My suspicion is that if you change the wheel enough that thing will loosen up without Loctite, since I get a lot of flats in my region and I use a smart trainer, I remove the rear wheel many times a week.

Looking forward for the 177 review.

Had two bikes from Velobuild and a MTB from Carbonda, have to say the quality finish from Carbonda was superior. In terms of quality which brand do you rate the highest so far?

Man, This hits home. Im currently running a 140mm stem on a bike with 393 reach. I typically ride a 55/56, but after looking at the geometry charts it makes me feel like I need to get the XL as it’s -10mm shorter. Id still need a 130mm that they don’t offer

Great video! Just an update on my own 177 bike experience

- The stem has a design flaw, the carbon top cap is not strong enough and does not fit perfectly with the stem, in order to keep the play from the fork/stem you need a constant compression in the system no matter how tight you tork the stem to the fork. If you ride in rough roads this thing will always end up having play because of vibrations, I tried a longer expander and the only solution was actually buying a stem from Deda

- The first fork had a misaliagned rivet for the brake caliper, it was impossible to adjust the brake without the rotor rubbing. Velobuild was kind to send a second fork painted to the color I ordered, but to my surprise the new fork had the same problem, the bottom rivet was not at an 90º degree angle to the fork, so when the caliper was secured it would move inward. My mechanic was able to replace the rivet with carbon resin. I was so pissed that I did not even email Velobuild at the time

If for not these two major issues the experience would be rated amazing, ride feels very compliant, frame climbs snapy, they really have done a great job frame wise.

But they need to fix the fork issues, if this was a batch problem or some QA mistake and they cannot sell that STEM the way it is, it simply DOES NOT WORK.