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Looks bent to me, yet their advert states 'Pre-loved second hand F5 Pista Custom up for grabs here! Size 52cm, has been stripped / cleaned / rebuilt and is ready to roll. Tight set of riser bars with a front brake, this bike handles great and is a steal at 3,500CNY'
Rebuilt, and yet not noticed the bendy fork? Especially considering its their own frame/fork that they are selling on again used.
Visited China twice on work, both times dropped by their shop, they are like BLB but worse attitude + price wise, most expensive 'fixie' parts I've ever seen, mostly about 15-20% over Euro RRP, though thats poss just a China thing.
Shit shops piss me right off. Yesterday saved a new mate from death; she'd bought a town bike from a well known bike recycling charity (who get all the good stuff donated to them), to find, yes, its had new brake pads + cables, but all fitted terribly, front brake jams on thanks to shitty cable work, gears do not work thanks to cable bands all being barely finger tight, rear brake so far out of adjustment it doesn't even contact the rim, both brake levers + gear lever slide around the bars.
Then the more serious, front wheel just over finger tight, rear wheel bearings about to implode, BB bearings about to implode, and stem bolt not even finger tight. Bike in that condition is a death trap, and yet its come from a 'highly reputable mechanics shop' that charged top buck and then about a 50% tax for it being 'restored' by said highly reputable mechanic.
Reminds me why I don't want anything to do with the bike industry again, so many useless, over hyped, assholes!
/internet rant over.
China shop emailed poss bent fork.
Highly reputable mechanic phoned, RE shonky work, want some money back to friend, returned full refund or work undertaken by another shop and bill paid by them = result = mouthful of abuse, pretty standard!