>>1092868Listen: Components are components. Unless they're counterfeits, if they're brand-name then you know what the quality is. The frameset and wheelset are another matter entirely. You've never heard of this company before? Do you have ANY idea what their quality control is like? Are there ANY reviews from credible sources available to you? That's a big portion of what you're paying for when you buy a bike from a well-known top-shelf manufacturer: confidence that the product you're getting isn't going to fall apart on you like some of the horror pics you've seen of CF framesets that shattered. It doesn't matter if they have a 'race team' or not. For all you know their 'race team' is a bunch of nobodies who don't really care if the bikes fall apart or not so long as they have a job. You also don't know whether the bikes their factory 'race team' is riding are better quality than what they're selling the roundeye Americans like you; they could be giving only the best quality to the race team and selling everyone else the shitty ones, assuming fat lazy Americans aren't going to ride it hard enough for it to break anyway. So that's what you've got to consider: is it good quality materials and construction, and is their quality control and quality assurance held to a high enough standard that you can have confidence in the product you're paying for? Or is it paper-thin low-quality flawed CF, poorly designed, and only 'inspected' cosmetically, so it looks good but is structurally flawed? You have to research that and decide for yourself whether it's a good risk or not.
