Orient Express - Cheap Chinese Rims / Wheels / Forks / Frames / Cranks / Etc

People ride Chinese carbon MTBs so I guess you should be fine if you buy from a reputable seller

What's a gel pen?

Does anyone have a seatpost they could recommend for my 29er? Id like a flexible carbon one without impaling my bum bums

If you want non aero, they do this now.

Anyone know if Hongfu do 60-61cm frames? Sizing charts only go up to 58cm... which would suggest that the don't.

@spotter ?

This looks nice. You might be even able to pull a scoble on this and put 42mm 650b on

link?

vcls or a normal one?

Classy. Got a link?

http://www.hongfu-bikes.com/html_products/2016-NEW-full-carbon-falt-mount-road-frame-319.html

http://m.imgur.com/a/goROH short review, link in description

nice

Well, I'd use a vcls, but I don't know if it'll stand up to XC

That being said, Im tempted to get one of these:

and swap all my stuff over, having a 27.2 post is quite limiting, I could run a dropper with this.

Just looking though what DengFu offer these days, wtf...

Wow. So rad. Price?

trying to find it, theres just a picture on their front page, currently trawling though their ali express

Found it:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2016-New-fashionable-20-inch-folding-carbon-bike-super-light-complete-folding-bicycle-for-men-or/32626284609.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_10,searchweb201602_2_10017_10034_10021_507_10022_10020_10009_9978_10008_10018_10019,searchweb201603_1&btsid=da7811b1-6999-4f41-9ae6-dc963e3cf20e

only 11kg!

have also been toying with the idea. so many 29ers come with annoying 27.2

Marc skulls hasn't broken his yet, and he rides way harder than me, which helps with my confidence. I like the idea of rear thru axle too...

I've got the non-disc version of this. It's fucking great. F&F together are only just over a kilo, and that's for a 58. Although I have taken it offroad (HOTN, and a rocky river bed in Spain... plus the occasional gravel/offroad section on random rides) I'd want something a bit bigger for CX. In fact, I'm currently thinking wondering whether to go for a honfu CX and self-build, or an off the peg Plaet X or similar.

a guy over on pinkbike a few years ago did a similar thing http://www.pinkbike.com/u/ralfk/album/portraits-of-a-29er/

these xxx lite bottle cages arrived yesterday. 20 days from making the order. 17g per cage. Ordered 3 and one of them was a little off (bottle kept wobbling)

feel quite solid

damn i ordered mine on the 12th and no luck yet. tracking doesn't seem to have updated from dispatch either, which seller did you go with? going to order

My fake POC glasses turned up yesterday. They seem fine, come in a case with POC cloth/bag and a few extra lenses. They look ridiculous, but I knew that already. Also, they smell a bit like plastic. But they do match the colour of my frame perfectly!

mine was on 13th from seller "attack-on-e*bay (50452 )"

no tracking, just came in an oversize letter.