Yup, 52-36 crank and an 11-32 cassette since it's a bit hilly around me

Got my frame a few weeks ago but was having soo much fun riding it after i finished the build I got lazy with starting this thread 

Heres the finished product!

55mm carbon wheels
shimano 105 R7020 groupset
Selle Aspide saddle
Supacaz super sticky kush galaxy bar tape
conti tubes and tires

*btw i know the saddle is a tilted a bit up in these pics. i angled it down before riding

My order was shipped by ems from velobuild. He did say he'd have to ship it to beijing and then ems would fly it over from there. Although that was his suggestion when when I asked for quicker shipping. Otherwise he told me it would be on a ship which would take longer. I should mention I ordered the Nov 17th, it was shipped the 19th to beijing and what you can't see in the screenshot, it was received in bejing on the Nov 28th. So compared to my other experiences, this is moving fast and I paid $80 for shipping.

I worked with Amy and then started to talk to vivian, whom i believe is the manager, after speaking with sissypants. although, i never mentioned sissypants to them so as not to ruin his relationship with the company since things were starting to go south for me. Vivian did nothing, was actually a bit rude(although that could have been a translation issue) and was the one who told me to be quiet and wait. she also started to show me other customer info, which i found pretty unprofessional, stating they were all in the same situation as me but didnt care they were mislead originally.

i was quoted 15 days but when they set the lead time it was 35 days. I do admit that was my fault for missing it on the contract in my excitement to get the ball rolling. oh and they had me pay for the order on alibaba when i was talking to them on aliexpress but since ive done a bit of business there already, i did not mind. when trying to get my money back through alibaba, they provided another fake tracking number, this time UPS but when checking the tracking number they have no package which was also confirmed when contacting ups. alibaba has marked the package as dispatched and their dispute mediation team settled in favor of the seller since they provided a tracking number on time and said i should wait for it to update. that was about 3 weeks ago and ive never seen a tracking number from UPS take this long to update.  i ordered on sept 7th, and now almost 3months later still no product or even a working tracking number.

still i have read other people having better luck with tantan, although nothing as of late, and i do wish you the best. hopefully this was a one off case but still enough of a horror story that i felt i need to share with others considering purchasing from them.

Edit: removed tracking number I had in the post.

Hi ,

Yea I spoke to sissypants and they were helpful in their answer to my message but unfortunately there was not much they could do to help otherwise. That was the reason I originally joined this forum.

Originally I had purchased the tt-X3 when it was in stock. I reached out to them to make sure instead of just ordering on aliexpress because I wanted to make sure they still had my size available. First they had it and would ship soon . Then they told me they just had to build the fork. Then it was being painted. This lasted a month and a half until they finally told me the truth and said they had no frame to send me. Per their own recommendation, I paid the difference on the only other frame they supposedly had in stock, fm-659. Got another fake tracking number for this one when lead time was up. I asked them about it and got blocked on alibaba until I opened a dispute but even then they just unblocked me to tell me to "be quiet and wait". The whole time I just kept asking for an honest answer. If they would have said they needed more time then that would have been fine. Instead, they lied to and mislead me every step of the way.

They were really responsive up until lead time was up and they provided a fake tracking number, EV940554444CN. It still doesn't show anything. In any case, I hope you have a better experience with them.

I was a bit worried when you mentioned that it takes 140mm rotors in the rear because I had purchased mine already. so I decided to ask Chris and he confirmed that 160mm rotors with work with both the frame and fork. Phew

I'm still waiting for my frame but I've been researching frames with fully internal cable routing since early Sept. After much trial and tribulation with purchases from a couple different sellers over the past couple months, I purchased the velobuid r-099 you actually posted above about a week ago.  Chris from velobuild has been super helpful and really great to work with.

From all my research I can tell you I'd go with dengfu or velobuild. I've read a majority of positive reviews for both. There are of course a few outlier reviews but it seems that those problems were outside of the warranty period or they did all they could to fix the issues that came up.
Hope that helps!