Chinese Carbon MTB > 29er
Carbonda fm936 Thoughts
federic000:
--- Quote from: dan_cx on January 13, 2024, 12:23:18 PM ---If Funn brand guard (amazon) mounted to it. Hope this helps you a bit.
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Very well protected frame! Thanks Dan
p4R4d0x:
I just picked up a Vitus Rapide FS, that I understand uses this frame (at least it sounded like it did according to the research I did before buying). I was very surprised/pleased that it showed up with a UDH, though! I wonder if Vitus had a mid model rear triangle refresh or something? Everything I found before purchasing pointed to being stuck with no UDH and I was concerned about sourcing replacements in the future due to CRC/Wiggle stopping shipments to the US. Anyone know anything?
Unfortunately I might have gotten too much bike for me, though. I’m 5’ 6” and 30.5” inseam without shoes. This puts my height at the top of Small, bottom of Medium, inseam out of Small and into Medium. There were no Smalls in stock so I grabbed a medium thinking I’d be fine (especially once shoes were added). I got the bike yesterday though and it seems large! It comes with a huge seat post that feels too tall even lowered all the way (dropper already on the way, so maybe a non issue) but the front end feels really long. I’m hoping it’s just due to the (unnecessarily?) long stem and narrow bars, but curious what others think about sizing. Would a stem and bars wake this up, or am I overbiked? I can’t really ride it for several months anyway (slushy nasty winter here) so can’t really figure this out on my own til far past the return window.
federic000:
The bottecchia Gardena also has udh and modern cable routing from the headset
https://www.bottecchia.com/products/gardena-29-squadra
carbonazza:
Sofiane Sehili, who's a star of the ultra endurance seems to ride on Vitus gravel and MTB(same as the 936)
As seen in the picture of his IG https://www.instagram.com/sofianeshl/
dan_cx:
--- Quote from: federic000 on January 13, 2024, 02:22:10 PM ---Very well protected frame! Thanks Dan
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I try to protect my investments. ;D. To circle back to my initial post about the Absolute Black brand guard https://absoluteblack.cc/taco-bashguard/, I used that one in particular because the bash thingy bolts on flush with the mount, so it was less likely to rub on the chain. It's a little expensive, but it's cheaper than replacing a frame.
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