Orient Express - Cheap Chinese Rims / Wheels / Forks / Frames / Cranks / Etc

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did the inside of the forks with some vinyl, thinking about doing the insides of the chainstays also.. @amey said he would design me some all black decals for the downtube but i dont know what i want, such a heavy cross to bear

How much was it all in from Hong Fu?

My DIYbike rear wheel seems to drag a tad when free wheeling, is this a trait of Chinese wheelsets? Can I do anything about it, apart from the obvious and don't freewheel before anyone says it. Google throws up videos of folk removing pawls which seems extreme

remove freehub, clean, re-grease with good stuff, no need to remove pawls

Thanks. A good grease being?

Any molybdenum disulphide grease from your motor factor according to tester.

phil wood if you want the best of the best, or lithium grease (castrol is cheap/decent)

Many thanks 👍

£360 shipped. £38 customs including the shitty handling fee (they marked down to 75USD)

Might be a missing pawl in that freehub which is dragging

interested if anyone has bought a FM079 an lived to tell the tale?

The deceased rarely read this thread.

Anyone ever had trouble with aliexpress? skeptical that it doesn't use paypal..

Nope - its fine, payment is made to aliexpress who hold the payment until the goods are delivered/time limit has expired and only then forward it to the seller, so its very biased towards the buyer and very easy to get refund etc if an item doesn't arrive/is damaged/not as described.

Brill, much cheaper than ebay!

nvm

I'm finding that out now unfortunately. Been a few hours and the payment still hasnt been confirmed. Frustrating.

Chinese New Year innit. Businesses reopen after five days... which is tomorrow I think.

Funny that people still think aliexpress is like some dodgy central china market. Biggest IPO in history and worlds largest online marketplace.

Yeah AliExpress is great, I've been ordering loads of stuff there. It's not that they don't support PayPal, it's the other way round. PayPal was acquired by eBay so they don't support eBay's direct competitors; Amazon isn't supported either.

FM296 almost done

this is relevant to my interests

probably covered already somewhere but how do you find the finishing and what was the weight of the frameset?

weight was just about 1kg. the finish is good, although the mech hanger was slightly bent it seems. ill get a full pic of it today

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Newest-Road-bike-UD-full-carbon-fibre-forks-carbon-bicycle-forks-Track-bike-carbon-front-fork/343877_32246250192.html

I am most interested in something similar to these forks. But I need to know fork crown diameter and rake before buying. Has anybody seen similar forks or this exact model elsewhere?

I've still had nothing back from several items ordered around the 15th, I know it was chinese new year, can I be expecting my items posted soon? anybody else waiting?