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Casio20
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by Casio20

Hi dear Mates, I'm searching for a recently released Chinese framesets either HT or fully , but the options are just too many. I'm completely lost in the overview :)

I like the elves and or due to the painting and maybe the TanTan Fm-299.

As I don't have any overview, please let me know.

Quality is preferred, if it is some hundred Euro more. It's OK.

Thanks a lot for your support

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cula_ru
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by cula_ru

If quality is prefered, is chinese quality that good? 🤔🤔
I would go with some well known brand.

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ooo
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by ooo

Before talking about quality, there is another problem - almost all of them have outdated geometry
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Casio20
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by Casio20

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of outdated geometries, with thousands of options I just don't have any idea which to choose, therefore I also mentioned recently released :)

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LeDuke
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by LeDuke

Carbonda FM936.


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ooo
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by ooo

Casio20, to avoid outdated frames, look at rear flat mount mtb frames only.
If your sellers or brands don't list frames with flat mount, ask them about it.
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LeDuke
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by LeDuke

ooo wrote:Casio20, to avoid outdated frames, look at rear flat mount mtb frames only.
If your sellers or brands don't list frames with flat mount, ask them about it.
That’s a weird standard to base a search on.

Very few big brand bikes come with them.


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F45
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by F45

I looked into the FM936 but the light frame with a paint job was edging too close to the price of what I could get on sale from an established brand. The issue here is resale value - the no name chinese frame I account to have zero resale value. If I could get it for $800 USD shipped I would have gotten it. It was about $1400 iirc.

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