Its hard to get any cheaper than that. Its normally a pretty fast courier like a week to your door. Iys worth it.

If you know your fit i.e. your preferred geo with stack, reach, STA, HTA, etc - your frame manufacturer can draw the frame for you. You can change and adjust until you approve the drawings. You’d be surprised the drawings is much more detailed than you can see from US or european builders.

icebikehaven is Malaysian company. I can vouch for them as I'm Malaysian myself. i think i bought a Shimano mtb pedal, about less than a year ago.

normally i would buy from icebikehaven via Shopee or Lazada (similar to Amazon in the US). I didnt realise they ship international.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

So i bought thru axle from ZTTO. Tips on on this TA (also most of the TAs) is to make sure you slot the allen key fully on the axle before putting any effort to tighten or loosen. The surface of the allen slot on the TA is quite soft aluminium eventho its a 7075 aluminium.

They have been pretty responsive for me. Once deposit paid and geo is confirmed, I only emailed them 1week prior to original delivery date just to ask for some update (more like to remind them that delivery date is coming soon so pls start building now lol). The guy i work with reply within the day and every subsequent email after that was always replied the same day as well.

What email address did you send to?

The frame is still in the process of fabrication but i just got this from Aliexpress after almost a month of wait. Im very pleased with the quality so im posting it here!