Are there any recommendable custom printed Jerseys on AliX? I'm looking for a gift for a friend.

I haven't bought any bike parts in a while, neither from China nor from Germany, so the experience specially for bike parts may be different.

But most of my China shopping I do now from Taobao via a shopping agent (Superbuy in my case). It has some pros and cons.
The biggest cons are that it's slower than AliX, it takes at least 2.5 weeks while my last AliX from China took only 6 days. And it's not worth it for (single) small and cheap items, as the cheapest shipping options are like 7-8€.

I got fed up with tubeless on my roadbike, so I just ordered some Ridenow 36g tubes.

Tideacebike

Good looking frame!

I think I haven't seen any other Chiner bike in wild, neither on- or offroad, besides my friend who owns a Carbonda and a Velobuild.

The "normie" is scared of Carbon, especially if it's off AliX / directly from China and gets some massive overtraveled EMTB through a company bike lease scheme.

I think no one has experience with those frames because they only sell wholesale. 

But yeah, the 364 is really interesting and from what I heard are Workswell frames good quality.

Carbonda FM1001 (/ FM936 / FM909)
Workswell WCB-M-364 (although they don't sell to private customers)

Another "test" from someone with some engineering knowledge
https://insanityofgravity-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2022/07/1-scrap-or-not-zrace-br-m1onirii-cnc.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Seems to be available now, contacted them via mail again.
https://www.facebook.com/cocowu1991/posts/1893097144354751

E: Got an answer now. 

QuoteHi,the M364 frame we are temporarily closed to selling individual customers.

Best regards,
coco

Some people on the german forums also have them on their bikes now. And found a way to bleed them (3rd link)

https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/china-teile-laber-thread.747673/post-18169283
https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/china-teile-laber-thread.747673/post-18171193
https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/china-teile-laber-thread.747673/post-18190599

First impressions are good!

They look like an updated version of the iiipro brakes.
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005002560141330.html

IIRC the guys who had them in the german forums said that the old levers were for quite big hands, and I think one had the issue that a caliper was sweating a bit oil.

Yeah, seems like it's a chameleon blue, but not a full opaque layer of it, so the black base shines through.

Quote from: RobinRLS on April 22, 2022, 02:05:00 AM
The Workswell WCB-M-364 would be the best choice imo, a rear triangle pivot, 120mm rear and 130mm front, a 65.8° HA, and pretty light because it shares all the frame but the rear triangle with the 363 that is their new XC-bike.
https://www.workswellbikes.com/FULL%20SUSPENSION/wcb-m-364.html

I like that one too, I contacted Workswell in early march, but they couldn't tell me anything yet about the frame, so I guess it still takes some months till it's available.

I'm also doing my chains the OZ way.

I'm using industrial cleaner/degreaser for my chains, works great.
https://www.werkstatt-produkte.de/chemie/reiniger/flaschen-kanister/1l/32934/mw99-industriereiniger-werkstattreiniger?c=178

I've seen that one too. Quick search throws out a shop from Australia, which offers it for $300 AUD.
That's around 210€.
IGS 620 is at ~140€, Garmin Edge 530 ~200€, Wahoo Bolt V2 ~260€.

I know who will have the better software and support, and it's not iGPSport.