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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elves Falath EVO 2023
« on: December 24, 2023, 10:03:29 PM »
Quote from: patliean1 on December 24, 2023, 05:05:00 PM
I really love that shade of blue. Great job! Do you recall what color code it was?

Thanks, I am very happy the color turns out to look in real because on screen it's always a gamble.
According to ELVES the color code is dark blue B-003. Initially I wanted blue B-005 but that one is obsolete. Attached is a frame with B-005.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elves Falath EVO 2023
« on: December 24, 2023, 03:38:23 PM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on December 24, 2023, 12:04:16 PM
That's a sharp looking frame! I saw one Japanese YT'er using his Falath EVO for cyclocross making full use of the wider tire clearance!

Regarding the front fork TA mount being a bit loose, one of my carbon frames also had a similar issue, but on the rear TA. I thought my frame was out of spec, but the vendor recommended I just torque it down until there was no more play. Eventually it settled into place after awhile and didn't require being tightened down as much. Did the frame ship with plastic thru axle holders in place? If so, it might have stretched the fork out of spec slightly.

Tire clearance on this frame is huge, even a 32 looks small  ;D
No the fork is fine and the play in the bearings is gone as I mentioned. I think it was just poorly assembled or lack of quality control.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elves Falath EVO 2023
« on: December 24, 2023, 06:55:36 AM »
I consider myself now as an expert in DT Swiss hub design  ;D  :P

The ELVES front hub is basically a copy of the DT Swiss 350 road straightpull and the back hub a DT Swiss 240.

On my front hub copy the bearings were not properly pressed in, therefore they had too much clearance or in other words the preload on the bearings was too low. So I pressed them in and since then they are rock solid and smooth.

And I cranked up the axle torque to 12Nm.


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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elves Falath EVO 2023
« on: December 21, 2023, 01:59:44 PM »
I cranked up the axle torque to 12Nm and it seams to be better now. Not perfect because there is still a tiny bit of play but I can live with that I guess.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elves Falath EVO 2023
« on: December 21, 2023, 01:07:41 AM »
6Nm written on the axle which came with the frame

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Elves Falath EVO 2023
« on: December 20, 2023, 01:27:46 PM »
Hi, just built up a ELVES FALATH EVO with their OROME TH50 wheels. Everything is fine except one thing where I need your opinion. On the front wheel I notice a slight play in the hub when I push the wheel left and right, when I knock on the wheel I can heare a rattle. Nothing of that on the back wheel which is rock solid. Through axle fixed with 6Nm and threads greased. I know the hub is a copy of a dt swiss 350 road. They have preloaded bearings installed and require a certain amount of axial force to release the pretention in order to have minimum friction. Apparently that's not perfectly working in my hub. But increasing the torque to 8Nm helps a bit. Should I increase the torque to 10-15Nm? Anyone having a similar issue? Thanks

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