Chinese Carbon Bike Build (CCBB or C2B2)
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The background: I spent ~3 months researching/drooling over carbon frames on eBay, diving into other forums for reviews, and trying to find manufacturer’s websites. After more or less settling on the AC129 frame from ICAN (seems to previously done business as miracle) I reached out to them for pricing. It was $420 for frame and fork – I almost bought 2. Throw in everything else carbon and final price with 4 water bottle cages, 1 paint color ($50) and shipping ($80) was $740.
I worked with Linda at ICAN and she was very helpful. It would have been nice if they published every dimension (I’m learning that there are several variable dimension that have to match in order to put a bike together, the following come to mind, seat tube diameter for the front derailleur clamp, the rear hub size needed, and the disc size). Linda was always able to answer my questions, generally in 24 hrs.
After finally convincing my SO that what we really needed was another bike I sent payment via PayPal (Linda kept prompting me during our ~1 month long email exchange that I should pay them). After I paid, it took ~3 weeks to paint and ship the bike.
Note: ICAN offers a full build with Ultegra and BB7s for ~$1,800. If I didn’t actively want to build the bike this seems like a good option, although I’m sceptical of any wheels Hozn didn’t build.
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Wow, that is whole lot of red accenting going on there!
— but I guess the saddle will be blue? It’s great to see it coming together! I still suggest your front brake hose run is wrong, but as long as you can turn the handlebars all the way in both directions it probably will function adequately. Shorter run is probably preferable though for the hydro fluid (and minimizing affects of temps on fluid?).Oh, don’t forget to put inline barrel adjust in for your FD. You might want one for your RD, though most road RDs have barrel adjusters on them, so it’s probably unnecessary to put one inline. When I switched to 1×10 with X9 RD, I discovered that the newer SRAM MTB derailleurs do not have one (so I had to cut my housing and add an inline adjuster).
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Wow, that is whole lot of red accenting going on there!
— but I guess the saddle will be blue? It’s great to see it coming together! I still suggest your front brake hose run is wrong, but as long as you can turn the handlebars all the way in both directions it probably will function adequately. Shorter run is probably preferable though for the hydro fluid (and minimizing affects of temps on fluid?).Oh, don’t forget to put inline barrel adjust in for your FD. You might want one for your RD, though most road RDs have barrel adjusters on them, so it’s probably unnecessary to put one inline. When I switched to 1×10 with X9 RD, I discovered that the newer SRAM MTB derailleurs do not have one (so I had to cut my housing and add an inline adjuster).
Yes, these are the 50 shades I was referring to earlier.
The jagwire came with in-line adjusters so they are installed. (Partly used to transition from 4mm housing at the brifters to Jags standard 5mm housing.)
Yes, I’ve got full rotation on the handle bars (see earlier comment about lines being too long). I haven’t filled the brake lines yet so there’s still time for me to route this more traditionally. As for the length of the housing, it is still way shorter than the rear brake housing, so I’m not worried about from that perspective.
The saddle is both blue and free. I’m just bidding my time until Dread realizes he doesn’t like his new (black and red) saddle and wants it gone fast.
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