ll right, thank you. I was aware that both of you are using SRAM, but surely there must be some people who have built their bikes with Di2. Naturally, I asked Alisa first, but after waiting almost three days for a response, the answer I received was: “We do not provide this with this frame.”
That was quite a disappointment.

At first, I wanted to purchase a mount, but unfortunately I ordered the wrong one(27,2mm size instead 31) and therefore couldn’t determine whether a standard mount would work. I have now had one 3D-printed, which fits perfectly.
If anyone is interested, I can share the STL file.

I also believe that my rubber seatpost cover looks excellent—possibly even better than the original one, don’t you think?

I've found a few wraps of bar tape offcuts hold the battery just fine.  I I've got 10k incident free using this method on my previous bike.  Obviously you can tailor the degree of hold very easily by varying the overlap.

It seems I've finally figured out why one UD matte isn't like another. They call both options UD matte, but in reality, the second option is "transparent Black matte". It seems to them that if you don't specifically ask for clear UD matte without any black paint, they might give you this transparent Black matte (2). Moreover, even on the unpainted version, they still touch up some seemingly especially messy (in their opinion) areas with paint, like the dropouts and the area to the right of the BB on image 2 (they look strange, as if they were blurry, retouched, and sloppily edited in photoshop BUT it's painted spot), and theoretically, you can ask them not to do this and leave all the beauty as is.

Alisa:


Ok, the investigation is closed, I will stop bothering you with this topic here, seems like hardly anyone cares.

My raw finish reveals the surface to be very clean indeed.  If you like the look of raw carbon, I'd get it cleared (matte or otherwise) in a heartbeat.

3. Hey @contraptions, judging by your weighing photos, you received a completely UNPOLISHED frame and mentioned planning to apply Cerakote. If you don't mind, could you show how it turned out? Is it true that one layer of Cerakote only adds 10-15 grams, or did GPT deceive me again?

I haven't had a chance to Cerakote it yet - hopefully tomorrow.  I'll post a picture/weight as soon as I do but it may slip another week as I can only do this during daylight hours on the w/e.

The fork does /look/ relatively unaerodynamic: it's goes from ~15x25 to ~25x47.  I.e. purely on absolutel frontal area and on aspect ratio it's very stumpy.

I would imagine the fork is by far the dominant factor on a frameset's overall drag, particularly with bottles and legs.  Has anyone seen anything attempting to quantify this?  I was always quite tempted to swap a propel fork onto my TCR as new ones frequently come up on ebay but couldn't figure out whether it would physically fit.

That said, per others' comments I think it's highly unlikely to be a meaningful difference in the grand scheme of things.

Marbled/forged are just a random mess of fibres, but i don't see how you create a butterfly effect which is a very accurate radially aligned pattern. No two arced sections would be the same and joint would be super obvious. 

I have a trashed butterfly film and the outer surface is clearly following the same layup as the inner layers.  I'll take some photos at the w/e.

I wonder if anyone other than Speeder/Adapt are filament winding.  None of the factory tour videos I've seen showing rim manufacture have featured filament winding.

This was the spec I asked for:
F Rim   
d55,iw24 Lightweight
F Rim (g)   460
F Hub   HX240
F Hub (g)   71
F Spokes   
CS04 5.1*0.9 3.5g
F Spokes (g)   70
R Rim   
d40,iw25 ASYMMETRIC Lightweight
R Rim (g)   400
R Hub   HX240
R Hub (g)   155
R Spokes   
CS04 5.1*0.9 3.5g
R Spokes (g)   70
Estimated weight   1226

(I think I estimated the independent front and rear hub weights but can't remember how...)

The cs05 spokes don't fit otherwise I'd have gone for those.

Hubs are beautifully finished but I'd have taken the tiny weight gain over what are now almost vestigial splines on the disc and cassette.  Going to pull the front rotor fairly regularly I think as they honestly look like they've gone too far.

Actual weight on a Kern balance 1213g. Look great in the sun - poor indoor lighting in the photos.

Pretty standard build quality tension wise.  That said I'm an inveterate spoke plucker and I've never been impressed with any pre built wheels yet.  Contrary to popular belief carbon spokes are incredibly easy to build with compared to superlight steel and/or shallow rims.

I built a set of Speeder rims on Aerolites that now have 25k of abject abuse on country lanes and are straight as a die. I'm 72kg. Those were the heaviest of the four tiers (i.e. normal) so I've just gone one lighter.

The new ones definitely have a decent amount less carbon in the walls as they're noticeably tinnier to tap and give to gentle pressure.

I'm not sure if anyone has pointed this out but the rims are plainly Speeder/Adapt.  Diagrams and weights match exactly.

I also had a pair of the Speeder 45 carbon spokes wheels but the token hubs are pretty heavy and they don't offer any variations of their carbon spoked wheels.