Originally Posted by
sir_crash_alot
Right, that's sort of what I'm wondering too. Turns out other company's frames have weight limits (so this part is not crazy), but it seems like these weight limits may not be communicated clearly. So it's nice in some sense that Stradalli is being relatively up-front about it (recklessness notwithstanding).
But perhaps the emerging concern isn't that their frames have a weight limit, but that it's so low when compared to their competitors. I can't help but feel like they're making a frame less safe for the goal of weight-shaving.
That being said, I can see someone reasonably grabbing one of these frames and stripping it down as much as possible as a climbing bike and going QOM/KOM hunting with it. Seems like a relatively safe and reasonable use of such a frame. So it's not an all-purpose bike, but a bike when the explicit goal is a targeted climb.
Depends if you want to safely descend the hill you just climbed. Given the very low rider weight limit, these frames are also probably not very stiff either. Cheap and light usually means not very strong.
Where are these frames actually manufactured? I suspect some low tier Chinese catalogue frame if they are so cheap from a US company.