Considering Winspace SLC3, any thoughts?

[Takiyaki]

Also Joe from China Cycling/Panda Podium has left the building, so marketing wise they are not up there anymore...

What do you mean?

[patliean1]

What do you mean?

Joe was Winspace's primary marketing force during the pandemic. Basically the face of Winspace when he worked there.

[Dareios]

I have about 4k km on mine and it is an all round great bike. I don't know what I would want more out of a roadbike.
I did the built myself and let me tell you, the build quality is top notch, nothing to complain about. E.g.cable routing through the fork was a breeze and the BB shell I right on the money. I did not want to faff around with shitty tolerances, so the slightly higher price did not bother me at all, mind you, I got it on the black friday deal.

Looks good, what size do you ride?

[KaiDeus]

Looks good, what size do you ride?

I ride a size medium (500), 105mm stem, 380mm bars. The frame geo fits me very well, but I also had a bike fit prior to purchase to get everything dialed. 174cm, 82cm inseam.

[Dareios]

I ride a size medium (500), 105mm stem, 380mm bars. The frame geo fits me very well, but I also had a bike fit prior to purchase to get everything dialed. 174cm, 82cm inseam.

Nice. I'm 183cm tall with an 88cm inseam, so i fear that size L might be a bit too low/too much of a seatpost to handlebar drop for me.

[Rone69]

For some time now, I've been gathering information from owners of the SLC3.
More or less all of them agree that it is a good granfondo frame with a predilection for climbing and race geometry.
Most of them also feel that comparing it with the SL8 or other similar frames is rather risky.
It is worrying that some well-known YouTubers have received defective forks and that the after-sales service is not the best.