BROSS Vagabond Aero 6S

[adamk33]

Hi, my BROSS Vagabond Aero 6S finally arrived today after a long overseas voyage. I haven't tested it yet—I've just put it together. So far, everything looks solid.

[Ludo]

clean looking bike!

[Tpower59]

What a name
I prefer « Iphone 18s pro max plus fold »

[Serge_K]

Neat! Sounds like you ordered a complete bike? Where do you live? How did that go? How did it work?

[adamk33]

Yes i bought it as complete bike. I am from Czech Republic (EU) and it was a bit of pain to get it here in terms of shipping time. As the EU apply antidumping custom fees for complete bikes the bike was sent by sea Freight and the whole process to my door took almost 55 days. I bought it directly from Bross, paid by card online. The most painfull was the waiting once the oversea wharehouse passed the package to local German DHL, this simple process took more than 14 days.

[Serge_K]

Yes i bought it as complete bike. I am from Czech Republic (EU) and it was a bit of pain to get it here in terms of shipping time. As the EU apply antidumping custom fees for complete bikes the bike was sent by sea Freight and the whole process to my door took almost 55 days. I bought it directly from Bross, paid by card online. The most painfull was the waiting once the oversea wharehouse passed the package to local German DHL, this simple process took more than 14 days.

Very interesting. i think you're one of the first, if not the first, on this forum, to do that, at least to the EU. i see that you can order it from https://brossbikeseu.com/product/vagabond-aero-6i/, and that shipping is $500 to CZ & other civilised EU countries, $1000 to ghetto ones. Virtually zero info on the website around DDP / customs risks, shipping times, methods and so on. Also no indication that you can customize the bike in any way. Given how much the EU is tariffsmaxxing this year, it's interesting to see you can get a fully built chinese bike for a shipping fee of $500 that includes all tariffs. Imagine a service like a budget friendly of pandapodium, where you can spec your bike using OEM parts, you pay $500, and bim, you receive your bike, built. I could vibe code a mock shopping website in one day with broken product links. Very interesting. For very little extra effort you could include shoes, clothing, bike computers, pedals, lights, tools. Everything is made over there, so might as well stuff the box. Add one day of vibe coding and you could have a decision tree that covers most riders to pair them with equipment they need / suits them.
And then the EU would kill your business

[Dan S.]

... i see that you can order it from https://brossbikeseu.com/product/vagabond-aero-6i/ ...

Quite interesting price policy - frame alone for 1259 USD, whole bike with 105 Di2 and carbon wheels for 2199 USD.

[adamk33]

Very interesting. i think you're one of the first, if not the first, on this forum, to do that, at least to the EU. i see that you can order it from https://brossbikeseu.com/product/vagabond-aero-6i/, and that shipping is $500 to CZ & other civilised EU countries, $1000 to ghetto ones. Virtually zero info on the website around DDP / customs risks, shipping times, methods and so on. Also no indication that you can customize the bike in any way. Given how much the EU is tariffsmaxxing this year, it's interesting to see you can get a fully built chinese bike for a shipping fee of $500 that includes all tariffs. Imagine a service like a budget friendly of pandapodium, where you can spec your bike using OEM parts, you pay $500, and bim, you receive your bike, built. I could vibe code a mock shopping website in one day with broken product links. Very interesting. For very little extra effort you could include shoes, clothing, bike computers, pedals, lights, tools. Everything is made over there, so might as well stuff the box. Add one day of vibe coding and you could have a decision tree that covers most riders to pair them with equipment they need / suits them.
And then the EU would kill your business

Actually, shipping cost me 400 USD. The final purchase was made after negotiating through the official contact on their website via WhatsApp; I received an invoice by email with a link to pay by credit card. After we agreed on the price, the entire bike cost me 3,090 USD. And yes, the shipping cost included DDP.

[dmt4500]

What's the total weight? This is really attractive pricing for a complete bike, and the paint jobs are really good looking. I can't see why anything would by something like a Sava when this exists.