Quick public service announcement.
Racework is peddling $hit.

1. I broke at Racework non drive side crank arm while tightening with a torque wrench, it broke at around 6nm. I've installed 4, 1 broke. I know how to tighten bolts on carbon stuff. There's no indication of torque spec, so my only suggestion is if you have them, put loctite and tighten to 5. I dont know if that works / is enough torque. Usual crank arms are 12-14nm...

2. A friend heavily dented and bent the small ring on a 50-34T front ring. Yes he's probably a savage, but it was his FIRST ride. He was on a calibration ride to fine tune FD & RD, i dont know what he did, but it seems unreasonable that you should trash the rings after dropping the chain a few times. We're probably going to replace both rings now.

3. The bar tape they sell is the absolute worst i've ever used. It lasted a grand total of 200km before delaminating.

4. I ordered YBN 12s chains from them, and they sent me 11s.

5. Their road pedals that are labeled carbon are just pedals with a carbon looking sticker on them. It's cringe and disingenuous.

I bought all that from Shenzhen Inte Sports Technology Co., Ltd. on Alibaba. They since then left Alibaba so i can't interact with them there, and Alibaba said i'm on my own. Their logo was the racework logo. Their username had racework in it. I tried to contact them by email several times and no response.

I wish them the worst.
If Racework people see this, please contact me and do what's right.

Hi all, i'm in the market for a Chinese road frame. I'd go with the VB 177 if it could handle 32C tyres comfortably, but it seems it can't.
I contacted Tantan, they sent me these pictures of their FM025 frame. The page used to say 30C max until a few days ago, they made the change because of the questions I asked. So now it says 32C max. These pics are with a conti 5000 32C tyre.
I'm not a power sprinter so i dont expect to flex my frame like mad, but does it look like the frame can comfortably handle 32C? It' a very important point for me, i've tested 28 and 32 back to back and the comfort difference is material, yet Peak Torque has shown there is virtually no performance downside providing you use a super wide rim. So my next road bike must accommodate 32C.
Thanks!

EDIT NOTE: I asked them for X37, they said no stock, so they're suggesting FM025 instead. That one used to say 30C, they then changed the description to 32C. The X37 has been 35C the whole time, which is why i contacted them in the 1st place. Apologies i got the models confused. So these photos are FM025.