It’s fair to say I haven’t actually had my hands on an LC frame yet, so I shouldn’t talk them up too much, but based on others experiences and the number of quality bikes they seem to OEM for (Their painting album had lots of branded bikes in there and I have a local reseller who sells a bike...
Fixed my dropper wire and took a few pics. I don't love how my front brake line is wanting to stick out, I'll have to play with it a bit to get it to sit nicer. Yes, I know I could have gone with a much longer dropper. I wasn't sure how much space I'd have and just played it safe with a 125mm...
I’ll get some pics when I have time and still have some tidying up to do, but long story short I got my triangle today and completed the build. Finally. 5 months and a week after I started the journey to build a bike, and expected to have it completed by mid July.
After receiving the new upper...
How are you rating the wattage used, just based on the motor setting/profile? I bet the M560 being so much more powerful inadvertently draws more power in bursts or something. When it has the capability to draw a lot more I would imagine you use it without even noticing during acceleration, I...
My speed sensor arrived today so I quickly mounted that while I wait to see if I'll ever get my correct rear triangle from Dengufu...
I've seen a lot of people ask for the right speed sensor for the E82 and where to get it. It's the Bafang SD071, I was able to get it from Fieldebikes on Alibaba...
Me neither, I ordered the 171 assuming it would be fine, especially since Dengfu puts a washer/spacer on their 174. I didn’t realize the UDH one would be 3mm longer at 177 though, so we’ll see how that works out… Mine may or may not work.
The thread pitch was less relevant to me because I have...
Everyone seems to say it's trash. I ordered a Maxle and will be using that. I guess it's worth at least trying though. The different spec is probably for non-UDH frames. The one I have is 174mm long and 1.5 pitch, but it looks identical otherwise, meaning it's probably from the same OEM and of...
lol, I just ordered off their Alibaba listing for it, on a listing that specifically says UDH in the description, and they sent me a non-UDH frame and blamed me for not specifying I wanted UDH. They told me the other one will always be the default unless you specifically ask for UDH, and UDH is...
Looks good, is that the matte finish? Wish I didn't let them talk me out of matte. Did you have to specify you wanted UDH? I had quite the disaster with that....
It really is crazy how much the microphones amplify some sounds like these. I just got a heat pump water heater and I was trying to describe to someone how quiet it is while running, I took a video with my phone and didn't even bother sending it because it made it sound so much louder than it...
You can probably find a few people who have used both. Maybe @Dado has some experience with both? I’ve seen everyone across the board say the M560 is better feeling and has an improved torque sensor, it’s supposed to be the M600s successor so I personally wouldn’t go building a new bike with an...
I had never noticed that, it appears they only show it on the "SUV" version on their website. The mtb config doesn't have one. I would have preferred a top tube integrated display but honestly had never even seen it anywhere until you mentioned it just now. I wonder if there were strength...
I’ve had good luck with fieldebikes as well, I always see people mention Chili’s name, I got someone named Tars Wong and he’s been good to deal with as well.
That’s unfortunate about the paint, I was afraid of that because I did have one spot where my yoke scratched up against the paint and it...
Dyedbro has a website where you can buy them direct but it was a little pricey for me, I happened to find some bike shop selling them on Amazon for cheap, probably trying to get rid of old stock or something. I got it for only $30 shipped.
The color is Pantone 8C, they may call it PT 8C...
Bored with not much to do until I get my new rear triangle piece (Can’t mount my derailleur, wheel, caliper, and therefore motor because it’ll be in the way) so I decided to do some stickers… Applied part of my Dyedbro frame protection to break up the plain paint a bit.
Not sure where to put...
Yeah the appearance of the finish definitely looks great, no imperfections that I could spot. Can’t speak to durability yet but the paint job itself appears to have been well done.
I actually wanted matte originally in a different color but the person from Dengfu on Alibaba was so adamant that...
Thanks, that was my hope all along; I like tinkering and figured there would be no better way to learn my way around a "real bike" than building it from scratch. This will actually be my first full suspension bike ever which is kind of funny I guess. I've been putting some miles on the Vitus you...
Finally something actually worked out with this build, I was able to squeeze the pack from my LCE971 battery into the extra E82 battery case I purchased and get it all hooked up. The BMS on the old pack was never setup for CAN communication so I’ll go without, but I don’t see any big issues with...
I did buy an extra battery case that I now have, I was hoping to slide the pack from the LCE971 into it to have a much lighter 728Wh battery. It’s going to be very tight, I only tried messing with it for a minute so far, the cells definitely aren’t in the right configuration for the E82 case...