First we had Chinarellos...

Cheshire Cat

...now we have Chinese copy Look frames doing the rounds. What are we going to call these, Chinooks?

thegreatdivide

There's plenty of Chinagos out there too.

cornerblock

I believe they're known as Lookalikes.

ademort

Strange that Look are only now informing us all. These Look replicas have been on the market for at least 2 years.In fact if you take a look at the Alibaba site theres a number of other top end frames for sale by some of the better frame manufacturers. Obviously looking at the prices they are copies or fakes or replicas whatever you want to call them but certainly not the original frames. Same could be said for the fake wheels, bars, stems and just about anything else that fits on a bike and its all available on the Alibaba website and has been for years.

pinno

It's a real pity we can't sell them fake Rhino horn... now there's an idea.

rolf_f

Given that that ropey country has just produced this below, the only thing that is surprising about the bike frames is that so few designs have been targeted so far.

dj58

Cornerblock wrote:

I believe they're known as Lookalikes.

Shouldn't that be LookyLikey?

smoggysteve

There have been fake Look for as long if not longer then Pinarello or Scott or Colnago. They are probably one if the most copied down the years. I know fake Look pedals have been around for years.

andy_wrx

Cheshire Cat wrote:

...now we have Chinese copy Look frames doing the rounds. What are we going to call these, Chinooks?

They will be 'Chooks'

And being fakes, will not be distributed by the official importer, R J Chicken Cycles...

MichaelW

Rook 695

ademort

MichaelW wrote:

Rook 695

either that or Wuk 695.

LegendLust

Isn't it a 695 with rice?

comsense

I have never seen a Fake Colnago in real life. Someone above mentioned there are a few. Have any of you come across them? I'm not looking to buy one just curious that I haven't seen one. Or maybe they are such good copies I just do not recognise them as copies....

GGBiker

I saw a fake bianchi carbon frame, dreadful quality, several holes all over the frame for no obvious reason, a guy was paying a bike mechanic I use to build it up and he was having to take a file to it to get the forks to fit the headtube, shocking piece of junk.

ademort

comsense wrote:

I have never seen a Fake Colnago in real life. Someone above mentioned there are a few. Have any of you come across them? I'm not looking to buy one just curious that I haven't seen one. Or maybe they are such good copies I just do not recognise them as copies....

Just go onto www.alibaba.com and type in colnago bicycle frame and you will see them. You can also get matching bar/stem combo and seatpin.

JackPozzi

Why would anyone copy a Look frame, they're hideous fugly things?

rolf_f

JackPozzi wrote:

Why would anyone copy a Look frame, they're hideous fugly things?

The more intelligent question would have been "Who would knowingly buy a fake Look frame when much of the point of them is the quality of the carbon engineering"?

JackPozzi

Ah someone's got a fugly...

rolf_f

JackPozzi wrote:

Ah someone's got a fugly...

Are you normally this dense or is it only on Fridays? Of course, aesthetics are a matter of taste but this looks perfectly inoffensive to me. Nicer without the Cosmics perhaps but that's not the frames fault.

fabriciom

And the copy

ademort

fabriciom wrote:

And the copy

Here,s a link to another LOOK 695 http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/l ... 33838.html

mercia_man

That alibaba link uses a pic from Epic Cycles from a couple of years ago. I recognise the bike and the brick showroom wall. In fact I looked at that very bike. So not only a fake bike, it's a fake pic from the Chinese seller.

I see that many of "Look" frames pictured on alibaba don't appear to have the special Look stem, seatpost and bottom bracket.

smoggysteve

Mercia Man wrote:

That alibaba link uses a pic from Epic Cycles from a couple of years ago. I recognise the bike and the brick showroom wall. In fact I looked at that very bike. So not only a fake bike, it's a fake pic from the Chinese seller.

I see that many of "Look" frames pictured on alibaba don't appear to have the special Look stem, seatpost and bottom bracket.

This may shock you but that Epic Cycles brick wall is just a pic poster. Thats fake too!

fabriciom

You can easily spot the fakes because of the stem, seatpost and missing look logo in the rear on top of the brakes.
The Chinese version comes with pressfit30 BB.

ademort

Mercia Man wrote:

That alibaba link uses a pic from Epic Cycles from a couple of years ago. I recognise the bike and the brick showroom wall. In fact I looked at that very bike. So not only a fake bike, it's a fake pic from the Chinese seller.

I see that many of "Look" frames pictured on alibaba don't appear to have the special Look stem, seatpost and bottom bracket.

You mean like this one http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/l ... 00575.html complete with stem, seatpost and crankset.

pinno

ademort wrote:

Mercia Man wrote:

That...bracket.

You mean like this one http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/l ... 00575.html complete with stem, seatpost and crankset.

I left a message.

pottssteve

fabriciom wrote:

You can easily spot the fakes because of the stem, seatpost and missing look logo in the rear on top of the brakes.
The Chinese version comes with pressfit30 BB.

You could also look at the price.........

MountainMonster

If I had money I would order one.

fabriciom

MountainMonster wrote:

If I had money I would order one.

Except for some minor detail errors I've got not complaints so far.

I wanted to learn on a Chinese frame before forking out 4k on a real one.

By the way the "copy" is mine. Everything except the group and pedals are all copies...

deer_dance

DJ58 wrote:

Cornerblock wrote:

I believe they're known as Lookalikes.

Shouldn't that be LookyLikey?

The correct name for a Chinese Look is a 'Rook'.