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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Zen Carbon Wheels Xiamen
« on: December 10, 2025, 09:18:36 PM »
I thought i give my thoughts on them.
I had order my wheel just a day before their golden week .. Zara team work around the clock to get my order up as i was due to fly overseas to cycle.. and they did.. but i had to postpone my trip due to the typhoon hitting Taiwan.. but i have been putting some serious mileage on them and they are holding up pretty well. Mine is the version before the ultra light weight version.. its about 1017 grams.
fast forward to 2 month later and i had the opportunity to visit their factory and of cos their cold storage where they kept their prize Toray material. We spend some time discussing about Zen Wheel future development and i would say it definitely worth giving them a try. they are much smaller scale compare to some of the others factories so the range of rim SKU might be not exhaustive but whatever they have right now should cater to our needs and the attention to details and quality is decent.. to give you some context, i had been using light bicycle since 2012 and farsport wheel for a long time and working with Zen....i would say they just as good.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: chinese carbon saddles
« on: November 24, 2025, 12:10:29 AM »
u are right actually. the seller try to ask me to change my request . n not put as damage.. then  after 4 day. Aliexpress still came back n ask me to accept 16 dollar instead of accepting my request for return n refund....
oh. i send the seller as well as aliexpress the videos and photos . so it proving very very hard to have a return and refund

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: chinese carbon saddles
« on: November 23, 2025, 11:21:16 PM »
You can't really tell anything from that photo. Did you try to make a video showing the hollow(?) portion flexing or anything?

Weirdly enough, just returning stuff is often way easier than getting a fault acknowledged.

u are right actually. the seller try to ask me to change my request . n not put as damage.. then  after 4 day. Aliexpress still came back n ask me to accept 16 dollar instead of accepting my request for return n refund....

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: chinese carbon saddles
« on: November 21, 2025, 01:57:57 AM »
i just order a odinzeus k1 saddle and it came damage . some delaminated portion or trap air near the cutout that didnt allow the full compaction of the carbon fiber. I send the photo to the guy at odinzeus  and he said. oh maybe our packer didnt check when send out.. he offer a 10 dollar refund. i decline and he said then u can apply for a return n refund. .. i did and man that when my horror start. aliexp. offer me a 16 dollar refund n said it only scratches as per the seller statement.. n said the seller didnt accept it. i went back n ask. the seller just said. u just apply for refund n keep applying.. .. and just brush it off.. so now i am stuck with a saddle that is damage and when u put ur finger on that portion it just depress inwards. it def delaminite and unsafe to  use. And am still waiting for aliexpress dispute team to provide the refund.
buyer be aware.

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