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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: VeloBuild VB-R-268 frame
« Last post by Serge_K on Today at 08:33:04 AM »
Yeah, it's often like that. Why the hell would I be interested in the unpainted weight?

Because matte paint is lighter than gloss, that a single coat is lighter than several colours with decals? Factories either advertise unpainted weight, or matte black weight.
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Do none of you want to believe that the weight specs are simply lying

Yeah, it's often like that. Why the hell would I be interested in the unpainted weight?
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LEXON Road Carbon Crankset
« Last post by c.etzo on Today at 06:29:28 AM »
ordered one! hope to receive it in few days
i plan to use it with a 1x setup for gravel.
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29er / Re: LightCarbon 918?
« Last post by ChristEr on Today at 05:05:00 AM »
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I am looking for a rear shock and I see that the 918 has a mount 165*38mm. Otherwise, I see many options in 165*37.5mm, but I am not sure if this measurement would fit the frame. I have already got a reba rl 120mm.
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I ordered the frame as well. I think 165*37.5 mm metric options will work as well. The eye to eye length is the same. It only give you 0.5 mm less travel which is around 1% of total travel less compared to 38mm and will not be a noticeable difference.
Or am I missing something?
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I haven't ridden it as much as I'd hoped for various reasons. Everything has been fine. No brake rub, comfortable (for me) and it bowls along very nicely. I would give the frameset a cautious recommendation as lonf as you're prepared to do the necessary fettling to make sure everything goes together nicely.
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Or you could post in the 5 page thread on the first page of this sub-forum ... http://chinertown.com/index.php/topic,3739.0.html

 Back to lurking I suppose. Thanks for your knowledgeable response.
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Exactly looks like Laminar sources their rims from Lightcarbon/ProX.
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On lightweight cassettes:

I bought an SROAD/Spedao monobloc 11-32 12sp cassette made of steel. Around 6000km and still going strong. Shifts perfectly fine and weighs around 230g.
On my new disc brake bike I took a gamble and bought an 11-34 12sp cassette from Goldix made of an aluminium monobloc and several single cogs made of steel. After around 2000km there's visible wear marks on at least one of the alu cogs. So much so in fact that I can provoke the chain to skip on it. Also, I never managed to set the gearing up on this cassette as smooth as I would have liked. The shifting is just rough and noticeably less smooth than on any other cassette I tried. I now went out and bought another monobloc steel cassette. This time from ZTTO because I think the design is even better than with Spedao/Sroad.
Bottom line: Don't waste your money on these alu/steel cassettes. I think no matter which manufacturer you're getting them from, they're just not that great.
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No it isnt. the braking forces are completely different so they're built differently. i suspect the spoke holes area is thicker on disc wheels because of where the braking force is applied.
it would also look ugly
it would take forever to relace, it's a cheap wheelset to start with, can't make sense financially when you can simply sell the rim wheels & buy disc wheels.
it's a botch that can end with death.

More premium brands might do this. But there's plenty of sellers on Aliexpress selling basically the same rim with and without a brake track. I wouldn't count on them altering their layup at the spoke holes depending on the braking method. The spoke hole drilling and angle however will be an issue if you rebuild a rim brake wheel for disc. The rear might work, since it's asymmetric to begin with and the NDS spokes will only have to go steeper. But the front rim will be drilled for symmetrical spoke angles and also spoke count might not work. Most disc front wheels have 24 spokes. Most rim brake wheels have 21 spokes or even as few as 16 spokes.
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There's still a few options around with direct mount rim brakes if you search Aliexpress thoroughly enough. My VB-R218 has direct mount rim brakes and definitely fits tires measuring up to 32mm with still enough clearance. Also my rims are 30mm wide and the slightly better braking performance with direct mount rim brakes helps with that. But I think this is about the widest you will ever be able to go with rim brakes.
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