Orient Express - Cheap Chinese Rims / Wheels / Forks / Frames / Cranks / Etc

I might just keep it for photos and use the origin8 until i find something else 🥲

How many minutes of use did you get out of it?

About 6 months, and it was a singlespeed so I was pulling on the handlebars up hills more than you might with a normal bike. So you might be fine.

Anyone received and tried the ee aliexpress copies yet?

Lack of a reply might just mean they have… and the brakes don’t work

Won’t the classic BBB one with the modular shims work for you?

I’ve been using one on an ancient steel Stumpjumper for a year now, no problem. Very (reassuringly) heavy though...

I nominate @ghostface

Haha

so i guess we are all waiting for someone somewhere to bite the bullet !

I plan to get some just as soon as I can find a rear track wheel

if that is of interest, i have a novatec track hub + new carbon Prime rim ready to be built. 25mm wide, 40mm deep, tubeless.
I have spokes ready for a 3-cross build, but was planning to get different ones for 2-cross

Bought some EC90 carbon flat bars off eBay. Here are some terrible photos of the ends. Not uniform thickness. Should I be alarmed? I feel alarmed.

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Yeah potentially. How much?
Don't have a big budget

this was a budget affair, I'll pm you

How's customs at the moment?

With the price of components at the moment it makes more sense to get an eBay always_riding groupset than it does to buy a new crankset 🙄

Luck of the draw. Just received my china Ti frame with no duty but it was marked as under the £135 threshold

Figured as much - I've been lucky with everything from them before.

I just wanted something gucci and black for the gram

looks like to me someone has tried to mangle the inner diametre on two out of three of those holes. Maybe to fit particular bar ends? brake levers... not sure.

Knock off EE Wings though still pretty pricey

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002360115264.html

My real easton flat bar look very different from this. I would be alarmed

Any carbon drop bar recommendations at the moment?
Looking for decent but affordable. Not some £25 junk

TBH I'd go for Brand-X from CRC/Wiggle; they're cheap enough and if you're not happy you have an easy return

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/brand-x/handlebars?f=4294966795,2637

I've got my eye on the prime ones on wiggle for just over a hundred but if there's not a better option, I'll probably pick up some used FSA or similar from eBay to be honest.

Chinese Brompton ‘Brompti’

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Here’s hoping they’re not dogshit

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