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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elitewheels ENT 2.0 4 pawls freehub service - o-ring issue
« Last post by coffeebreak on April 02, 2025, 01:47:29 PM »
My Elite wheels had a different problem - dry bearings. The grease basically thinned out and evaporated? I have no idea. Only about 1600 miles on them. The front wheel started making gruff noises when spinning. I had to open up the bearing seal and repack with grease. No brand marking on those bearings except the type. Not a big deal but I think there are QC issues with their low end wheels. Glad they are taking care of it.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elitewheels ENT 2.0 4 pawls freehub service - o-ring issue
« Last post by SillyMochi on April 02, 2025, 01:39:15 PM »
Update: talked to Elitewheels on AE where I bought them. They couldn't really provide any help or reason to what happened to my o-ring but they are shipping out a new one. Let's see if that fits then  :D
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« Last post by coffeebreak on April 02, 2025, 01:36:30 PM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on April 02, 2025, 12:56:43 PM
Oops, thanks for pointing that out! I'm super blind!

Though I'm wondering if that cover+spacer is for that more squared style stem or will it work with the rounded stems?

Square, I think I used it on a flat FSA stem a while ago. Its not ridiculously cheap looking 3D printed shite either like some other spacers that are being sold on AliExpress. I still have the headset top cap from that set and it is comparable to OG-Evkin spacer set.

Edit to say, you are talking about the link I posted earlier, correct?
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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Carbonda 696 thru axle
« Last post by SillyMochi on April 02, 2025, 01:35:44 PM »
Those two measurements are - as you probably discovered by yourself by now - only half of the truth. Or maybe even less than that. They only tell you the diameter and length between the mounting points. You still need the *actual* length of the axles and they can be all over the place. Only reliable way to find out is either have the metric in the data sheet, measuring it yourself from an actual axle, or asking the manufacturer. The other important metric is the thread pitch; the distance of the coils on the thread. Again gotta measure or get it from a data sheet.
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: AliExpress Price Adjustment Feature
« Last post by SillyMochi on April 02, 2025, 01:29:46 PM »
Yeah, that's kinda my theory: I only buy when a sale is going on. And I made it a bit of a sport's competition to find the best price during that, combining best offer from different shops, coins, shop and AE discount codes. Sometimes they add up to insane discounts where I thought that cannot be intended. A few do take several hours to actually be confirmed which makes me think there was a manual check going on in the background. But so far they all got confirmed in the end. I guess for most things a sell is a sell.

I think it is very unlikely that I will ever find a product in my order list where the current listing price (w/o discounts codes) will be lower than what I paid for it.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Is LTWOO R9 Disc 2x11 compatible with UDH hanger?
« Last post by frnchy on April 02, 2025, 01:29:04 PM »
Quote from: Blueberry on April 02, 2025, 01:11:23 PM
I think you have part of that backwards. UDH is compatible with any groupset (including LTWOO), Red XPLR and Transmission are ONLY compatible with UDH. Not non-compatible.

I was talking about a UDH hanger; you’re right if defining “UDH” as the frame specifications (which is what SRAM does, so I suppose you’re more correct than me) - but if OP has a UDH hanger in hand, wondering about a groupset that is not Full Mount, then there’s not much of a distinction to be made.
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Replica Factor Ostro VAM
« Last post by canadabike93 on April 02, 2025, 01:26:41 PM »
Looks great, how are you liking the frame?
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29er / Re: Drop bar mountain bike recs
« Last post by atlet on April 02, 2025, 01:25:42 PM »
@Tijoe tnx. It's comfortable for longer rides?

This one has a lot of sizes: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_omW8uhf
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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Cost effective groupset upgrade for trainer only-bike
« Last post by SillyMochi on April 02, 2025, 01:22:27 PM »
Well, actually ... Shimano DI2 has already been hacked: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/shimano-di2-wireless-hacking/
Full paper if you interested in the details: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/woot24-motallebighomi.pdf

And honestly, I'm not surprised. Just look at the DI2 app's look and functionality. That thing reeks of shoddy coding. So, I don't think it should be too hard to "jailbreak" - but like you said, the user group is just much smaller. Or maybe more honest - errr yeah, forget about the last part  :D
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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Is LTWOO R9 Disc 2x11 compatible with UDH hanger?
« Last post by Blueberry on April 02, 2025, 01:11:23 PM »
Quote from: frnchy on April 02, 2025, 08:30:10 AM
All groupsets aside from SRAM full mount (Transmission and RED XPLR) are compatible with a UDH hanger, as it’s just a derailleur hanger like any other.

I think you have part of that backwards. UDH is compatible with any groupset (including LTWOO), Red XPLR and Transmission are ONLY compatible with UDH. Not non-compatible.
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