I received both bikes from Yan at Downtube, and have ridden them for the last couple days.
They are very Nice, very smooth bikes in every aspect, shifting, comfort, and quality of ride, Brakes are really good, over all I really like the bikes.
Just a little of easy setup, and making sure every screw was tight, Brakes needed a little adjustment, loosen brake cable, and spread V brake slightly to obtain enough clearance to rim, adjust brake lever angle and shifter angle with supplied allen wrenches, simple stuff like that, it did not take me long.
quality of materials is very good.
Durability for the long term, i cannot answer that.
but looking at the design and all the extra bracing/gusseting, and longer frame seat tube and the swingarm all looks very robust and durable visually.
It looks, and rides like a quality bike.
Last edited by westgl; 04-11-15 at 10:35 AM.