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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Deerobust/Goldix wheel build 50/55mm 1319g
« on: May 26, 2024, 04:07:26 AM »
Wing 20 spokes are easier to build with and cheaper, so brands have to use voodoo marketing to justify costs saving. They are not stiffer than CX Rays

https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=237506#:~:text=The%20difference%20is%20that%20the,%2C%20and%20cross%2Dsectional%20area.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: New Tavelo Arow has 'interesting' geometry
« on: May 26, 2024, 03:49:32 AM »
I'd say that it is closer to Teammachine:

https://geometrygeeks.bike/compare/tavelo-arow-2024-510,bmc-teammachine-slr-2023-54/

Yes, different sizes, but size numbers aren't standardized

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Wheelset for 30mm tire recommendations
« on: May 23, 2024, 08:26:30 AM »
Quote from: toxin on May 19, 2024, 05:54:42 AM
There are very fewchinese d2c manufacturers making rims like that. Farsports make some gravel rims that wide, nextie, lightbicycle. Though the profiles aren't the best aerodynamically, particularly nextie. Ideally you want the rim edge to be wider than the tyre and then the rim to ulge out a bit before tapeting off so the cross section of the tire and rim is as eliptical as possible.

As well as Farsports Hyper road wheels, LightBicycle WR series

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elitewheels Edge wheelset
« on: May 10, 2024, 02:02:39 AM »
Quote from: Petr (CyclistsHub.com) on May 02, 2024, 01:51:29 AM
I've tested EDGE, ENT, and DRIVE wheels. The ENT and EDGE differ mainly in weight, spokes, and rim profiles. I am not sure about the SLT and SLR. I will consider writing a comparison article about all these wheelsets. Anyway, the DRIVE wheels have carbon spokes and ceramic bearings.
Regarding ride feel, EDGE + ENT are pretty soft but comfortable. But for example, I didn't feel like riding 1350g wheels when riding EDGE. They are not as responsive as DRIVE ones, which are a bit lighter. The ENTs are much heavier and better for flats and steady efforts.
Having said that, I would recommend saving a bit more for DRIVE wheels. They are my go-to climbing wheels (45mm depth weighs under 1300g), and they are much more responsive than EDGE.
However, it also depends on your experience. For example, I would be happy if I was transitioning from ALU wheels to EDGE. But given that I've tried wheels costing over $1000 with carbon spokes, I'd opt for those instead.
Feel free to visit my website where you learn more details on these wheels.

I'm pretty sure it is the difference between steel and carbon spokes.
Besides, not everyone needs max stiffness and without proper tests feelings are irrelevant

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Wheelset "Zeitjaeger" from STORCK Bikes
« on: March 28, 2024, 05:49:44 PM »
Quote from: RDY on March 25, 2024, 12:59:51 PM
I'm fairly sure Bianchi "Reparto Corse" carbon rimmed wheels are all stock Yuan An stuff too.

Interesting, what makes you think that?
If I had  to guess, I'd say chances are that they are made by vision - Bianchi's in-house Velomann alloy wheels use Vision hubs (carbon wheels have unbranded hubs from what I could see at the store), also sometimes they use Vision wheels instead of their own Velomann wheels (I just bought Specialissima Comp and instead of 33mm deep Velomann carbon wheelset it came with Vision SC30 wheelset).

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Rim brake road bike frame with at least 28mm tire clearance
« on: March 28, 2024, 04:04:11 AM »
It's an epic quest to find a new frame that fits all the requirements I'm afraid.

I got a rim brake bug myself couple of weeks ago, so I picked up a ~2012 alloy Boardman Comp. Frame is quite heavy at ~1.8kg, bit it has BSA bottom bracket, round seatpost (larger than 27.2mm though), plenty of room for 28mm tyres because the frame uses longer reach brakes.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Cannondale SystemSix ‘inspired’ Frame
« on: March 27, 2024, 10:09:52 AM »
Quote from: Serge_K on March 27, 2024, 07:56:01 AM
It's paltry, poultry is chicken :)

I can recommend LT268, because i ride one and it's awesome. in 54 it weighed 1163g in matte, 1191g in gloss. It feels very stiff with Airwolf 36cm cockpit (allegedly full t1100).
Interestingly, they are releasing the 301 which is very similar in looks & geometry, but takes 38C (I have mixed feelings about that) and weighs <1kg. I assume it's just as stiff, but that's a question worth asking Alisa.
Crit means tight corners / breaking / acceleration, right? Are you sure you want a 1250g frame? The systemsix is meant to go fast in a straight line, it's not a crit bike, afaik.

