by Chiyou on Today at 10:07:20 AM »
I found a pair of post-mount RS785 calipers that will mount without an adapter nearby for cheap so that should work.

Ha! I went through almost the exact same process as you did (head scratching, careful measuring, thoughts of drilling) a few months ago and ended up with an RS785 caliper as well (for some reason, my bike has one post mount and one flat mount). So far, the caliper is working well (as in, I haven't died yet). For the record, I am using eR9 and used a BH59 barb.
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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TFSA JH-37
« Last post by Serge_K on Today at 10:05:43 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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where are you located?

Southern California. When it does get wet here, I usually just take my mechanical GRX gravel bike.
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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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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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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.
But since they state they do not sell to third party seller there is the real chance there will be no warranty. Certainly not by wheeltop, not even through the sellers.
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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.
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