A new brand?

Are you sure you're not pressuring us to buy one?

Jessinspain said:

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[font=Times New Roman]Has anyone heard of this company www.ORASEA.com? A friend of mine just bought a new frame from this company and he is pressuring me to buy one. [/font]

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I don't know about them, but the name is an obvious ripoff of Orbea. And these bikes look like [censored] next to anything in Orbea's lineup... 😉

I'm not impressed with what's on thier website. I would need to test ride one first before I could made any kind of a recommendation.

It wont suprise me if this "company" is just run by few smart cloners.Right now almost all frames are made in China and Taiwan and with technology being so easy now one can put up a web site invent a name and sell rebage frames made for others from the same factory.
Judging from the quality (cheap looking) of their web site you can tell it's put up with amatours.Even the photos look real bad.Now my concern would be that these frames are the rejects and do have defects cleaverly disguised under flashy paint.It is pretty common practice.I would not buy anything from these guys.

Thanks for all of your posts.

My friend seems to like his frame a lot and he races in the "elite" category here in Spain, but I guess either you're all a bunch of pessimists or you're just very opinionated people. If it's true about the "cloners" I guess u hafta be pretty careful with what u buy.

I didn't know anything about the China / Taiwan deal, although I know that these parts aren't painted so I don't know about "cleaverly" disguising defects as Armenian put it. I'll probably wait and see if I hear anything else before buying anything from them.

Jessinspain said:

Thanks for all of your posts.

My friend seems to like his frame a lot and he races in the "elite" category here in Spain, but I guess either you're all a bunch of pessimists or you're just very opinionated people. If it's true about the "cloners" I guess u hafta be pretty careful with what u buy.

I didn't know anything about the China / Taiwan deal, although I know that these parts aren't painted so I don't know about "cleaverly" disguising defects as Armenian put it. I'll probably wait and see if I hear anything else before buying anything from them.

We're just not sure about products we can't find in this country... 🙂

Jessinspain said:

Thanks for all of your posts.

My friend seems to like his frame a lot and he races in the "elite" category here in Spain, but I guess either you're all a bunch of pessimists or you're just very opinionated people. If it's true about the "cloners" I guess u hafta be pretty careful with what u buy.

I didn't know anything about the China / Taiwan deal, although I know that these parts aren't painted so I don't know about "cleaverly" disguising defects as Armenian put it. I'll probably wait and see if I hear anything else before buying anything from them.

I'll agree that we are opinionated, but opinions are what you wanted, right? If this brand works for your freind then that's great. I had just never heard of it and their website did not pique my interest. Like I said, I would have to ride one before I would recommend it or caution someone not to buy it. Ask your freind if you can try his out for a short ride. If you like it, then get one! Let us know the pro's and con's of the frame though. Every frame builder has to start out somewhere, this might be the next Cervelo in ten years.😉

[font=Arial]Thanks once again for all of the posts. You're right, kdelong, opinions and advice are what I was asking for.

With all of these new brands popping up (as least here in Europe) sometimes it's hard for me to decide whether they're cheap quality or not. I mean, some of the components over here look exactly like top brand name components and yet they're half the price. And if what you're saying is true about all the bikes coming from Asia, then they're possibly not only look-alikes, they might be the same basically.

So my question is: if the frame is possibly from one of specialized's Asian manufacturers (or whatever u would call it) with an unknown company's sticker, it comes from a shabby website, but with a warranty, and they meet the European Union quality standards, and on top of all that, it costs half or more of what a specialized costs... What's the trick??[/font]
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Check out this website I just found:
allanti.compage.cfmOpen ↗

Well.. I guess that since most of these new companies (like this one) don't have an actual STORE where you can see the material up close and test it would probably be the most insecure part of buying from them...

Which is why I asked here on this forum. Thanks for all the advice!! Whether I buy it or not, I'll definitely try it out and I'll let u know what I think...[/font]

Jess
You kind of made me feel like a fool for being cautious but with their web site and new company one has to be.The question I would ask is how long will they be around?They mention 3yrs gouranteee however more likely they wont even exist by then.So If you do have a defect year from now how can you be certain they will still be around!
You ask opinions and I raised mine.I hate getting ripped off.Good Luck

Jessinspain said:

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[font=Times New Roman]Has anyone heard of this company www.ORASEA.com? A friend of mine just bought a new frame from this company and he is pressuring me to buy one. [/font]

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They don't look any worse (or better) to me than the variety of other brands marketing frames made in China or Taiwan (Leopard, Pedalforce, Token, Valdora, Planet X, etc...) If you can talk to a person, get some sense that they can follow-up on their warranty if needed, and the price is right, then I don't see it as any worse of a gamble than many of the other new brands out there. Heck many of the big brand carbon frames are MIC (made in china) as well.

I would agree with the others that there is more risk than buying from one of the established brands, but that is part of the trade off in reduced price.