dbike - Dengfu R01: Review with CT Analysis of Lightweight Road Frame

The Dengfu R01 is a lightweight road bike frame, optimized for climbing. Ready for rim breaks with a BB30 bottom bracket and supporting full internal cable routing, it is an ideal frame if you want a featherweight bike. The frame weighs below 900 g for a 58 cm (XL!) size and only costs 550 US$, thus outvalues frames from other brands such as Specialized, Trek, Canyon, Cannondale, BMC and Giant easily. Despite a corroded bolt for the water bottle cage, I never had any problems with this frame after well above 25k kilometers. The CT scan analysis revealed some voids at the mating regions where the tubes are connected to each other. From a structural point of view, there should not be any problem with that. The only downside are the voids in the bottom bracket area, which probably reduce the stiffness of the most important area of the bike significantly.

Disclaimer:
I bought all presented products with my own money and I did not get any compensation. This allows me to share my honest opinion.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
01:11 Logo
01:22 Order process
01:36 Total cost
02:27 Frame specs
03:13 Complications
04:27 Bottom bracket
05:53 Frame & fork weight
08:21 CT analysis
31:07 Summary & Outro