Cheap Chinese carbon imports: are they worth the risk?

Low-price carbon frames available online may seem like tantalising bargains, but can you trust their quality, asks Marc Abbott

Most of us have at some point been drawn to eBay to trawl the listings for a frame in our size and at a price that won’t see us cast out into the doghouse for a week.

Alongside the used bikes and official bike shop listings, there are a huge number of very cheap, unbranded carbon alternatives, often from China.

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