The other day I found a "locally developed an designed" gravel bike at one of the LBS in my hometown in Sweden. I could not be more happy! A really nice rig. All the boxes checked! But then after a closer look I noticed that it with 100% certainty was the Carbonda frame, pretty known to this forum. But they marketed it as a design of their own. And this is a show pretty renown for their own frames in the passed. A nice bike - but I got pretty disappointed since their story couldn't be correct. Have other of you out there experiences this? With other bikes? Or the Carbonda frame? Maybe I am naive but this is the first time I've experienced this.
I believe it is an open mold design so anyone can buy it and rebrand as their own. I don’t think it takes away from it being a pretty sweet ride. Probably good for the diy person who does not want to source the parts out for a build. Just my two cents. Personally I would just buy the bike from Carbondale and build it myself.
Right Sully. Still kind of bad. The whole bike with Apex 1X with hydro brakes, some DT Swiss wheels (did not note exactly), a carbon fork and alloy bars and stem was about $2100.
