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Xcadey has roughly the same problems. We haven't disassembled or compared the power meters ourselves, but the problems are similar.
Garmin Rally has the same problems while mine xcadeys don't. So leoseek is similar to Garmin, lol.

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https://youtu.be/d6vdmSxPHsw?si=qbwOATci7T6nuZKd
There is a new youtube vid on Elves Mori. Just use subtitles with translation.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Chinese cycling clothes
« on: September 14, 2025, 06:32:57 PM »
It's a 180€ jacket, the fact you got it luckily for 30€ is relevant only for you.
Yep,right. But it's quality and versatility are worth the full price. I do have wosawe, ykyw, darevie winter jerseys (and northwave), they became almost useless after I got PRO SL3, I do use darevie for very short rides to nearby shop or a post office, others just occupy some place in my wardrobe. The price of all those jerseys together is equal to Endura's full price, but they are useless, so it's enormous Endura's quality/price advantage. Like 100 quality/180€ to 5quality/180€. Same about Endura Singletrack pants vs Rockbros cycling pants
I do use Darevie, ykyw summer jerseys and bibs - they are better and cheaper than Endura's. But for winter clothes I'd better choose western brands. Same about shoes.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Chinese cycling clothes
« on: September 12, 2025, 09:57:29 AM »
This sort of comment is antithetical to the entire existence of this forum. Why are you even here?

People here discuss which particular carbon wheelsets and bike frames to buy from Ali express. People send it down mountainsides riding atop stuff they buy from Ali express and come here to discuss whether it's worth risking their life on this brand or this other brand. And you're saying a gilet is too technical to buy from Ali express?

For sure, some clothes from places like Ali express are crap and will lead to the buyer having a bad time. But some are just fine and represent significant savings over many western brands with the same performance (almost all of which is made by some third party factory in china, anyway). The whole point of this website AND THIS PARTICULAR THREAD is trying to share which ones worked and didn't work for us.

For the record, all my winter kit came from Ali express, except for my gloves. And it's all been fine (except for the gloves). Proper western branded winter kit is stupidly expensive. I would actually say, prohibitively expensive. It would be literally too expensive ride in winter with the prices these days, for me. The price to buy 2 pair of winter bibs, jerseys, jackets, gloves, shoe covers, and caps all from reputable US retailers would probably cost more than a Wahoo Kickr Core smart trainer that I could use indoors for the duration of the winter (and every winter after).
He's still right when things came to winter clothes. After I've got Endura Pro SL3 winter jerseys for ridiculous low price of 30 euro, all my Ali fleece jerseys became obsolete.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: August 26, 2025, 03:16:41 PM »
Software update seems to be related only with the new aerobar switches.
Can we mass attack the support to add controlling features to the left shifter? It's so useless for now.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: XCADEY VENTUS Carbon Cranks + PM
« on: August 26, 2025, 11:04:54 AM »
I'm very interested in those cranks, but I really do need more info before buying them, what is axle's length, how much does this powermeter goes back to bottom bracket, what is the diameter of powermeter's inner circle from bb side (I have t47 bb, so I want to check twice that the PM won't rub my frame and vice versa). Hope to hear these parameters from Sebastian.

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Well, you can, I'm asking about bb width and it can be measured with cranks installed, however regarding the fact that Magene PES is 90.5 mm wide, and those cranks are a bit wider, I'll try them. Thanks for your info!

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Bigrock Cranks + xcadey powermeter and Bigrock Skyline handlebars are going strong. Bike looks 🔥
Can you please give some info about axle length? What is your bike's bb total width? I'm a bit worried with my 91mm total, and there is no info about max bb width on Ali.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: May 15, 2025, 01:43:33 PM »
So with universal charger for my car's accumulator which is capable to set output voltage as low as 7V and output current as low as 1A I touched contacts on my rear derailleur for 1 second and then...

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: May 15, 2025, 01:28:56 PM »
That said, I just pulled my cable out, plugged it in to USB port and measure 9V with the pin positive.
That is, of course, unloaded and without any potential negotiations which makes it a little surprising to me. I thought 'dumb' USB power was supposed to be 5V until negotiated otherwise. The green light at the USB A end was illuminated and perhaps that circuitry is doing the negotiation with the brick and just delivering dumb 9V down the wire.
PS: I think you already suggested you've done this, but just in case: You can, of course, charge the battery cells externally instead of through the RD cable. But that won't necessarily help a startup sequence (which I didn't recall being there)
Thank you will give a try. I did charged the batteries to 100% ofc, but it doesn't help. There is no positive contact from the battery to the cable and there is some kind of controller in the battery which I cannot identify.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: May 15, 2025, 12:18:22 PM »
I don't have a voltage tool to check output. Can you try activating by unplugging and plugging the battery cable? In the meantime you can charge batteries in a universal battery charger.
Already did this 10000 times. How was your activation process? Did you used charging cable as it's described on Ltwoo official YT channel?

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO eGR
« on: May 15, 2025, 11:44:16 AM »
Can anyone help with eGR activation? Mine came without charging cable, the seller resent the cable, but I'll have to wait for a month until I'll get it. I fully charged my accums, connected them to rear derailleur and got no reaction from the derailleur, no green blinks, nothing. In YT video they say I need the charging cable to activate for the first time. Can anyone measure voltage and polarization of original charger output, so I could try to emulate charging with mine universal tunable charger?

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As Magene powermeter did not fitted my G068, I used Magene Zrace variant, which costed me a bit more, but provides me with a lot of clearance. Also Xcadey PMs seem to fit this frame better.
https://chinertown.com/index.php/topic,5483.15.html

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Xcadey powermeter seems to fit any t47 frame due to it's shape. It's central hole is only 3 mm deep and goes back 1mm to only 2 mm resulting. So as t47 adds 1 mm of it's external width, you'll have to place only one 1mm o-ring in worst case.

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Zrace+Magene powermeter fits t47 because of usage of plastic o-ring on powermeter's side and a special adapting ring on the other side. Resulting q-factor is something like 160mm on my frame and the powermeter has a lot of clearance to the frame.
I tried the same powermeter on my Senicx GR-3 cranks and it did not fitted my frame, Magene makes the central hole too deep.

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