QILEFU - Safe or avoid?

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Alright, frame is here, time for a short update. FEIA handed the package over to UPS somewhere in Europe, who made the final delivery. I was not asked to pay VAT. I was told by a friend that when he had 150+€ packages delivered by GLS and DHL that he would get a bill for VAT and import services in the mail separately, so I still have ~100€ ready on the side just in case.

Here are a few pictures: https://imgur.com/a/Kmq4cl5 I'll add to this that internally routed one piece handlebars are a thing from hell and I hope I don't have to do this again in this lifetime, as once will be challenging enough. Plus I have no clue at all how to route the front derailleur cable from the BB area up through the little hole in the frame.

If anyone would like any more details, closeup shots, boroscope pictures, measurements etc. now is the time! I'll document as much as comes to mind.

Weights for the JH034 Cinarello come in at:
•   Frame, size 53, TA and DH included: 1105 g
•   Seatpost: 214 g
•   Handlebar, 400x110: 344 g
•   Fork, uncut, TA included: 522 g (I expect to shave off ~9 cm off the top)
Total mass of carbon, for those counting: 2185 g. This will drop by a few grams when the fork is cut, then rise rapidly as other components are added. I'm not a weight weenie so I didn't bother measuring the small parts (fork crown, top compression ring, top cap, spacers, headset bearings, individual TAs, DH, handlebar and seatpost wedges and bolts), but can do so on request.

I'd have mostly finished by now if I wasn't missing a bottom bracket, saddle, a steerer cutter and all the correct bolts for R7100 calipers.^a Store is open today (it's 7 a.m. on a rainy Monday) so hopefully I have the thing assembled by the end of the week. I don't have any cable damping foam, either, and am now debating with myself whether I should order a roll. Anyway, I'll let you all know how this progresses.

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^a: Not yet 100% sure what size disks go on here. I've never worked with a disk frame before. Judging by my Tarmac (so new I haven't even had the opportunity to work on it!) it'll be 160 front, 140 rear. It's the disks I have, anyway. I ordered Shimano's special bolts, 2x type A, 1x C 38 mm, 1x C2 34 mm. The frame is approximately 25 mm thick in the back where the rear caliper mounts. They all seem like normal M5 bolts, except type C, which is extended to allow a safety clip to hold it in case it works itself loose. I can't find the size of the type A bolt documented anywhere online, my local hardware store is out of stock on M5 bolts longer than 20 mm, and anyway I don't have a grinder to shorten them even if I could buy them (doubt any hardware store sells exact length bolts like 33 and 38 mm).