I've been riding chinese unbranded carbon for 4 years now. A Axman frame 26er. And now a 256SL for a year and a 1/2. Besides the frame i have/had, seatposts, handlebar, water bottle cages, and assorted bits and pieces 

I have zero complaints, you do really get every euro/dollar you pay back. Great value for money. Possibility to custom build, for me is absolutely a must, i really can't pay for a top end brand bike. And really can't pay big money and get mixes quality parts, like a sid fork and a deore crank or like a friend of mine that bought a merida "full xt"... only not, it had deore and slx  .
Custom paint, OMG, how frikin sweet. Is it only me that hate the brands saving the best paint jobs for the top end bikes. Like only the most expensive can have the colour red lol
The money you save on the frame can be put to very good use.

The quality is amazing as long as you don't go to aliexpress and order by lowest price 
If you buy from trusted sellers, you get a good product. It is not gonna fail on the 1st ride and leave you toothless   
The warranties (and i can personally attest for this) do work, and very well, better than most brands name bikes

Now came the shitty part. customs, bureaucracy and rampant stupidity. 
Then there's the "haters gonna hate" comments and looks. I have stopped talking bikes on every ride just because of the plain stupidity and xenophobe Chinese speech. I really lost my calm with idiots because of that, sometimes enough is enough i guess. To ride a Chinese bike you gotta have a pretty tick skin.

I still love to ride out of the box, be different 

How about you guys, your experiences?

i didn't pay for the frame. 

if you do buy it, let as now 

I'm selling my 256SL frame from Xmiplay. 15 months old. Purchased new, one owner. It has a problem on the wishbone as you can see by the photos below. There is an apparent crack all around the wishbone, in some places below the finishing and others above it. It is repairable as I'm told.

BB: BB30
Size: 17.5
Colour: Black matte no graphics
Price: sold to the best offer (realist offers off course)
Extras: protected with helicopter tape. Besides the obvious, only very little scratches from normal use, barely visible. Delivered with seatclamp and dropout from Xmiplay.
Location: Portugal, EU (no customs problem for people in EU)
Weight: 1kg





http://s8.postimg.org/wnzqgwdyt/G0180209.jpg

A recent photo.

i would say go to canyon website to have a price point (something you like) and the compare with the options: all assembled from china or buy yourself the parts and either assemble yourself or with the help from a LBS.

i don't know about UK, but in my country you have to take into account the customs "fee" 

thx Carbon_Dude, Bert from xmiplay is looking into it. Unfortunately i share your concern  I was thinking of asking for a different model in replacement, but my customs are idiots, or i receive exactly the same model, and they want to take pictures, or i have to pay customs all over again.

Molothi, i think we should always take a look at the bike top to bottom from time to time. That's how i noticed it 

yes, i've seen this a couple of times now