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Re: ICAN triaero A9 Looks fine.
October 31, 2022, 04:17:27 PM 		1
Re: Elite Wheels / Aliexpress / Trace Velo The white-knighting for Trace Velo does seem a bit odd, especially speaking on his behalf about being on a fine line etc.

If the situation is as boost portrays it, he has every right to talk about it.  If T-V feels the need to defend himself, I assume he willl - he likely reads these forums to some extent.
November 06, 2022, 04:13:56 AM 		1
Re: Carbonda FM909
Quote from: Pedaldancer on November 06, 2022, 06:33:17 AM
The XT has 2 cranksets with different Q factors. The more narrow one is more for XC usage. Or simply for people with smaller hips not wanting to feel like John Wayne on a horse. Both of them are boost. You should not mix that stuff up..

Then I'm not sure why he was talking about chainring clearance, if they're just QF difference.
November 06, 2022, 08:32:41 AM 		1
Re: Advice on where to buy a frame - dengfu/ican/velobuild ? The 1056 or R12 will be much better built.  But you've also chosen 3 different bikes with different geo and tube profiles so you might want to think about that.

I highly doubt the 177 layup uses any T1000.  And to call it T1000 as they do is misleading anyway, as even if it did, it'd probably be less than 10%.  Chinese outfits (typically the low quality ones) use the T1000/1100 term interchangeably with high modulus / light weight.  The 177 is relatively light weight.   I'd be skeptical that VB or similar price point frames are using genuine Toray stuff anymore anyway (that's not to say Chinese equivalents are bad), given price rises.
November 09, 2022, 05:25:31 AM 		2
Re: Speeder SC-R48
Quote from: Tines on November 09, 2022, 07:08:06 AM
How was their adherence to previously communicated timelines?

Excellent.
November 09, 2022, 07:47:34 AM 		3
Re: Carbonda FM909 Today was build day.  Combination of heatgun and scalpel and a bearing press dealt with extracting the painted-over bearings in all but one of the pivots.  It was a long, laborious process which the mechanic didn't enjoy, and it should not have been necessary but for the carelessness of the painters Carbonda used. 

Unfortunately we couldn't extract the double bearings in the middle linkage.  As there are two on each side I suspect it's not easy at the best of times, but per the photos, there was a large amount of clearcoat penetration of the bearing recess (worse than all the others) and they're completely stuck fast.  There's no way to remove them without using force sufficient to destroy the linkage. 

As such I emailed Carbonda requesting a new, painted middle linkage and bearings, to replace the current one when the bearings fail - which I can't imagine will take more than a season as we have fine dust like icing sugar here. 

Aside from all the time spent on that, things were relatively trouble free until it was brakes time. 

Titanium planet magura bleed screws refused to seal the caliper, despite looking identical to stock ones. Took ages to diagnose what the issue was as they weren't leaking visibly initially but all pressure was gone.   Then we discovered Hope floating rotor attachment points don't clear magura MT 2pot rear calipers. Going to have to swap the XTR one from gravel bike in.  Also forgot I needed a PM 160->180 adapter for the Manitou R7 Pro, which fortunately the LBS had.

Both the mechanic and I felt the Acros headset bearings were significantly worse quality than the ones provided by Carbonda. Also the IP seal that Acros provide to go between the bottom of the headtube and bearing results in play and won't work. Crown race they provide is also not split and won't work on the R7 Pro, or I suspect many other forks.    So we used the original  Carbonda bottom bearing and crown race, and the Acros upper bearing, cable routing insert and headset cover that I needed for integrated cabling with the Syncros Fraser bar. 

Hopefully finishing it off tomorrow. 
November 10, 2022, 01:33:22 PM 		5
Re: Advice on where to buy a frame - dengfu/ican/velobuild ?
Quote from: VeloBuild.Bikes on November 09, 2022, 09:00:36 PM
We can guarantee we use T1000 - 1K carbon for our VB-R-177 and VB-R-218 frames  ;)

Toray T1000 doesn't come in 1K and only comes in 12K TOW.  It's reassuring you can guarantee you use something that doesn't exist.  The generic stuff that apes Toray SKUs tends to stick to similar naming conventions and corresponding TOW and other specs too ... this is another classic with AliExpress sellers, conflating Toray Txxx SKU names with TOW values and advertising / marketing as such.

So what exactly are you saying you use?
November 10, 2022, 03:36:41 PM 		1
Re: Carbonda FM909 Finished.

Looks good I think.  Frameset appears to be very good quality.  Just a shame that the experience has been somewhat marred by the paint (clear) over bearings fiasco.  I'll update when I receive a response to my request for a new middle linkage to replace the borked one. 

First order of business, more shock and fork pressure.  Need to cut bars further and find the fattest grips available.  Also need a longer travel (and thus longer) dropper as I can't put seat high enough.  SRAManoruk and Shigura working well.  Also need to reduce saddle downward tilt as I can't get away with that on wide flat bars (vs narrow drops).  May ultimately have to change cockpit solution to something with rise and more backsweep.

Excited to ride it in the mountains and on the trails.  But god damn does lwb and wide bars feel like shit in the city.

Pics attached.
November 11, 2022, 10:35:59 AM 		8
Re: Carbonda FM909 Yup, Syncros Fraser IC SL DC 760 /50, with the complementary stem cap mount for the Garmin.  I'm not sure if it's going to be sustainable long term though.  I may need more rise and backsweep - especially once I get a new dropper that will raise my seat height another ~3cm.

Garbaruk 10-52 Micro-Spline, with XTR 12s chain and Garbaruk 36T oval narrow wide chainring.  Obviously SRAM AXS derailleur.   Hence SRAManoruk.
November 12, 2022, 04:15:50 AM 		1
Re: New Lexon spirit I'd really strongly advise not going for that frame.  You're theorycrafting their marketing spiel about what looks like a not particularly good copy of a fairly novel Scott design.  The performance of the Scott isn't extraordinary - the USP is the 'clean' look and hidden shock.  For the Spirit, I think you can safely assume it won't perform as well as the Scott, and may have some nasty surprises.  Plus it costs the moon as far as Chinese MTB frames are concerned.  As the saying goes, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is ....
November 17, 2022, 12:56:14 PM 		3