Trifox TL-CFM-S01 full Suss (New American eagle Flow)

cnoble87 · February 06, 2019, 06:39:52 AM

I'm a little out of touch with the chinese open mould scene, had a Hongfu hardtail for many years but then picked up a few Pivot frames through a race team. I'm interested in replacing the Pivot Full suss as its just so heavy, 2650gram with hardware. I race 4, 6, 12, 24hour events mostly, with a few stage races when I can

The Trifox frame came up on aliexpress, and then looks like American eagle have picked it up as their new full suss, review https://www.fiets.nl/2019/01/30/nieuw-gezien-american-eagle-flow/

Anyone have any knowledge about them? the geometry suggest they are very slack? which is good and bad, not just a spark copy?

Ali express link https://tinyurl.com/y8slroyk

numberzero · February 06, 2019, 07:49:42 AM

For me trifox chart is false, you can even see it's not the correct frame design.
I already searched about this frame and this is what i found :
https://www.edge-design.com.tw/Spec-PYTHON%20ONE%2029ER%20BOOST.html

I don't know if there is other sellers but i won't trust trifox which are unable to give the right geometry...

ultreia · June 18, 2019, 08:45:30 AM

But who is the factory of this frame? Edge seems to be another reseller, not a factory.

emu26 · June 19, 2019, 01:16:23 AM

The Seraph is the closest I have seen but it's headtube is slightly different. I am not sure if TAnTan makes them or are just resellers, they seem to have the biggest variety of Seraph frames but strangely enough I can't see this one there.

Seraph on Aliexpress sold as Windowsports
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/29er-boost-148-12-Full-Suspension-Carbon-Mountain-Bike-XC-MTB-Frameset-carbon-suspension-frame-disc/32934655438.html?spm=2114.search0604.3.147.6e88ef39BTYiRn&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2_10065_10068_10130_10547_319_317_10548_10696_453_10084_454_10083_10618_10307_537_536_10131_10132_10133_10882_10059_10884_10887_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_52,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=ad859b3b-bba4-4994-8537-fe41876dc49a-21&algo_pvid=ad859b3b-bba4-4994-8537-fe41876dc49a&transAbTest=ae803_3

Tantan's Seraph pages
http://www.tantancycling.com/index.php?_m=mod_product&_a=prdlist&cap_id=271

Hope that helps.

d36 · June 19, 2019, 05:36:02 AM

I have the winow sports version

I bought the medium and its too big for me so not sure I can give the best ride experience (going to replace it with a 258 in size small soon)

Frame build quality is decent but here are a few comments
Because of the shape of the seat tube its really hard to find a suitable dropper post (virtually zero room for size error)
Also running a mech dropper cable was annoying
You can only run a 180 rotor (it was a not so good surprise as I wanted to use 160)

Dandy · July 23, 2019, 05:44:03 PM

I have one

carbonazza · July 24, 2019, 08:00:15 AM

@Dandy, Wow... nice build !
Do you have the link where you did buy the stem/bar ?

Cerps · November 11, 2019, 08:45:21 PM

Quote from: Dandy on July 23, 2019, 05:44:03 PM
I have one

Did you use a 165x45 trunnion shock? And 29 inch tires?

StopBanMe · November 15, 2019, 01:50:15 PM

Hi. It's me Dandy. I was banned for nothing.

Handlebar was chineese 50$ copy of Syncross Fraser, can be bought in any Chinese online store like aliexpress etc. It was nice and stif but I broke it at home because of too much torque on stem bolt. Now I bought another similar copy of Syncros Hixon handlebar, it is good too.
Yes, I have trunnion fox rear shock 165x45 mm and got 115 mm rear travel. I had to make custom bolts to install it into the frame. I like the frame and gonna rebuild bike with better components soon.
Here are some pictures below.

carbonazza · November 15, 2019, 02:38:08 PM

Your pictures didn't go through.

If you can, try to import them in imgur.com
Then hovering the image, click the 3 dots, then Get share links

Then post a BBCode link here, something like [ img width=800]https://i.imgur.com/xyz.png[/img]
(Removing the space before the first img)

@Sitar_Ned, any reason Dandy was banned ?

emu26 · November 15, 2019, 11:42:47 PM

I can see his pictures but they are huge

Sitar_Ned · November 16, 2019, 05:09:32 PM

Quote from: StopBanMe on November 15, 2019, 01:50:15 PM
Hi. It's me Dandy. I was banned for nothing.

Sorry, if I banned you by mistake. For a while there, I was literally having to go through the forum a couple of times every day and delete spam and ban members(bots), and I probably was going too fast and not paying attention and you got caught up in it. My bad!

carbonazza · November 17, 2019, 01:57:11 PM

Quote from: emu26 on November 15, 2019, 11:42:47 PM
I can see his pictures but they are huge

Interesting... here's what I see:

emu26 · November 17, 2019, 02:05:07 PM

I won't clutter the thread by taking a screen shot but I do see them all.

Try right clicking on the icon and then opening in a new tab

mtbluvr68 · November 18, 2019, 05:36:47 PM

I'm most interested in how you got a trunnion shock to work? Don't trunnion shocks have 10mm hardware and the mounts on these are based around 8mm hardware? you say you made your own hardware? i think this is one of the reason people have shied away from most of the open mold full sus frame that advertise the ability to use a trunnion shock.