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Finally it's here, Banana for scale: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nT3KeXnNwRXrJr938

Just few first impressions:
  • There is a lot of paint on my frame (520) -> 1125gr with front and rear hanger and box cover
  • Rear brake mounting is not completely flush, i would say it's not flatted after the frame come from the mold
  • The paint around the front brake mounting points looks not so great
  • Paint around the storage box edge looks a bit awful (maybe a bit of sanding to clean it would help)
  • Paint around the top of the headtube has also poor finishing edge
  • Have a bit of yellow paint on the underside of the top tube, don't know yet if it's on or under the clear coat
  • The pouch has a good quality, not a 1€ AliX bag, more like 5-10€ :D
  • The BB looks flatted and has nice clean threads
  • Got a second LC Light UDH in the accessories bag for free :D
  • Handlebar looks superb to me (but only had two AliX cheap ones for comperrison so far)
  • The storage box cover is made from aluminium, at least it feels like metal and not plastic

Overall I'm surprised by the quality of the frame, the paint job was a bit difficult due to the two/three layers of paint for the crystal blue effect and the edge to the white parts.
By sides the few edges mentioned above the paint job looks great, no "bad" edges from blue to white on the whole frame/fork.

Will take few pictures from the inside with my 3€-HD-endoscopy-cam the next days.

And i have to figure out how to remove the red color on my tires...

This looks amazing, thank you for sharing! I am currently discussing a very similar design with them (light color with fork painted differently inside etc., some decals). I have to say I'm not very happy with the communication. The color choice seems to be really difficult, as I do not want a straight up white but a very light grey. Can anybody explain to me how their color choice works? Are they limited to the exact colors in the YS catalogue? Can they mix colors? First they showed me catalogue of hundreds of Pantone shades to choose from only to tell me that a simple light grey is impossible. Can you comment on how your process of choosing the colors went? I'm just trying to understand at this point or go for the raw carbon to avoid this whole mess.

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