Hi guys
After hours and hours of reading and browsing through the web I found this forum.... Meanwhile I figured I am not only cycle but as well carbon addicted   There's worse addictions in life, so accept this one.

What I did so far:
Visit HongFu, HZ Bikes, GotoBikes, PlanetX (UK), Carbonality
Chitchated on skype  with GotoBikes and Hongfu.

The objective (for both: I'm a Shimano guy. Have XT on MTB and DA/Ultegra on two others):
a) Transform my Trekking Bike (heavy Alloy frame) to a 29er
Seeking throught German Bike shops, I got myself a Rigid 29er Carbon fork from Syncros XC-01 for arround 500 Euros (you won't believe, there was basically not as real choice)
After coming over the asian vendors, a pitty for the money - as most offer rigid forks.
So anyway... I am trying to get a 29er HardTail frame.
- internal cablerouting prefered
- standard 9mm Axle preferred (esp. in front/fork)
- Seatpost 31.6 or 27.2
- BSA 70, 68, BB90 (doesn't matter too much, should just came as a standard shimano part)
- Front: 1 1/8 or tapered (I found, there are some offerings with 1 1/2, but at least here in Europe I didn't find any other 1 1/2 forks other than the Cannondale lefty. Is there headsets that adapt somehow 1 1/2 in a 1 1/8 frame head?)
- T1000
- Stable: I am 1.90m - 100 kilos + equipment

b) my Road Bike... I have a Quantec SLR (Alloy - black as Chiner ) and a Kuota K-Factor (2007)
The K-Factor, I include you a picture, is actually my love. Ridden a lot on it, first real own race bike.
Today I use the Quantec SLR as my "mountain" road bike and the Kuota as my "lake TT" bike. The Kuota is not stiff enough and starts bending uphill or arround 50++ km/h downhill.  So I seek to have a candidate that replaces the Kuota. If it is replaced, I'd need a good paint job either in Chiner or sth. Paintbrush here. I am not sure what kind of designs requests they can fulfill and how the outcome would be... => "I send you some CAD drawings ok?"  " I send you a picture of some nasty skulls, just spread it all over the bike"  "make it look like the Kuota, but change the text to..."


I have been looking at:
http://www.gotobike.com.cn/ns_detail.asp?id=502238&nowmenuid=502207&previd=0
But no T1000 - 1 1/2...

For Road
http://hongfu-bikes.en.alibaba.com/product/930572955-210851416/FM069_From_HongFu_Bikes_Chinese_Road_Frame_Carbon_Super_Light_weight_780_920g_ShenZhen_Carbon_Road_Bike_Frame.html

I talked directly to hongfu / not Aliexpress (surprisingly they told me 630 USD but with seatpost/fork/headset)


So there is still a lot of sites that I didn't know up until you guys (the xiam sites)... I'll be following my addiction a few hours more, but would of course be happy about your feedback.

Maybe some of you know more, have good experience with this and that dealer/person.
It is kind of end season here, so prices drop for the premium brands in winter anyway.... does this happen in chiner as well?

What I really don't have is time pressure. I have 3 working bikes and at the end it's optimazations to satisfy a craving cycle and carbon desire (i will loose some weight meanwhile).

THX  & best regards DF


P.S. need to deliver attachment later due to resizing