Hello. New to the forum but I've been stalking it for a few weeks. I currently ride a Wilier from 2011 with Sram Rival groupset and Ksyrium Elite wheels. About 17.5 pounds with pedals. Still a great bike but I've gotten the itch for a new bike with fatter tires, disc brakes and carbon wheels. After loads of research, I've decided to get a Twitter Gravel V3. I'm sure you're wishing why them... awesome price, they make and warranty their stuff and now they have North American shops. So pretty well established. I'm not racing so don't care about uci.
Initially I was going to get just the frameset as it's geometry is close to my current bike and then build up with Wheeltop Eds Tx. Buy my own wheels and all the other bits. So I was chatting Alibaba on the Twitter shop and trying to get the best deal. Jane from Twitter asked why I didn't just buy one of their pre-made bikes. Basically they don't have a build that matched what I want. So she worked with me to put together a build that I'm happy with.
The bike will be...
Twitter frame, fork, seat post, handlebar, and their lightest ratchet carbon wheelset (1550g 700cx28mm)
Wheeltop Eds Tx hydraulic groupset
It's coming with Senicx cranks, but I got a steal of a deal on ebay for FSA SLK Light carbon cranks, so swapping those out
Ztto bb386 40
Replacing the tires and tubes with GP5000 700cx32 tires and TPU tubes
Onirii carbon pedals
The shipping label is already made so when I get it I'll take pics and post my impressions. Nobody that I've seen has really done a Twitter bike so I thought it would be an interesting post.
All in I'll be less than $1500.
Anybody interested?
