Ok so this morning I finally, after 4 months, finished my new chinese carbon road bike!!!! I ordered it "buy it now" off ebay on sept 9th from cargogoods99. Communication was great and I received my 50cm carbon frame, fork, headset, seat post ($398.00 shipped!) just shy of a week later. I opted for the 12k weave and for anyone who has wondered. I think the 12k looks like crap in pictures compared to what it looks like in person. Simply stunning.
I decided I was going to go off the grid with this build and not use a single part that had the word shimano, sram, or campagnolo on it and I could not be more thrilled. I went microshift white 10sp for the groupset which I could not be happier with. Some people have complained that the brifters are noisy. They are noisy because of very powerful return springs that really snap the gears into place. I think this is a good thing personally.
For the crankset I went with one of the few white cranks I could find by Aerozine. Its a really neat crank that allows you to change the crank length from 170 or 175 and included the ceramic BB. Plus it was compact which I have wanted to try out. I also splurged a bit and opted to get a K-edge chain catcher to help protect the carbon frame fron my chain.
For the rest of the drivetrain I went with a miche 10sp cassette and a KMC X10SL chain. I dont think I have ever had so many lightweight drilled out parts in my life! The chain is just stunning and I got it for cheaper than a 105 and its on par with Dura Ace for weight same goes for the cassette. Another thing I liked about the microshift groupo was the rear D. Those drilled out jockey pulleys are stock and really make things pop!
One last shot of the cockpit. Finished it off with a cateye wireless computer! I used Marco for the decals and cant say enough good things about him. I gave him a very basic design idea and he really pulled it off for me! For anyone out there with a naked carbon frame the stickers just set it off so well. My set pictured here was $25 shipped from marco which is such a small amount to make the bike personal to you. SO why EVA-23?? Well im a G33K at heart and like anime and computers and robots and all that stuff and there is an anime Called evangelion where kids pilot giant robots so I used Eva as my theme and modeled the stickers after the markups on the robots. 23 was my number in my first bike race when I was just 14 so its always been a special number to me. Hence EVA unit 23 was born with R-type equipment! I hope to one day Have another EVA-23 with TT-type equipment but that will have to wait for now.
All in all I put in just under $1500.00 For this build. I only had one piece to start with which was the handlebar. Everything else is new. I feel I did pretty good with my $1500 since I ended up with a full carbon 10sp road bike that weighs in just shy of 17.5 lbs.
Now if it will just warm up so I can ride it!
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God's in his heaven, alls right with the world -Nerv
I decided I was going to go off the grid with this build and not use a single part that had the word shimano, sram, or campagnolo on it and I could not be more thrilled. I went microshift white 10sp for the groupset which I could not be happier with. Some people have complained that the brifters are noisy. They are noisy because of very powerful return springs that really snap the gears into place. I think this is a good thing personally.
For the crankset I went with one of the few white cranks I could find by Aerozine. Its a really neat crank that allows you to change the crank length from 170 or 175 and included the ceramic BB. Plus it was compact which I have wanted to try out. I also splurged a bit and opted to get a K-edge chain catcher to help protect the carbon frame fron my chain.
For the rest of the drivetrain I went with a miche 10sp cassette and a KMC X10SL chain. I dont think I have ever had so many lightweight drilled out parts in my life! The chain is just stunning and I got it for cheaper than a 105 and its on par with Dura Ace for weight same goes for the cassette. Another thing I liked about the microshift groupo was the rear D. Those drilled out jockey pulleys are stock and really make things pop!
One last shot of the cockpit. Finished it off with a cateye wireless computer! I used Marco for the decals and cant say enough good things about him. I gave him a very basic design idea and he really pulled it off for me! For anyone out there with a naked carbon frame the stickers just set it off so well. My set pictured here was $25 shipped from marco which is such a small amount to make the bike personal to you. SO why EVA-23?? Well im a G33K at heart and like anime and computers and robots and all that stuff and there is an anime Called evangelion where kids pilot giant robots so I used Eva as my theme and modeled the stickers after the markups on the robots. 23 was my number in my first bike race when I was just 14 so its always been a special number to me. Hence EVA unit 23 was born with R-type equipment! I hope to one day Have another EVA-23 with TT-type equipment but that will have to wait for now.
All in all I put in just under $1500.00 For this build. I only had one piece to start with which was the handlebar. Everything else is new. I feel I did pretty good with my $1500 since I ended up with a full carbon 10sp road bike that weighs in just shy of 17.5 lbs.
Now if it will just warm up so I can ride it!
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God's in his heaven, alls right with the world -Nerv