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Re: Hygge Aero Carbon Frame Hello! My first post here.

I wanted to leave a review of the Hygge Model S frame and the 2023 Carbon wheels but before I do that I want to frame my experiance with riding and building bikes.  I only got into cycling in may this year, I bought an alloy gravel bike but discovered I love road riding pretty quickly and decided I needed a carbon road bike  ;D As I am so new to the sport I didn't want to go and spend loads of money on something I potentially would get bored with (not going to happen) and as an engineer I love building things so I decided to buy a load of stuff off of Aliexpress and get to work.  I settled on the Hygee Model S for no reason other than I liked the look of it.  I couldn't find any details/reviews so after a while I decided to take the plunge and buy it.

It took about 4/5 weeks to get to the UK, arrived well packaged and everything present.  I haven't built a bike before but the process was pretty easy, I think the integrated bars are nicely done, honestly didn't take me very long at all (I guess electronic shifting makes it easier.  I did notice that one of the bottle cage captive nuts was drilled not centrally (image included) I took this back to Hygge and they didn't have much to say other than acknowledging its wonky and it wouldn't be an issue and to be fair it isn't. I had forgotten about it until just now. Originally I set this up with an L-TWOO ERX groupset but that has turned out to be total trash (1 mile ridden on that POS groupset but that's another story) and I've had a nightmare getting any support on it.  Eventually, in desperation to ride this thing I bought a Di2 105 12spd groupset and its been great.  I really should have done that from the start. 

Anyways I am now 120km into this bike and so far so good.  I'm 108KG so at the upper end of the weight limit but no problems yet, the carbon wheels are great (I had to scrape off some of the lettering as I thought it was hideous) and the whole thing is seriously light, unfortunately I have no scales though.  One issue I do have is the chain stays are super wide, fortunately I use 20mm pedal extensions but it would be tight without them.  One thing the pictures never show is the frame has this gorgeous speckled flip paint that switches between purple and green and I've already had a lot of comments about it
September 13, 2023, 10:20:17 AM 		3
Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets I have had a complete nightmare with the eRX groupset.  Managed to get the grand total of 1 mile on it before the rear derailleur stopped working, not a problem as these things happen.  Dealing with L-TWOO support is another matter... You basically get a small window of around 5 to 10 mins at around 8AM UK time where they read and may reply to your message and then that's it, they are gone for another 24h.   It's taken 6 weeks to get them to agree to send me a replacement rear derailleur.  In that time I have ordered a 105 Di2 groupset from China, waited for delivery, uninstalled the eRX and installed the Di2 and ridden 120km. 

Cannot recommend, the replacement still isn't here
September 13, 2023, 10:26:31 AM 		5
Re: Hygge Aero Carbon Frame Ah indeed I have had seatpost issues, I wanted to put that in the original post but forgot!

So yeah, I had the seatpost disappear into the frame twice very early on.  How I fixed it is I sanded all sides of the clamp and applied grip paste but I think the thing that got this sorted was I applied loctite to the clamping bolt and then tightened it to 10Nm.  I’ve had over 100 trouble free Km since then.  I think the issue is the bolt just loosens up,  with the loctite I haven’t seen the problem again.  I fed this back to Hygge and they actually have a new clamp design (picture attached), I'm not convinced that it will fix the issue as the new clamp adds a new grip to the side that grips the seat post, I’m sure it will help some but I think the loctite is the one.  I have told them I recommend having a captive nyloc nut on the underside, this would alleviate the issue.

And yeah, it’s a lovely bike - I’m really happy with it so far and looking forward to spending more time with it.
September 13, 2023, 12:40:44 PM 		1
Re: Hygge Aero Carbon Frame
Quote from: Dmgreen13 on September 20, 2023, 04:17:40 AM
Have you had any further issues with the seat post? I saw you said you went to 10nn, however someone in a comment on the Henry Chung YouTube review commented they did theirs to 6.5nm and it cracked the frame.  He hasn't said how it ended up with Hygge in terms of any replacement.

Sorry for my long absence and lack of reply on this.  The answer is no issues whatsoever so far over 733km ridden, looks like with the thread locker and 10Nm torque on the bolt its held firm and today I am 105.8KG. The only thing I have done is fitted a 1mm spacer to the inside of each of the axles to allow more adjustment for the brake calibers as with the stock geometry I had brake disk rubbing, that's solved that for now but I think I will elongate the brake mounting holes in the future to allow the calibers to move over once I confirm it isn't the Z-Race disks that cause that.

I really am in love with this bike, but again I want to stress that I am completely new to cycling and this is my first road bike ever so that may skew my views.  Today I added a power meter (Magene P505) so I think this bike is complete now and I aim to just get as much training in on it as possible over the next 12 months.

Here's my Strava link, in case anyone wanted to check my journey out. https://www.strava.com/athletes/11137711
October 29, 2023, 09:52:44 AM 		2
Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets Would anyone be interested in buying my full ERX setup? Ridden less than 1km, rear mech failed and I have a brand new unused replacement. I swapped it out for Di2 before the replacement part came in so it’s all practically brand new sat doing nothing. 
October 29, 2023, 12:42:56 PM 		1
Re: Hygge Aero Carbon Frame Just checking back in to see everyone else's experience here. Strava tells me I have 3311km on my bike so far, issue free. I have changed the cockpit post bike fit as I needed 130mm on the stem. So far so good. I feel like I had great value for money with this build and wouldn't hesitate to buy another frame from these guys.
April 21, 2024, 02:15:43 PM 		3
Re: Hygge Aero Carbon Frame
Quote from: Ronronson on April 22, 2024, 03:18:03 AM
@Wrighty, could you share your impressions of the carbon layup within the frame, as well as the stiffness of both the fork and rear triangle? I haven't assembled mine yet, and I'm debating whether to proceed or reconsider. I might be overly cautious, but I've noticed some flex in the fork (I'm 80kg, so not particularly heavy), and while I understand an axle will reinforce it, it's still a concern. Additionally, I've observed numerous sharp edges and creases within the frame, which doesn't inspire confidence.

Hey so I don’t know if you’ve seen my posts in this thread earlier on but this frame is my first ever carbon frame on a bike so I literally have no reference to compare to sadly. What I can tell you is that when I started riding this bike I was around 115KG and today I am 96KG and the bike feels pretty stiff to me, especially the back end of it and bottom bracket.

The carbon layup isn’t bad, but isn’t outstanding either - it’s ok.  There were some sharp bits inside especially in the rear triangle but for a frame that was £450 I wasn’t expecting much. Other than that issue free, I did have the seatpost slipping at the start and have to really tighten that thing down but it doesn’t move now.

Positive experience for me, I would love to ride an SL7 to compare but haven’t had the opportunity to ride anything else yet. My current plans are to keep riding this until I get bored or it breaks!
April 23, 2024, 05:04:41 PM 		2