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Love it!
How's the quality/fit and finish of the frame and included parts? What's the wedge seatpost clamp like?
Lukas-
Love it!
How's the quality/fit and finish of the frame and included parts? What's the wedge seatpost clamp like?Thanks Lukas.
The carbon frame and fork seem very good. The headset fits snugly and I would expect that to be one of the things to not work on a shonky frame.
The seat clamp seems completely solid so far. I was not brave enough to use the 7.9Nm specified for a specialized transition but 5Nm seems solid.
The paint job is mostly very good but masking round the track ends was a tiny bit lax.
Track ends themselves are the low point. Two plates sandwich the carbon. The plates are too slender and have deformed a little. They are maybe 2mm. The plates are held in position with 12mm countersunk screws. The inner plate only is threaded. The threads protrude 1mm and foul the wheel axle/hub. I have replaced with 11mm screws which are impossible to get hold of (friend made them for me). I imagine that's why they chose 12mm (easy to obtain).
Also the bolts to push the wheel back were cheap. One was bent. The knurled locknut was very rough on the threads. Cheap parts. I have replaced.
Lastly the above bolts are not level. They are parellel to each other but angle slightly upwards within the slot.
I'm really happy with it. The quality is not what you would expect on a Time.
quickerbybike
I've finished my fixed gear TT bike just in time for dirty roads and cold weather. Really pleased with it. Not at all the old man's take-no-notice-of-me-I'm-only-racing-myself rig that I had in mind. aeroweenies changed my mind on the frame and the Diderot effect influenced the rest. China made it all possible within budget. £1146 built.
Photos here. A dull day and a lame photographer. Plenty of duplication. https://photos.app.goo.gl/CsTHXnKFULvmLLHW7