Well, It's a pretty long standing tradition in the MTB world that we all love to post and look at bike pics, but you don't really see too many videos. Now that we all have video recorders in our pockets.. it'd be cool to see that change.

You don't even have to really talk in the video, it's just cooler to see the a sweet bike in a vid than a pic imo. Maybe it's just me, who knows.

Anyways, I thought I'd start the thread. I gathered two already posted on this forum (hope you guys don't mind) and found a couple more on YT and will post a vid of mine when it's built and worthy. So take a quick clip of your chiner and post it up!

What bottom brackets are y'all using with your respective cranks?

Just get the BB30 frame and use the beer components EBB http://beercomponents.com/?page_id=588

That's what I was going to before deciding to go witha 1x10 set-up. I've read lots of good things about the beer components and have seen a few guys use it successfully on a chiner frame.

As far as the hubs I was going to go with good old Hope Pro 2 Evo SS.

Where are you at in the build? Planning stage? Wishing stage? Almost finished stage?

We will still have IP-057 frame available all the time in future

Well, there you have it folks. The 057 will  be around for quite a while it sounds like.

Man, that is an absolute top of the line, pretty much perfect build there. Well worth the asking price, imo.

Pics? Mind if I ask why you're selling it? When the build was finished? Approximately how many miles?

merlincycles is def a good place to get a set of XTs.

Have you ever had XTR brakes before, brmeyer? Just curious what makes them worth the extra cash? Is it just the saved weight or do you get a different feel/modulation from them. Would LOVE to have some for the bling factor alone but unfortunately I have to be a bit more utilitarian in my choices.

Hi everyone! Here is my 106:

Very nice set-up? If I may ask what you did with the carbon rigid fork?

May be we can give Honsen the benefit of the doubt.
Until we see what kind of frame I get.
So far, everything looks to go well.
Ok, the moment of truth will come after my first big jump, ending on a sharp corner.

T1000 and T800 is just the stiffness of the carbon fiber.
The fiber/resin fraction, and how the sheets are layered in the various parts of the frames are more important.

My choice may look odd today. But end of May, I was turned off by Peter when he told me there was nobody building wheels with Lefty's hubs in... China.
This didn't give me a trusty image as I just saw a couple of hours later that light-bicycle was building them.

Then from the posts on mtbr at that time, the leading time for the IP-256 was quite worrying.
They did not even reply to the people who ordered them anymore.
So I tried Honsen as Leo was responsive and very competent too.

Your choice doesn't look odd at all. Especially concerning the wheels. The fact that Light-Bicycle can provide the hubs you want without having to ship them to them is a huge bonus.

As for the frame, I too remember when lead times were either too long or really just unknown. I suspect Iplay was encountering some serious growing pains at the time, and I'm sure they learned a thing or two bc of it. If I was them I would just post in the vendor section of chinertown and keep everyone updated all at once. Make a thread called IP-256 status and updates or something like that.

Doesn't really matter who produces the frames, that's the whole point of buying direct. All we care about is price, quality, and customer service. Quality is the same. Price is the same. All that was left was customer service.. and all things considered. Your choice makes sense to me. It is a bit of a turn off for me if Honsen is advertising T1000 and it's only T800, just as it was a turn off to you when you felt mislead.

And yeah, those wheels are bad ass.

Interesting post, Inertia. Not sure how much I can add to the conversation but I looked it up and 28 DT Swiss Champion spokes (which are commonly used) would weigh 192.5 grams, or 0.42 pounds.

As for carbon failure rates.. Pretty difficult to say really. I will say that most of the carbon failures seem to be smaller pieces like the bars attached to many carbon saddles. Not sure it works well for the smaller bits like that. That said, I am no expert and have seen no definitive proof either way.