I recently had a desire to build a mid travel trail bike to offset use of my LCFS947 that’s become a purpose built park bike.

I ordered the frame 6 days ago and it arrived to my door in the US today. Amazing turn around time for LightCarbon.

The frame was packaged nicely, unfortunately that’s where the nice things stopped.
 
I’ll preface this with I know what to expect when it comes to quality control and overall fit and finish when it comes to these frames. My 947 was purchased second hand and was in even better condition than this “new” frame I’ve received.

The biggest most glaring concern is the lower eyelets that mount to the top of the shock body are uneven, and the carbon that encases them is just poorly finished. The bearings inserted into them done seem to align either.

There was a chip in the epoxy where the rear triangle banged into the front, not the biggest issue because it’ll happen on the trail but still a bummer. Which the motion of the triangle feels “springy” like if I push it through it’s range of motion it wants to spring into place almost.

The headtube is best put… janky… it’s sharp around  the inner opening. Seems to be either delaminating or other.


All that said I’m sure LC will handle this the right way as I’ve had good experiences with their customer service so far.

Assuming they don’t want it back I’ll still build it up but my confidence will be greatly diminished.

I’ll updated this post once I have feedback from LC. The parts list I’ve compiled is pretty exciting!