New carbon bikes into UK

gets completely annihilated...."there`s a combination of righness and wrongness in this thread"

Don't bother.

You still haven’t answered my question on warranty and returns. There’s money on the table here.

Wish I'd been here while nick was still posting about 60mm clearance.

I've got a sutra frame that has huge 700c clearance. I mocked up the frame once with wheels that had 25c tyres on. You could have easily got a Mars bar in the gap between the rim and the seat stay. It looked ridiculous.

But I suppose you'd get away with it on the LaVita since it's on the road side of gravel.

As stated on the Lavita website, the only difference between road and gravel is the tyres anyway.

Its been a while since I've seen lfgss detective work.

Who remembers the incident with a chap called Charlie Z or something like that?
He'd been scamming folk in the classifieds and his name was mentioned so often in the thread that the thread became the top result on Google.

Won't be long until LaVita search results do the same here...

Oh nice, you're still here!

It just seems like you're not really someone who has a genuine love of cycling.
Us consumers want to hear about really passionate cycling nuts who gave up their lives to start welding frames in the shed. We want founders who have an encyclopedic of all things bike.

Its been shown that you clearly don't understand the market you are trying to get into.

Glws

I wonder what the wrong bits are? His cost price is prolly lower.

Lol

1. Cost price
   
2. The geo chart.
   

There's a combination of rightness and wrongness on this thread.

“Up to about 60mm”

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I enjoy making money and the spirit of the bank balance specifically because of the freedom and the camaraderie of other drop shippers. Through this project and others that will follow it, I want to give others the opportunity to experience the full RRP of Chinese suppliers that I've experienced in my years on the internet.

I do take some of the stuff posted here personally

This stuff is coming because you aren't engaging directly with people in here on the legitimate points they are raising. If you're memeing then it's all good, keep going.

I enjoy cycling and the spirit of the outdoors specifically because of the freedom and the camaraderie of other cyclists. Through this project and others that will follow it, I want to give others the opportunity to experience the full range of elation and pain that I've experienced in my years on the road.

What is this? Rapha PPT for 5 year olds from 2004?

next you will tell us how there is glory in suffering or Pantani was the greatest

He was a God actually

do you want to get fired?

I want to give others the opportunity to experience the full range of elation and pain that I've experienced in my years on the road

Nah mate. You want to experience the elation of an £800 Mark up selling cheap shite.

Depends if you can give me a better job

OP could’ve billed Ribble and PX for all the visibility ‘LaVitaVelo’ gave them. I didn’t even know about that super limited edition Titanium Ribble bike for under £1.5k! What a bargain!

I want to give others the opportunity

No, you don't. You want to make money by sourcing cheap, mass produced, imported tat and flog it at as much of a profit as you can manage by spouting the same old tired aspirational, lifestyle bullshit and outright lying about being a manufacturer or having worked closely with suppliers and painstakingly combined the best products to meet and affordable price point. If you wanted to give others the opportunity, you would be putting your efforts into building foundations at the grassroot levels or finding out how you can offer your skills that you have gained over your years on the road.

People already have the opportunity to throw their money at the same old shit, you just want your slice of the action, you are offering nothing.

People are only being adversarial here because, funnily enough, we do actually give a shit about the cycling community. We hate to see chancers coming in and trying to take advantage of either well meaning consumers with disposable income or people who have saved up the amount of money you are asking for these BSOs and are duped by the branding and stock photo re-posting.

You mentioned that you were a long time lurker and even tried to tug at heart strings by name dropping Sheldon Brown. If either of those two things were true, this business idea would never have even crossed your mind.

Well said.

I'm becoming nostalgic for Sick bikes.

Bit harsh IMO - the only reason I deal crack is so others can experience the highs, but also the respiratory disorders, malnutrition, liver and kidney complications and general destitution i experienced.

I certainly don't do it for the money

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.