Originally Posted by
TheKillerPenguin
I think most chinese carbon bike stuff is probably pretty decent (dengfu, hongfu, etc), but I also think that chinese carbon parts that are designed first and foremost as cheap knockoffs of real brands' gear are probably garbage.
that's a good point. no argument there. there's a fm099 out there that looks exactly like the venge (probably garbage). there's also the fm098 from dengfu, which I owned for a while (great bike) that was designed from scratch and everyone loves it (finishing wasn't that great though). but I just checked, and dengfu has a handlebar that looks really close to the aeronova, but the reach/drop are wayy higher. (it's called HB250)