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Chinese Carbon Road Bikes => Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components => Topic started by: Maternicus on May 07, 2020, 10:16:39 AM
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I am planning an open mold carbon frame road bike build and am currently deciding between the LightCarbon LCR006-D (https://www.lightcarbon.com/lightcarbon-700c-aero-disc-brake-road-frameset_p35.html), the LightCarbon LCR015-D (https://www.lightcarbon.com/lightcarbon-new-aero-carbon-road-disc-brake-frame_p14.html), and the Dengfu R06 (https://www.dengfubike.com/collections/carbon-bike-frame/products/r06-disc-frame). I have two questions.
1. Does anyone have any experience with these companies and/or frames that could help me make a final decision?
2. The rep from LightCarbon insists that none of their frames can accommodate hydraulic disc brakes and only mechanical disc brakes can be installed. I am finding this hard to believe and I think there might be an issue with translation here. I see in this picture (https://www.lightcarbon.com/js/htmledit/kindeditor/attached/20190930/20190930165019_23496.jpg), showing the cable routing on the LCR015-D, what appears to be a Shimano 101 hydraulic disc brake being installed on the frame. Has anyone installed hydraulic disc brakes on either of these frames?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
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Can't be true.
No-one is ever going to run mechanical discs on a high end road bikes. Either hydraulic or rim caliper / Vs.
They're only a thing on cheaper MTB and hybrid builds.
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Thanks RDY. This is exactly what I was thinking. The potential misinformation does raise some concern with LightCarbon on the whole. From what I can tell they are highly regarded but...
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Thanks RDY. This is exactly what I was thinking. The potential misinformation does raise some concern with LightCarbon on the whole. From what I can tell they are highly regarded but...
Any updates on the build? thinking of buying the light carbon frame.
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I did order the frame and, as I suspected, the hydraulic disc brakes work just fine. I put the frameset through several inspection points since there is so much talk about quality issues with Chinese carbon and it passed all of them. The only issue I could find is that the rear tire was very slightly off center by about 1mm but I can likely fix this with some minor modifications to the frame. I have put about 100 miles on the build thus far and I am very happy with the bike. I even ran an endoscope down the tubes to get a better look at the quality and it looks like they did a great job on the carbon layout. I would definitely recommend this company and I love this frame.
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Thats the LCR015D right? Looks awesome with that paint!
How much did the frame cost with the paint?
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Thanks. Yes, that is the LCR015D. I did the paint job myself and admittedly geeked out a bit on the whole process. All done with rattle cans, water slide decals (laser jet printer) and a 2k gloss finish. Oh, and gold leaf gilding.
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The frameset was about $500 USD but the shipping cost was about $250 because they had to use DHL. Before Covid I believe shipping was about $100 but took much longer.
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Hey Maternicus,
can you do some detailed photos of the downtube? Especially how slim the downtube is compared to the bottom bracket.
I considered to buy a LCR006-D from LightCarbon cause of the super slim downtube and the low reach compared to stack geometry but they have a MOQ of 50 sets...