Is this fake or real - Pinarello or Chinarello

Dekker
Dekker Posts: 29
edited November 2012 in Road general
Pinarello or Chinarello

Is this fake or real?

Apologies for the poor quality photography.....iphone's! they'll never take off!

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  • Captainlip
    Captainlip Posts: 281
    Fake, Look at BB
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Yep - fake. They never get the Pinarello lettering quite right! Odd really as it should be very easy......
    Faster than a tent.......
  • turnerjohn
    turnerjohn Posts: 1,069
    mind you would anyone notice when your riding along ?....be a tougher call !
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Anyone who rides with the saddle too high and the nose down is a fraud ;-)
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Bars don't match I'd be suspicious of that... probably got sent the wrong colour from china.
  • squibnocket
    squibnocket Posts: 207
    And unless Team Sky are going to ride with dork discs on the rear I don't think anybody else will :lol:

    Fake
  • mr_dobbo
    mr_dobbo Posts: 53
    Background to the question? Have you been stung, if so who by?
  • Captainlip
    Captainlip Posts: 281
    was just about to ask the same....

    why do you ask?
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Squibnocket wrote:
    And unless Team Sky are going to ride with dork discs on the rear I don't think anybody else will :lol:

    Fake

    The "spoke guard" does look a bit out of place. And is that front Q/R lever on the wrong side?
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  • mallorcajeff
    mallorcajeff Posts: 1,489
    have you bought it then?
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Aaargh! That dork disk offends my poor eyes! :-) So if this is a fake have you been duped or someone else? I've seen quite a few dubiously prices Pinarellos/Colnagos from sites in the far east. If it seems to good to be true... What are your rights on these if they're wrongly advertised, it's China so I'm assuming none but if you bought it with Paypal?
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  • Dekker
    Dekker Posts: 29
    Nope not been duped or conned etc.
    Just thought I'd raise the question as chinarellos seem to be becoming more common place.
    This particular model actually has a very good carbon frame and if it were decal-less I may have been tempted.
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Dekker wrote:
    Nope not been duped or conned etc.
    Just thought I'd raise the question as chinarellos seem to be becoming more common place.
    This particular model actually has a very good carbon frame and if it were decal-less I may have been tempted.

    I don't think anyone can really pull off a Pinarello shaped frame... its obviously still a Pinarello knock-off and therefore even without the decals you're still appearing to endorse the people that make them... and you still look like you're riding a fake Pinarello. (at least with the decals on it looks real from a distance :mrgreen: )

    If you go for another style Chinese frame you get something unique with none of the negative associations.
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Chinarello Dogpoo

    If I bought one mine would be like this, except I'd have the stem the right way round, gears, and better chainset. And pedals :D

    5912544645_8b565744c4.jpg
  • GBR1
    GBR1 Posts: 97
    I have spent a lot of time in China (to much) and a lot of the clothing fakes you buy in the local Chinese markets actually come out of the same factory as the originals. You hear plenty of stories of why/how these appear, I have brought a few items and you can not tell any difference to the real "original" item..

    Bikes may be a different matter though..

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