I didn't post about my personal experience with my sets.

But I cracked both wheels off my first cyclone wheelset on two huge potholes in the same ride at different times.

I thought nothing of it has I didn't flat and wheels stayed true.

It was not perfect dealing with CS but I'd still give it a 4.5/5 as I also thought that I had only broken 1 wheel so reached out on two different occassion to them for the cracks.

They only charged me delivery fee's for my replacement and have since done over 4000 km on the second set with no issue.

So I also received my set earlier this week and weighted them in at 1258 grams on my scale with the tape.

I also went ahead and checked all my carbon wheelsets including the KORE and they all have slight deflection if I compress them using my hand as a vise.

This is a non issue to me and is to be expected on most Carbon rims.

Guys,

What is your size suggestion for 172 cm and 81 cm inseam? Hesitate between 49 (with 10 cm stem) and 52 (shorter stem I guess).

Can anyone share pics of ready bike in size 49?

This will depend on your flexibility but I'm similar to you here except 82cm inseam and I ride a 52 SL7 with a 120mm stem and saddle at 705 mm from BB with enough seatpost showing.

Update about my issues. Velobuild and Chris have been amazing about my seatpost struggles and are sending me a new seatpost and seatpost clamp. They have been helpful with all possible problems and in understanding them.

Some photos of the complete build 

Nice build!

Your saddlebag is installed incorrectly the boa should be facing outwards.

I see a strange behavior with my Bigrock crankset, in Aethos frame and new Ultegra BSA BB…
When I push the left crankarm with spindle in (with the preload adjuster screwed all the way in), it is pretty stiff in the frame, it turns but not so smoothly… As you can see in the picture, I can turn the crank to point upwards and it will not fall down on its own… I tried with or without spacers, the same behavior. Also pushing the crank with spindle in is very hard.
No issues with normal Ultegra crankset, that spins freely, goes in easily etc.

Also how many spacers have you used with Shimano BB? I put the thicker black one on the drive side (this way I get the same chainline as with Ultegra crankset, as I don’t have to adjust the FD), the thinner black on the non-drive side, but when I tighten the crankset the preload adjuster won’t move…

No spacers on either side / No adjusting to do either with front FD same shifting as previously with the Ultegra crankset.

I am out of town (away from bikes) for a few week so can’t check, but thinking about going smaller chainrings for my climbing Aethos (that runs the Bigrock crankset). Do you think the crank can take the Praxis spider?
https://www.bike24.com/p2729752.html
Or are there any Chinese solutions with 48/32 rings?

Hey Ice,

Check out Stone they make what you are looking for.

46-32T 132g
48-33T 153g

Wow that white paint really shows how different the layup is. The tubes going into the headtube, the downtube shape and also the junction between top tube and seatpost (that bump) look very different (less smooth) to my SL8. Also, the shape around the front thru axle is completely different (SL8 fork hugs the thru axle a LOT more).

It actually looks just like the bigger sizes. The proportions are way different and I agree it's nicer on a small size.

What's shipping to where you are? to USA its $150

Free + a stone spider these would come out to like 11x$ CAD almost tempted to give them a try...

Currently waiting on the bigrock ones in 160mm to replace r8100 cranksets.