>>958784
What bike has smooth welds but comes with a shitty stamped steel front derailer?

>>958788
a Merida?

so i get it's not a common practice to have a clamped front derailleur, on a carbon frame

>>958792
This is carbon?

>>958792
Shit, I took a closer look, I thought the reflection was aluminum, but it looks like carbon.

Sometimes carbon uses clamp on derailers, but never one that cheap. Please take a picture of the derailer form the other side.

I would be concerned. It looks gouged as fuck.

I don't even know what I'm looking at

>>958797
A scratched up possibly cracked carbon bike with a tourney front derailer and what looks like riveted chainrings.

I don't know. My guess is someone overtightened the front derailer, cracked the frame, then they removed all the parts, and got a walmart bike, put those parts on, and are trying to sell it.

>>958784
I think it's cracked, if it was just the paint you'd see little crack lines - but in this case there's a big chip of paint actually missing, to me that says the tube's shape was deformed.

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i'm sorry for the condition it is in. it's not my bike, but for the looks of it it won't be.

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another picture

>>958808
>>958810
>that line running all the way around
If it's not broken all the way through already then it's just a matter of time until it fails. Would not buy unless you can get it really cheap and strip any useful components off the frame.

I guess when you try to remove certain parts such as the Bottom bracket its either seized to oblivion or you'll crack the frame even further

>>958810
>>958808
Those are shit tier components anyways. The type you would find on a $100 department store bike. Very shady.

Looks like it was cracked and then welded

wash the bike, then take pics.. probably cracked and welded as another anon said.

I'd stay well away, even if it was okay (doubtful) the previous owner obvious didn't take good care of it and is likely an arsehole for sticking cheap parts on it and trying to flog it to another idiot.

From the looks of that cracked paint going all the way around the tube I'd say the seat tube has moved away from the bottom bracket. Get someone else to put some weight on the pedals and watch that gap and it'll probably increase.

>>958825
The black painted FD clamps come on 105 and below they're fine

>>958826
You can't weld carbon fiber

>>958825
>>958854
>>958798
the derailleur is certainly a Tourney, and the cranks are some plastic-coated steel cheapos with riveted chainrings, yup

looks like the frame has had a crack, which someone has then "fixed" with some epoxy or whatever (and painted over), which hasn't helped much from cracking further

poor thing

thank you for helping me make a decision

>>958949
You didn't mention a price. If it's stupidly cheap, or you can talk the guy down now knowing that it's probably fucked, you could always get it repaired.

>>958784
Don't buy it for any price, it's fucked.

>>958854
>seig offering terrible advice again proving once again he knows absolutely nothing about bicycles

it's like 100€, but i will not buy it