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Second Chinese carbon build is starting to come around. I'm gonna share a few overedited snaps from the parts accumulation process.
The frame is a hong fu copy of the R3 but with some nice internal routing estimated at 850g for my 51. No I havent weighed it myself but i'd reckon it wouldnt go over 1000 since it feels a fair bit lighter than my other carbon frame just holding them both.
So the plan was initially to keep this a complete matte black stealth build but as I grew restless waiting for parts I went a bit overboard with trying out custom color treatments in photoshop. I'm spending my first season racing roadbikes with the 5th floor and after seing what some of the rapha nyc crca team did with their bikes I thought i'd try the same with our green. Here is the first sketch.
Naturally this was harder to execute in real life and being all overenthusiastic about it I botched the fork a with probably 100grams more color than it needed. So I'm gonna hold off on painting the rest for now or get vinyls cut out.