Chinese SC/AM831 Group Buy

[Verbl Kint]

Interested in a size S (450mm reach) frame. Color not yet decided.

Shipping to Manila, Philippines

[chetosmachine]

@Eddy, any news you can tell? What is a realistic timming?

[kduvey]

I'm keen for one

Size M
Colour #9 matte finish
Shipping to Perth Australia

[brisneylander]

Count me in too please.

Size: M
BSA BB if possible...
Colour: TBD - maybe PMS 021 C
Location: Brisbane, Australia.

[EddScott]

If this group buy is still on, I'd like to add myself to the group.

Size: M
Colour: #9 Matt

I'm in UK

[neongreen]

If anything ever happens with this, yes I'm interested.

Size: S (SC's medium).
Location: Michigan, US
Color: #11 or a custom color

[qranked]

Also keen
Size S
Melbourne, Australia
Color undecided

[BruVe Bikes]

Good day.....Im interested.

Size: M
Color: Not now
Country: Spain

[eminius]

not a word from eddy....

[EddScott]

I messaged Heideli and got a reply from eddy.

Essentially :-

Frame not available now, when it is finished, they'll update online.

So I guess this may still be moving forward?

[Jotegr]

What do we expect really? This kind of stuff can only be a side hassle for all these folks as they're doing contracts for larger companies, which are in turn doing contracts for bike manufacturers. Right now, every bike company is harassing the shit out of these companies to get stuff out faster and faster, and to increase production in ways that aren't necessarily possible given the timeframe. A lot of folks don't really have the inside perspective so here goes: After everything was sold out and the demand was huge for this season, pretty much every brand of bike related product is going in to booking season right now (and many have already been due - by around up to a month ago). Many, many dealers have decided to massively increase their booking orders for everything from bikes, to helmets, to armour, tubes, soft goods, etc. We've heard that booking orders that have come through already eclipse the total annual sales for many of these brands, which doesn't even include any potential re-orders or any dealers that are trying to go the traditional route of a booking/reorder mix. This in turn translates to Trek/Giant/Norco/POC/SMITH/Whoever turning to their manufacturers and asking for more shit to be made.

Way more shit.

And the reality is, how much can these places actually increase production year over year? 5%? 10%? Adding capacity at this type of manufacturing is extremely difficult, especially given the timeframe (bike product has about a 180 day window, manufacturing to sales for most brands) So I'm guessing Eddy and the other folks over at Haideli are waaaaaaayyy too busy trying to keep up with their large client demand to work on their side projects. So it could be a while before we hear more from this. I'm going to be patient, and if it takes so long that this is no longer a 'buy', then that's too bad but it's the way it is at the moment.

Anyway I probably should have posted that in the other thread. Oh well.

[Gigelz]

does someone have an idea about equivalent RAL or PANTONE color codes for the colors on the first page ?

[bbr]

Think this would be a vapour ware.?

[Sitar_Ned]

Who knows. Maybe. Most likely the frame will be built IMO. It does seem clear that you shouldn't join this group buy if you're looking for a frame to get you out on the trails soon. I already have 2 other bikes... if this one comes through in a few months for the price... cool, I'll build it. If not, no big deal.

[RDY]

FWIW I suspect this won't be out this year.  Suspect it took a lot more development work and fine tuning than they anticipated, plus OEM work as alluded to previously is likely off the charts this year.