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To be honest no problems that aren't either cosmetic or can't be sorted in a well-tooled bike-shop.
and i got a FREE hat with mine!
Seatstays mounted at different heights on the wishbone.
Every bend feels like it's been made by a monkey with a hammer, wrinkles all over the place.
Welds are undercut in spots, though admittedly better than I am capable of myself (I'm a shite weldor)
then it comes down to small stuff like the seatslot being offcentre and the fact that it had unfinished ventholes inside the seattube with sharp bits of metal sticking out.
Most of the issues were with the forks:
dropout on the forks not inline and at different heights, I didn't want to coldset them as they were out by so much. I did take a file to them to get them to the same height. It'll be an axle breaker this bike.
Canti mounts squint relative to each other, though I know that doesn't change the function much.
Oh, and the dropouts on my forks were blatantly intended to be rear vertical dropouts, they've had the derailleur hanger hacksawed off and are roughly filed to shape
and the geometry being slightly (but not unfixably) wrong.
Good points:
perfectly straight
cheap
quick
you can design something bespoke that you won't be able to get elsewhere and get a bike which is close.
I know a lot of folk who are using these as trials bikes so I take that to mean that they are bloody strong.
I don't want to put it down too much because I'm more than happy with mine, especially at the price.
The marino product is definately functional rather than being the moon-on-a-stick custom frame people seem to think.
I'll put a proper review up when I get a bit of mileage on the frame