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My favourite candidates are either the Spesh Hover with flare (round, 15mm) or PRO Discover Ergo (flat tops, 10mm, but very shallow drops).

Aliexpress has some carbon options but they're fairly extreme gullwing shapes with 20 or 30mm of rise that look kind of whack.

Not able to decide on anything myself yet,
been borrowing a Super Six Evo i'm not quite flexible enough for albeit only missing ~12mm of stack compared to my own Felt. (cracked fork, stuck in warranty for over three months already)
I just already look like i'm riding the wrong size bike...

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I updated mine last weekend and data is normal so far, at least in my case.

My next rides data looked a lot more believable, had calibrated it a couple times before the ride,
hard to verify but chances are my mistake was not calibrating right after the update.

Unfortunately i can't get much seat time in right now due to lingering knee issues flaring up again.

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They've been running the same scheme on weightweenies as well, it's not terribly subtle.

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Firmware 0.119 is out now, only 'optimized user experience' in the patch notes.
(screenshot machine translated from chinese app)

This should be the version gplama tested with.

Edit:
Seeing unexplainable power spikes on the first ride post update, just riding along at ~180w and it suddenly reports 700-1000w for three seconds before dropping back down.

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In my language (Czech), it means "a dog". You don’t want to have "a dog" writtten on your crankarms??  ;D ;D

nero show approved

Don't think you can remove it without taking the entire anodizing off, seems to be laser etched.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: In need of a T45 BB
« on: June 24, 2026, 04:06:45 PM »
Didn't even know T45 is a thing? Yet another proprietary "standard"?

Colnago specific, same idea as T47 but slightly smaller diameter and different width.

Bikone is the only brand that comes to mind offering a reasonably priced option. (not cheap but not ceramicspeed silly either)

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It's gplama approved now, he did however do the testing with an upcoming v0.119 firmware that per the video should be out by end of june.

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Seems like Magene have revised the crankset on the PES P515 unit that's on display at the Shanghai bike show.

The shaping of the arms seems ever so slightly different but more importantly it now appears to attach from the drive side with a SRAM style center bolt right into the axle.

https://youtu.be/st7jCNtgBwo?t=1045

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Saddle bags
« on: May 09, 2026, 02:53:15 PM »
I've had one from Rhinowalk for the last year and it's been good,
fairly minimal branding on their products which is nice.

https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006703517257.html

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With my chinese SKU i was never offered any updates in the last working version of Magene Utility, though i just checked with the chinese version and it offered me v0.118
Attached a machine translated version of the patchnotes.

Guess i'll update and see what happens.

Is this the same version you got?

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Geoid PM500 power meter
« on: October 31, 2025, 06:06:24 AM »
Magene spider with Senicx crank? One could argue that's an upgrade given it removes the single bolt clamping mechanism from the pes505/515 crankset, albeit likely a little heavier.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Magene P515 PES Spider Powermeter
« on: October 30, 2025, 02:27:21 PM »
I have two questions:
If I have problems with the power meter, can I contact Magene or just the seller (AliExpress has currently closed the seller's store)?
Do you think Magene can remotely block the power meter?

Most likely they will just tell you that they will not support the product cause you bought it in an unsupported region, then attempt to go after the seller who sold it.

If nothing changed recently, then Magene website shop is only for US market. Europe etc. need to buy from Alix

I mean as long as you buy from the official Magene store on Aliexpress it should be fine,
the reason me and others ended up with china-only SKUs is because other sellers were cheaper and/or already in the EU and thus tax free.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Magene P515 PES Spider Powermeter
« on: September 14, 2025, 10:39:31 AM »
I normally just do the backpedal a bit into the ride when temperatures have normalized somwhat, though i probably forget on as many rides as i do it.

In other news at some point the Magene app got an update and ever since it's been refusing to connect to the meter even though it's still paired.
Either they broke the app or they locked out china specific SKUs (got this from a cheap aliexpress seller so i might be).

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A few rides and a quick aliexpress order later i have proper crankset spacers on hand.
Did not find any new/worsening scratches after removing the cranks so i'm calling the gap large enough for my meager power.
Definitely mixed something up as i had used a 1.2mm 3d printed shim before (not 0.7 as i thought), ended up settling on 1.3mm from a cheap muqzi set. It's just within the adjustment limits of the R7000 front derailleur.

It's definitely a bodge but it's my bodge.

Weight of the full 165mm crankset with R7000 chainrings is 805g, adding about 90g over the 105 crankset.
I've also attached a screenshot of the magene app in case anyone wonders what's in there.

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I can confidently state that the P515 is not compatible with my specific BB386 frame (Felt VR '23, the old one, BB is token ninja TF38624), at least not without drive side spacer shenanigans.

Regular installation just ends in the cranks locking up fully once the bearing pretension is set by feel, the beveled face on the back of the spider collides with the very bottom edge of the frame.
After bodging a 3d printed spacer somewhere around 0.7mm, i didn't measure the actual thickness, i'm getting a gap i can stick 0.65 feeler gauges into and a 10km test ride went without anything feeling or sounding off.
I'll check for scratch marks when i get my hands on proper shims and adjust accordingly.

Obviously i'm not happy with the situation but i don't feel like admitting defeat either.

Bought it from 'EU Tax-free Discount Store' which went fine, arrived in seven days from france via fedex, balance and pedaling smoothness features were already unlocked.
Box showed signs of having been opened before, my assumption is that it is a chinese SKU and the seller activated the spider prior to shipping since the magene app did not have any activation prompt and just paired readily.

PS: excuse the account new-ness, i've been lurking for a couple years

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