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Quite frankly I have nothing negative to report or criticize. Easily the lightest and best set of wheels I've used from a value perspective. Mother nature gave me one single day today above freezing, and I was able to get in a 3 hour ride Z2 ride with some intervals mixed in.

GP5000 STR 32c. Running actual tubeless to avoid another audience upheaval on my YouTube. Tires measure 34mm at the rim. 55 PSI

Video drops next week.

These vs the CRWs and Farsports S5?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: December 31, 2024, 04:45:50 AM »


The black inc aero barstem has been produced, not sure when it reaches alixpress, but i reckon soon

Looks different to my real one, also its super heavy at 430 grams for my 36 x 130!!

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: December 23, 2024, 05:24:32 PM »
Ha. Great eyes, I thought nobody would notice  :D There is about 1-1.5mm play in the headset area. The fork slipped down as I was trying to fit these very snug handlebars on the fork while the bike was lifted in the service stand. To be fair, this happens to me with every bike that I service and it takes me 2-3 tries to fix it - I guess I am doing something fundamentally wrong (maybe I should do it with the bike on the ground?) So I need to refit the handlebars and all will be good.

Inside looked pretty much exactly the same as oralmaster's, I had a thorough look with a flashlight. No bubbles, no wrinkles, no loose material. If you want, I can take couple pictures of the BB area when I refit it.

@Oralmaster: How much did you ride yours? What are your impressions in terms of how it rides?

Its really nice, I just rode it in comparison to the SL8. The power transfer is great, it feels stiffer than the sl8 aswell as stiffer than the sl7, but I do feel more road vibrations and road chatter.

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Highly recommend Peter and Xiamen Carbon Speed, really good and fast service. Weight was 1211g on my 50/55mms. Answered all my annoying questions and for 650 bucks these wheels are insane value. 1211g, ceramic hubs, carbon spokes, all the works. these are the 21/21 spokes and I don't know the benefits or differences to the new 20spoke ones but I'm excited to get these.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: November 29, 2024, 02:52:12 AM »
i wasn't very bike savvy then (still not very savvy now), how he marketed on the chinese platforms has already satisfied my needs/wants (basically a knockoff factor frame for 1/5 of the price that looks at good and could not be differentiated by the naked eye. I apologize for the inconvenience caused here, i did feedback to him that my frameset was very well received and he should focus more on aliexpress, he didn't took it well though.


but i recently placed a deposit for another "one bike to rule them all" frameset with darimo nexum drag handlebars and darimo seatpost (fake obviously) . call me a sucker i guess.

what frameset did u get? and where are u getting the darimo nexum and seatpost?

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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

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Hows this bike holding up today?

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Might have to buy these and review!

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So what manufacture is making these wheels for other brands? Has anyone tried these? sub 1100 for 50mm deep for 789 seems pretty cool

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: November 13, 2024, 10:39:00 PM »
I've decided I'm going to weight weenie it, I want to get it under 7kg cuz why not. Currently 7.8kg with everything on it

What I'm currently thinking

Avian Canary- 240 grams. 100g savings, costs 190 and 40 for the adapter to Factor.

Overfast or similiar thru axles, should save me 60-80 grams. 200

Farsports 2025 evo S all rounder- should save close to 300-350, costs 1500. I think I can sell my current rovals for around 1000 bucks

Crankset- Riro crankset from Ali should save me another 100 grams

With that should be 7.1kg

Maybe lighter disc brakes, darimo post, ti bolts and a few other things if i'm feeling ambitious

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: November 12, 2024, 04:06:31 PM »
I'll post a pic soon

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: SL8 Replica Build
« on: November 05, 2024, 03:09:34 PM »
So basically this frame is good enough for the coffee ride to show off, but not for actual race use?  ;D

I've ridden my replica ostro vam for thousands of miles, placed decenlty races in crits on it in California. I put 1300 watts in on a sprint and it holds up well. I have a friend who weighs a fuck ton and he put in 1600watts and said it felt stiffer to his real sl6

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« on: September 20, 2023, 12:44:17 PM »
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