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Re: Carbonda Gravel Carbon frame CFR707 Not sure who you're responding to, but I'll chime in since I've got 630 miles on mine.  I've done a few gravel races (hitting potholes at 20+mph with everyone shoulder to shoulder and nowhere to avoid), a few singletrack trails (including a pretty root filled trail, and hit a 6" rock at speed that was covered by leaves), lots of gravel road exploring and some pothole filled road riding.  Frame and handlebar are still solid and quiet.  No complaints from me.
October 24, 2022, 01:10:42 PM 		1
Re: The Shiny New AM831 Group Buy (A) Thread! Next spring I'll be adding my girlfriend to the mix of AM831 riders. Hopefully with the JJJ fix and her ~55 kilo size it'll be "good enough". Not sure how it'll go when I eventually get to painting mine up - I'm north of 100 kilos and I ride hard and fast, so I assume the JJJ fix will not be enough.

For now, enjoy some preview shots of her bike now that it's in it's cure/bake phase in the paint room. I think this one came out OK, but I got a bit more orange peel in the clear than I wanted - I was pushing the temperatures when doing this as late in the season as it is. For heating/money reasons, my paint room is really only viable April-September, unfortunately. Fortunately my clear build is quite a bit thicker than standard so I can paint correct it without too much issue sometime over the winter once it's 100% cured. It also does have a few more specs in the paint job than I would normally like, but I just finished another paint project immediately prior to this one that I nailed almost perfectly, and did a sub-par job cleaning between the two. I have been assured the rider does not mind.

Naming your knockoff bike after another brand or something? Nah. Naming your knockoff brand after your cat? Indeed.

Please note, the font on the down tube and cat prints on the top tube were rider's choice.






For myself, I'm thinking of doing a candy blue to candy green fade (this means you could see the carbon underneath) with metallic silver writing - with a different font, of course.
October 26, 2022, 08:57:47 PM 		1
Re: Groupset News China cycling just released a video about this groupset



Not that much technical info like installation/bleeding/is there a clutch on derailleur/etc but you do have the pricing.

I'm still not sure about the ergonomics... On one hand it looks like it can be easily be shifted from the drops, but the thumb lever looks a bit far to be used on the hoods.
October 28, 2022, 10:01:32 AM 		1
Re: Fovno Crank sets upcoming Fovno Aurora Pro crankset

Hollow arms so it's a proper competitor to QED and Xcadey. DUB, 3-bolt and 2x one-piece chainrings.

Would be nuts if the 620g quoted weight is for 170mm 50/34, as that's D-A FC-R9100 level weight right there (614g). For reference, QED is 679g.

The arms are quoted at 450g versus 493g for Xcadey and 508g for QED (my estimation).

EDIT: Nope.

Xcadey sans-PM 50/34 is still the lightest at 611g. Xcadey arms alone weigh 443g.

Fovno Aurora Pro 48/32 weighs 610g.





Quote from: zxcvbnmjm on August 08, 2022, 09:34:30 PM
@stiffweenies have you heard of this onirii fire carbon crankset?

looks like it's made by Neutron's OEM, if so avoid it
October 29, 2022, 12:40:03 PM 		1
Re: Black Friday 11/11 is like the Chinese black Friday so expect to find the best deals around then. If you are fast you can find some good sitewide aliexpress coupons but coupons from individual sellers never seem to be that amazing.
October 31, 2022, 11:32:19 AM 		1
Re: Elite Wheels / Aliexpress / Trace Velo
Quote from: boost3782 on October 30, 2022, 09:09:53 AM
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With the above said I do have a screen shot of what I posted. I can post it if that would help. I am more concerned with people knowing which youtubers and forums are legitimate advice to listen to and spend their hard earned money accordingly and who is just making content to make money off people.

Can you share the screen shot of your comment on Trace Velo's video here so we can see both sides of the issue and evaluate properly for ourselves.
Mind you, it is his channel and source of business and hence he has the right to do whatever he likes with his comment section.

Most of us ended up in this forum because we started our journey watching Trace Velo and hence built our first bike ourselves and saved a lot of money in the process.
Lots of people here also at one point or the other had issues with dealers. This has nothing to do with whichever youtube reviewers we watched before pulling the trigger.

Just because you had a bad experience with a dealer he reviewed doesn't mean you should come here and run him under the bus.

However, I do sympathize with you on the terrible situation which I feel you should take up with EliteWheels and probably Aliexpress.

Maybe you should make your own YouTube video about the situation and put all the keywords that will direct even more traffic, visibility and awareness to your issue with EliteWheels and Aliexpress.

Try doing something positive for the community first before throwing a major contributor of the community under the bus just because of your one bad issue out of many other successful customers.

In addition, just like Velobuild once did regarding issues with their services, It will be good if Elite Wheels or even Trace Velo can comment on this issue since both have lots of customers and followers here respectively. Always the best to hear from both sides before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
November 01, 2022, 11:27:59 PM 		1
Re: Chinese MTB XC carbon rims BTLOS M-i27AL
https://btlos.com/mtb-xc-trail/extralight-27mm-inner-width-xc-carbon-rims
November 06, 2022, 03:55:43 PM 		1
Re: Chinese MTB XC carbon rims Thank to all, so precious!
Nexties seems outstanding but also more expensive- expecially with the currect exchange rate usd/eur.
I will try BTLOS amd will keep you posted.
Thanks agaian!
November 07, 2022, 11:56:06 PM 		1
Re: Tideace 2022 29er Boost 12*148mm New Mold MTB029 Threw together some neon fade concepts. Personally I'm leaning towards #4. Still need to come up with a model name.

This forum won't resize photos so you'd better all view it on IMGUR because the high res JPEG otherwise took up multiple screens. Oops!

The place where I paint in the winter lost one of its two boilers the other day so it might take a minute or two before any primer goes on. Oh well. Still gotta do the compatibility checks.

For build, Ideally I'm going to go SRAM 1x11 drop bar style. MONSTERCROSS!
November 09, 2022, 08:57:29 AM 		1
Re: Chinese forks
Quote from: Icyseanfitz on May 14, 2022, 06:44:23 PM
After taking a chance on a bolany boost 100mm fork for an xc build (no jumps or drops) as it's weight is quite impressive (1800g or so), for just under 130euro. Most likely pure shit but it's worth a shot on a bike that will only be used for longer less demanding rides.
First thing I'll do though is dismantle it and grease the inners (I'd assume no point putting oil in the lowers as it won't hold

Any feedback?
November 10, 2022, 07:53:15 AM 		1