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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Thinkrider PP5 power meter
« on: February 20, 2026, 07:50:35 AM »
I just received the ThinkRider PP5 with their budget crankset: 160mm length, 24mm steel axle, for 132€ from AliExpress.

I mounted my Ultegra 8100 chainrings onto the spider and swapped out the Ultegra crank. Unfortunately, the chainrings don't sit in the same position at all; they are at least 5mm further outboard.

I am completely unable to adjust the front derailleur to compensate. My Di2 flashes red (outer limit reached), but it still can't lift the chain onto the big ring.

It’s super frustrating—how can they still mess this up? Did I miss something?
This reminds me of a friend's Xcadey from years ago; he was at least able to make it work with his mechanical front derailleur.
Maybe try fitting some spacer between the spider and the crank arm? One of my friends received his PM with the same crankset, I took a look when he was installing it and I think a 1mm spacer should fit, that might be just enough. Although I'm not sure if it could move the spider too much and cause some other issues. I'll check again when my other friend gets his cranks, should be by next week, maybe I could post some pictures too.

BTW, this crankset doesn't have any manufacturer specified, and Thinkrider most likely isn't producing it in their own factory, but the left arm is mounted with a plastic bolt (same way as Shimano cranks) that looks suspiciously similar to bolts on Prowheel cranks. I think the OEM is in fact Prowheel, or whoever is the OEM for Prowheel, though I might be wrong.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Thinkrider PP5 power meter
« on: February 13, 2026, 08:39:40 AM »
This Strava watts/power estimation is crap.
My friend was getting her power estimated by Strava way below 100W every ride, then she got a Magene PM and suddenly she was recording 130-150W. This function is totally useless.

At 5% error, you might as well ride by heart rate or rpe. Or alternatively, dont wate time and money on  a power meter in the first place
5% accuracy at 200 W is 190-210 W, if I didn't know what riding at that power feels like and waned to learn my zones, even with that margin of error it would still be a valuable information for me. That could be acceptable for people who don't even know if their FTP is 250W or more like 150W, and can't afford more proven PM for over twice that price. However, for someone experienced with using a reliable PM, that would be too much drift.

Two of my friends just ordered these Thinkrider PMs, but if they turn out to be a total crap in GPlama test, they'll just return them.

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After The Ride / Re: Action cameras
« on: February 11, 2026, 05:09:07 PM »
I can confirm it's two piece, with Gopro-style interface connecting them. If it was one piece, you wouldn't be able to rotate the camera to get a good view of the road behind you. I'll post a picture how it looks once I'm finished with attaching it to the seatpost, which I hope should be by the weekend.

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After The Ride / Re: Action cameras
« on: February 09, 2026, 04:29:46 PM »
Unfortunately no, it has some proprietary mount - worth noting it that it's different mount than the one they used in their NT201 radar, which I bought last year. I guess they needed to redesign the mount to be more robust, since NT301 is heavier, too bad they didn't just use Garmin standard. On the flipside, there's a saddle rail mount included this time (NT201 came only with a rubber band), which can also be used separately with any Gopro-style mount, so if you can fit some camera attachment to your seatpost or saddle, you can use it to install this light/camera device too. I'll try to install it directly to my seatpost, which is aero-shaped but flat on the rear, I'll post some pictures if I succeed.

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SUMC has some 13 speed chains: https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005007401703860.html
Not sure if that cassette would work with Sram or campy chains, or maybe just a regular 12s chain. I have Sensah ARX 1x13 groupset on one of my bikes, with Sunshine cassette and KMC X12 chain, I can say it works better than I expected.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Crankset for mondince
« on: February 08, 2026, 03:06:37 PM »
If you want something stiff, avoid anything with cutouts like the one you posted, or with aluminium 24mm axles. You can try Senicx PR3, or GR3 which is theoretically a version for gravel bikes, but I'm not sure if there is any difference between them. I installed PR3 on my friends gravel bike a year ago (she wanted some cheap but reliable 165mm crankset), made a few thousands km and no issues so far. You can find these in 1x or 2x configurations, or just the crank arms (they have 3 bolt GXP mount so there are plenty of chainrings and spiders to choose from), in lengths up from 165mm. It should fit your bike, if you already have a BB for Shimano cranks you don't need anything else.

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I bought it from this seller, cost me $152 after discounts: https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005010241184664.html

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Good for them but I don't see the point?
That's carbon crank prices and heavier than ultegra
Similar design to Zrace RX2 crankset, which is only slightly heavier but half the price. And there's also Senicx PR2, which is half the price of the Zrace one, though this one is forged while Zrace and Stone are CNC machined. However, if someone is looking for some good quality aluminium crankset shorter than 165 mm, Stone could be a good choice.

