I am planning an open mold carbon frame road bike build and am currently deciding between the LightCarbon LCR006-D, the LightCarbon LCR015-D, and the Dengfu R06.  I have two questions.

1. Does anyone have any experience with these companies and/or frames that could help me make a final decision?

2. The rep from LightCarbon insists that none of their frames can accommodate hydraulic disc brakes and only mechanical disc brakes can be installed.  I am finding this hard to believe and I think there might be an issue with translation here.  I see in this picture, showing the cable routing on the LCR015-D, what appears to be a Shimano 101 hydraulic disc brake being installed on the frame.  Has anyone installed hydraulic disc brakes on either of these frames?

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Can't be true.

No-one is ever going to run mechanical discs on a high end road bikes. Either hydraulic or rim caliper / Vs.

They're only a thing on cheaper MTB and hybrid builds.

Thanks RDY.  This is exactly what I was thinking.  The potential misinformation does raise some concern with LightCarbon on the whole.  From what I can tell they are highly regarded but...

Quote from: Maternicus on May 08, 2020, 10:36:18 AM
Thanks RDY.  This is exactly what I was thinking.  The potential misinformation does raise some concern with LightCarbon on the whole.  From what I can tell they are highly regarded but...

Any updates on the build? thinking of buying the light carbon frame.

I did order the frame and, as I suspected, the hydraulic disc brakes work just fine.  I put the frameset through several inspection points since there is so much talk about quality issues with Chinese carbon and it passed all of them.  The only issue I could find is that the rear tire was very slightly off center by about 1mm but I can likely fix this with some minor modifications to the frame.  I have put about 100 miles on the build thus far and I am very happy with the bike.  I even ran an endoscope down the tubes to get a better look at the quality and it looks like they did a great job on the carbon layout.  I would definitely recommend this company and I love this frame.

Thats the LCR015D right? Looks awesome with that paint!

How much did the frame cost with the paint?

Thanks.  Yes, that is the LCR015D.  I did the paint job myself and admittedly geeked out a bit on the whole process.  All done with rattle cans, water slide decals (laser jet printer) and a 2k gloss finish.  Oh, and gold leaf gilding.     

The frameset was about $500 USD but the shipping cost was about $250 because they had to use DHL.  Before Covid I believe shipping was about $100 but took much longer.

Hey Maternicus,
can you do some detailed photos of the downtube? Especially how slim the downtube is compared to the bottom bracket.
I considered to buy a LCR006-D from LightCarbon cause of the super slim downtube and the low reach compared to stack geometry but they have a MOQ of 50 sets...