Author Topic: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831  (Read 111731 times)

gido

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #300 on: September 22, 2020, 04:06:24 PM »
Think its coming into reality.
I went ahead without the group buy.
Paid and now waiting.
It seems small is in production and there are units which is recently tested and done.
Jpg are too large to attach here


Where did you order?

BoomerE36

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #301 on: September 22, 2020, 05:18:13 PM »
« Last Edit: September 22, 2020, 05:24:45 PM by BoomerE36 »

zilcho

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #302 on: September 22, 2020, 07:29:27 PM »
Could this be it?

http://www.winowsports.com/product/dual-suspension-150mm-travel-AM-Frame.html


Also, another German forum post that goes into detail of the frame

https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/china-rahmen-erfahrungen.807207/page-97

Yes, Winowsports is acknowledged earlier in this thread or the group buy thread as another seller of the same frame

bbr

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #303 on: September 23, 2020, 10:59:19 AM »
Will respond back..waiting to ship. No paint and it aint winow.

Jotegr

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #304 on: September 23, 2020, 11:06:27 AM »
Is is cleared over raw carbon or are you going to paint it yourself?

bbr

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #305 on: September 23, 2020, 09:53:35 PM »
Stealth. I aint gonna say much untill i get the my hands on it. So it could be 2 weeks or so to be in my door.
Gonna give 27.5 or mullet a go.
Actually there is a number of frame out there like FS830 aka dwlink "ripmo clone" but  there is no size S for me.
« Last Edit: September 24, 2020, 10:29:47 PM by bbr »

bbr

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #306 on: October 14, 2020, 12:46:05 AM »
Got the frame. Well built.

Clean inner moulding. Eps or whatever it may be called.
No photos yet, dont like the small size photo uploads here.

* dont really care if you wanna say " picture or it didnt happen"

I dont have a time line for this build and there is a need to slowly get the parts, but let me tell you its real and its well built. (not too refined) but there is workarounds, so its a good frame.

First off on its issues.
1st
 
Shock mount sizing. Very odd sizing.
Uses 30mm on frame side and 22.2 on the linkage side.
In reality its actual spacibg is 33 or 34mm on frame side and 22.3 on linkage side. So some spacers for the shock to mount is required.

Unlike the HT v2 2020 which uses 30mm at the linkage side.

Uses metric 210x55 or 52.5

 2nd

Linkage shock mount bolt is hard to get in, it seems blocked by the rear swing arm. Have not figure a way to slide it in yet with dissemble the rear swing.
 
 3rd ( *)
Dropper housing goes from down tube to seat tube  (not an issue to me)

Notes:

Low/low compreesion tune for shock. Heavier rider needs  medium tunes





« Last Edit: October 14, 2020, 03:03:07 AM by bbr »

jham

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #307 on: October 14, 2020, 01:18:27 AM »
pics?

scourge

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #308 on: October 14, 2020, 10:33:45 AM »
Don't think anyone wants to bully you into pics, but man we'd love to see some.

Can't wait to hear ride impressions when you get it built up.

scourge

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #309 on: October 14, 2020, 02:10:12 PM »
Did your frame come with a flip chip?

Sitar_Ned

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #310 on: October 14, 2020, 02:19:40 PM »

No photos yet, dont like the small size photo uploads here.


The forum software sets a default limitation that I've raised a couple of times now. I don't mind raising it again, no problem. Wasn't aware of it still being an issue.
« Last Edit: October 14, 2020, 10:29:28 PM by Sitar_Ned »

Sitar_Ned

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #311 on: October 14, 2020, 02:29:41 PM »
Ok, I just raised it again. Hopefully, that works for you. Feel free to DM me anytime.

bbr

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #312 on: October 14, 2020, 09:58:18 PM »
831 https://imgur.com/gallery/wpzdgP2

Size limit still too small. Every phone out there now has high resolutiin lense. 1mb wont cut it.

See the link above.

Edited:

Bearing was suspected to be pressed in too much. Hence pitted. Will get replacements.
« Last Edit: October 15, 2020, 08:24:35 AM by bbr »

bbr

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #313 on: October 14, 2020, 10:05:52 PM »
No flipclip.
 Think max tyre is 2.4

scourge

Re: Chinese Santa Cruz/AM831
« Reply #314 on: October 15, 2020, 07:49:35 AM »
Thank you for the pictures! Please keep them coming as you continue the build.