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Re: X-LAB AD9
Quote from: toxin on January 20, 2025, 09:55:10 AM
Is this your first time hearing of this?  XDS is one of, if not the biggest carbon frame manufacturers. They are the oem for many big western brands. There will be no shitty chiner version. It's also not likely to retail outside of asia
Is this condescension necessary? I also hadn't known about XDS until recently. Im sure there was a point in time where you didn't know about them either.
January 20, 2025, 10:41:12 AM 		1
Re: X-LAB AD9
Quote from: toxin on January 20, 2025, 11:04:23 AM
When you could learn everything in 5 mins with a google search but post a question on a forum cause you couldn't be bothered, I don't really feel much simpathy

 Username checks out. LOL
January 20, 2025, 01:58:55 PM 		1
Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc! Not the correct thread mate
May 06, 2026, 11:29:17 AM 		1
Re: XMCS: 2026 Aero Gravel bike I'm not that strong and run a 44t. A lot of guys I ride with run a 46t. Would be pretty sad to max out at 42.
June 03, 2026, 06:14:36 PM 		1
Re: XMCS: 2026 Aero Gravel bike For me: 46T for the mountain gravel races, 50T for the flat gravel races with a 10-44T in the back. Sure you can ride flat races with a 44 or 46T, but when it comes to saving watts on the drivetrain, it's about having a straight chainline for most of the riding time. Translating this to frame design: maximum chainring size is part of the 'optimized for performance' aspect.
June 04, 2026, 02:07:48 AM 		1
Re: XMCS: 2026 Aero Gravel bike The, probably, most used cassette will be the 13 speed 10-46. For my gravel races, I don't need anything easier than 1:1, so I run a 46t front. And I'm not actually fit. Give me one more year of training, and I can probably get away with a 50t front ring for 1.09 gearing. It would still be a way easier gearing than the commonly used road 54/40 + 11-34, where the easiest gear available is 1.18.

Tucked in the pack on a false flat downhill or with a serious tailwind, saving watts by not being maximum cross-chained into the 10 tooth chain torturer seems important.
June 04, 2026, 03:41:54 AM 		1
Re: XMCS: 2026 Aero Gravel bike
Quote from: zett on June 04, 2026, 06:06:25 AM
We're still talking gravel though. Speeds are significantly lower than road, except for descents, and guess what, you hardly need to pedal for those. I agree that it would be nice to have some reserves for larger chainrings, but that this frame is "dead" for race gravel use is still quite the hyperbole.

If you don't need more than a 42 on an aero gravel bike then you have no need for an aero gravel bike and are wasting your time racing.

Which is why the suggestion is so preposterous that it can't be true.
June 04, 2026, 07:12:03 AM 		1
Re: XMCS: 2026 Aero Gravel bikey Does anyone ride 2x on a gravel bike in 2026?  ;)
June 10, 2026, 12:48:38 PM 		1