May be we can give Honsen the benefit of the doubt.
Until we see what kind of frame I get.
So far, everything looks to go well.
Ok, the moment of truth will come after my first big jump, ending on a sharp corner.
T1000 and T800 is just the stiffness of the carbon fiber.
The fiber/resin fraction, and how the sheets are layered in the various parts of the frames are more important.
My choice may look odd today. But end of May, I was turned off by Peter when he told me there was nobody building wheels with Lefty's hubs in... China.
This didn't give me a trusty image as I just saw a couple of hours later that light-bicycle was building them.
Then from the posts on mtbr at that time, the leading time for the IP-256 was quite worrying.
They did not even reply to the people who ordered them anymore.
So I tried Honsen as Leo was responsive and very competent too.
Why I told you nobody building wheels with lefty's hubs in China is I have never seen anyone has these hubs available to build the wheels, maybe you don't know Light-Bicycle doesn't share their things with other factories or companies, even we both located in Xiamen, they think we are competitors. Or you can ask Hongfu, Miracle or any other company if they have the lefty hub available or not, except LB.
About the lead time for IP-256 frames, I think almost guys know Iplay firstly mentioned and made these frames sold last year, this is the newest model, so the lead time mainly depends on factory. Now the production for this frame is getting regular and we start to ship frames to customers, the lead time from Honsen is short when you ordered yours from them relatively.
We ship items what we have in stock to customers in the first place.
