I wanted to build a “super bike” on a budget. Full carbon, integrated bars, internal cable routing & carbon wheels blah blah blah
I’m $1400 into the whole build and incredibly happy with it. Might be one of my best builds yet. Here is the break down.
Yoeleo R12 Frameset with Handlebars: $160*
(Yes,$160, I can explain later)
Ltwoo ER9 groupset: $325
Force Crankset: :$160
Zitto Bottom Bracket: $25
Zitto Brake Rotors: $7 (each)
ZRace X2 Calipers: $45
Sunshine Cassette: $45
Bartape: $5
Panaracer Agilest 32c: $80 (pair)
SRAM Force chain: $30 (bulk packaging)
Elite Drive 60D: $550 (new off Facebook market place, about 2 years ago)
Total: $1439
Saddle from the bike bin.
by Trackar97
2 Comments
YOLORELLO would have been better
Now to explain the frame,
It was on Facebook market place for a long time, the original owner took it to a bike shop. The bike shop told him the frame was junk, because the headset wouldn’t go in. The guy tried to get a warranty replacement, yoeleo said yes, but he has to pay return shipping for this frame. It was very expensive and the guy gave up on the whole frame.
I decided it was worth the gamble as the bars were worth the $160 alone.
Turns out the frame was fine, there was just a spot with extra epoxy around the wall of the headset cup. Sanded down this area of excess epoxy and everything went together perfectly. I went a little further and sanded out a small area that would be considered a void. Had this area filled in with carbon because I’m anal. There was no need to do this, but I would prefer it was solid carbon. The area affected was just the wall along the cup. The cups were perfect and everything else on the frame was rather nice.
The guy lost the headset spacers, yoeleo was able to track down a set for me as this is the older bar. They were a bit banged up, so I sanded them smooth before eventually painting them.