none wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:55 pmI have not been racing on road bikes for over 15 years.
I don't ride competitively on my local group rides with hilltop challenges or lampost sprints.
I do enjoy a nice steady paceline cruising for miles at 25+ mph..
I have built three Chinese carbon frame bikes since SEP 2017. All of them are cheap, under $400 (with discount/rebate).
I kept two of three since the first frame was the wrong size sent to me, I received full refund and got to keep the frame.
I sold the built bike (7.52kg) to a neighbor that I ride with regularly, he's put over 4k miles on it and I don't hear any complaints from him.
The second frame is more aero, I just liked the look of the frame and wanted to try it out.
This is time I got the correct frame size, and it went together with steep learnign curve of internal cable routing, trial & error in cable housing lengths. (8.25kg)
The third frame is a replacement frame sent to me by the seller of the first frame, this time in the correct size.
Since I really wanted to try a Cervelo S5 replica from China: (7.54kg)
For my typical riding, they serve the purpose well.
I've put about 2k combined miles on the two that I've kept since 2018.
Besides the initial setup of the bikes, they operate pretty well for day-to-day usage.
The seatpost tend to slip until you figure out a way to secure it.
The front derailler mount seems to be slip out of position in the first few miles.
Typical teething problems with newly builts.
I'm happy with my purchases of Chinese carbon frames and likely will do it again when I wear out one of them.
thank you for your feedbakc, i'm new on the field, you "recomended" about chinese frame.
my problem is about how to build it up, avoid stupid expensies for my "ignorance"
and try to compromise maybe good quality group set and frames and wheels from china.