Tideace NEW Gravel Frame: GR201

[SillyMochi]

Let's start a new page and hope for the best

Edit: success! At least for me it works again

[Rolandos]

Hmm yeah page 12 broken, I made a beautiful post about my bike and poof, gone!

Nice! I've looked at that Bucklos saddle. Still haven't decided, alot of reviews who are great. I have the orginal S-Works Power Mirror on my road bike and love it! It's nice that it has the SWAT mount for my radar. With this saddle you lose that but do save alot of money and some weight over my current saddle. Have you got personal experiences with that saddle?

My build has finished and first ride has been done. Absolutely love it at the moment!
Build list :
- Shimano 12 speed R8150 groupset with 50/34 cranks and 11-34 cassette and M9100 chain
- Lightbicycle AR55 Pro's with ERASE hubs that I had laying around which are handbuild, paired with Pathfinder 42mm's at the moment. For winter/muddy rides, will switch to a 45mm more nobby tire.
- Bbinfinite T47I bottom bracket
- My beloved ZIPP CX bartape
- Currently using a Specialized Power Arc saddle that I had laying around. Still deciding what saddle I wanna run
- Installed a bunch of 3M tape on the downtube, around BB and on the arms to keep the paint nice!
- Have my Favero Assioma DUO on them from my road bike, probably will buy Favero Assioma MX with some Black Friday deal

With this massive seatpost length and size 58 in custom paint, she is looking at 9.3kg right now. Can reduce this weight with saddle and lighter rims quite easily. Kinda want the new Nextie 25mm internal wavy rims!

Some pictures : https://imgur.com/a/tideace-gravelbike-MI9DSCx

Won't attach pictures this time, that's what caused the crash I think! 

[KopytoNieBladzi]

Nice! I've looked at that Bucklos saddle. Still haven't decided, alot of reviews who are great. I have the orginal S-Works Power Mirror on my road bike and love it! It's nice that it has the SWAT mount for my radar. With this saddle you lose that but do save alot of money and some weight over my current saddle. Have you got personal experiences with that saddle?

Tbh just a video of a guy called ,,Everything's Been Done,, convinced me to give it a try
Found a post on local marketplace that someone bought two instead of one and a price was just to good to pass

[Rolandos]

Tbh just a video of a guy called ,,Everything's Been Done,, convinced me to give it a try
Found a post on local marketplace that someone bought two instead of one and a price was just to good to pass

Right, they are €57 on Ali now. And with a €5 coupon it's at €52. At those prices, it's worth a shot!

[PoulB88]

Is anyone looking at this and the Grail 2. gen (SPCycle G068) as well?

I'm trying to decide which to go with. I am currently riding a Giant Revolt (2023) M/L with a 120mm stem and it is just a bit on the small side (I'm 188cm, 90cm inside legs).
My riding is more racing than adventure. On the road I ride a 56cm Venge (2020) and a 58cm Supersix rim(2017). Both are ~400mm reach and with a 130mm stem. Venge has more spacers though

I am drawn to the "progressive" geometry of the G068, but the GR201 seems like a good all around geometry that is similar to, but longer, than my Revolt (which I like a lot apart from wishing it was longer)

Opinions?

[impmonkey]

Right, they are €57 on Ali now. And with a €5 coupon it's at €52. At those prices, it's worth a shot!

I have 3k plus miles on mine. Love it.

[Rolle2k]

Would love to have this frame like in the smaller sizes, but shorter chainstay. The 520 size looks great, but would be even better with 425mm chainstay and possibly 74deg seat tube (doesn't matter that much). Otherwise it looks great with ~71-71.5 deg steerer.

The G068 also looks great, but i would like to be able to fit 2.1" MTB tyres on, which G068 frame wont take - at least not without far too little spacing at the sides to the chainstays. Also the downtube storage is a plus on the GR201 compared to G068.

[BiDi_T4]

My Frame came in on Saturday. I am currently building it up but I'm wondering how to lay the shift cables (mechanical grx) around the bottom bracket.
I layed them under the BB but I'm not sure if this is right? Under some tension it might be too tight an kind of saws through the crank??

[Rolandos]

My Frame came in on Saturday. I am currently building it up but I'm wondering how to lay the shift cables (mechanical grx) around the bottom bracket.
I layed them under the BB but I'm not sure if this is right? Under some tension it might be too tight an kind of saws through the crank??

Yeah under the bb, under the metal sleeve. Put some foam around it, same with brake hoses. They wont rattle and not gonna tear the cable. I use Jagwire but any will do

[s3si1u]

Well...I take it back, I'm officially interested. I had a steel gravel frame built for me with custom geo earlier this year and I've since finished a couple of races on it. I've since been toying with the idea of building a new steel frame with some geo and tire clearance updates, but realized the GR021/NOAH in size 54 is basically the same as what I had in my head, for a lower price point and the bonus of downtube storage.

I ordered a raw frame from Longteng, which is slightly more expensive than Tan Tan but with faster shipping options. They said the frame was "in stock ready to ship". Turns out it's not in stock and production will take at least 10 days, but it's no big deal, I need time to think up a paint job anyway.
Will be transferring the TRP/Eagle AXS groupset from my other bike for now but looking at GRX mechanical, Ekar, or a Force 1 groupset I have sitting in a box for the long term. With the Force group, I'd have to get the Ratio 12 speed mod and a Garbaruk cage.
I would build it with the LTwoo EGR if it allowed for a cassette larger than 46T. 

My frame from Longteng is on the way, hoping to receive it next week. I ordered on 10/21 and received an email on 11/1 with a picture of my unpainted frame, asking me to confirm shipping information. Received tracking number on 11/5. I was kind of hoping they would take another week or two as I'm not ready to start a new build just yet, lol.
Total cost: 600USD (plus paypal fees)
Size 54 raw frame - 420
Storage bag - 8
Headset - 12
Axles - 25
Shipping - 135