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Ridden my airwolf a few times now in the slop and I like it.
Maybe I just enjoy the change from a 150mm Bird, not really got any frame of reference for XC bikes.
The 30mm Manitous were OK but a little flexy and sharp top out, good for the money though.
I picked up a barely used 29er 32mm dual air motion control dna SID world cup fork and its much much better, thats to be expected.
Dragging this thread up again. I've ordered one of these at a solid £195 and it had so say shipped on the slow boat. I'm in no rush, so was happy with the 'free shipping' method.
However, the Airwolf store got in contact today trying to convince me to pay an extra $130 for DPD shipping to get 'no taxe's, no customs problem' and faster shipping.
Aside from the fact that it shows in AliExpress that it has already shipped - anyone else had similar experience?
Yeah they asked me to do the same. I think they use a prepay scheme with the carrier and prefer you to do that as its less hassle for them when customs send them back or sting people for a big unexpected bill.
I just told them I was happy to deal with customs and pay any taxes.
In the end none were applied and it turned up really quickly.
Thanks wzzzz - its a little bit of an experiment and will be a parts mule, so I'm absolutely in no rush or want to pay half its value in shipping - so fingers crossed I have the same experience as you 🙂
I paid the lot on mine - import duty, VAT and handling, customs seem to have upped their game towards the end of the year I think. Should be about £60 for yours so worth waiting to see.
Quick BTT for this and any of you who have these - the BB is PF30 right, so what do I do with the BB they supply if I have a DUB? Do I just need to buy a BB-DUB-PF30-A1?
BTW, I lucked out and didn't pay any extra duty or customs - so all in, less than £200 for me 🙂
Yep, just get the DUB bottom bracket for 73mm PF30. I binned the one it came with.
@wzzzz those forks shouldn't top out. I have the M30 bought locally in China and ridden on roads and light XC. You might want to strip them and check there's actually oil inside them.
As to twist, check the QR spring and clamping is correct. I once put one QR spring in back to front and the fork was twisting all over the place. Reversed it and it became fairly fine (2000 era fork fine)
Also, if you want to be crazy and extend to 120mm travel, when stripped just remove the bright red plastic spacer. Remember which parts go back on when though. Photos during strip-down will help. It's easy to reassemble putting parts on the wrong side of the spring system and then gave them jam in the air spring tube (been there, done that).
I built one up for a mate about a year or so ago, but it's cracked already on the seattube, in between the seatstay and toptube. This is a recognised problem with dropped seatstays, as it places more/different loads on that section. The other issue was that you couldn't fit a long seatpost to mitigate the problem as there was an aluminium insert inside the frame which limited how far it could go down. All in, as I see it, it's a cheap frame, with so-so finishing, and as long as you don't expect too much, it could be okay for you.
Ouch doesn't sound good. Some one on chiner town has cracked his on the top of the seattube top tube junction and then went on to snap the chainstay at cable port.
Not the best.
Apart from the cracking near seat tube, are people generally happy with the airwolf brand or not ?? .. asking as im looking at their carbon gravel frames ?
Guessing maybe not ? .. but spose it depends on how many have cracked and how many they have sold ?
Hi. Can you please share the link for the frames?
All I can find are Airwolf components...
Search eBay for airwolf frame