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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: My experience with Velobuild wheels and requesting after sales support.
« on: June 21, 2022, 01:36:10 PM »
One time I commented on a YT video that velo is sketchy with their after sales service and pointed to this Chris guy and the countless mentions on Weight weenies. I was told I was making defamatory statements and that I should rather look on Chinertown. How the wheel turns... Velo is not a great company to support!

If that went any more wrong than it already has, who knows the permanent damage! Crazy stuff...

Glad you made it home in one piece!

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: New Wheelset - Magene Exar DB58Pro Disc
« on: June 12, 2022, 02:53:00 PM »
Quote from: carbonazza on June 11, 2022, 03:49:32 PM
Strange, I've advised Magene HRM bands, powermeters and home trainers to folks here and all are happy. And their support from Aliexpress messaging, has always been great.

When I swap wheels with different hubs (dt-swiss, carbon-ti, hope, novatec), I generally need to realign callipers.
Are you having them off to the point where you can't even properly align the callipers?

I had ... still have horrific experiences with their products. I really gave their products a good bash, but they didnt even last two weeks, and this was the same for all the replacements I got. Eventally I stopped asking for replacements and moved on.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: New Wheelset - Magene Exar DB58Pro Disc
« on: June 12, 2022, 02:47:24 PM »
If its anything like the GPS or HR monitor, RUN!

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / My first build
« on: May 30, 2022, 08:18:04 AM »
Hi All!

Long time reader / thread troller.

I am in the market for a new bike now with a budget of around €2000 / €2500.
On one hand  there is the second hand market which I am not ruling out ( have my eyes on a TCR SL or Focus Izalco Max 2018 ) and on the other, I have always wanted to go the open mold route from when I started riding around 15 years ago.

I am looking at a light weight build, something around 6.5kg which is a long term goal or even something around 7.3kg thats a bit more aero. The frame I am looking for is one that you can whip around nicely. I am a light build and currently I have a Fuji sst 2.1 which has almost no compliance and rattles my brain every time I ride lol. It is waaayyy too stiff for me and it bullies my into submission rather than the other way around!

Here is a list of what I have looked at.
The Factor frame I really like for the geometry and the weave but my gut says to steer away from it.

http://www.adapt-bikes.com/Products-detail?product_id=98 (really like the geometry of this frame )

http://www.adapt-bikes.com/Products-detail?product_id=80

https://www.flybike-asia.com/product/136.html ( looks nice and nimble )

https://de.dhgate.com/product/2018-costelo-speedmachine-ultralight-carbon/421554328.html ( there is a guy on insta who bought this frame and had a chat with him and have not heard anyhting bad about costelo yet )

Dengfu is on my mind, but have read some posts on their after sales not being great.

Input would be greatly appreciated!




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