You are reading a single comment by @frank9755 and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
frank9755
Tried a lot of stuff. Single narrow wide rings have generally been ok. Seen quite a few issues with chainsets & rings. One of which is the insistence that everything is posted in yellow jiffy bag se I've receive bent teeth but also the pickup pins on 2x stuff, particularly one piece CNC double rings have been poor and I've had to get a file out here and there. Cassettes are largely junk, ztto/sunX/zrace in any speed. The QC isn't there and sellers regularly ship a badly made one. Some of the lock rings are turd but that's not a big issue. I typically find you'll always get a noise in your drivetrain because of some flaw which takes diligence to spot and then is hard to rectify because it'll be in the middle of a pinned cluster. In short most of it is a generation behind with shifting quality because the designs of those elements are a bit crude. For example if you buy one of the Ali x groupsets like Sensah AND cheap cassette/rings.. then you're in for a crappy time. If youre mixing in a Shimano cassette or using a Shimano groupset with a zrace cassette, it will function but be nowhere near R8000 reliable.