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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Tavelo Aero Frame
« on: Today at 10:06:58 AM »
At $2K plus for US customers, you're starting to compete with Canyon's base model complete 105 bikes for $2800.
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Recommendations for integrated handlebar?
« on: May 07, 2024, 10:25:41 AM »A pity for their top cap... I'm about to try the gravel version for a new build:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004788375665.html
I used a credit card in the forward gap between cap and stem to avoid keep the cap edge parallel to the stem edge.
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: May 01, 2024, 10:47:44 AM »"Planet Cyclery" is going out of business/closing its doors. (I presume they are another online retailer that didn't manage the past few years very well)
I spent about a 1/2 hour looking at all of their sale prices. From my perspective, their "sale prices" are still to expensive compared to the deals I get on a regular basis through Aliexpress.
Their sister company Colorado Cyclist is doing the same, and Merlin Cycles in the UK still undercuts both of them on Shimano components.
Colorado Cyclist was great in the 80s to early 2000s with awesome mail order catalogs.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Clip on aerobars for integrated handlebars
« on: April 30, 2024, 01:50:27 PM »
Saw this today-clamp appears somewhat adjustable, but hoping somebody else was brave enough to try these first ;-)
Not a whole lot of me too resellers so far.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806076922208.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller.24.12fb6b9bh6VNR5&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller&scm=1007.40000.326746.0&scm_id=1007.40000.326746.0&scm-url=1007.40000.326746.0&pvid=a1b39324-da73-45d6-b1e1-7e355b283c0a&_t=gps-id:pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller,scm-url:1007.40000.326746.0,pvid:a1b39324-da73-45d6-b1e1-7e355b283c0a,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238115%23821&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21USD%2150.42%2150.42%21%21%21363.52%21363.52%21%40210384cc17145026510915382e89fe%2112000036520146018%21rec%21US%211699911272%21&utparam-url=scene%3ApcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller%7Cquery_from%3A#nav-review
Not a whole lot of me too resellers so far.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806076922208.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller.24.12fb6b9bh6VNR5&gps-id=pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller&scm=1007.40000.326746.0&scm_id=1007.40000.326746.0&scm-url=1007.40000.326746.0&pvid=a1b39324-da73-45d6-b1e1-7e355b283c0a&_t=gps-id:pcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller,scm-url:1007.40000.326746.0,pvid:a1b39324-da73-45d6-b1e1-7e355b283c0a,tpp_buckets:668%232846%238115%23821&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21USD%2150.42%2150.42%21%21%21363.52%21363.52%21%40210384cc17145026510915382e89fe%2112000036520146018%21rec%21US%211699911272%21&utparam-url=scene%3ApcDetailBottomMoreOtherSeller%7Cquery_from%3A#nav-review
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Has anyone tried Airwolf wheels?
« on: April 22, 2024, 10:06:26 AM »
Reminder that Novatec is the "premium" brand for JoyTech. 
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Recommendations for integrated handlebar?
« on: April 17, 2024, 10:19:38 AM »
Also happy with the Kocevlo bar and the logo comes off nicely.
It's a little fiddly, but a Di2 junction box can be zip tied to the included computer mount for those not running fully internal cables.
It's a little fiddly, but a Di2 junction box can be zip tied to the included computer mount for those not running fully internal cables.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Electroplated painting
« on: April 11, 2024, 09:41:23 AM »
I think Costelo used to offer electroplated (or faux electroplated) frames before they vanished as a reseller from AliExpress.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Rim brake road bike frame with at least 28mm tire clearance
« on: March 27, 2024, 01:36:43 PM »
No threaded bottom bracket, but the Velobuild R-066 and OG Evkin CF-025 from it appears to be from the same mold would tick off most of your requirements-I've posted about my OG Evkin CF-025 which is almost six years old now. No issues fitting Conti GP5000 in 28c on a 19c internal rim.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: The Un-Official Guide To Fixing Headset Play - Please Add Your Advice Here
« on: March 18, 2024, 01:32:06 PM »
Plastic headset caps (looking at you various Canyon replica integrated bars) can break under fairly low amounts of preload-helps to use a spacer and an alloy cap during initial set up.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Easedon Wheels on Aliexpress
« on: January 31, 2024, 02:08:22 PM »
The name play with Easton is kind of hilarious.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Patty's Long Rant and Guide To Affordable Frames
« on: January 30, 2024, 01:39:02 PM »
It would be great if Taiwan had their own premium version of Aliexpress, maybe with previous gen Merida open mold frames, as long as they had a way to keep off mainland produced product that's just been relabeled.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Haidelibikes Super light weight carbon all inner cable road bike frame FM-CR025
« on: January 19, 2024, 10:09:57 AM »
Hai being the German word for shark and a deli being a place where you get a sandwich in my mind always links this brand name to the Spinal Tap movie as well as Mack the Knife.
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: III Pro PEERAGE 4 brakes - piccola clone
« on: January 10, 2024, 10:28:32 AM »
Hose routing to the levers appears to require a handlebar that supports interior routing.
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: III Pro PEERAGE 4 brakes - piccola clone
« on: January 05, 2024, 09:50:57 AM »As an englishly-challenged, I have to ask: I assume that "Peerage" (an actual word) becomes funny if you read it "pee rage" ... yea, it actually is pretty funny. But why is everybody giggling about "Goldix"?
Could be a fairly literal translation of their Chinese name-reminds me of a article I read about how the Chinese pay for consulting services to pick their English names to use for business, so a woman whose name in Chinese is Linden (after the tree) becomes Lindsey.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X38 Build
« on: December 15, 2023, 08:19:10 PM »
Aren't you in Germany? Back in the 90s when I was there, I replaced a lot of frame hardware with off the shelf V4A stainless steel bolts and rust was no longer a problem.