First Ride On The AliExpress Superlight Bike - NOT Safe?
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Published 2022-09-10
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All Comments (21)
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I note that Nic at Backyard Bicycles has managed to cleverly stay a million miles away from this endeavor
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1x cranks like the senicx crankset have a chainline of ~49.7mm. This works for 142mm thru axle or 135mm qr but rim brake road bikes have 130mm qr. The chainline for those is usually 43.5mm. I have used a 104mm bcd spider on then used spacers on the chainring bolts to get the chainring further inwards. This might mess up the shifting due to the increased cross chaining.
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I confirm . The Vanyar is a superframe, light, responsive and absorbs the roughness of the road very well. Mounted in full mechanical Ultegra (rim brake), Hyper wheel
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Ride Vlog perfection Francis 👏🏼👏🏼 loved this one. Looking forward to more content on the Ali bike
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I had a similar issue with the 1x senicx crank, but my issue, that was completely solved with a chainring. Also I've gotten so tired of that "reputable! Groupset“ mentality; it's a young brand of course there will be issues. Like the gravel groupset had the adjustable tension system (chain drop issue) , it wasn't strong enough so they sent me a new updated model that has a much stronger spring, now no chain drop, their customer support is far and away better than I've had with the big 3
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Love the ending, "I just find everything hard Jimmy. I'm gonna retire soon", didn't expect it at all.😂😂😂
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Brilliant to explore different options. A few adjustments,changes and will have a great bike.
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Maybe it’s BB spacers fault? In my bike I had to swap spacers from recommended two on left side and one on right to the other way around so I could have “usable” chain line, but I use 1x8 so chain line is still silly as hell.
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CHECK THE HANGER TO SEE IF SHIFTING IS OFF. Also, move the levers up and torque just below max.. it won’t break. Adjust the spacers on the crank to fix chain line too. It’s likely 73mm she’ll chainline and not 68mm chainline
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The rain looks as wild as it felt. 😂😂😂
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All this time I thought Jimmy just sweat a shit load and those were salt stains, and now I'm realizing that's just the jersey's design 😂
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Trace Velo did a video on those carbon brakes. He found the same thing as you; braking performance isn't great, and he goes on to hypothesize why. They're also apparently a clone of the Ciamillo Lekki8 brakes.
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been waiting for this impatiently
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I had a similar issue with Sensah, one thing that helped was checking the B screw - adjusting that to be around 4-5mm gap seemed to do the trick.
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My Sensah was very susceptible to B screw adjustment and cable drag but now it's right it's brilliant. 👍
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I hope SENSAH keep evolving the product and we end up with another decent option at mid tier around the 2300g mark for under 1000 monies (R7000 105 here is that). I don't think the masses would object to a cheaper-lighter groupset knowing it's not going to last long term stupendously well... just as long as it work consistently well enough.
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Very nice en fun video, really enjoyed it 👌🏻
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Now, I’m sure the weather was not planned for a shake down ride, and it was pretty harsh test environment, for Jimmy on a new build. Very informative though! The group set should have been able to handle it, without causing mild to moderate understandable panic on occasions! Though I’m pretty light at 52kg I have to say, for rim brakes, Campagnolo, 2018 onwards calipers, levers with campagnolo blocks and AC3 brake track rims feel and work superbly well.
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Suddenly very happy I skipped those brakes and went with 105 calipers on my open-mold Sensah build!
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I'm piecing together a somewhat light bike with an old Fuji Roubaix frame 1050g and SRAM Force 1x and Mavic carbon wheels. People say Aero is more beneficial but lightweight is just so fun and cool.
