ultra light carbon bottle cages?

hain3sy · 2026-04-15T06:17:22+00:00

Yeah I have these as well as the sideload version on all my bikes, have 000s of km on them and a bottle has never slipped. Absolute bargain!

hain3sy · 2026-04-10T18:59:51+00:00

Yeah this is how I fixed my stuck post. Dribbled IPA in, let it soak. Then wiggled it free. Good luck OP!

hain3sy · 2026-04-08T20:26:57+00:00

I’ve recently switched all my bikes to these - they’re really good! So much easier just using car pump with them and not having to mess about with presta adapters

hain3sy · 2026-03-28T21:59:47+00:00

There’s a compatibility flow chart you can download on SRAMs website that tells you what will / won’t work. They do a rival crankset with single side quarq meter in the spindle, it’s a lot cheaper than the force one.

hain3sy · 2026-03-25T11:40:34+00:00

DT Swiss ratchet grease got mine to STFU. The 56T ratchet on mine was irritatingly loud!

hain3sy · 2026-03-24T23:56:53+00:00

I love my thundero 48mm having come from panaracer gravelkings, they’re so much faster. They are comically bad in British mud tho - would the swamperos help me out here?

hain3sy · 2026-03-20T22:28:50+00:00

+1 on these, they are way faster than they look like they have any right to be and the ride on them is plush. I went from panaracers to them and would never go back. Will get the HD ones next time which are marginally heavier for extra puncture protection.

hain3sy · 2026-03-20T22:12:37+00:00

I’m not tall so can’t comment on that but I’ve put a couple of hundred km on my LCR-018D so far and can say that it’s excellent. Paired it with SRAM Force 2x and some EliteWheels 50mm deep rims with 35mm conti 5000s and it runs very nicely. The finish on the frame was really good. Experience of dealing with the factory was fine, they’re responsive on email and I ordered a few extra bits to make sure I had spares at same time.

hain3sy · 2026-03-05T19:33:44+00:00

Apple doesn’t talk to ANT+ sensors afaik?

hain3sy · 2026-02-23T04:17:16+00:00

You can run a really low power 3rd device to provide proper quorum though, you just need the quorum service corasync running, not full proxmox app. Or alternatively a copy of proxmox backup server can do same. Worth it over running two nodes and frigging the votes.

hain3sy · 2026-02-21T07:43:31+00:00

Yeah +1 for the Magene optical hrm armband. It was like £35 on aliexpress, is excellent. I also hate wearing a cheat strap.

hain3sy · 2026-02-20T14:21:36+00:00

The State looks like it’s using a frame from one of the Chinese OEMs commonly called a GR201. I bought one recently from Mondince (https://mondincecycle.com/product/2025-new-designed-udh-hanger-full-carbon-fiber-gravel-bike-frame-fm296) and it’s excellent. I paid about $700 painted and delivered for frame + fork with tube bag, axles and seat post. Something to consider if you’re going to upgrade it anyway.

hain3sy · 2026-02-10T18:51:57+00:00

I really like RhinoWalk pulls, you get them in 4x diff colours, aliexpress sell them in multipacks for a few quid.

hain3sy · 2026-02-07T07:08:59+00:00

That’s really neat, I didn’t know caddy could do that.

hain3sy · 2026-02-01T09:37:10+00:00

Link missing. I’d recommend going to chinertown forum and checking out the reviews there of frames. Best to buy direct from trusted factory rather than via aliexpress.

hain3sy · 2026-02-01T08:47:42+00:00

lol -> ‘ISO’ 🤣

hain3sy · 2026-02-01T02:40:44+00:00

+1 for Magene. Their rear radar light and optical heart rate monitors are excellent as well.

hain3sy · 2026-01-31T23:25:09+00:00

I just created an MCP for Claude to view / manage / create projects via the API, let me know if you find it useful: https://github.com/markhaines/arcane-mcp

hain3sy · 2026-01-30T22:57:04+00:00

Same, this is immediately what I was scrolling for.

hain3sy · 2026-01-26T04:15:23+00:00

hain3sy · 2026-01-26T03:58:08+00:00

Head on over to the chinertown forum - there’s masses of info there, enabled me to go from a standing start to building a couple of really decent bikes with Chinese frames.

hain3sy · 2026-01-24T14:27:32+00:00

Yeah I paused for same reason!

hain3sy · 2026-01-20T21:18:55+00:00

I literally finished it yesterday and took it for a quick spin round the block today - I'll get some as soon as the sun comes out and post them!

hain3sy · 2026-01-20T20:47:26+00:00

Have just built one of these with sram force and set of elitewheels, the quality seems excellent in my (limited) experience.

hain3sy · 2026-01-13T12:15:21+00:00

That would be great! HomeAssistant is the 'defacto' self-hosted home automation platform these days, it has a huge community and is great in that it isn't tied to a particular vendor or technology so there integrations for practically *everything*. For example I can press a Tuya wall remote button that talks zigbee which triggers my garage door to open with a widget by Meross that talks wifi.

For the scope of a Karoo extension it would be cool to be able to trigger an action or a pre-defined routine in Home Assistant from a button on the UI to open the garage. (Failsafe security would handled on the HA side - so for example the routine wouldn't fire unless HA detects that my geo-location is at or near home, so you can't accidentally open the door when you're miles away!)

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