Carbonda fm936 Thoughts

[RobertRinAustin]

Dear All,
I´m looking for to contact with Adam. By email....looks difficult. I had been in contact but.....he disappear.


I have seem that Flybike has similar frames than Carbonda.
Is there any othor method to contact with them appart of email?

I will appreciate if someone can help me. Best Regards.

FB is for OEMs, won't sell to you. Carbonda is the retail channel.

[impmonkey]

Build is done. Ignore the derailleur cable. I have it trimmed now The color is based of the gloss/metallic green of the revel ranger. I sent adam a picture of that bike and they ran with it. Looks amazing in person.
Bike is 25.5 lbs with my old pedals. A nicer cassette and pedals should get it down to about 25.
Will be taking it on it's first real ride tomorrow. Pumped!

[Ben78]

Any 182cm/6' folks on large frames, what size dropper have you installed?

[Medico]

Any 182cm/6' folks on large frames, what size dropper have you installed?

Can't tell because I'm on a medium frame...but the answer is quitte simpele: the biggest which you can fit in your frame!
Oneup has the one's with the smallest inbuild height and can be adjusted.
The cheapest are from x brand/tranzx, which I use without issues for 1.5 years now.

Good luck

[reddi]

Measure your current bike's distance from BB center to saddle rail and subtract the frame's seat tube length (i.e. 490 mm in size L). That gives the maximum inbuild length for your seat post. Depending on what seat post you chose, minimum inbuild length is about 35-60 mm (stack height) longer than it's travel.

Allow your calculations a few millimeters of clearance

For example, my calculation was:
- former bike had 747 mm from BB center to saddle rail
- minus 540 mm seat tube in size XL gives a maximum of 207 mm seat post inbuild length
- minus 50 mm stack height (LEV integra) gives max. 157 mm of travel
- so i chose 150 mm travel and have about 7 mm of clearance below the seat post collar.

[RobertRinAustin]

Any 182cm/6' folks on large frames, what size dropper have you installed?

184 cm running a 150 that is sitting on the collar.

[Bobelibobban]

About the same for me. 184cm large frame 150mm PRO koryak dropper about 1cm margin.

[zac2944]

Finally finished my build.  Size M, SL. BTLOS i30, DTswiss350, XT cassette and shifter, SLX brakes and derailleur, e*thriteen crankset, Fox elite shock (Giant Anthem 2017 model from ebay), SID Ultimate 120mm, 150mm OneUpV2 dropper.  Rekon F2.5 R2.4. 25.8lbs w pedals.

Absolutely love this bike.  Was looking for one bike that I could use on trail rides and also race in local XC events.  It ticks all the boxes.  After a few tune up rides I took it out for a hot lap yesterday on my usual 11mi loop.  To compare I'm coming off a 2017 Giant Trance w 160mm Lyric fork, and sometime ride an old but fast Schwinn Homegrown 26er hard tail.  I was within 5% of my best times on the gnarly downhill sections, and PR'd pretty much every flat or climb section.  I even cleared a huge techy hill that I've never done before.  I couldn't believe how much faster I was on this bike. Especially this early in the season.   It is about 10lbs lighter than my trance, so that's got to be part of it, but I never felt under-gunned on the downhills.  The geo and the 120mm SID felt almost as solid as the 160mm Lyric on my Trance.  I definitely bottomed out in placed where I usually don't, but tokens will fix that. 

In all, zero regrets with this bike. Thanks to everyone for sharing your builds and info.  Made the process so much easier for me.

[Ben78]

About the same for me. 184cm large frame 150mm PRO koryak dropper about 1cm margin.

A lot of the reviews on the Pro dropper complain about the saddle mount, would you agree that it isn't great? It'll be between this dropper and the oneup I think

[Bobelibobban]

Yeah the seat mount on the PRO dropper is a bit weird but once I had the saddle mounted and tuned it’s been solid. So for me it’s not really a show stopper. Haven’t tried the oneup so I can’t compare the two but I think the PRO one works well and is a good deal including the lever, cable and all.

[carbonazza]

Here is my bling build !

The weather isn't very nice here, so only two ~70km rides so far.
But I loved every instant of them, a smile from one ear to the other, even once when I crashed it

Not sure if it is the geometry, the full suspension, the seatpost or the electronic shifting in particular, but this has little in common with my past hardtail riding.

It is a size M SL.
OG-Evkin bar
Ligthbicyle XC925 wheelset with DT-Swiss EXP 240.
XX1 AXS derailleur + Blipbox + Multiclics
SID Ultimate 120mm and SIDLuxe shock 42.5mm
Piccola brakes
Reverb AXS
2.35 tires.
And 10,1kg

The commands are, left click easier gear, right click harder gear.
Click on both for the seatpost.

I was hoping for a more greenish blue, than this reddish one, but I start to get used to it 

I'm still testing different 3D printed mounts for the blips for different positions.
For now the cables are taped below the bar, my plan was to make them go through the bar end and exit through one of the mount holes.
But there was some sun, and I preferred to go ride than work more on it. Maybe later.

[theirishrider]

Looks so trick! How do you like the OG-EVKIN bar?

[jonnybearback]

@carbonazza More info on the paint please?

Blue color, fade to black, to clear coat?

[carbonazza]

Looks so trick! How do you like the OG-EVKIN bar?

The look impresses around me for sure.
Was too wide at 800mm. I did cut 20mm on each side.

The angles feels good to me.
I'll see on a long distance ride how it fits.

@carbonazza More info on the paint please?

Blue color, fade to black, to clear coat?

It is the same pattern as the picture attached.
But with transparent blue instead of orange( you can see the carbon weaves through it ).
Then a black belt ( not really what I asked, but ok ).
Then clear coat ( I asked for ceramic, not sure I got it  )

[Vipassana]

Here is my bling build !

Thank you for this post! You have built basically the exact spec that I am planning to build. The only difference I'm considering at this moment is to use the FM 909 frame. But if I go with the FM 936, my bike will be identical to yours except for color, blipbox, saddle. Maybe tires too of course. I was very hopeful to stay well under 10.5 kg, and you've just shown me that this can be done. And even with some nice goodies like AXS and a power meter.

I am coming from a hard tail that I have been riding for 7 years now. So moving to a full suspension with modern geometry is going to be mind-blowing.