Has the vendor sold other bikes at low prices with minimal information? It appears that the vendor has very nice bikes but doesn’t know much about bikes? Also, does the vendor own a cordless angle-grinder? 🙂
Happy riding!
MariachiArchery on
What are they claiming this bike to be? It doesn’t look like an authentic Specialized. The ‘S-Works’ wheels area dead give away.
karlzhao314 on
Whew, that bike is *hella* fake. Someone’s trying to pass it off as a Venge, but the frame is all sorts of wrong.
I also don’t recall Specialized ever having put S-works branding on wheels.
So, you may as well ditch the frame and wheels (up to you if you want to trust them for safety, but I certainly would not.) The question then becomes, are all of the other components worth it to you for 800 € to transplant onto another bike?
I would say no.
enemyofaverage7 on
Looks like a Deng Fu FM098 frame painted up to look like a Venge. In any case, definitely not a real Venge.
Improvedandconfused on
That bike has several features that scream fake to me.
One is the paint and decos. The frame shape is roughly 2013-2015 Venge with the. curved toptube but the Speciallzed logo on and word “Specialized” on the fork was something they only started doing when they brought in the new frame shape with a straight top tube in 2016.
The holes where the cables are coming into the downtube aren’t quite right. These holes on this frame are “naked” whereas the genuine holes on genuine Venges had black covers which cables went into.
The bike has an Ultegra groupset, I am almost certain that genuine S-Works have only the top end groupsets being either Dura-Ace or SRAM Red. Although this bike coupd have been sold as a frameset only and built up, but this is a rare occurance
Those wheels are highly suspicious. Specialized have their own wheel brand, Roval. They definitely have never realeased an S-Works wheelset.
In summary, I highly believe this bike is a fake. There are plenty of fake S-Works out on the market and they can the dangerous as the manufacturer of the fake has no need for any kind of quality control as they aren’t even putting there own brand on the bike so they don’t have a fear of a reputation being ruined.
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It looks like a nice bike!
Has the vendor sold other bikes at low prices with minimal information? It appears that the vendor has very nice bikes but doesn’t know much about bikes? Also, does the vendor own a cordless angle-grinder? 🙂
Happy riding!
What are they claiming this bike to be? It doesn’t look like an authentic Specialized. The ‘S-Works’ wheels area dead give away.
Whew, that bike is *hella* fake. Someone’s trying to pass it off as a Venge, but the frame is all sorts of wrong.
I also don’t recall Specialized ever having put S-works branding on wheels.
So, you may as well ditch the frame and wheels (up to you if you want to trust them for safety, but I certainly would not.) The question then becomes, are all of the other components worth it to you for 800 € to transplant onto another bike?
I would say no.
Looks like a Deng Fu FM098 frame painted up to look like a Venge. In any case, definitely not a real Venge.
That bike has several features that scream fake to me.
One is the paint and decos. The frame shape is roughly 2013-2015 Venge with the. curved toptube but the Speciallzed logo on and word “Specialized” on the fork was something they only started doing when they brought in the new frame shape with a straight top tube in 2016.
The holes where the cables are coming into the downtube aren’t quite right. These holes on this frame are “naked” whereas the genuine holes on genuine Venges had black covers which cables went into.
The bike has an Ultegra groupset, I am almost certain that genuine S-Works have only the top end groupsets being either Dura-Ace or SRAM Red. Although this bike coupd have been sold as a frameset only and built up, but this is a rare occurance
Those wheels are highly suspicious. Specialized have their own wheel brand, Roval. They definitely have never realeased an S-Works wheelset.
In summary, I highly believe this bike is a fake. There are plenty of fake S-Works out on the market and they can the dangerous as the manufacturer of the fake has no need for any kind of quality control as they aren’t even putting there own brand on the bike so they don’t have a fear of a reputation being ruined.