Petrichorwheels
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almost certainly.
the irony is that someone buying a fake whatever could quite likely have got a decent item from a less revered brand for rather less than they paid.
Fake bikes thread.
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almost certainly.
the irony is that someone buying a fake whatever could quite likely have got a decent item from a less revered brand for rather less than they paid.
Cycleops
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Very true. What does a fake Rolex cost ? £2-300? You could buy a very nice Orient watch, also mechanical movement for same or less, a good quality Japanese made watch.
On the other hand you wouldn't be able to join in with that guy on YouTube with hideous tattoos and neon white teeth veneers who pontificates about Rolex. He was mugged and beaten for his timepiece not long ago so you wouldn't get that happening to you either.
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Milzy
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That is exactly why I went for a Dolan E’tape for roughly the same cost. Screw fake bikes. Especially if cycling is your main hobby you’d think that folk would keep it real.
Mine cost less than twenty pounds, it says Rolex on it but its obviously a fake, but as I have stated above the auto mechanical movement is still keeping good time 20+ years later.
Cycleops
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It keeps very accurate time, so I am not sure how another watch would keep better time. I have tried to determine who made the movement but there are no clues, I suspect its Chinese.
Cycleops
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I don't think anyone is going to mug you for it 
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I don't see the fascination of watches, especially those garish 'diveresque' ones, I understand the skill of the maker when they are mechanical, but not digital.
When the blind driver knocked me of my Cannondale, the carbon forks snapped in half, I replaced them with some Chinese one's, these did the job just as well and were still on the bike when I sold it.
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I know a few people with DH gate carbon wheels which go well. They’ve never had problems & use them as winter wheels. I’ve just bought some Hunt 4 seasons which are super robust but slower than loads of cheaper wheels.
CharleyFarley
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It can be hard to avoid fakes. I bought a Nikon camera and needed a spare battery for it. Couldn't get one from a camera shop so I bought one online, cheaper than Nikon's but figured it would be okay. Then found my charger wouldn't charge it. This meant that I would have to buy the charger for the cheaper battery, so I returned the battery. Nikon refused to deal with cameras that caught fire because of the batteries. They put a chip in their batteries and chargers so that the charger would only charge an official battery.
It would be great if something could be done with fake bikes to identify them. Perhaps a chip implant in the genuine bike that a bike shop could identify. But then at that point you've already bought the bike. Still, you'd know if it was fake.
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At the beginning of the century I used to work for a large computer components company, one of the products was memory, it was almost like trading on the stock market with the volatility of prices, we once bought a substantial amount in direct from Samsung (I think it was) their own branded memory, direct from their UK warehouse, when it arrived it was fake.
