Chinese carbon parts Ali express.

antsmithmk

Just a warning really...

I bought a carbon finishing kit, stem, bars, seat post about 3 months ago for a CX mod. It was obviously fake, I knew that before I paid the £70 ish to get it sent here. The seat post seat clamp was screwed to the post rather than it be any sort of one piece. Every time I remounted the CX, the seat turned 45 degrees. Binned it.

This week, I had a minor off. The bars have snapped where the shifters are clamped on. To be binned.

The stem is going in the bin before it sheers off and kills me or somebody else.

Hopefully this might save someone else some cash and hassle. Lesson learned here.

danlikesbikes

You pays your money for knock off goods and you take your chance, hope you weren't hurt in the off though

cycleclinic

The lesson here is that supplier is selling dody parts not the fact they are chinese or there are installation problems.

I am not sure what you mean about the seat post clamp being screwed into the post. If I see this right the clamp you mention is not a seat post clamp but a seat post height marker. you still need a seat post clamp. Your shifters may have been done too tight causing the bars to fail. Did you use carbon paste and only torque to 4Nm? If no to either then thats probably the reason why they snapped I have some chinese MTB carbon bars and chinese made Deda carbon bars (deda don't do it in house I am sure) that have not snapped neither will they are they are properly made (and the shifter clamps are not over torqued), I have other chinese carbon parts which are as good as anything produced by a major brand. The problem is not they are chinese.

HebdenBiker

thecycleclinic wrote:

The lesson here is that supplier is selling dody parts not the fact they are chinese or there are installation problems.

I am not sure what you mean about the seat post clamp being screwed into the post. If I see this right the clamp you mention is not a seat post clamp but a seat post height marker. you still need a seat post clamp. Your shifters may have been done too tight causing the bars to fail. Did you use carbon paste and only torque to 4Nm? If no to either then thats probably the reason why they snapped I have some chinese MTB carbon bars and chinese made Deda carbon bars (deda don't do it in house I am sure) that have not snapped neither will they are they are properly made (and the shifter clamps are not over torqued), I have other chinese carbon parts which are as good as anything produced by a major brand. The problem is not they are chinese.

This ^^^

And you did right by removing the stem. If you didn't use a torque wrench to fit the shifters, you probably didn't use one to fit the stem either.

It was obviously fake

Do you mean that the parts were sold to you as a particular brand, but weren't made by that brand?

antsmithmk

Hi. Yes I used a torque wrench.

Difficult to describe the seat post issue... Basically the post part had a thread cut into the end which had been used to secure it into the saddle clamp. Shifting your bum one way tightened it onto the post, shorting the other turned the saddle to any angle you liked. It would have been possible to do a complete 360.

And by fake I mean it was labelled as Ritchley gear.

ugo.santalucia

So you knowingly bought some counterfeit parts (don't tell me you expected them to be genuine) and now you are pissed off because they failed?

Crozza

ugo.santalucia wrote:

So you knowingly bought some counterfeit parts (don't tell me you expected them to be genuine) and now you are pissed off because they failed?

antsmithmk wrote:

Just a warning really...

climb off your high horse

ugo.santalucia

Crozza wrote:

climb off your high horse

I get your point, but the thread title is misleading. For what we know they might not even be chinese parts, they might be made by a guy in a shed in Indonesia or in India... the title should read "Ritchey counterfeit parts on Aliexpress"

Crozza

antsmithmk wrote:

It was obviously fake, I knew that before I paid the £70 ish to get it sent here.

the OP was very clear to anyone who bothered to read it - the guy was simply trying to warn people against buying fake carbon parts

you yourself have issued a number of similar warnings to people in the past in the context of wheels, so not sure why you are giving him a hard time

ugo.santalucia

Crozza wrote:

so not sure why you are giving him a hard time

Possibly because knowingly buying counterfeit stuff is being part of what is after all still considered a crime?

arran77

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Crozza wrote:

so not sure why you are giving him a hard time

Possibly because knowingly buying counterfeit stuff is being part of what is after all still considered a crime?

Got to agree here, if people didn't buy this stuff it wouldn't be produced would it and you've also got to think about the way in which it gets manufactured, I'm fairly certain the factories aren't as legit as they should be when it comes to things like conditions for the staff etc etc.

antsmithmk

Crozza wrote:

antsmithmk wrote:

It was obviously fake, I knew that before I paid the £70 ish to get it sent here.

the OP was very clear to anyone who bothered to read it - the guy was simply trying to warn people against buying fake carbon parts

you yourself have issued a number of similar warnings to people in the past in the context of wheels, so not sure why you are giving him a hard time

Thanks mate. Nice to know there are still some decent folk about.

antsmithmk

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Crozza wrote:

climb off your high horse

I get your point, but the thread title is misleading. For what we know they might not even be chinese parts, they might be made by a guy in a shed in Indonesia or in India... the title should read "Ritchey counterfeit parts on Aliexpress"

Really? That's the weakest excuse ever. You've climbed on your high horse again, been called out and have now changed tack. Sorry for posting a thread on your forum, I'll seek permission in future.

StillGoing

antsmithmk wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Crozza wrote:

climb off your high horse

I get your point, but the thread title is misleading. For what we know they might not even be chinese parts, they might be made by a guy in a shed in Indonesia or in India... the title should read "Ritchey counterfeit parts on Aliexpress"

Really? That's the weakest excuse ever. You've climbed on your high horse again, been called out and have now changed tack. Sorry for posting a thread on your forum, I'll seek permission in future.

Careful, you'll be getting a warning from the mods re banning you for calling one of their own out.