Haha. RoJ would send the squad after me...

DJ Jazzy Jeff in the house.

We wanna get to the point where we can offer great deals all year round!

Hahaha, Sign me up!

No Feiyu shots in thsi one... Insta360 360" camera on invisible selfie stick. :)

Thanks 🔥

Not sure if the frame you're talking about is the actual same frame. 🙈 As I said in part 1, there are a few brands who use this frame overseas, but AFAIK they're all selling it for more, not less. As for the T1500, sorry, I don't have any of their stuff.

Xiamen is legit a cycling paradise. Very underrated.

I'd also prefer a 340 so I have motivation to push them haha. Reinforced canary is still coming I think, but the new falcon I think is also stiffer than the canary. Just got one in for testing. (Also heavier, more aero...)

@@ChinaCycling Hi Joe, do you know the stem angle of the new falcon? Is it still +10 degrees?

What's the name of the manufacturer. Where one can buy them?

Don't worry, in six years the industry will be back onto rim brakes. 😂

The weight info is on their website, per colour.

Yeah, this build isn't about the frame (or any single component for that matter.) it's about the bike as a whole. If you put all these components on a Tarmac SL8 SWORKS it would be lighter (and a few thousand dollars more expensive...)

It does look a little big doesn't it. Lemme check I didn't use the wrong bearing...🙈

A mix of equipment. Usually Insta360 stuff on the bike (though sometimes with DJI or GoPro) and then Sony A7s iv for off the camera. Maybe I'll make a video on my gear one day.

assioma favero duo, he mentioned it earlier sometime

Yup. Favero Assioma Duo. Had them for years; love them.

Heavier guys can change the handlebar to the Farsports F1S, change the saddle to something padded, the CRW wheels are fine upto 100kg. If you're at / close to 100kg, maybe switch to the SCOM wheels (stiffest wheels I"ve tested on my rig.) Everything else should be fine.

Nope. The EXS is a lot stiffer. However, I sprint like a yorkshire terrier, so not the best guy to ask.

Yup. More than enough for my weight.

Good question....

I can answer this. It is to allow the trees to be illuminated by lights at night so you don't crash into them.

Mainly for protection against pests. It is lime (calcium hydroxide) not typical paint.

Galfer, check the part 1 video. So far they ride well.

@@ChinaCyclingthanks Joe, keep up the good work.

Some artistic liberalties with the description, but, it's genuinely shocking how quiet this bike is. (Or maybe my other bikes are all too noisy.... )😂

there was a time way back where the mark of a well maintained bike was how silent the drivetrain was....i feel ya....dont even ride with the resonance/disc brake in my bike, sooo ugh. so uh wheres the bike with rim brakes bro? f disc brakes man. @@ChinaCycling

Xiamen.

Whoops! Linked the wrong video, will fix later today when i'm at the studio.

11sp no problem. My colleague Tom has them on his supersix running 11spd sram red mechanical.

I like the assiomas, they have lots of data like out of the saddle time, etc. So, may as well use them and no on-bike power meter.

Hahahahhahaha. 😂

I think so..

Yeah... I don't know what word to use. The price is there in the thumbnail so everyone can judge for themselves (so it's not misleading) but an equivalent performance big brand bike would be like $10,000 - so... "afordable-er" ?

For 1000 bucks you can get used supersix evo or emonda on rim brakes, which would be weight close to 6.5 kg. But it takes time to found one

I can afford that bike, still I wouldn't classify that bike in the affordable category.

I get it. Everything is relative though right. You can have an "affordable supercar." or an "affordable house." This is the most affordable way I could build a sub 6kg, high performance, hydraulic disc brake road bike. Anyway the price is clearly in the thumbnail so it's hardly like it's clickbait.

I think @chinacycling made it pretty clear in pt. 1 - this is affordable compared to a high-end Western build (about half the price of the likes of an SL8 to get this weight.) He never claimed to be reviewing a Walmart bike, this was always an attempt to get to a super low weight with as little money as possible. Do you care to actually watch and understand the context or are you just here to grandstand? Don’t blast a solid creator when you don’t understand the premise - that’s just disingenuous.

If someone said a car is $6k, majority of people would say that's affordable.

Welcome to 2023. 🙃

"Affordable" is certainly relative. This outperforms many ~$12,000 bikes, so in that context, it's a bargain. I'm currently working on a build that is around a third of this price, so, don't worry, haven't lose my ways.

Since around 3-4 years ago when bikes started costing >$10,000.

Definitely relative. Depends what we're comparing to.....

Not really - it has always been about quality over cheapness. Trace Velo does the cheap stuff ;)

@@Evaso_CC But how many of us think about a $6k bike as affordable? I saw one comment that said that would be 6 years of saving. Also, if I were ever going to spend that much on a bike, which I never would because the bike makes almost no difference, I would buy something from my local bike shop simply for any warranty issues. I ride Chinese wheels currently, a set of 38mm SuperTeam carbon wheels that I love. But they were $274 on sale on Amazon about 5 years ago. $6k? Does anyone believe that bike will make them a super climber if they’re not already? It’s not the bike, it will never be the bike.

I hear you loud and clear. I like to do the whole spectrum. So a $6k bike that can go head to head with a $12k bike. $1k wheels that can go head to head with $3k wheels, etc, etc. I also buy 2nd hand bikes and they're the best bang for your buck you can get, but there's only so many times you can make a video telling people to go buy a 2nd hand rim brake road bike. (Well, unless you're Durianrider, then you can make one every week.) Anyhoo, there's a very cheap alloy build coming on the channel soon...so, don't worry. ;)

@@ChinaCycling Now you sound like my wife. “Honey, I saved us $4,000 today! I bought a $10,000 dress for $6,000. You can use semantics all you want, $6,000 is not an affordable bike, and as long as bike channels keep pushing the idea that they are, bike manufacturers are going to get away with charging way too much for their product. The idea is to get as many people riding as possible. Most people hear $6,000 is affordable and they take up running or swimming. And you don’t need to push second hand bikes to find value, so that’s just a copout, and it also looks bad to bad mouth another channel. Unsubscribe.

I get it that the word affordable is triggering but as Joe already said, it is all relative. The bike industry is fu$ked anyway as they got greedy and it changed the perspective, don't blame the little guys, go moan at GCN or David Arthur pushing 12k bikes instead.

It seemed a better choice than "cheap". Haha. I guess it depends what we're comparing to...

If you're in Japan, Dura Ace defo has the home advantage. Also, I heard the Yen took a huge hit these past few months.