If you want something more aero & more aggressive, i recently also built 2 winow FM368. I liked building them less, but my 2 friends riding them like them a lot.

The store you're looking at is called Ruichuangda Bicycle Store & their ratings are below average. I wouldnt order from them.

Plenty of people ride alloy Caads or Allez Sprint bikes which are even heavier, weight isn't that much of an issue for crit racing

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: LTWOO ER9 & ERX - Electronic groepsets
« on: March 20, 2024, 02:34:26 PM »
Quote from: Benbenben on March 20, 2024, 02:08:43 PM
I went through this thread and could not find the answer. Apologies if I missed it, but regarding the kit we need to bleed the brakes, do you guys know if we need a particular Ltwoo kit? I have the below kit that says is good for Shimano and SRAM. I was assuming that ltwoo would use the same fittings, but I am unable to confirm.

This kit will not work, I have the same kit and I ran into issue with fittings - they were too thick (lol) to thread into calipers. I ended up buying Jagwire Elite bleeding syringes for Sram.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: March 20, 2024, 05:41:52 AM »
Quote from: coffeebreak on March 19, 2024, 01:37:27 PM
Speaking of cranksets, are there any on Aliex with 30mm spindle for BB386 type bottom brackets? I can only find the fake Ingrid copies and I don't like how it looks.

Are you set on the 30mm spindle? If not, Fovno Aurora Pro would work

Anyway, I ended up ordering the Riro crank arms. With 50-34 chainrings the total weight should be around 560 grams

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:46:06 PM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on March 19, 2024, 01:32:01 PM
I have the Riro/Racework (updated version) carbon crankset on two bikes and they work great. Though I had an installation problem on my non-Shimano BB bike. No matter what I'd do, every time I tightened the crankset, it would lock up. On my Shimano BSA and PF BB equipped bikes I can tighten the crankset no problem. I'm guessing it's an issue with the bearings being bigger with non-Shimano BBs? I tested it on both a non-Shimano threaded BSA and threaded BB86 BB and had the same issue.

How is the aluminium spindle holding up?
Truth be told I have a BSA BB frame that needs a new crank, been looking at GXP Red and older Dura-ace cranks but they're still quite a bit more expensive than Riro... And Shimano is probably more likely to fail, considering the bike will see rain, lol

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:22:04 PM »
"You're making mother of all cranksets, Lexon, can't fret over every chainring!"

Carbon crankset with carbon + alloy construction chainrings. Super lightweight, but eye watering price tag comes along.

Anyone brave enough to try it?

P.S. Riro carbon crank that was shared a while ago is down to ~130 euros with chainring included. It's less than what I've paid for alloy Fovno Aurora Pro crank with Racework chainring.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: March 18, 2024, 05:19:08 AM »
Has anyone seen a full carbon fork, 380mm axle to crown for rim brakes and fender mounts on Ali? I may or may not have a project bike that needs a new fork

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: March 18, 2024, 02:11:36 AM »
You're right about Tiagra compatibility with 11 speed, forgot that groupset.

It seems like Shimano kept the same pull ratio for 12 speed mechanical 105 shifters, so it's compatible with 11 speed stuff too, which explains why Sensah was able to do that

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: More Aero frame in direction of Merida Reacto?
« on: March 18, 2024, 01:41:40 AM »
Quote from: bichler.bua on March 18, 2024, 01:30:21 AM
My apologies for this post, but there is no way you are 199cm tall and ride a 80cm middle bottom bracket to saddle top fit.
I am 195cm with 96cm inseam and run 87cm middle bottom bracket to saddle top - for sure you will end up with a similar number, if not slightly more.

Well, they didn't say that they measure saddle height from the center of BB — might be measuring from the top of the pedal during the upstroke.

IMO, the correct way of measuring saddle height is from the top of the pedal during downstroke, measuring from center of BB doesn't account for different crank arm lengths, which absolutely affect your saddle height

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: March 17, 2024, 03:07:34 PM »
Quote from: coffeebreak on March 09, 2024, 10:47:24 AM
I'm using ultegra 11s shifters with GRX 400 RD too. So by that logic Shimano would work with SRAM RDs? I'm not entirely clear where the indexing part is set.

I believe the answer is no, at least on the road groupsets. Cable pull ratios are different between two brands. Hell, you can't even mix 11 speed and 10 speed Shimano road parts because ratios are different, on Sram you can.

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