To those who received orders, which courier did they use for shipping?

Tideacebike

i believe bigrock MAY have a carbon mtb crank with 8 bolt if i recall correctly

I spoke to the elastic interface sales rep at china cycle and he told me not all chinese brands use fake elastic interface, but a lot do.

He was only able to confirm with me that Monton and YKYW use real EI pads and wasnt sure about the rest. He doesnt personally deal with domestic sales so he wasnt totally sure.

He also said that a lot of the brands using fake EI pads will call them 'double arrow' instead of 'Elastic Interface'(but this might only be within China. Maybe they can get away with it on Aliexpress?)

I visited Darevie's booth too and checked their pads and they look real(to me). Didnt see spexcel but if i have a suspicion that theirs are real too. I also checked some OEM manufacturers at the expo and did notice a difference in quality at some of them and one of them also used the words 'double arrow'(in chinese) when explaining their products to me.

Anyway, good to know and thought it would be useful to pass this information on!

I've got them! Incredibly cheap way to try narrow bars if you're on the fence. I personally think the shape is great. I'd personally prefer if they were a touch more narrow in the drops but i dont use the drops much anyway. I will probably upgrade to narrow carbon bars in the near future.

As you said, not light by any means. i'm running them on my spare bike(2010 Giant TCR) which have 25c tyres on narrow rims.

But one thing to note is theyre stiff.. very stiff.. the combination of narrow tyres/rims, alloy fork steerer and alloy bars means a lot of road buzz on my hands. I haven't ridden alloy bars in many years and i didnt realise how much difference carbon bars make! Might be good to run them on wider tyres with lower tyre pressure

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007368164603.html

Have not tried those myself but they are nylon and come in your sizes. They are dirt cheap so might be worth a try? The bearings will most likely be crap but you might as well test and change them if they are not holding up.

Just an FYI, I've purchased some of these cheap POM pulley wheels but the bearings were not removable. Both sides had a lip that held the bearings in place and broke when i tried to push them out. Not sure if theyre all like that but mine were.

Id personally recommend Stone pulley wheels! theyre POM too but feel better quality than the cheap ones and come with sealed NSK bearings that are replaceable

But

But not work for Sram brand road bike 12s chain axs flattop chain.

See below if you have for Shimano brand 12s road bike chain:
You have to remove the original chain quick link if you want work for shimano brand 12s road bike chain. change the quick link to any other brand quick link will works. Reason is, the original quick link for shimano 12s road bike chain is too narrow, but change to other brand 12s quick link will let it works and fit to this pulley.

BTW, heres comparing 'Aether' to sl7 geometry

In each size for the exact same stack, Aether has 10mm more reach than the SL7

SL7 has pretty racy geo so thats a no from me, dawg

spotted this on rednote