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I decided to give this power meter a try, since it's currently the cheapest PM spider for 3-bolt mount, and I happened to have a compatible crankset laying around. One thing I find a little disappointing is that that there are only three color stickers in the box, despite the fact that there are more colors depicted in the description, so options to personalize the crank are limited (though it looks ok without any sticker, but luckily my bike is pink, so I used the pink-ish one). Other than that I had no problems installing it on my Zrace RX crankset, also worth noting is that it fits T47 BB, which was an issue with Magene P505 PM I bought with this crank (and had to buy P515 crankset for that bike, but that's another story). I was able to use my Garmin 1040 to calibrate it, so there's no need to install some wonky apps. I did one test ride, everything seemed fine, but one issue I noticed was the lag, when I stopped pedaling both cadence and power readings were dropping gradually for about 2 seconds before reaching 0. Could be because of low temperature (it was below freezing), but still never happened on my other bike which has Inpeak PM, nor with Magene P515 I had before (though I never used that one in winter). As to precision, I can't directly compare it against any other PM, so we have to wait for GPLama test (I'm also very curious how it actually performs). So far I give this 4/5 rating from my experience, it's super cheap and it seems to work, I wasn't expecting anything more!

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After The Ride / Re: Action cameras
« on: February 07, 2026, 08:48:56 AM »
In topic of cameras, I recently bought Ravemen NT301, which is a rear light with a video recorder (around $100 from official Ravemen shop on Ali). Picture quality is quite good, it lasts long (I have yet to test if 13h of runtime declared by manufacturer is realistic), and the light is more than bright enough. Though it's definitely not an action camera, video is shaky and color balance is kinda weird, good for getting license plates but not for making nice videos for Instargram. Now I'm looking for a similar solution for the front, something that would last 5-10 hours, record in good enough quality to get plates, preferably record sound since my Ravemen doesn't have a microphone, and could be installed underneath the computer mount (that's te only space I have on my handlebar). Video stabilization and front light functions are optional, I can use a separate light. I was thinking about getting an action camera, but battery runtime on these is not long enough for longer rides, and I don't want to carry spare batteries nor a powerbank. Same issue with motorcycle recorders, it seems all of them require an external power source. I know there are front lights like Garmin Varia Vue or Cycliq Fly12, but these are too pricey for me, I'm looking for something below $150. It's kinda weird that there are several rear bike lights with a camera, a lot of them for less than $100, but there's not a single front video recorder aside the expensive ones. Do you think something will appear in the near future, or maybe there's already a solution I overlooked?

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The zrace is a rotor knockoff 😇
I'm aware of that, but it doesn't say "Rotor", nor it's some no-name product, but instead the manufacturer put their own brand on this crankset. There's a big difference when some Chinese company makes a product "inspired" by someone's design but puts their own logo on it, or just tries to imitate another brand. These cranksets are great examples of a good knockoff and bad counterfeit. Brands like Zrace don't want to be associated with crap products, so they put some effort into proper manufacturing and QC. But if it's not your brand, your reputation wouldn't get harmed, so why care about quality? People will always buy fakes, hoping they'll get similar quality as original for a fraction of price (or just assuming they're buying the real thing), so you can lower the production costs to absolute minimum and even cut QC completely, it's still gona sell. That's why I would never trust a fake of unknown origin, especially part like crankset which could cause you some serious injury if it fails.

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I've seen somewhere on Instagram someone bought one of these Garbaruk knockoffs, when he stood on the pedal the crank started flexing, and when he stomped harder it broke. Garbaruk responded with similar video with their original crankset under load, no flexing noticeable. Just avoid fake products, they're almost never good. I bought a Zrace RX crankset for half of that price (without chainring), and it's pretty decent.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Elitewheels FLOW
« on: October 15, 2025, 11:11:46 AM »
It's exactly because of that small logo that I'm more interested in this model. I’ve also seen reviews showing it with a large logo—maybe the newer version doesn’t have it. I’m not sure about that.
Yes, my wheels have a big logo, but one of my friends bought the same wheelset last month, and his wheels came with smaller logo. I guess they changed it recently. Here you can see how they look on my bike (I can take some better picture if you want).

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Elitewheels FLOW
« on: October 14, 2025, 12:00:16 PM »
Hi,
I have these, bought them a few months ago, made about 1500 km. No issues, as expected from Elitewheels. I replaced the stock ratchet with a 60T ZTTO, fits well and works good so far. I can't compare them with anything else than Vision Metron 40 SL from 2017 I had a while ago, both feel stiff and lightweight. Overall, I can tell these are very nice wheels for that price.

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