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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Chinese cycling clothes
« on: March 31, 2025, 03:40:15 AM »
I recently picked up this wind vest. Quality is surprisingly good with solid stitching and an excellent double zipper. Highly recommended for the price.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807295228876.html


sounds interesting, can you say something about sizing, what did you get?

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I don't see it either :(

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I just bought the SP012 Seatpost from OG Evkin. The problem is that my saddle is slipping. Even with carbon paste 8Nm do not secure the saddle. Does anyone have an idea what to do?
What Carbon Paste are you using, the cheap one from Ali is rubbish. I had that one also and hat issues with slipping seatpost. Bought a better and a bit more expensive one from Amazon and no more problems

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you can get the passquest rings in all different kind of designs so they should fit a also the widely available 3 bolts system from scenicx https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005006641832715.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.17.21225c5fCYdaIY&gatewayAdapt=glo2deu

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: New Gravel Frame Ican Graro
« on: February 27, 2025, 04:44:30 PM »
Finally my frame come to me 10days before estimate shipping. From EU warehouse. Dont like the hologram color of logos but who cares.

Weight 8.12kg without SPD. Not bad, specially if I use 10-52 cassette.. RED with powermeter, 180/160mm brakes wit RH4+ calipers and 45x700c tires.

Looks great!! How easy was it to align the rx4+ calipers? I read a lot of people are having trouble to get them noise free. Was also thinking on upgrading to them

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Chinese cycling clothes
« on: February 17, 2025, 03:32:16 PM »
For some reason the official store isn't showing in search results for me either: https://spexcel.aliexpress.com/store/1101206109

I recently bought their '23 bibs: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005343407124.html
The leg length is great, no more mid-thigh action, but weirdly the material feels way too taut.
It's like they've gone too far the other way in trying to make the bibs feel quality by making the material thicker.

It seems they withdraw from AliExpress - I don’t see any product on the store. Funny as I’m still waiting for some vests to be delivered. But it seams they are under way so I’m confident I’ll still get them

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Wheeltop EDS GeX
« on: February 08, 2025, 05:54:22 PM »
Have you already contacted wheeltop? They seem to be quite responsive. Without owing a gex yet it sounds like something is wrong on the software side

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at the moment i ride a ryet eva  (it's okisch) - will switch to a mixed 5D to see if i prefer it. I have also one of these elita one 96g ones, but man these are really hard, no padding at all.

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as I planned on using the same headset cap would be interested to see how bad it looks? Any pictures? And what headset from Ritchey did you order?

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Chinese cycling clothes
« on: January 24, 2025, 02:34:18 AM »
Just mentioning this here: I was really happy with the stuff I bought from Cheji. Unfortunately they closed down their Aliexpress store. They will however keep selling D2C via https://www.chejifactory.com/

They don’t have their whole product range listed there yet.
The full catalogue can be found here: https://cheji.flbook.com/
Have you already ordered via their website? Is there a possibility of returning goods or should one be sure to keep them because the costs would be not worth the hassle.

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Got some pictures of my painted frame. Looks good from the pictures. Its a metallic red + black with matte clearcoat.

@Reiko what is the T47i? I asked for a BB of Tantan that they're sending along with it, can you use a regular T47 (52mm outside) tool for it, or is there some special tool required?
looks very good - where did you finally purchase and how much was it?

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I just bought this frame exactly for doing that/ all year commuting. I hope it will be fine, I'll report if any problem occurs. Just out of curiosity - how can one fix this?

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I found probably the same videos and forum posts suggesting that you can use an XPLR derailleur with a 10-50. I would highly advice not to waste your time and money. I was able to make it work a few times in the bike stand but it was never consistent and would not work when riding. Save yourself the trouble and just get the previous generation GX AXS derailleur.

great, thanks for the inside. So I will go down the GX AXS route. What setup are you running specifically now?

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After conducting further research, it appears that at least some people have successfully fitted the Rival AXS eTap derailleur with a Garbaruk cage, making it work with an 11-50T cassette. My plan is to start by using the SRAM-compatible version of the Garbaruk cage and 12s normal chain (YBN SLA e.g.). If that doesn’t work as well as expected, I can still try switching the pulley wheels.

What I'm still unsure about is if I should choose a dub or dub wide crankset and which chainring would be appropriate.

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Why are you considering Apex XPLR with a Garbaruk cage and not a GX Eagle AXS rear derailleur?
out of pure ignorance  ;D
But looking at both I still would prefer the Apex XPLR if that would work (any idea if?) cause it would be quite lighter and for me also cheaper.

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