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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: February 22, 2025, 10:24:16 AM »
...It's rather clearly me that can't do the bike justice.

It's so true. I once tought "they with all that carbon bling are faster than me because of those 10kg bikes", until on one race random 65yo dude with some old crappy bike and a belly under his belt went past me on a steep uphill... And I was in solid form at that time. That was a reality check that haunts me to this day :)

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: February 21, 2025, 11:09:25 AM »
I will just give a brief report on my 268 after 1600+km. It's my first road bike and I'm satisfied as I can get. Honestly don't know what more would I want from a frame as cheap as this one. I swapped my handlebars to 38/90 from 42/110, and it suits me better.

Seatpost doesn't slip but I did have a couple of instances where my saddle tilted a bit. I cleaned the interface with brake cleaner and tightened it to around 10-12nm and it's rock solid under my 85kg ass.

Headset did go loose from time to time, but I fixed it with some random aliex plug that seemes a bit rougher than the one I've put previously. Interestingly, the longer plug slipped often, but this rougher and smaller endures firmly so far.

Only gripe is the paint finish. I wish it was a bit tougher. It chips pretty fast and easy. And it's too bad considering the painjob itself is really nice.

That's pretty much all. I'm enjoying the road bike after years of mtb, and jumping on my (pretty lightweight) xc machince, I'm feeling so slugish XD... But the first time I jumped on the road bike I thought It would brake, how thin everything is.  ;D

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 26, 2024, 06:52:23 AM »
I've put some protection after the fact... I mean, the damage to the pain  ;D

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 26, 2024, 03:09:28 AM »
Yes, 25$ for a spare seatpost. Just tell Chris it's for 268, and buy the seatpost from the website accessories page. I'm loving my 268 so far. Only gripe I have with it is the paint quality. It's really frail. Some frame protection on the chainstays and around bb should be done while building it. Other than that, I'm enjoying the ride. It's dead silent with no creaks to be heard.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Riro 24mm axle carbon crankset
« on: December 18, 2024, 11:11:59 AM »
I had to return the crankset. The problem metioned earlier about the cranks seizing up the bb was happening on 3 different bikes with 3 different bbs. ztto threaded pressfit and token ninja would seize up completely even without the preload ring installed. On shimano bb92 pressfit bb the crank was still moving but was very tight, definitely overloading the bearing.
I think it's either the axle that's too short or the actual material of the axle is too soft so when it's toruqed correctly, the driveside crankarm sits deeper on the splines that it should.

Here's my experience: shimano bb was too tight on my 268 bb shell. Or probably, and most likely, vb 268 bb shell was a bit too tight for plastic bb, so the bearings got squeezed more then they should. I then installed ztto threaded bb and when I torqued the riro cranks, they would seeze and not spin well. I then noticed that I could tighten the bb cups a bit more. They were pretty close to the frame shell, but still had just tiny bit of room left to sit really fluish to the frame. So I tightened them just a bit more...

then, I could tighten the cranks pretty tight without seezing. So they really need to be on the point with the bb width in order to be tightened to the specd torque. I've been rinding them, now about 500kms, they work pretty darn well.

However, I have one question. The bolt that's on the drive side, one that had the torque specs written on it, I would like to buy one spare cause I think I saw trace velo said on one of his videos that it failed on him, but I don't know what video was that... Is it same as ordinary DUB crank bolt?

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29er / Re: Carbonda fm936 Thoughts
« on: December 16, 2024, 04:25:31 AM »
Little update on my fm936 situation. So after I got my warranty claim rejected cold by Wing from Carbonda I stumbled upon fm918 thread, and this post: https://chinertown.com/index.php/topic,3106.msg54478.html#msg54478

If you check my post here, on a previous page, you can see literally the same crack location and even same position of the crack lines on the dropout. This user got new triangle, and that makes me really happy for him, but at the same time makes me really f*ing angry because I got rejected cold with doubious statements.

I contacted Wing, and his answers were non sequitur bs, if I'm honest. I'm a grown ass man, I can handle if he tells me to fk off. But when I'm met with some BS explanations, it's irritating.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 14, 2024, 09:51:06 AM »
Had same thing on my mtb handlebars but I had spares from another bar. I guess I'd go with these ones, but make sure you measure them. should be compatible. I could order a set as a spare.

edit: wont let me use the link for some reason. Just search "carbon handlebar screws" on aliex.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 11, 2024, 11:35:12 AM »
Well, haven't had a chance to ride again due to bad weather, but one thing I've noticed is that I didn't put the rotors properly in the first place (wrong roatation), so that "not-so-good" experience I had the first 3 rides are probably due to that. Although I doubt they will have the same braking power as meatier shimano rotors.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 11, 2024, 03:11:34 AM »
Looking very nice. Can't you just remove the handlebars and cut the steerer a little shorter? That's how i did it after i decided how many spacers i want to run. I just removed the handlebars, put on the cutting guide and sawed off the top piece. Worked like a charm without disassembling everything again.

Considered it, but I want to try with 0.5mm spacer under to see it the fit is better, then after that I will decide weather to go with the spacer or to cut it couple of mm's.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 08, 2024, 07:25:19 AM »
I also had brake rub when out of the saddle on my first ride. However, I noticed the disc was slightly off center between brake pads, so I adjusted it and voilla, no rub when sprinting. 105 hydraulics

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I stand corrected. Wheels are in perfect dish. It's the vb268 dropouts that are causing slight misalignment. I managed to fix it though. Mea culpa. Wheels are 100% straight, round and dished properly.

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Was thinking about that, but tire is offset with regards to seatpost as well.

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Guys I've notived the rear wheel is out of dish, and it bothers my ocp. Difference is not negligible, 4mm, or in other words, double the distance. On one side there's 4.1mm distance to the rim, and the other - 8mm. I know how to dish it, but it shouldn't be that big difference imo. And the problem is I don't have the spoke holder to keep the spoke from turning while re-dishing. Can anyone give me advice? I'm willing to try to re-dish it, but if the nipples are glued, and I don't have the spoke holder, that might be pretty impossible i belive.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 06, 2024, 04:00:39 AM »
Just did a first proper ride. I'm really satisfied with how the bike feels. Although it's my first road bike, it's more then I expected tbh. Feels really fast, plenty stiff and it's more comfortable then I expected, expecially after years of full sus mtb's and fat tyres. Small road chatter is really nicely absorbed.

Had to do some additional fiddling with RD and it's cause of ztto cassette. I had some experience with ztto cassettes on mtb and they need some additional attention in order to get it to shift properly.

Only thing I noticed that I didn't think about before is the braking power while descending at high speeds. It's nowhere close as it is on fat mtb tyres and 4pot brakes. Have to get used to it and modulate before turns.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« on: December 05, 2024, 08:58:50 AM »
Yeah, it's pretty much red, cherry red tint kinda. Camera distorted the paint.

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