Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831

[gido]

Think its coming into reality.
I went ahead without the group buy.
Paid and now waiting.
It seems small is in production and there are units which is recently tested and done.
Jpg are too large to attach here

Where did you order?

[BoomerE36]

Could this be it?

http://www.winowsports.com/product/dual-suspension-150mm-travel-AM-Frame.html


Also, another German forum post that goes into detail of the frame

https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/china-rahmen-erfahrungen.807207/page-97

[zilcho]

Could this be it?

http://www.winowsports.com/product/dual-suspension-150mm-travel-AM-Frame.html


Also, another German forum post that goes into detail of the frame

https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/china-rahmen-erfahrungen.807207/page-97

Yes, Winowsports is acknowledged earlier in this thread or the group buy thread as another seller of the same frame

[bbr]

Will respond back..waiting to ship. No paint and it aint winow.

[Jotegr]

Is is cleared over raw carbon or are you going to paint it yourself?

[bbr]

Stealth. I aint gonna say much untill i get the my hands on it. So it could be 2 weeks or so to be in my door.
Gonna give 27.5 or mullet a go.
Actually there is a number of frame out there like FS830 aka dwlink "ripmo clone" but  there is no size S for me.

[bbr]

Got the frame. Well built.

Clean inner moulding. Eps or whatever it may be called.
No photos yet, dont like the small size photo uploads here.

* dont really care if you wanna say " picture or it didnt happen"

I dont have a time line for this build and there is a need to slowly get the parts, but let me tell you its real and its well built. (not too refined) but there is workarounds, so its a good frame.

First off on its issues.
1st

Shock mount sizing. Very odd sizing.
Uses 30mm on frame side and 22.2 on the linkage side.
In reality its actual spacibg is 33 or 34mm on frame side and 22.3 on linkage side. So some spacers for the shock to mount is required.

Unlike the HT v2 2020 which uses 30mm at the linkage side.

Uses metric 210x55 or 52.5

2nd

Linkage shock mount bolt is hard to get in, it seems blocked by the rear swing arm. Have not figure a way to slide it in yet with dissemble the rear swing.

3rd ( *)
Dropper housing goes from down tube to seat tube  (not an issue to me)

Notes:

Low/low compreesion tune for shock. Heavier rider needs  medium tunes

[jham]

pics?

[scourge]

Don't think anyone wants to bully you into pics, but man we'd love to see some.

Can't wait to hear ride impressions when you get it built up.

[scourge]

Did your frame come with a flip chip?

[Sitar_Ned]

No photos yet, dont like the small size photo uploads here.

The forum software sets a default limitation that I've raised a couple of times now. I don't mind raising it again, no problem. Wasn't aware of it still being an issue.

[Sitar_Ned]

Ok, I just raised it again. Hopefully, that works for you. Feel free to DM me anytime.

[bbr]

831 https://imgur.com/gallery/wpzdgP2

Size limit still too small. Every phone out there now has high resolutiin lense. 1mb wont cut it.

See the link above.

Edited:

Bearing was suspected to be pressed in too much. Hence pitted. Will get replacements.

[bbr]

No flipclip.
Think max tyre is 2.4

[scourge]

Thank you for the pictures! Please keep them coming as you continue the build.