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Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
Quote from: toxin on July 13, 2025, 08:17:43 AM
So has anybody got significant time with the TT/V3 variants? I'm thinking of getting a road groupset plus TT shifters and brake levers and setting them up with Zeno hydraulic quick connectors to make a road bike that can easily be converted into a TT bike with a TT basebar and extensions. Any experiences running 1x with the road rear mech?

Shimano kinda sucks for this and sram is too expensive

They removed the charging port on the RD with V3. The V3 requires the FD to charge via the USB type-C port. You'd have to pick up a spare V1 ER9/X RD in order to run it 1x with charging or remove the batteries and charge it in a separate charger. My V1 ER9 RD  firmware was updated to work with the TT shifters.

Photos of the V3 ER9. No charging port:
July 13, 2025, 09:10:00 AM 		1
Re: LTK266-D-SL, lightweight frame confirmed under 800g w/paint and accessories (M)
Quote from: klrdd on September 19, 2025, 08:28:14 PM
My build of the LTK266-D-SL is now finished!

I took the bike out for a 2 hour team ride this morning here in the Northeast US. Photo attached, plus photos of the two BMC bikes that are my points of comparison. To be honest, I have to 100% echo Sakizashi:

Quote from: Sakizashi on September 14, 2025, 10:19:18 PM
Honestly, it's just a good bike to the point of being boring. Coming from my aggressive road bike, the bike feels slightly lazy.
This sounds like a downer review, but to me, it's the exact opposite. This bike is really good and really good at a lot of things, to the point where I didn't notice much about the bike because there weren't any apparent shortcomings. If you are looking for an aero-looking bike, this frame isn't it. If you are looking for a bike you can ride fast that builds up light, this is probably it.

He is so right, though to some degree I attribute this in part to running fat ass tires, as I am coming from putting 16K km over a yearish on a bike with exactly the same geo. The LTK266 just isn't that exciting I guess, but it is so so good at what it does. And I have to remind myself that that's why I bought it and built it up the way I did -- around running 36ish WAM slicks @ 50psi, yet still having a markedly lightweight bike just over 7kg. That it is so smooth and controlled is quite jarring coming from a decade old race/climber rim brake bike, but on my local roads it is a blessing and then some.

But the other thing is, the bike feels really stiff. I do not know how much this is due to the bars and wheels, too. Way stiffer than the 2015 BMC with 2015 35mm ENVE hoops, which is my reference point. Perhaps the LTK's stiffness would be jarring with skinny high pressure tires, but because I'm making use of the 35C clearance, it all evens out, and makes the bike very responsive, but not twitchy or chattery at all.

A month ago I rented a BMC Kaius 01 Three -- a race oriented gravel bike with very long reach and only 44 WAM clearance -- to do some gravel riding mostly on strade bianche type roads in southern Vermont (though also a little class 4 mixed in, which I wouldn't advise; I don't like being underbiked). It was fitted with SRAM Rival and 40mm Pirelli Cinturatos. The LTK feels very reminiscent of the Kaius in certain respects, but without the gravel geo and the extra weight. I'd put the similar feeling down, again, to it having SRAM componentry and similar width tubeless tires. Maybe once I put some more time in and get used to the Longteng, it will be something of the best of both worlds: The geo of the teammachine but the versatility and comfort of the Kaius. Pretty psyched tbh
September 20, 2025, 12:24:02 PM 		1