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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Wiawis Frame?
« on: February 04, 2025, 10:55:58 AM »
https://www.acol.bike/
The site is live now. No details on prices/dealers yet. It's interesting to me how outspoken they are about their relationship with WIAWIS who also sells the exact same bikes under their own brand name.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: January 30, 2025, 08:41:27 PM »
Mine arrived today. Looks really nice for the most part but there are a fair amount of visible fibers and resin on the bottom bracket shell. Anything I should be concerned about?

https://imgur.com/a/lKRXsiQ

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The original is Dura-ace and ultegra to. There is a seperate one for 105. I would not try it :)

Do you have a link to the 105 model? I can't find it in that seller's catalog.

The other thing is, I would like to run a shorter cage than the 105 di2 which Shimano says has a minimum low gear of 34T. I'd really like to run an 11-30 or 11-32.

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Ryet OSPW


They say this is only compatible with Dura Ace and Ultegra. I wonder if I could get away with using it on 105...

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: January 21, 2025, 03:45:20 PM »
That was my thought. If there are any issues, it's definitely not with the BBinfinite

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: January 21, 2025, 10:03:14 AM »
Mine from F-C arrived everything looks pretty premium will post photos later only concern is the BB I tried to hand screw one side in on a BBinfinite t47A and it probably went half way before meeting resistance (no grease yet).

Weights:
Size 54 white same as OralMaster
Frame with no rear axle - 983g
Uncut fork - 461g
Handlebars 90x400 - 292g

All bottle screws, axles, and top cap have Factor branding. If the BB installs fine I will be very pleased.

No Factor packaging like Oralmaster though.

Any updates on the bottom bracket issue?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: January 06, 2025, 08:23:49 AM »

I basically followed Oralmasters gameplan highest tier v1 Ostro from F-C > Ordered the legit 20mm top cap as he said it was crap as well as the silicone seat o-ring as it doesn't seem to have one in my photos and Oralmaster said he was missing it, as well as the I got the Factor bar tape to match from the same place.


Where did you order the legit spacers and o-ring?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: December 23, 2024, 01:04:29 PM »
My build so far... still waiting for the T47A. In combination with wheels from Peter, 50mm deep. The weight so far is 6.04 kg, without crankset+chain, so should be dead on 7.0kg, which is pretty good considering 50 mm deep tubeless wheels and 2x160mm rotors. One could easily shave another 200-300g off from crankset and wheels. The wheels are already fairly light (1320 g), but I decided to go with brass nipples and cx sapim spokes, so you could go ~100g lighter.

The photos quality is not great  ::) My phone and lighting at home does not do the frame justice.

Maybe just the lighting, but it looks like you have a significant gap between your fork crown and head tube?

Any pics inside the frame? Especially in the bottom bracket area?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Wiawis Frame?
« on: December 12, 2024, 11:08:33 AM »
https://www.acol.bike/

Yeah I'm intrigued. From the article toxin shared and the literature on the Wiawis website, it looks like they are really making their own bikes and this ACOL start up is going to bring them to the western market? Could be cool!

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Handlebar tape recomendation?
« on: November 25, 2024, 02:19:08 PM »
My favorite is Zipp Service Course CX. Anyone know of an Ali approximate for that model?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: New Frame Winow Sports WR054
« on: November 21, 2024, 03:23:11 PM »
I took a risk and ordered it in UD glossy size L. If the Mikeyblue with size S has 1168gm, I hope that L size should have 1250g max. I also asked Kitty from Winow and she wrote "The weight has been optimized and is lighter than before" but she does not wrote me specific weight.

Very curious to see what the size Large looks like. I wonder if we could get a 0 setback seatpost...

