Chinese carbon disc brake road bike build, including TOTAL COST AND WEIGHT!

I have been building and riding rim brake road bike setups for over a decade. I love them because of their inherent simplicity, they are very low maintenance, and things very rarely go wrong with rim brake bikes.

However recently there has been a massive shift towards disc brake setups for road bikes, and with this it brought a whole host of cheaper disc brake options to the market on the likes of AliExpress and eBay.

Disc brake road bikes have come down in price recently, but many of the larger brands like Specialised, Cannondale, and Canyon still charge top dollar. So, I decided it was time to do a Chinese carbon disc build on the cheap.

The frame for the build was supplied to me by a company called Trifox and is their X16 Speedster model with thu-axles. Full carbon, nice and lightweight, and comes with a BSA threaded bottom bracket.

My chosen groupset is Shimano 105 R7000, the wheels are tubeless 50mm deep section carbon rims…