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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 2024 11.11 / Black Friday sale planning
« on: November 19, 2024, 02:51:14 PM »
The magnesium frame is getting a nice discount putting it JUST UNDER the 135€ coupon by a few cents. This was the last dealbreaker for this frame for now. Gonna buy an alfine 11 during black friday locally and if i canno't then alfine 8 with front derailer with 34-50 chainring. Got a stupid idea of using an IGH for the roadbike project.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Carbon gravel fork that allows 180mm rotors with flat mount calipers
« on: November 17, 2024, 11:25:23 AM »
Another way of having 180mm on normal flatmounts or even 203mm rotors(the fork probably wont survive it) on yours by using brake adapter shenanigans. Flatmount 160 to postmount 160 with postmount to flatmount +20mm adapter. OFC it is not safe at all.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: DT 240EXP hub clones Goldix, Venfort
« on: November 14, 2024, 11:03:52 AM »
Quote from: impmonkey on November 13, 2024, 03:02:19 PM

2 Cross Lacing.
Spoke Lengths offered by seller is 192 and 194.

Does this look correct? Could I get away with 194 on the read right side? Technically 2.3mm to long according to the calc.

Spoke length with the offset values. Spokecalc doesn't allow more than 4mm of offset so its 297.03 for the NDS on the rear hub.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: November 13, 2024, 11:11:20 AM »
As it turns out there is a DYIsland XT-8 which is the flatmount version. Same curved design that looks new-ish.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007542027351.html



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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: November 13, 2024, 04:02:01 AM »
DYIsland XT-7 hybrid disc brakes.
This looks like a new design to me. (Dont know how to attach images on phone)
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzmSxDR

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 2024 11.11 / Black Friday sale planning
« on: November 11, 2024, 07:43:08 AM »
Quote from: dumbmachine on November 11, 2024, 07:41:04 AM
What is the next best sale after 11.11? I don't have enough things to purchase right now, but would consider it over waiting a whole year.

Black friday around november 27.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 2024 11.11 / Black Friday sale planning
« on: November 11, 2024, 05:41:16 AM »
This sale is diabolical. The venfort hub went from 45€ to 86€ overnight, the gravel framesets price went down by 20€ BUT the shipping price went from 15€ to 59€ and early february delivery time. The Sensah team pros brifters price silently went up by 14€. Before the sale i seen 8-14€ discount on other items but after the sale started all of them are back to their normal price. The only good pricedrop i see is the toseek carbon handlebar which dopped in price by 23€.

Really dissapointed in this sale.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 2024 11.11 / Black Friday sale planning
« on: November 11, 2024, 01:34:30 AM »
Looks like ill wait for black friday as 11.11 is meh.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: November 10, 2024, 11:57:02 AM »
Quote from: jonathanf2 on November 10, 2024, 11:29:13 AM
I stopped buying chains from Ali. Every chain I get ends up being trash. I now just stick to legit Shimano or SRAM chains.

Newbie Bike Store sells legit shimano chains for cheap. Those guys are authorised shimano merchants. At first i thought that they sold me a fake chain since my deore 12 speed chain started to rust. Then i realized that i go on a road regurarly that have a lot of iron dust on it. Cleaned the chain properly and the rusty spots are gone, around 1200km on the chain and no issues.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: November 10, 2024, 02:38:33 AM »
Quote from: Wet Noodle on November 09, 2024, 03:56:01 PM
It certainly is a quirky conversation piece and I totally get buying odd stuff just for it being odd stuff.
and were already a bad idea back than with regard to both manufacturing and functional aspects of the product itself

Adding titanium and lithium to Mg can make it on par with steel in strength but the corrosion is not addressed. I was interested in this frame as it was cheap(under 100€), almost perfectly sized and in my area nobody owns a modern looking any bike. Wouldve humbled my middle of nowhere bikeshop again.
On the other hand did a qick weight calculation and it came to be around 13.6kg, fat af.

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Vendor Discussion & Reviews / Any experience with Mithras store?
« on: November 09, 2024, 02:57:34 PM »
From my limited info gathering the store only started to sell bike parts after october 21. Dunno if it can be trusted but they have a nice looking frame.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: November 09, 2024, 01:54:19 PM »
Quote from: Wet Noodle on November 09, 2024, 11:56:50 AM
Do the Chinese have their April Fools' in November?

From what i could gather its only sold on alixpress and one listing in shopee. I'm quite interested in the frame as its unique enough and choice for some reason. You dont see a cast magnesium frame frequently.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: Interesting Aliexpress finds! - good deals, interesting stuff, new products etc!
« on: November 09, 2024, 01:51:11 AM »
Gonna post the cast magnesium roadbike and cheap alu gravel frameset that i found.
Magnesium road frameset. The frame is 2.6kg and the fork is 1.5kg and the sizing is i couldn't replicate it in bike geometry calculator.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007912131787.html





Cheap gravel frameset. 47 and 52 cm frame size, frame 1.8kg, fork 970grams, 38C frame tire clearance and 49mm fork clearance.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007958473192.html




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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 2024 11.11 / Black Friday sale planning
« on: November 09, 2024, 01:22:42 AM »
Quote from: coffeebreak on November 08, 2024, 04:12:38 PM
FWIW I have ordered for years from stores like store89729381293612637xyz based purely on prices (cheapest) with complete disregard to store rating and never received "unsatisfactory goods". I have indeed received unsatisfactory goods but that had nothing to do with seller rating. I just bought shit product. Wouldn't put too much stock in such tools but YMMV.

I usually avoid stores under 90% rating in aliup when i'm buying electronics or other stuff. But it looks like that that bike parts is one of those rare instances where the noname store ships it to you without a fake tracking number or sending other part instead.

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Component Deals & Selection / Re: 2024 11.11 / Black Friday sale planning
« on: November 08, 2024, 03:06:26 PM »
Quote from: courdacier on November 08, 2024, 02:58:30 PM
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807021348627.html
Not the best store.

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