I love cycling, and I love getting pro cycling kit for less. If it’s cheap, from China, and made of carbon fiber, I’m interested!
Road cycling can be an expensive hobby, and the barrier to entry for good quality cycling gear can be exceptionally high. My whole ethos is to get pro-level cycling gear on the cheap, and show that you dont have to have to spend extortionate amounts to get some fantastic kit!
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🥖🥖A serious question🥖🥖 as you can guess by the number of baguettes 🥖🥖🥖😊 Do you have or could you make a list of recommended aliexpress bike stuff, please? That would also be updated as you test stuff. Would be really helpful, for example, I am planning to buy a few components and want to see you recommendations, but it is 1. Hard to find relevant videos 2. Even after finding one, there could be an update in any later videos (example I was studying components from electronic groupset bike build and only accidentally found the video about front derailleur failure much later). Anyway, thanks for the great content!! 🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖😅
I've never bought any of these particular items, but one of my ali rules is, all the critical standard size bearings get yeeted first thing and replaced by proper ones that i spec depending on use case. And replacements can come from China or they usually come from a local supplier but NEVER from a random vendor, always from a bearing specialist. Not actually expensive.
Can you give me those shifter you don't want it because I don't have that gear shifter I wanted and you can give me China or what I live in Myanmar and I cannot afford it can you give me for me please 😢😢
Luke there is this sworks SL8 frameset popping around Ali under 1000€ looks very reasonable. Would be interesting see your take onto "fake" superbrand framesets and components
Luke, Will you ever build a streetfighter road bike like your 2015 bike or are you strictly drop bar now? I'm thinking about getting the Ican Flyee frame and building it with Deore 10 to 51 in back and 50 up front. I will also use an adjustable riser stem for a better bike fit. What are your thoughts?
I really wanted this Sensah Team Pro with Shimano derailleurs combination to work since I love the double tap shifting and snappy response. Unfortunately I've been experiencing unnecessary cable tension loss way too frequently on both the front and rear which is highly unusual compared to my 105 shifters. Indexing the front derailleur is also impossible to get right for some reason despite following Shimano's instruction. Had no choice but to go back to Shimano 105 shifters after tinkering endlessly with Sensah Team Pro for almost 2 months.
To be fair I bought a carbon Canyon a while back and the front derailleur mount fell off on the first ride. I had to get the best LBS in the universe to get in amongst it and fix their error.
Don't get the cheap calipers! AliExpress doesn't allow me to leave a review after 30 days, so I'll leave my review here. I bought some generic cheap set like this on Ali, and they worked fine at first. However I did a bikepacking trip where I had some long and steep downhills and the seals failed. My discs got contaminated with oil and I had bad braking for the rest of my trip
