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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: December 21, 2020, 05:11:41 PM »
Yeah, I wasn't really expecting it until February. Just, not familiar with the ins and outs of EMS shipping. I thought it was gonna be on a container ship, but the rep said EMS Express flies, just, no space right now.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: December 18, 2020, 11:47:40 AM »
ChinerInDetroit,

Do all their frames ship through Tianjin Mail Processing Center? If so, how long are they typically there before the next leg of shipping? My frame has been stuck there since it left the TanTan factory, going on 3 days now.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: December 16, 2020, 11:18:20 AM »
Apparently, my X-21 shipped today. Got sent a tracking number on Monday that went active this morning. Package arrived at Tianjin Mail Processing Center at 19:36.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Opinions on Elves frames
« on: December 11, 2020, 03:15:52 PM »
They really do embrace their theme.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: December 09, 2020, 09:06:38 AM »
Good luck!

Did she give you a lead time?

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29er / Re: Pulled the Trigger on an FM10 from TanTan
« on: December 06, 2020, 10:13:13 AM »
Looking forward to your updates. I purchased a road bike frame from Lisa about a week ago. This is my first Chinese frame purchase as well, and I can relate to every reservation you've expressed.

Did you contact Lisa directly through their website?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: No EMS Express Shipping Before Spring Festival, Feb 14th?
« on: December 03, 2020, 11:22:18 AM »
Apologies all, not trying to cause more heartache in an already maddening process.

After the news from Hong Fu, I did a quick Google search and did find some confirmation that there have been windows of time, like any other Holiday Season, where shipping has been delayed during the Spring Festival, but nothing like what the Hong Fu rep described, no shipping EMS Express UNTIL Spring Fest is over. Maybe it was just a translation issue, but that's what sent me to other suppliers and to Aliexpress and Alibaba. Nobody else even mentioned any EMS shipping issues at this time.

Really, just curious if anybody else had been told this or, even, had worked with Hong Fu recently.

Thanks!

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / No EMS Express Shipping Before Spring Festival, Feb 14th?
« on: December 02, 2020, 08:49:03 PM »
Hi All,

I contacted Hong Fu to order a frame a couple of weeks ago. Everything looked good until I saw the shipping cost of $286 USD. After exchanging a couple of emails, she explained that they could go with EMS Express for a lot less, but there would be no way to ship the frame using EMS Express before Spring Fest, Feb 14th.

Really. Anybody else hear about this from Hong Fu, or any other company using EMS Express?

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: Advice on new road bike frame! Fully internal cable routing + disc
« on: December 01, 2020, 02:28:26 PM »
Heh, according to the geometry tables, this frame is identical to the TT-X21. The sketch of the table, themselves, look identical.

Let me know if this frame can fit a 28cm tire on a 28mm rim.  ;D

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: December 01, 2020, 01:14:39 PM »
Thank you, again, much appreciated.

Best of luck to you as well. Sounds like you are back in groove with your purchase from Velobuild!

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: December 01, 2020, 11:39:32 AM »
Yikes, sounds eerily familiar. Not sure why they keeping posting that TT-X3 frame for sale when it clearly is not available. I just got another Ebay notice that it was reposted. Specs and price do sound too good to be true. Sounds like a classic bait and switch. Wouldn't be terrible if we would actually get what we paid for.

Who did you work with if you don't mind me asking?

This ride is just starting for me, no pun intended. I didn't plan on actually having anything in hand before February, honestly, based on everything I've read. Website says 7-10 day lead time, rep says within 15 days, then the real fun begins I guess.

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: November 30, 2020, 09:55:14 PM »
Hi Mrpoptart,

Thanks for the input and sorry to hear about your difficulties. Hope you get your situation worked out. I've been lurking in the forum for a couple of weeks. Isn't there somebody who works with Tantan posting here, Sissypants? Any suggestions from him? I even saw a post from them somewhere in this forum.

Which frame did you try to purchase?

Definitely much appreciated, but I pulled the trigger last night. I've looked at a lot of frames and communicated with a few different manufacturers but Tantan was one of the most responsive. I even tried to purchase a TT-X3 from them on Aliexpress, but I cancelled that order after one of their reps told me that the T3 was out of stock and wouldn't be available for 3 months. My money was refunded right away and they recommended a couple of other frames before I gave the X21 a good look. I had a helpful exchange with the rep, changed my order a couple of times after a few questions, really like the geometry and size of the X21, thought it would be a good fit, so here we are.

Guess both of us will be keeping folks updated on Tantan

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Road Bike Frames, Wheels & Components / Re: TanTan TT-X21 frame
« on: November 30, 2020, 03:11:38 PM »
Did you ever purchase the TT-X21? How was your interaction with Tantan?

Thanks!

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