Cheap chinese bits.

[FluffyChicken]

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Aliexpress for electrical parts if I don't need them in a rush, can turn up anywhere from quick to a month, but do turn up and cheaply.

Various sensors for arduino/Raspberry, variois tablet screens. It cuts out the UK ebay middleman if buying from UK stock) and is a lot cheaper.
A friend gets cycle clothes from there and they are easily as good as others.

You'd think they made a lot of these over there in the first place ;-)

 

[kyle888]

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Well it's arrived seems well made nice annodising. Here's a couple of pics!

interesting information... i especially like the line at the end of point 4. 'Make the whole car looks more simple'

Kyle

 

[Factualgnome]

I hope this fixes your "Off Chain Phenomeneon"

 

[kyle888]

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Well value chain guide is the only way to completely eradicate off chain phenomenon.... :facepalm:

 

[alric]

In thailand I can go to a motorbike shop and get offered 3 different quality versions of the same brake pad(for example) from dirt cheap to ok, at different prices. If you don't know the quality of chinese things, don't expect them to work

Lots of chinese motorbikes are sold there, most of them are dead or useless within a year

I bought a HONDA motorbike chain in Laos, it stretched so much in a week that it was unusable

 

[kyle888]

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Quick ride last night chainring seemed good no chain off phenomenon
Although wasn't very rough.

Going to use it SS now as my 1x9 was being crap and i just fancy a bike i can just get on and ride.

kyle

 

[Moqi]

Thread resurrection .

The wide scale availability of cheap chinese parts have opened up great opportunity for saving money on non critical parts such as bottle cages/cheap racks/ jockey wheels etc. However I would be reluctant to trust stuff that is get you home critical such as seat posts/ bars/cranks etc and in fact I'd be quite concerned safety wise re some of the stuff on ebay.
Remember the Keith Bontrager saying - choose 2 out of cheap/light/strong

As one poster said I wouldn't trust anything cheap from china that attached to mains electricity (some of the ce branding seems optomistic at best) My ex wife was chinese - and she had plenty of tales about chinese domestic appliances going up in flames at home.

 

[WandsworthRouleur]

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Well it's arrived seems well made nice annodising. Here's a couple of pics!

interesting information... i especially like the line at the end of point 4. 'Make the whole car looks more simple'

Kyle

Having just ordered one of these for Mrs R's 1x8 P7, this is good to know!

 

[tufty]

some of the ce branding seems optomistic at best

It's generally not CE branding. It's a logo that looks very like the CE logo, and it's been described as "China Export", although there doesn't seem to be any official Chinese line on that.

After all, assuming you're gonna make a dangerous product that can kill or maim, what extra risk are you taking by putting a fake CE logo on it?

for example -

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE[/youtube]

 

[xerxes]

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for example -

How high does that guys voice go?