Toe overlap would be a concern, but the front center is 5mm longer than my CFR-1056. The rear center is 20mm longer, and the wheelbase is 25mm longer. With fatter tires the difference should be negated. On my 1056 I can make contact with my front wheel on very slow, very tight turns...and there's likely to be a few more of those on gravel.

Your build looks good. I'm sorry you're unhappy.

We don't seem to have a dedicated thread for this frame (and its variants), so I'm starting one.

Carbonda resells the Flybike FM696 as the CFR-696. ( https://www.flybike-asia.com/product/155.html )This frame is also sold by numerous other brands under various names. Some have different forks or bottom brackets. I'm told Flybike will do variants for a minimum order of 30 frames. Here are some of the bikes that use this frame:

Obed Boundary
Bombtrack Hook EXT-C
Ridley Kanzo Adventure
Vitus Substance
KHS Grit 440
Pearl Gravel XL
Boltcutter Peacemaker
Framed Basswood
On One Free Ranger
Cobalt Warhawk
De Rosa Gravel 2022
Pearson Off Grid
Kross Eskar 7.0

Do you have a Flybike FM696 in any of it's guises?

Hi,
Please give me the advise, which size will be better S or M? I'm 175cm and 84cm inseam. Im pretty much sure, that M will be suitable, but have some concerns about the geometry. Previously I rode on Canyon Endurace size S, but here except 0.5 degree steeper seat angle, and 9mm taller head tube size M is more less same sizing as S in Canyon.
I'm also considering handlebar from Carbonda? Worth it?

I'm your height and I bought a medium. Sometimes I think I should have chosen the small, sometimes I don't. It's that borderline.

I didn't use Carbonda's headset, stem or bars, so I don't have an opinion about their bars.

There are two versions of the fork. On one, the front brake line enters the fork leg and then exits the fork leg higher. On the other it exits the steerer tube for routing up through the head tube and out the top of the headset. From there you can go fully internal through an appropriate integrated bar and stem, or a bar/stem combo. I went with FSA's ACR/SMR headset/stem combo and the Prime handlebars. My brake hoses are internal from the calipers to the levers.

IF I wouldn't have desperately been waiting for the frame, and if I would have read the reports about successful claims before, most likely I would have done so ;-)

I can understand that. I had the luxury of having a three-month wait for my groupset, so I could have worked on them about the frame for quite a while. My groupset wound up arriving much sooner than expected, but I didn't know that would happen.

What handlebars did you use with this setup?

Prime Doyenne Aero...the alloy model, not the carbon.

Here's my spreadsheet: