u/nasanu

I am continuing to add the parts to the bike that I ordered before the bike even arrived.

See the Cybrei cranks on the second pic... Well that is a normal road bike crankset with a 24mm diameter, 92mm length axle that I assumed was a standard Shimano Hollowtech II, or rather I thought the Neo was using a normal road BB. But when I took the stock crankset off (Cranks, rotor, pedals: 1106g) I realised the BB width was huge, I could not tighten the bolt on the Cybrei cranks enough, the spindle was not long enough. I was sure I wasted a ton of cash on cranks I could not use. But as a last resort I wondered about the BB standard and took it out... To my surprise there are 7mm of spacers in there! Remove the three spacers, cranks fit! So to others out there, I am not sure about all Java bikes, no idea about all Neo's even but before wondering what cranks fit, remove your BB and confirm what you actually have to work with.

So Cybrei cranks, Rotor chainring and KCNC Kyrex pedals along with a seat I have laying around added.

Total weight now is: 7.89kg.

I want any suggestions for light weight basically anything I haven't touched. Bolt kits, latches, the rear suspension etc. I am deeply looking into a drop bar conversion also, I already have a 25.4mm drop bar on order, i'll try shims to get it to clamp in the I think 28.6mm clamp. But the drop bar conversion will add weight, might have to go insane replacing kind of everything brakes and all to make up for it.

If I can still have the fat tyres, drop bars and maybe a rack while still being under 8kg that will be ideal. It's the dream.

So I ordered this a long time ago, got it delivered today. First pic is with new wheels, tyres and rotors. Second pic is stock, 3rd pic is my Canyon Grail and forth my Tyrell CSI, just for perspective on my comparisons.

So... Stock.. Its fine but coming from my other bikes it needs work. First off I run out of gears just getting out of my street (low top end speed). The brakes require half the lever travel to do anything but then bite hard. Lots of stopping force but all of it in like 20% of the travel. The stock pedals barely spin, the rear suspension block clanks metal against metal if you get air or lift the bike and the reach from where I sit to the bars is far too short. For perspective I am only around 166cm tall, but I want about 5cm more reach. I want to add drop bars but finding compatible ones will be tricky due to the small clamping diameter of the stem (was going to measure it but I seem to have sabotaged my own calipers). And on that none of my mounting gear I use on my Grail or Tyrell work as the bar diameter is too small, need a specific out front mount or shims/something.

The Wheeltop EDS is fine. Coming from the wireless Sram Eagle honestly its fine. I do have issues shifting however I have not tried to fine tune it yet as I will replace the cranks and rotor soon. It seems like once I dial it in a little for 1x SRAM vs the EDS is more or less the same thing, except my SRAM Eagle supports a 52T on the back...

Stock the bike is 8.87kg. With the new Odin wheels, Continental Contact Urban 405 50mm and SwissStop 140mm rotors its 8.55kg.

I still have Cybrei cranks, rotor chainring (52T, might need to by something like a 56 given my first impression), Kyrex pedals and a carbon saddle to put on, which I haven't bothered with till I buy a hollowtech 2 tool which I didn't realise I needed to remove the stock cranks.

I plan to make a video on this but I will give my initial impressions here first. Oh, almost forgot, the stock rear hub is crazy loud. Embarrassingly loud.

I have 3 1x bikes, two with Dura-Ace mech and one SRAM Eagle AXS, no issues with any. Can do what I want with gears backpedaling or whatever. However I have just got another bike, this time with Wheeltop EDS and look here: https://youtu.be/KDuybnQ3iYs?t=121

That sign says I cannot backpedal in specific gears... Googling people say the chain drops, which I experienced one time 10 years ago with 1x but never again. So can anyone think of what the specific issue would be on this bike? I cannot get my head around my two 11s and one 12s setup not having the issue but this bike having it from factory.

Hoping its something I can sort out on my end, I already have a rotor chainring narrow wide waiting, wonder if I need a different cassette?