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Quickpro AR:one
« on: November 18, 2024, 12:28:54 PM »
There is no distribution for them yet, they're coming to panda podium soon. Taking a weirdly long time considering Joe's close relationship with them

More interested in the ER:One personally

This looks really cool. Have you seen any geometry charts or more details for this one?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: November 15, 2024, 08:31:13 AM »
Cool, same as me, most of the things you planned to do I also have on my list.
The Overfast Thru Axles however I couldn't get my head around to spend 200 bucks for a weight saving of 34 gram, not sure how you get to shave off 60 to 80 grams there. My axles that came with the frame are together 64 grams and the overfast axles are together 30 grams. The titanium axles are also around the 240 dollar price point but a little heavier (40grams). What I did was checking for myself, what I think, what is still affordable grams to price ratio. So, in the end I bought the alu axles with dropout, which reduces it with 16 gram (from 64 grams to 48 grams) but costs (50 dollars) 1/4 of the carbon or titanium axles. But it's of course much cooler, lighter and nicer to have carbon or titanium ones.

Not sure what Crankset you have now but the Riro is light indeed (388 grams), I had on my list the Cybrei carbon Crank, which weights 320 grams instead of my Lexon carbon crank which is 387 grams (weighed myself including spider and bolts). but for the price of a Cybrei to save 55 grams, for 500 dollars.. I don't know you need to be really ambitious as you said, if will will be that kind of weight weenie.

Wheelset will definitely help, I also had those farsports in mind together with the No. 5's also worth looking at, and I think to logo of No. 5 looks cool with the Factor Logo IMO, it would be awesome if you could sell your Rovals than you don't lose a lot on the costs to replace those wheels.

For the disc brakes, I have now the Carbon Raceworks, but they were with 6 bolts because I read that was lighter than a center lock, however I bought the elite drive wheels and selected the 6 bolts option but instead of getting six bolt version I got an adapter for the 6 bolts that fit the center lock. So the "light" carbon raceworks are together with the adapter not so light anymore, and if I get some Galfer road wave discs of 160 mm that weigh the same as the raceworks I can replace the adapter just for the centerlock, which saves me 45 grams.

The last thing that I want to mention as you pointed out the Darima seatpost, I bought a replacement seatpost on AliExpress (https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005006226516164.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.4.6dc379d2tMfyz5&gatewayAdapt=glo2nld which is 89 grams lighter (claimed weight 131 grams incl bolts) than the original (weighted at 220 including bolts) and costs less than a Darima (duh because it's from AliE). Maybe worth looking at.

Saddle is every rider's preference so I won't say anything about that. I got a Ryet carbon saddle width of 135mm, but that's so personal mine weighs in at 115 grams. The previous one was 163 grams.

Most bolts that I could chance with titanium didn't save me a lot, around 17 grams.

I hope it's helpful and let us know how much weight you saved in the end. With the mentioned changes above I saved +/- 400 grams (went from 7460 grams to 7050 grams) but with other tires and wheels that's around another 400 to 500 grams.

I certainly can't speak to the quality of that seatpost, but lighter and a two-bolt design instead of the heavier single-bolt original looks like a win-win.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: October 26, 2024, 05:53:27 PM »
Fwiw, i had a really, really bad experience with First-Class Carbon Fiber Store, the store that made that pretty white factor.
Over the years, i've dealt with a lot of chinese sellers. This one is sketchy AF.
I was considering buying an unbranded frame (to then add my Tractor logo on top myself with vinyl) because I was curious to get a product with such a high finish, and to compare it to my LT268 that costs a fraction of the price, so i started asking questions.
I asked a lot of questions to which i already knew the answer to, and nothing made sense. The guy spent a lot of time shitting on the whole industry, with only him being reputable and knowing what he's doing. He pushed back on every technical question i asked with something along the lines of "trust me bro".
Basically all his answers were red flags.

My 5 cents: stay the F away. I wish i could block sellers / shops on AliX in order to never see their products again in my feed & search results. Would be a great feature to have.

What questions did you ask that he refused to answer?

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YMMV but I weight 200+ pounds and ride a hardtail XC bike with the Elita One. I'm not very gentle on my bike at all and I've had no issues. Solid, light, doesn't slip, hasn't maimed me yet.

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