Other than being snobby about a triple chainset and a chainring guard, it’s not really all that bad. The saddle is on, it’s the correct way round too. There isn’t too much of note in the middle section of the bike. Now take that guess and divide it in half, just to be sure. Also a weird sense that the bike is moving sideways underneath you whilst you’re riding.Īs for weight limits, take a guess. Somehow both forgiving and yet brutal to your spine on potholes. Anyone that ever rode a Mobike will know what it’s like to ride cheap tri-spokes. No quick-release skewers here! Rigidity will be an issue. Punctures will be a doddle to fix, provided you’ve got a spanner handy. These Zhemin wheels though will probably end up like the infamous Spinergy wheels which were predisposed to explode at any minute. Time-triallists will often use a tri-spoke on the front. Tri-spokes are generally considered quite nice and aerodynamic. Plus the sub-par Photoshop selection tool work makes the wheels appear not quite fully round. I’m not even fully convinced they’re 700c. Still, at least car drivers will be able to look in their mirrors and be able to read one of them correctly. The rear wheel is the same so it appears to be deliberate. Except for the one there that’s also been put on backwards. Luckily the decals on the spokes say Zhemin. But then the top-right decal is for a 3hzmin ( or Uiwzhe) for some reason. Two of the decals on the rim point to them being Zhemin wheels. I am pretty sure that both sides have been wrapped by starting on the tops, rather than at the bar ends. There’s also the telltale sign of more shoddy work around the silver plug. The hood itself has been wrapped again, yet somehow the clamp and bar is still exposed. The eagle-eyed will spot that the bar tape has been lovingly wrapped around the brake lever! Something you would never need to check on your own bike when your brakes start to rub. The photo below is where things get really fun though. A couple of solid wraps on the hand grip, followed by an attempt to tape around it and get back to the bars. However, it’s around the shifter that they really shine. The photo above shows some downright shoddy taping around the bar end plug. If you’d paid for the taping to be done in a bike shop, you’d be asking for your money back and never using them again. If this was an antique restoration project, the bar taping would be politely called ‘naive’. It is probably ambitious to have STI shifters at this price level but a road bike with trigger shifters always looks interesting. On the plus side, you won’t get any moments when you hit a pothole and the bars suddenly loosen and droop down, you’re already prepared! The down-side to riding in this position is that the gear-shifters in the middle of the bars will constantly jab into your chest. In order to ride with your hands covering the brake levers, you’d pretty much need your chest resting on the bars. Whoever has installed them has gone for an extreme Caleb Ewan position. The first thing that caught my eye were the handlebars.
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