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Messages - jjjohn

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i live in the bay area and honestly see a good amount of unbranded open mould, defo a handful everytime I go for a quick 20-50 mile ride. Then again the cycling community here is huge. I see lots and lots of high end bikeporn worthy s-works and boutique brands, I have also seen yoeleo, velobuild, etc etc

I noticed that the tech bro crowd lend themselves to buying top spec S-works/Trek stuff, but also building up their own bikes from DTC western brands and chiner builds. I think their jobs select for people that like tinkering, but they also have enough money to blow on a dentist bike

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I can confidently state that the P515 is not compatible with my specific BB386 frame (Felt VR '23, the old one, BB is token ninja TF38624), at least not without drive side spacer shenanigans.

Regular installation just ends in the cranks locking up fully once the bearing pretension is set by feel, the beveled face on the back of the spider collides with the very bottom edge of the frame.
After bodging a 3d printed spacer somewhere around 0.7mm, i didn't measure the actual thickness, i'm getting a gap i can stick 0.65 feeler gauges into and a 10km test ride went without anything feeling or sounding off.
I'll check for scratch marks when i get my hands on proper shims and adjust accordingly.

Obviously i'm not happy with the situation but i don't feel like admitting defeat either.

Bought it from 'EU Tax-free Discount Store' which went fine, arrived in seven days from france via fedex, balance and pedaling smoothness features were already unlocked.
Box showed signs of having been opened before, my assumption is that it is a chinese SKU and the seller activated the spider prior to shipping since the magene app did not have any activation prompt and just paired readily.

PS: excuse the account new-ness, i've been lurking for a couple years

was your box's bar code label written in chinese characters? my P505 power meter was confirmed by Magene to be a chinese market version by checking the bar code label this way

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i purchased my full 105 di2 groupset around about $800. arrived outside of the original packaging to fit in a small box, but it's been functioning as expected and the components seem to be genuine

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