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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Survey: Chinese electronic Groupsets
« on: May 01, 2025, 07:55:06 AM »
Groupset: Wheeltop GeX 1x12
Would you recommend? Mostly yes
Where bought? Aliexpress store
Mileage: ~400 miles, 30ish hours.
Comments: The initial setup app was hot garbage due to translation errors. Ended up getting the derailleur stuck in the far left position when it "thought" it was in the first cog. The installation guide is also hard to follow/understand. Those are obviously not hardware-related issues.
The hoods don't feel as nice as Ultegra Di2. The brake levers themselves are a little "looser" than what I'm accustomed to with Di2 -- they have more forward play than they should, meaning they have a tendency to move when the buttons are pressed. The biggest flaw by far is the shifter button action. They feel "gritty", and the small button on the right shifter gives a click feel/sound well before it has actually engaged. The force required to shift is more than Di2 and I frequently don't get a shift that I should have on my Ultegra. When combined with the aforementioned forward motion, this is particularly annoying. The rear derailleur itself is great, though, and has never missed a shift nor dropped a chain on the same ride that a friend's SRAM group dropped multiple times (note: my advice that she has one too many links in her chain is ignored harder than a check engine light).
Conclusion: Shimano should be worried. Once the shifters are improved to Ultegra level, there would be little reason to go with anything else. I will probably still put a 1x Di2 GRX on the bike whenever it is released, if only because the shifters are that much better.
Would you recommend? Mostly yes
Where bought? Aliexpress store
Mileage: ~400 miles, 30ish hours.
Comments: The initial setup app was hot garbage due to translation errors. Ended up getting the derailleur stuck in the far left position when it "thought" it was in the first cog. The installation guide is also hard to follow/understand. Those are obviously not hardware-related issues.
The hoods don't feel as nice as Ultegra Di2. The brake levers themselves are a little "looser" than what I'm accustomed to with Di2 -- they have more forward play than they should, meaning they have a tendency to move when the buttons are pressed. The biggest flaw by far is the shifter button action. They feel "gritty", and the small button on the right shifter gives a click feel/sound well before it has actually engaged. The force required to shift is more than Di2 and I frequently don't get a shift that I should have on my Ultegra. When combined with the aforementioned forward motion, this is particularly annoying. The rear derailleur itself is great, though, and has never missed a shift nor dropped a chain on the same ride that a friend's SRAM group dropped multiple times (note: my advice that she has one too many links in her chain is ignored harder than a check engine light).
Conclusion: Shimano should be worried. Once the shifters are improved to Ultegra level, there would be little reason to go with anything else. I will probably still put a 1x Di2 GRX on the bike whenever it is released, if only because the shifters are that much better.