Frame is finally at home.

This is a medium size, normal version with matte finish.
I checked an approximate 2kg as claimed in description.

First impressions :
The matte finish is really minimalist, you can see sometimes the carbon sheet trough the varnish.
Overall quality is really good, better than the pictures on website, even the inside of the frame is excellent, a step further from my LCFS902.

Some screw are torx, better to know.
All the cables are internal, there are no guides inside so you can put them as you want. Thus for the rear derailleur you must use full lenght housing. No need to mention this is single chainring only.

Compared to my bike, when you move the suspension without shock you can really feel the rebond from the pivotless rear triangle, something to think about when tuning the shock.
Shock mount is trunnion and 22,2mm upper side.

Dealing with Wing, it's not a problem of communication or reliability, i think you can trust them, they seems professional and honest sellers.

It's the global process slow. For example my frame was done july 1st and was only sent july 8th. It's 1 week lost, and now the problem with the post delays me 2 or 3 weeks more.
Not to mention first contact around april 15, they said me 1 month delay... Why advertising for a frame you need in fact 4 months to deliver.


So yes to potential buyers, be really patient. Moreover i think the factory will probably have to build the frames for stevens bike, ns bikes in priority.

These failures are more or less predictable.
The suspension cannot work if something doesn't flex, when you see the section of the rear triangle you don't imagine this thing to flex a lot so i think there's a lot of stress going in the bearings and in the front triangle.
Moreover in france we have the brand Sunn which had many problems of cracks on their shamann with similar split seat tube design and shock position...

There are a lot of people going with carbonda frames. They currently have 2 models, you can find a huge thread on carbonda frames on ridinggravel.com forum.

But there are so much different ways to do gravel it's hard to give advice.
For instance : do you want a sporty bike (long stem, low stack) or a relaxed bike? do you want to go 650b or stick to 700 with skinny tires? do you need to put luggage for long days on bike? ...

I just received from them a pair of novatec/pillar bladed spokes/A29C25D22(standard version).
I think build quality is good, nothing went wrong after first ride.
Price is pretty good, communication too.

About the rim A29C25D22, they do the job i was expecting. Compared to crest mk3, they have approximately the same weight so acceleration is similar but they seem more responsive when you put high power. Ride is a bit more rigid and precise but my fear of having something to harsh is away nevertheless you can't rely too much on front wheel flex to save you from wrong line choice like you do with aluminium rim.

It depends how you want the bike to handle, how you like to ride. I found a huge thread on MTBR talking about fork offset, very interesting to read.

I'm used to ride my XC bike (69 HTA) with an old rockshox with 46mm offset, when i tested a bike with 51 offset and same HTA, i found more or less what is said on MTBR. I prefer my 46 offset

This frame have a really radical geometry compared to what generic frames offer from now

I've got a little intel to share, but I'd love to hear what others have heard from agents I may not interact with as much.

Do you think we can see a trail 29er, something like 100-120mm travel, with a real long reach and slack HTA (typically intense sniper inspired), coming before the summer?