Trace Velo - The Chinese bike market is NUTS - Shanghai bike show day 3

As you may know,I cover ALOT of cheaper bike parts, mainly sourced from places like AliExpress, and naturally most of those products come from China… So what better bike show to visit!

I saw SO MUCH stuff today and interestingly got a good insight into some dealing pricing of bikes here in Shanghai. Ultimately, the cost of the entire bike here, including a DuraAce Di2 groupset, was nearly identical to the cost of just the groupset in the UK.

Tavelo had some flashy new paint-jobs for the Arow, Ridenow unveiled some lightweight titanium thru axles, and Cybrei were displaying their RIDICULOUSLY lightweight carbon crankset.

However, one of the most interesting booths was Elitewheels with their new Evolve frame. It is one of the lightest carbon road bike frames i have ever come across. For a small frame, it comes in at only 640g, and even in a large, it comes in at just under 700g!!!

I also saw a few brands that I have seen many, many times on AliExpress, like RockBros and Westbiking, and came across a promising new carbon bike brand, Rockwolf.

I am being hosted by the venerable Joe from @ChinaCycling, and his Panda Podium team and Shane from @GPLama also knocking about 🤣

But yeah, MASSIVE thank you to Joe and Panda Podium. They have been utterly incredible, so if you could check them out, it would mean the world:

www.pandapodium.cc

Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:45 – Cybrei crankset
02:55 – Muck-off…?
03:50 – Tavelo Arow
05:38 – Elitewheels & Evolve
10:44 – Westbiking
11:34 – Serk titanium
14:05 – RockBros
16:09 – Ridenow titanium axles
17:00 – CRW 50 60
18:45 – LAUX wholesale pricing
20:50 – Rockwolf frames
22:22 – LAUX wholesale pricing

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