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carbon frames for under $500, you get what you pay for. We had 2 chinese carbon frames in at work for building up this week.
Road frame had oval steerer tube on the forks, couldn't fit the headset properly, also had badly machined bearing seats in the frame, headset bearings wouldn't sit straight, and even more disturbing, bottom bracket inserts weren't straight.
The mtb frame had chainstays and seatstays not parallel with each other, about 8mm out, nasty.
Sounds like an anomaly, or a irritated bike shop employee that is pissed they have to build a frame up that they didn't make a profit on.
Have you lot heard of "Bike Direct" in the US? (www.bikesdirect.com) This guy sells bikes made in Asia under the Motobecane name, a full Ti / DuraAce road bike is something like $2000-2500. I see no difference in buying one of these bikes versus buying directly from the Chinese/Taiwanese manufacturer.
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