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29er / Re: Chinese Santa Cruz
« on: February 06, 2020, 06:52:55 AM »
Unlikely to go back to normal or for the country to really function again until the virus season is over. May in other words.
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29er / Re: Chinese Santa Cruz
« on: February 06, 2020, 03:18:49 AM »
After reading about TanTan's response to poor packaging resulting in a damaged frame, I can't say I'd be rushing to buy anything from them.
What about Miracle and Haideli? Both quality and service. Not really read much about either.
What about Miracle and Haideli? Both quality and service. Not really read much about either.
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29er / Re: TanTan FM08 cracked during shipping
« on: February 05, 2020, 06:34:13 PM »TL;DR I would not recommend going with TanTan in the future, and do not count on PayPal purchase protection to save you. Lessons learned...
Well, after much back and forth, we were unable to come to an agreement on shipping.
I was prepared to eat the shipping cost until I found out an unpleasant truth, it's much more expensive to ship things from the US west coast to China than the other way around! The US Post Office refused to take the package due to the size, and UPS, Fedex, etc. were going to charge upwards of $800USD! The cheapest I could find was BikeFlights at ~$300 USD, but at that rate I might as well just get it repaired locally and not risk further shipping damage.
Unfortunately PayPal Purchase Protection wasn't much help either. In the end, PayPal agreed to refund the total cost of the frame if I returned it, but with the aforementioned cost of shipping, that's a non-option for me.
Looks like I will be going the way of local / home repair, which I'm fine with. The damaged area doesn't seem too large or located in a critical structural area, so I imagine a repaired frame will be okay, I just would have preferred not to take the risk or eat into my slim budget...
On the bright side, at least I can proceed with the rest of my build! I'm pretty excited, as this will be my first full-sus bike
I'm genuinely curious, does anyone have experience with shipping bike frames back to China at a reasonable price?
TanTan would 100% be able to arrange shipment for much, much less than $300 via one of the freight forwarding agents they use - though you might need to travel some distance to drop it off. It looks like they don't want to though...
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29er / Re: Lightcarbon LCFS937 Build
« on: February 04, 2020, 08:14:23 AM »Couldn't you just run it upside down? Or would that not work either? If so, that's very limiting of the shocks you can use. Almost all decent coil shocks ruled out.
No one makes a 165x45 coil shock anyway.
Hadn't realised it was so short.
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29er / Re: Lightcarbon LCFS937 Build
« on: February 03, 2020, 08:18:08 AM »
Couldn't you just run it upside down? Or would that not work either? If so, that's very limiting of the shocks you can use. Almost all decent coil shocks ruled out.
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29er / Re: Chinese Santa Cruz
« on: January 23, 2020, 05:31:40 PM »
You haven't specified where you are located...
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29er / Re: Chinese Santa Cruz
« on: January 16, 2020, 10:37:24 PM »
Could go for a coil shock instead, in which case dialling it in shouldn't be too much of an effort.