Originally Posted by
PeteHski
So exact same tube profiles, transitions etc. What about the carbon spec and layup design? Have you measured the torsional stiffness of both frames? How would you be able to verify any of that was the same? To keep costs down they could have cut a lot of corners and simply lied about the carbon spec. It’s not like they have to worry about standards and lawsuits.
It might well be a decent quality frame, but I doubt it will be the same as an Aethos, which is a cutting edge design in terms of stiffness/weight. The Aethos forks are ultra-light too and I certainly wouldn’t fancy taking my chances with a knock-off version of those at that weight.
let me cut open my $3K frame to look at the weave to examine the layup. Again none of you have seen or ridden a Sohtea let alone very few of you have ridden an Aethos. This is like someone giving their feedback on a Mercedes but they drive a Corolla.