Hello golfmade,
welcome to the Strida Forum!
I’m glad to to hear you are living in the Eastern part of our globe… maybe you are able to look behind the philosophy of Eastern Strida riders, which seems to be different from that of the European riders (i.e. “pimping” or carrying 1000+1 bags 
).
That’s a reason why really fine parts are only sold in Far East, they (usually) never come to Europe… 
I guess we will meet at http://www.hkstrida.org/forum/ ?
There you will definitely find specialists for “Strida-pimping” showing their obsessions…
please see here : [url]Brooks Flyer]
Best regards