As i am finally getting towards assembly, I noticed that there is a plugged hole on the downtube and I am not sure what the purpose is.
Doesn't seem like a great spot to be missing some carbon, any structural worries necessary?

There’s a discussion a couple pages back in this thread about this. A user reported their frame cracked there. LC responded saying it was caused by thinning of the material during sanding for paint. It’s not an ideal spot to put a hole since the surface is largely under tension from pedaling and holes aren’t as strong under tension as they are compression. The hole for FD mech is “new” looks like it wasn’t on older bikes so only a matter of time to see if other failures occur. That said other manufacturers put a hole there with no issues, it’s just the LC one being in a complex area so only time will tell. The frames are now UCI certified so I hope they did fatigue on the design with that hole for homologation. 

Waiting in my frame, so I hope this is not an engineering mistake and it was just a manufacturing error on that one frame.

If you guys spent some money on a western marketing firm to help you come up with a better name your DTC sales would be incredible. TAGOOLA. Sounds like a fake name from a fake company. Literally just spin a map of Europe and wherever you finger lands find the closest famous climb and name it that. Call it Covadonga, Podori or Finestri or name it after a Chinese mountain like Emei or Tai

Huh this is weird the LightCarbon website doesn’t show a hole below the FD on the side of the frame only the back but on other people’s frame shots it’s clearly there

Not a fan of the bussy. I wonder if this comes to western markets I imagine it will be more expensive than the current Falath and that’s getting into winspace C5 aero territory which I can’t see it competing well against.

I really wanted to go Elves on my build but the Falath Evo seemed like a weak evelution against the Falath Pro. They just seem a couple years behind at the moment.

Looks like a great bike. Honestly think it will sell better than the t1550. To me it’s more attractive as it’s more aero, and a couple hundred cheaper. But ride could be rough. If it’s more refined than the 1550 than it’s really attractive.

Ended up pulling the trigger. It was between this and the Speeder SC-R55D. Really tough choice since the Speeder seems to be the same as the Tavelo Arow. While the LCR017D had more reviewed here and Hambini. One of the deciding factors for me was the T47 Bottom bracket since I run a 30mm crank and didn’t want to buy a new crankset that fit my Magene (3 bolt SRAM). Also the Lightcarbon team was fast and mocked up my custom paint quickly.

Looking for delivery late March/early April. Will be building as a road race bike with 55mm wheels (also from LightCarbon)

Still deciding if I want to go SRAM 1X or Shimano 105 mechanical. (Or go wheel top and be able to convert whenever) going to wait for some Chinese new year sales on Aliexpress to see if there’s any deals to be had.

Should be a nice upgrade from my old CAAD10