Velobuild AERO GRAV Frame

[Motus]

Mine landed in Germany yesterday, I hope to receive it before the weekend!
In the meantime, I'm choosing the paint 

[shy-b]

Mine landed in Germany yesterday, I hope to receive it before the weekend!
In the meantime, I'm choosing the paint 

When did you order yours?

[Motus]

When did you order yours?

I ordered it on August 14th

[Freddy__HH]

Does anyone know how much custom paint costs? Nothing special just one color (e.g. green)?

[ricchirock]

Does anyone know how much custom paint costs? Nothing special just one color (e.g. green)?

50$
options are here: https://www.velobuild.com/products/velobuild-customized-painting-fee

[Unknownftp]

What do you think?

Looks good, I ended up swinging by the hardware store and got some longer m5 bolts and washes and spaced my hanger out farther and just trimmed the FD. It shifts but def not as smooth but I typically stay within one ring for rides. But also I have the ltwoo one so there isn't the batteries length to deal with for me. Bike looks good tho.

[jo1673]

Just placed an order for a size M in matte black. Changed my mind about paint job after seeing the bike posted by tmhbrl, which my build will resemble heavily

Building mine with Elitewheels Gravel Aero+ wheels and SRAM Rival XPLR (unless I end up justifying Force ...).

[jo1673]

Oh, forgot to mention that it is being shipped out today! Or at least that's what I'm being told, fingers crossed.

[Motus]

The frame is being delivered today, so I'll start working on it over the weekend.. is an XS and will be built with the Wheeltop  GeX.. the paint will be something similar to the Pinarello Luxter Venice

I think I'll make two wheelset, a gravel-oriented with the Thunder Burt 2.1, and a more road-oriented version with the Gravelking slick or the Challenge Strada Bianca.

[Lumenir]

Anyone else got 1.0 thru axle thread? mine came with this

It was written 1.5 on the website...

[Motus]

The frame arrived yesterday, just finished painting.
The color is a "custom" version of Luxter Venice, so a mix of pearl white/silver/light blue/champagne.

I'll start putting the pieces together tomorrow.

[OldFish]

Those who have ridden their bikes for some time. How is the compliance/comfort level of this frame?

I am looking at Aerograv, GR201 and Mondince as potential options and while this seems like a favorite for me, the proprietary seatpost makes me hesitant. I am coming from 100/100 mtb fully (fm936) and would like to have a reasonably comfortable, compliant and fast setup with 2.1 TBs or similar. The frame/seatpost still plays major factor, hence wanting to hear first hand experiences.

[Motus]

Temporary build... I took the wheels and crankset from my old gravel bike to get an idea.
The bike looks fantastic in terms of geometry and design. There's plenty of tire clearance and the weight is good. I think the final weight will be around 8,0/8,1 kg with these wheels and around 7,2/7,3 kg with the road wheelset.

[asagilmore]

Those who have ridden their bikes for some time. How is the compliance/comfort level of this frame?

I am looking at Aerograv, GR201 and Mondince as potential options and while this seems like a favorite for me, the proprietary seatpost makes me hesitant. I am coming from 100/100 mtb fully (fm936) and would like to have a reasonably comfortable, compliant and fast setup with 2.1 TBs or similar. The frame/seatpost still plays major factor, hence wanting to hear first hand experiences.

Got a few hundred miles on mine, I don't think the frame is particularly compliant. Comparing to my canyon endurace, with 32mm tires, but has one of those compliant carbon seatposts (not a real suspension seatpost, but it can move around 2cm if i push hard on it), the canyon is considerably more compliant on rough pavement, even compared to 40mm tires on the velobuild. It looks like LightCarbon has some frames with pseudo suspension in the rear triangle that could be worth a look.

[sbixify]

Those who have ridden their bikes for some time. How is the compliance/comfort level of this frame?

I am looking at Aerograv, GR201 and Mondince as potential options and while this seems like a favorite for me, the proprietary seatpost makes me hesitant. I am coming from 100/100 mtb fully (fm936) and would like to have a reasonably comfortable, compliant and fast setup with 2.1 TBs or similar. The frame/seatpost still plays major factor, hence wanting to hear first hand experiences.

I have four rides on mine now and can definitely tell that the ride is more harsh and unforgiving than my old Grizl CF (also with the same flexy Canyon seatpost as asagilmore). I wanted a more racey bike, so I'm happy with this directness so far.