What's happened to Deng Fu? They used to be by far the biggest sellers of value Chinese road framesets to the West. Now their product line seems very out-dated and I never hear anyone express interest in them. Concentrating on MTBs and e-bikes?
i think if you dont hear about dengfu much that's a good thing. Ive only seen two posts where people complain about dengfu, one was poor brake alignment on the r12, which i have the same exact bike and i havent encountered any issues, got roughly 2k miles on it, and i did crash it at 35 mph. i also have an fm098 v2, first one had the slippy seatpost. a person broke their r02 but that was also a rare occurence.
i see the carbon layup around the headtube area and im extremely impressed by the layup, next to no flaws visually.
dengfu/hongfu/winspace are like the places to go for guaranteed stuff. if you dont hear about them it means their frames are good. when they were painting my r12 i had to wait basically two months because they had 500+ frames in the line for being painted, so they may have been doing a big project for a brand name or people just mass bought.
my crash i only broke the seatpost and they replaced it, and this leads me to believe that if its survived two falls at 1-2 mph, and a crash at 35 mph, i could throw it off a roof and it'd laugh at the ground.
