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Got a pair of the group buy carbon spokes wheelset offer from Leon.
40mm depth. Ceramic bearings.
weight: front 560g, rear 695g.
wheelset are well packed, come with several spare spokes and rim tapes.
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Geo isn't remotely similar ...

Maths was never your skill set I guess
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I no longer have any cables on any of the bikes I ride other than my dropper post cable.  Hydraulic brakes and Electric wireless shifting eliminated the need for those cute little plugs...
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Well, I have not been so lucky with my frameset. I ordered mid-February and apparently it got lost somewhere in Europe two months ago.
The seller promised to send me another frame, but I still don't have any tracking from them, so I guess I'll just start an aliexpress dispute and get my money back.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Velobuild VB-R-168 Frame
« Last post by TCal on Today at 12:38:43 PM »
I’d say mine looks about the same as that. I don’t have a vernier caliper but to my eye mine looks about .5mm. 
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29er / Re: LCFS948 - a new enduro from Light Carbon
« Last post by alexhell on Today at 12:30:44 PM »
Got my frame today. All lookig good but i will keep my eye on a small defect at the top headcup. Can be that they didn't sand it down there from the manufactory
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On a di2 Ultegra, this screw is already at the extreme limit of the plate
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How about a State Bicycle carbon All-Road frameset? It looks similar to a Hongfu FM279 gravel frameset, but with threaded BSA as opposed to BB86. Though they don't have many frames in-stock.
Actually I'm wondering if Hongfu is supplying their frames with customized tweaks?

Pre-2020 Crux frames are also hovering around the $1100 mark. Ebay has a few old new stock on there.
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Almost built. Just waiting on rotors and tape to arrive.

Build was unproblematic. Internal hose routing through the integrated stem/bars was obviously more of a faff than external routing but not a deal-breaker. Only very minor complaint is the rear caliper mounts aren’t perfectly faced - but not so off to bother rectifying.

Without doubt the hardest and most time consuming job was mounting the Challenge tyres. WTAF. I almost cried, broke my thumbs, cut them up and set fire to them. I’ve mounted many tubeless tyres on many different rims but this was on a whole new scale of ridiculous. Not getting them off in a hurry/ever.

I plan to use it most of the time on road with offroad outings here and there - so wanted something sprightly enough for the former without being so aggressive it’s limited for the latter. I knew I wouldn’t need many if any spacers given how massive the headtube is, and I wasn’t wrong - esp with the positive angle stem / bars.

Paint looks great in the flesh - metallic effect hard to come through in the photos.

7.3kg not including pedals or rotors or bar tape. Pretty good for an XL build that’s not massively weight weenie (wheels are 1530g, tyres 335each etc)

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I actually found some decent deals for like-new dura ace calipers on eBay. Now that the cycling bubble has burst, there are a lot of top quality shimano components on sale.

I installed a more recent copy of XG calipers on my ER9 bike and they work really well. On more recent copies of the calipers, someone on YT posted a review showing they fixed the oil port hole by making it slightly bigger. The only other reason I swapped to those calipers was due to having problems running a 140mm rear rotor with LTWOO calipers. The 140mm adapter plate was refusing to line up properly. With XG caliper no adapter was necessary.

My bikes are definitely starting to look like an mis mash of components!

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