Hello. I need help choosing a frame size. I'm 180 cm tall, with an inside leg length of 86 cm, if not 87 cm. My reach is about 184 cm. I'm not very flexible; my toes don't quite reach the floor. I'm choosing between a 54 and 56 frame size. I'm leaning toward the 54, but I'm concerned about whether I'll have to extend the seatpost too high, which will result in it fitting too tightly into the frame.

I use an online translator, so there may be inaccuracies.

I think a 54cm frame is going to be too small for you... I'm 175cm with a 83cm inseam and this is my 54cm bike...I think you'd be pretty scrunched up on it. Just my opinion, though. Maybe there's another bike with comparable geometry that you could test ride in person?

Pass quest 52/36 chainring https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c3VHjad9

I know not everyone here uses Taobao but I bought a set of these chainrings for under $60usd last night! But with coupons maybe AE will come out to about the same.

My Xcadey Ventus took forever to arrive. It arrived after over a month. I almost forgot about it! Anyways, installed it with some fresh Stone 2x chainrings. Pedals threaded smoothly with no issue. Chain line is spot on with a regular threaded BB68 bottom bracket. Now I need to test it out!

Looks great!

I should have purchased it on AE last week...the price shot up again  It sells for $350usd-ish on Taobao from multiple sellers, though, so I think I might just do that. I'm glad that the pedal threading issue seems to have improved, at least based on the more recent feedback I've read.

They went up in price for US customers. They might go back down for the 11.11 sale.

I'm in the US. Right now they're in my cart for $386.38, excluding discounts.

It's been a couple weeks since the last post on this. Is anyone using this now? Any feedback, good or bad? I'm shopping for a new PM crank and with the 11.11 sales coming up, I was thinking about getting this.

My build is complete (well, mostly – crankset is going to get swapped soon but waiting on shipping). Did a brief 25~ mile shake out ride today and my goodness this thing is fast. It accelerates very easily and feels very zippy, even though imho the geo is not that aggressive.

I wasn't really trying for a particularly weight weenie build but it clocks at 15.2lbs.

Time will tell but pretty happy with this so far and excited to ride it more!

Is that chameleon blue? or purple? It's beautiful !

It's chameleon blue! But it definitely leans purple depending on the light.

Hey - that's my pic! (I don't mind at all!)

Ha, sorry mate! You should get a commission!

I actually think I first saw your bike posted on Reddit, when I was Googling examples of chameleon blue paint jobs. Probably like a lot of people on this thread, I was looking for more examples and also indecisive about choosing my own. Your bike is gorgeous and I'm glad to hear you're still happy with it! If you want to post more pics that would be nice but please don't feel like you have to, obviously it's too late for me to change my mind, haha.