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my only concern is i think u get what u pay for in life. Would love to hear some reviews on this brand. The price if reviews are good is a no brainer.

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i still ride 19mm internal 21 external. I don't race. Still use 25mm tyres. I apologize I don't drink the cool aid that I will be faster with a wider profile. Maybe I will be able to take a corner hotter but faster i doubt it.

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wow those are crazy light. How's the quality?

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when a fd wont shift upwards its usually never the crank. Its 99.9% the fd is set up wrong

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Yoeleo PRO NxT SL2 wheels
« on: October 04, 2024, 01:30:30 PM »
Does anyone have a contact or a email for someone at farsports?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 18, 2024, 11:32:18 AM »
Again appreciate the help.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 18, 2024, 09:16:36 AM »
Thank you sir

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 18, 2024, 08:51:25 AM »
Hey toxin

Thank you unfortunately both options are too expensive for a winter wheel set. Ultegra wheels for me will be cheaper.

Thanks so much anyways. Sent u a pm

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 18, 2024, 08:11:27 AM »
The spec offered by XMC is 100% with carbon spokes. Basically i saw the norcal video, looked at the n6 link, chatted up Peter to see if he could build something similar and for how much. Carbon spokes is a feature, not just a way to reduce weight, so we picked the rim of the (almost) same depth, (almost) same width, same spokes (ie carbon), same hubs (ie ceramic bearings), resulting in (almost) the same weight.


@serge and @toxin.

If you were building a set of wheels to ride in winter 30-35 mm depth around 1200 granms 21 internal 28 external. Nothing fancy how would you build them. I need a set of winter trainers and can’t figure out where or who to use.

Thank you so much gentlemen

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 17, 2024, 05:52:55 PM »
The vast majority of non-bonded carbon spokes come from STREN, including all the western brands that use such carbon spokes (Cadex, Scope, Newmen, Black inc, Hunt and more). Winspace were one of the first to use them in mass production. Farsports make their own that they provide to some other brands. Lightbicycle might be making their own as well, not sure. I've heard conflicting things about CRW. CC Joe made it sound like they're a CRW in-house product but another wheel manufacturer says they also come from stren. Komcas (Superteam) has one design to make 1cm wide spokes that I haven't seen anywhere else. These spokes all require special hub and nipple interfaces due to the way the carbon fibres are locked with the metal parts. They are all much stronger than steel spokes and very impact resistant.

There is another type, which tries to emulate regular steel spoke interfaces by bonding the metal parts with the carbon in order to be able to use regular nipples and hubs. This type of design was implemented very poorly by Lightbicycle early on and their were spokes notoriously failure prone. Some customers recieved their wheels with almost all the spokes debonded from their intefaces out of the box. There is an improved version of this type of design that mitigates this by introducing barbs and some other stuff inside the metal bits to better retain the carbon. I haven't heard of failures with these but it is a fundamentally inferior design at the end of the day. I have absolutely no idea who makes them but they're available through Nextie, Aliexpress, EIE, Deerobust and others. They offer no advantage beyond compatibility with traditional hubs and I wouldn't use them over good steel spokes, tiny weight saving be damned.

No6 wheels are Farsports through and through, I could email Farsports right now and I could have my order in production by tommorrow with the exact same parts as No6 for a little more than half the price. They are not the only marketing brand doing this. I saw another yesterday and I thing there are at least another two I don't remember and probably several more I haven't heard of.

I was also asking because I don't see carbon spokes available on xmcarbonspeed website but I have a hard time imagining how they could get to that weight without them.

Thank you for this your knowledge is amazing man. Love reading your posts.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 17, 2024, 02:22:06 PM »
Peter from Xiamen carbon speed can make a spec very similar to N6 wheels (as per my previous post) for much less money.
Also, and obviously, if indeed it's Farsports that makes the rims /wheels for N6, then Farsports can probably make the same spec for less money, but i havent chatted with Windy in a long time because she's been on maternity leave so someone would have to confirm that.

Thank you

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 17, 2024, 12:32:51 PM »
He doesn't make n6 wheels, toxin's been saying n6 gets their rims from farsports. I wrote that he can make a very similar spec for much less money.
Peter does OEM for brands we all know but i've been asked not to say because it's the sort of things brands dont like advertised in the open.

Thanks so much for all the replies although I’m so confused. Who can make a far less spec for less money?

Sorry

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 17, 2024, 11:33:29 AM »
He does. In 33/34mm wide, he's got 35, 40, 50, 65mm depths.

I haven't ridden N6 wheels, nor carbon spoked wheels. I have 8k+ km on wheels from Peter though (55&58mm deep, steel spokes) and I'm super pleased w them. I've used Farsports wheels for many years, and couldn't tell them apart (afaik, T800 is what it is, sapim cx ray ditto, & a hub is a hub). In fact if you're using the same materials and specs, i really dont think anyone could tell wheelsets apart. I've bought 5 sets from Peter and we're all v happy with them.

Can I ask what other wheels Peter makes besides number 6.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 17, 2024, 09:34:12 AM »
I saw
Norcal does say paid promotion...
Out of curiosity, I asked Peter from Xiamen Carbon speed for a similar setup to see if these wheels were magical or not. I wont share prices because i've already ordered quite a bit from him so i get special pricing; he can do full T800, 50mm 50mm (D50CU-33), 33/34mm wide (depends where you look on the rim), at 1310g w ceramic bearings, or 1320g w steel bearings (there's a material price difference between ceramic and steel, and i wouldn't buy ceramic myself because i'm yet to see any evidence it saves you even 1W, but i do know for a fact that bearings are more fragile, and last less).

So, given the n6 wheels are 45&50, we're at 1260vs1310, but the price difference is absolutely massive. I wonder how much Norcal is making from each wheelset he sells.
Idk where the 50g difference is, whether it's rim, hub or spokes. But i know that 80+kg me would save my money and accept the 50g penalty...



Can you share your thoughts on the wheels if you have ridden them? I’m not expecting these to be the next best thing to slice bread but wondering what your thoughts are.

Thank you

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No6 wheels
« on: September 16, 2024, 05:38:47 PM »
That's a little winspace shill and winspace also does not own the factory but use one of the big one in xiamen. Winspace just does r&d and give the instructions to the manufacturer. It's funny that those factories produce wheels for like 30 brands and the ladies that make those wheels don't care which wheel they doing, they just get instructions with how carbon layers should be done and that's all.

Actually Yuan an is the company that owns their own factory and do their own r&d and use this in their brand - elite wheels. Of course most of the production is still outsourcing for western brands.

https://youtu.be/tXDAgKx8680?si=ObkeyNzRxUR-O5Ri


Yeah I have seen that video. It’s great. It’s just like the bikes 3 or 4 majors producing everyone’s bikes.

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