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I've got those, and I rate them highly. They're not as good as Dura Ace, but I wasn't expecting them to be. They work well enough for me and look gorgeous. But if I was a proper racer I'd want something stiffer and stronger with more bite. E.g. Dura Ace. If I was a minted weight weenie racer I reckon I'd want £1100's worth of THM Fibula. Never even seen a pair. They've got to be the sine qua non. Dreamy!
I don't think the so-called ZTTO ones are fakes, I reckon Ted Ciamillo fell out with his contractor, who ended up stuck with some stock. The Lekki8 is such a fringe, low selling item that it would make no commercial sense for a faker to duplicate them. And they're not quite the same shape as the Lekki8. If you compare pics you can see that the angle of the upper arm bit (?) is slightly different. This seems to prevent them accommodating wide tyres. I reckon 30 or 31 mm is probably the limit. I think Ted probably specced this product before wide tyres became a thing, and then he decided not to sell them.
Also, the entensions which hold the padholders are longer than the ones on the Lekki8. They look the same length as the ones on Ciamillo's Brompton version.
So the long and the short of it is that they're a genuine Ciamillo product, but never released by him, and can't fit such wide tyres as the Lekki8.
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The ee copies getting well reviewed on here have got me tempted. Whilst looking around i came across these zero gravity copies which are are widely available all over the place. They look decent but performance is meant to be pretty poor. so the ee's are still firmly on the top of my list. This guy is a bit like an excitable cbeebies presenter but I've subbed anyway as I've found his reviews useful especially regarding Chinese knock offs. He does flounce around a bit but he still covers all the important points and at least he's not spitefully offending anymore. He's worth checking out https://youtu.be/V1-CP4YRnuU