Hello again Pinkbike community! It's only been an 8 year hiatus for me since I last used this site! (Lol at my username :lol
Looking to get back into biking, and am wanting to build an enduro.
I came across this particular frame the other day, and seeing as its a 2019 release, there's nothing online about it yet. Seems like people who have bought other Chinese carbon frames mostly have had positive experiences with them. This particular frame seems to check all the boxes for a modern enduro frame; boost spacing, 160mm travel, modern geometry (Except for a possible 15" BB height? WTF?).
Hello again Pinkbike community! It's only been an 8 year hiatus for me since I last used this site! (Lol at my username :lol
Looking to get back into biking, and am wanting to build an enduro.
I came across this particular frame the other day, and seeing as its a 2019 release, there's nothing online about it yet. Seems like people who have bought other Chinese carbon frames mostly have had positive experiences with them. This particular frame seems to check all the boxes for a modern enduro frame; boost spacing, 160mm travel, modern geometry (Except for a possible 15" BB height? WTF?).
I'd rather go alloy from a known brand. Most chinese carbon frames are based off decent bikes but just don't have the right amount of carbon reinforcing in the right spots. If it broke there's no way of a refund
Come on. Geometry is for trail at best, and the problem about the Chinese making frames is that almost no one knows how to properly ride a mountain bike.
Without being able to read the numbers on the leverage ratio graph, it is hard to draw any specific conclusions but its overall shape is very strange. Regressive through 2/3 of the travel and then hyper progressive. Santa Cruz used to have that peak occur at the sag point with the argument that it made the bike most sensitive to small bumps at the sag point. I don't know why you would want the peak at 2/3 travel. But if the y axis on that graph is hardly changing, than the overall shape of the graph doesn't matter.
So, was anyone able to get the suspension-related charts for this frame in a readable resolution? LT bikes (they sell this frame on Alibaba) don't seem to have them, Lightcarbon (the frame is not on their site anymore, though - only in Google cache) and Dabomb didn't even deign to answer
Hello again Pinkbike community! It's only been an 8 year hiatus for me since I last used this site! (Lol at my username :lol
Looking to get back into biking, and am wanting to build an enduro.
I came across this particular frame the other day, and seeing as its a 2019 release, there's nothing online about it yet. Seems like people who have bought other Chinese carbon frames mostly have had positive experiences with them. This particular frame seems to check all the boxes for a modern enduro frame; boost spacing, 160mm travel, modern geometry (Except for a possible 15" BB height? WTF?).
Chinese low cost Carbon QC is well known for testing in real MTB situations Buy it if you want to ride in city centre to look cool :-), otherwise you can get decent known frame for few hundreds $ more, which is way cheaper than broken bones and other "failures" which can happen. And they will happen not while riding smooth trail but when you will go hard... Also, if you buy complete bike, you will get much more for your money than go from scratch.
Hello again Pinkbike community! It's only been an 8 year hiatus for me since I last used this site! (Lol at my username :lol
Looking to get back into biking, and am wanting to build an enduro.
I came across this particular frame the other day, and seeing as its a 2019 release, there's nothing online about it yet. Seems like people who have bought other Chinese carbon frames mostly have had positive experiences with them. This particular frame seems to check all the boxes for a modern enduro frame; boost spacing, 160mm travel, modern geometry (Except for a possible 15" BB height? WTF?).
I'd rather go alloy from a known brand. Most chinese carbon frames are based off decent bikes but just don't have the right amount of carbon reinforcing in the right spots. If it broke there's no way of a refund
They are a good company with original designs. I have a csfs958 on the way right now. Could have bought any frame I want but chose them because it checks all the boxes for me.
They have r&d they have engineers that worked for big name companies. They have several frames on the uci list.
The notion that the Chinese can't make high quality original designs is kind of racist.
just get something decent from canyon / commencal / any consumer direct based on your location instead
brand frames are more expensive unless bought secondhand and/or as a complete bike this one's $600 in China without the shock
yes but I dont think you can go much under 2k euros of a spectral/neuron from canyon for example. Not even considering all the bazillion things that can go wrong with full sus bikes and zero guarantee of any R&D done on the kinematics of the ebay frame.
just get something decent from canyon / commencal / any consumer direct based on your location instead
brand frames are more expensive unless bought secondhand and/or as a complete bike this one's $600 in China without the shock
yes but I dont think you can go much under 2k euros of a spectral/neuron from canyon for example. Not even considering all the bazillion things that can go wrong with full sus bikes and zero guarantee of any R&D done on the kinematics of the ebay frame.
They do sponsor racing teams, and those tend to give feedback. So I'm pretty sure there're other things on the requirements list a frame is designed to meet than price, looks and latest standards