New carbon bikes into UK

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Our first product is a 22 speed, 8.7kg all carbon gravel & road bike and will be priced at under £1,500.

Only if you put shimano/sram on it with Tektro/TRP brakes at least. Otherwise PlanetX/Alpkit are better value.

Thank you in advance for your kindness.

Welcome to the world's friendliest bike forum.........

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Mudguard/rack/cargo cage mounting points all seem to be missing from that picture?

Could put off a few potential buyers if it’s not as adaptable as other bikes at the same price point.

Good luck with your new business.

Can we get some real world pics, it all looks a bit “person drop ships from their bedroom” on the marketing front currently

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@amey Haven’t seen you post this one in the Gravel thread yet

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its a carbonda, I had one in 2015

I’m sure you’re far more up on the current trends than me but zero mounting points in this day and age just says ‘race bike’, not ‘road bike’ to me. As the geo/setup/clearances pictured suggest tourer/utility/kid hauler it just comes across as confused.

Just limiting its potential market. If people want an out and out road bike they’re gonna go straight to their established brand of choice. A race bike with budget components just doesn’t really seem appealing to anyone.

You want to include the grouches that like new startups, not exclude them.

Spend 2 mins looking around the projects thread on here. We LOVE bolting stuff to our bikes round here.

I’m not trying to be rude or anything it just seems like you’ve created a gap in the market no one is interested in filling.

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Really excited for your thoughts and comments

Oh, not those sort of comments?

What’s the tyre clearance on this?

i dunno much about gravel tbh, i generally consult @cake

Love the promo shots on the insta of people riding completely different bikes. Awkward..

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Cool, wow, all that clearance and no mudguard mounts? Sorry but you really really missed a trick there.
This could have been a good winter training bike for a lot of people....

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If I’m spending £1500 notes on an all road/gravel bike I don’t expect to have to zip tie my mudguards on.....

Forget the racks then, it’s still a glaring oversight on your part. Sorry.

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Thoughts....

1. Not sure about the name, please pay someone to work on the name and fonts before launching anything.
   
2. Product images look awful.. take out a few steerer spacers and raise the saddle (setback saddle would look better too). You could fix most of this with 5 minutes in photoshop.
   
3. Need mounts on an all road/gravel bike. Clip on guards on carbon = crap experience and rubbing.
   
   

With £1500 who would feel compelled to buy this over a Ribble CGR al 105 - even if it is carbon and lighter. Would spend extra on the Ribble CGR SL.