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Component Deals & Selection / Re: SRAM AXS RD with Shimano HG Chain and cassette
« on: August 07, 2026, 10:15:18 PM »
My gravel bike has a SRAM X01 rd shifting a Deore XT cassette (10-51) and chain and my road bike has a Force XPLR rd with a Deore XT 10-45 cassette and chain.  Works much better than the SRAM cassette/chain combos ever did.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Tideace NEW Gravel Frame: GR201
« on: May 06, 2026, 08:44:13 PM »
Right on, I think that as a bike just to ride on the road it is great.  I like how yours is built up.  Same group set, tires, and seatpost as I have on mine.  The AXS dropper was my all time favorite gravel bike upgrade!

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Tideace NEW Gravel Frame: GR201
« on: May 06, 2026, 12:28:05 PM »
Quote from: Nvader_Zimm on May 06, 2026, 08:20:13 AM
Has anyone ran narrower road tires on their GR201 for road rides? I have a Domane for road riding but it feels so sluggish (the engine accepts most of the blame here) and the GR201 feels way more lively even with big tires so I was thinking of picking up a narrower set of wheels and running 28c/30c tires for an occasional fast road ride. I'm currently running 9VELO GV2.0 wheels with 48c Tufo Thunderos.

I used to have a road wheelset set up for my GR201 with 700x35s.  Honestly it is not a great road bike, I had a lot of trouble holding tight lines through corners with the local fast group.  I did a 200mi/12k road ride on it last summer and it was great for that though, very comfy and not much slower than my road bike.

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Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: SRAM Apex XPLR AXS & 11-46t Aliexpress Cassette
« on: November 06, 2025, 10:18:39 AM »
If you can get a microspline freehub for your wheelset, you could use a Shimano 10-45 cassette.  I have an XT cassette and chain on my Force XPLR bike, shifting is way better than it was with the sram cassette and the cassette was like $50.  I was able to find a ZRace MS freehub from AliExpress for $22, so the total cost was very reasonable.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: SRAM AXS battery alternatives
« on: July 25, 2025, 09:53:28 AM »
Quote from: Sebastian on July 25, 2025, 08:33:19 AM
Sure. But battery capacity is not really the issue. It’s about getting reliable readings in the app to know what’s going on. Currently I’m basically blind to the battery level until it almost dies. So I keep charging it more often than I need to. That’s alright but I wish I could check the status reliably. Does it work with the bigrock batteries?

I rarely change a battery before getting a low battery warning on my Garmin, never had one die on me either.  Just bring an extra battery with you and swap it after the other battery dies, I always put the dead battery in my pocket so I don't forget to charge it after the ride.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: SRAM AXS battery alternatives
« on: July 25, 2025, 05:26:24 AM »
I have a few AXS bikes and rotate through a stock of SRAM, MRX, and Bigrock batteries.  The Bigrock batteries do not seem to last any longer than the others.  I speculate that they are rating the battery based on the combined capacity of the two 3.7v cells inside it, rather than providing the total capacity at 7.4v as SRAM does.

If you're experiencing range anxiety, why not just bring an extra battery?  I keep a charged battery in the downtube compartment of my GR201 and just swap it out whenever I get a low battery warning on my head unit.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: AVIAN CR2 or Other no spoke hole Carbon Wheelsets
« on: February 25, 2025, 08:30:33 PM »
9velo's steel spoked road wheels have a solid rim bed.  I've put about 2,000 miles on a set of LV35 2.0's and I have been quite pleased with them.  They're stiff enough, and they were by far the easiest wheels I've ever setup tubeless.  I had to do some minor truing after my first few rides, but since then, they've been solid.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Speed Sensors?
« on: December 28, 2024, 05:14:05 PM »
I have the Magene S314 hub mounted sensor on two of my 5k carbon bikes (neither is aero though).  I like having accurate speed info while under tree cover.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Stone 1x Oval Rings
« on: December 14, 2024, 05:27:27 PM »
I had this ring on my gravel bike in the 44t variant and it did not have any offset.  It held the chain very well and felt indistinguishable from the Absolute black ring it replaced, but it only lasted for about 2,000 miles before it started to groan under load.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Power meter suggestions for T47bb bike
« on: November 22, 2024, 11:31:14 AM »
This is probably not going to be a popular opinion on this forum, but I would buy a used Quarq.  I have had two Chinese power meters, one stopped reading cadence (no power without cadence) and the other broke during a rainy 600k.  The Magene seems to have good reviews and seems like an overall solid product, but I have 3 Quarqs, and I purchased each one used for less than the price of a new Magene.  Between my Quarqs, I have over 20,000 miles and have had zero issues.  2 of them are currently on T47x85.5 bikes-- no issues there either.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Affordable lightweight frameset (not Winspace SLC 3)
« on: October 18, 2024, 12:21:15 PM »
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/bigrock-mtbigrock-51151

Here are a few photos and some build details of my large (56cm) black Bigrock.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Affordable lightweight frameset (not Winspace SLC 3)
« on: October 17, 2024, 05:19:17 PM »
Quote from: Serge_K on October 17, 2024, 05:02:42 PM
Think hard about bigrock. Hard riding, very stiff. Five stars. All of the stars.

I want to be clear that while the jokes do write themselves, my Bigrock has left me completely satisfied.  Oops, guess I can't be stopped.  It's seriously a good frame though!

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Affordable lightweight frameset (not Winspace SLC 3)
« on: October 17, 2024, 03:04:31 PM »
If I were you, I'd think hard about the Bigrock frame.  I have done 1,100 miles of hard riding on mine and it has honestly been fantastic.  I think the name is funny, whenever someone asks me about it, I tell them that I only ordered it because I misread the "R" as a "C."  The frame is incredibly well done though, very stiff, great geometry, and the carbon layup is so clean it puts my big name carbon bike to shame.

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