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After The Ride / Chinese carbon biases
« on: June 01, 2016, 06:20:06 PM »
I've been riding chinese unbranded carbon for 4 years now. A Axman frame 26er. And now a 256SL for a year and a 1/2. Besides the frame i have/had, seatposts, handlebar, water bottle cages, and assorted bits and pieces 
I have zero complaints, you do really get every euro/dollar you pay back. Great value for money. Possibility to custom build, for me is absolutely a must, i really can't pay for a top end brand bike. And really can't pay big money and get mixes quality parts, like a sid fork and a deore crank or like a friend of mine that bought a merida "full xt"... only not, it had deore and slx.
Custom paint, OMG, how frikin sweet. Is it only me that hate the brands saving the best paint jobs for the top end bikes. Like only the most expensive can have the colour red lol
The money you save on the frame can be put to very good use.
The quality is amazing as long as you don't go to aliexpress and order by lowest price
If you buy from trusted sellers, you get a good product. It is not gonna fail on the 1st ride and leave you toothless
The warranties (and i can personally attest for this) do work, and very well, better than most brands name bikes
Now came the shitty part. customs, bureaucracy and rampant stupidity.
Then there's the "haters gonna hate" comments and looks. I have stopped talking bikes on every ride just because of the plain stupidity and xenophobe Chinese speech. I really lost my calm with idiots because of that, sometimes enough is enough i guess. To ride a Chinese bike you gotta have a pretty tick skin.
I still love to ride out of the box, be different
How about you guys, your experiences?
I have zero complaints, you do really get every euro/dollar you pay back. Great value for money. Possibility to custom build, for me is absolutely a must, i really can't pay for a top end brand bike. And really can't pay big money and get mixes quality parts, like a sid fork and a deore crank or like a friend of mine that bought a merida "full xt"... only not, it had deore and slx
.Custom paint, OMG, how frikin sweet. Is it only me that hate the brands saving the best paint jobs for the top end bikes. Like only the most expensive can have the colour red lol
The money you save on the frame can be put to very good use.
The quality is amazing as long as you don't go to aliexpress and order by lowest price
If you buy from trusted sellers, you get a good product. It is not gonna fail on the 1st ride and leave you toothless
The warranties (and i can personally attest for this) do work, and very well, better than most brands name bikes
Now came the shitty part. customs, bureaucracy and rampant stupidity.
Then there's the "haters gonna hate" comments and looks. I have stopped talking bikes on every ride just because of the plain stupidity and xenophobe Chinese speech. I really lost my calm with idiots because of that, sometimes enough is enough i guess. To ride a Chinese bike you gotta have a pretty tick skin.
I still love to ride out of the box, be different
How about you guys, your experiences?
