 since 1995. I've seen them on the interwebs so. All right let's have a look at these cranks. Looks just like a SRAM dub bottom bracket crank axle I should say. Not surprised because that just looks. What do you got there? Oh I'm just having a look at a quark which is yeah a dub, dub axle and it's same same. Hey Joe. Yeah. SRAM reps just walked through the front door. Yeah so that's SRAM has actually changed this. It's not a three bolt. This is SRAM's old fitment system for for chain rings and spiders. It's now eight smaller bolts. That's a T25. That's T20 bolts times eight. So but it's a very nice looking one piece machined chain ring. Not that. Unsimilar to a SRAM red chain ring. Bottom bracket. So what we have here is the sensor empire pro two by 12 speed group set which I ordered from Aliexpress on Monday the 8th of August and I received it in my home in the Sunshine Coast Queensland Australia on the 18th of August 2022. So 10 days which is pretty impressive but what impressed me most is the price of $569 AUD plus postage total 642 AUD which is 440 USD meaning that's roughly half or even the third of the price of the tier three mainstream 105 rival which is pretty crazy. So what is that the bottom bracket? This is a bottom bracket which is basically very similar to a dub bottom bracket. Feels all right. Spins. How exciting can bottom brackets get when you unbox them? Oh if a ceramic bottom bracket can get quite sexual. Can it? I think yeah it's in very nicely. What is it? Even without some grease. All right what have you got here? A heavier box. All right we've got a chain. I don't think it's a sensor chain. No idea. You'll know if it's good on the first hill whether it snaps or not. Is the chain a chain or? Yeah pretty much some of the actual most expensive ones are actually the most rubbish ones. Right. I think if you've got a SRAM, run a SRAM chain. If you've got Shimano, run a Shimano chain. Back in the 10-speed days it didn't really matter. It definitely I think it matters now to have the right chain on there. So here we go. They even gave you a purple ring. That's a little bit snazzy. That basically just looks like an old SRAM derailleur really. Right. When you say old how old are we talking? Two years old. Like a SRAM pretty similar. SRAM Force or Red. Oh okay. Derailleur. Carbon here. It's light. Jockey wheels are nice and tight. Spin well. They've probably got sealed bearings in them as well actually. It's got some nice springs in there. It doesn't feel cheap. No that's nice aluminium or really well constructed. It's actually circlipped the same as the S word. Gotta be careful what I say here. Not beard. Not beard at all. Shifters. Carbon fiber. Basically it looks like it comes out the Shimano factory that piece there. The elephant knuckle here which attaches to the handlebars. It's going through it again. The elephant knuckle. Just here. Oh okay right. How does it click? How does that click feel? Same as SRAM. The double clicker. It reminds me of Austin Powers. Here you double claps. When did you get the clapper? 1974 baby. Yep. It's nice carbon lever. It's pretty light. Nice hoods. In fact that the hoods in the design actually look more campy. Got a nice feel for time trialing. I like to um when I'm time trialing I like to sit on the hoods like this but I like to lock a pinky in there. Right. Just for safety. Okay. I call it the pinky lock. Time trial 1000. Okay 20 seconds. Yeah 1200. 1200. Yeah for sneaky hill. Oh nice. I know you are explosive aren't you. Yes thank you. You didn't forget. Yeah. And then this this is like completely opposite to everything else. It's just like a really sheep looking front derailleur with absolutely no engineering or design. But who knows maybe it works better than all the over engineered stuff. Right. It's just a simple forward joint one action front derailleur. Is that steel aluminium? I need to know. Hold on a second. I'll be back. With a magnet I just want to. So there obviously steel bolts. Steel, steel, steel and then aluminium. It's pretty cool actually. It's like a maybe not machined. It looks like pretty high quality. Might be laser cut. I don't know but it's some yeah the back pieces or aluminium. It's actually a pretty cool cassette but this actually looks really good quality and it's light. Yeah I'm quite surprised. Okay what else you got? What's that? Final box. The rows, calipers. Oh yeah. Oh you didn't actually get the brakes that we thought we were getting. These aren't the not so wonderful. They're just a single actuated brake. It's not a dual piston so that's just adjustable there. But we actually wanted to get the which should have come with this. They're actually it's a hydraulic caliper. Right. With the cable that comes into the hydraulic caliper which you can bleed or unbleed and it's a dual piston caliper. Right. Which is quite cool. Which that is a wrong thing. My fault. I don't think you did order the wrong thing. I think they might have sent you the wrong thing. Oh really? Okay. So from what we googled on the interwebs. Right. So we'll have to look into that. Okay. We can give them a go but they're just single pistons so the way that it works is that the rotor actually gets pushed into that brake pad. Yeah. Instead of the pads going like that it goes it pushes and the rotor actually. Okay. This is just yeah. Cheap. The absolute pits. Okay. Yeah. All right. Really good. Front deraille looks average but it might work. As I said a lot of the new stuff is ridiculously over-engineered to the point that most of the stuff that I work on that's come from the shop with two numbers in it and a few other places. Yeah. They just can't do it. Yeah. Tuna. Right. It is fiddly. 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