Do you really want to go 40mph down a road on a bike that could be as strong as a wet bag. I look at that and images of the fork snapping into on braking flood my mind.

Really!
There are thousands & thousands of happy people out there riding their Chinese carbon bikes, including me on my £200 ebay f/f road bike.
The basic principal of check everything over properly when you get it, brand name or not, still applies.
Try not to be terrified of everything you don’t understand or have no experience with 😉

And yep, 180 days for PP disputes now!

As njee said, but those two examples above of bikes available in the UK for that price, surely means that the cost straight from the manufacture would make the ebay ones about right?

There isn’t any feedback on the bikes yet because apparently they get shipped, literally, by boat. So 30-40 days before you get them, and I think they have only been selling them for a few weeks or so.

I would be very tempted (still am!) to get one, but I have just bought a new fatty frame, so all my time/money is going into building that up at the moment.

Keep your eyes peeled on ebay and other fat bike selling pages, I managed to pick up some awesome second hand wheels for silly prices.
OO Fatty wheels can be cheaper because of their stupid sizing.

You were very likely targeted.
My friend had his very secure (the police said he couldn’t have done anything more to secure it, within reason) garage broken into last year.
They kicked and prised his garage door open, while they were in bed sleeping!
Cut off ALL the locks and chains, and stole all the bikes, which included his new top of the range £7000 Colnago he only got that year!
His garage just looked like all the other garages in the street, so it wasn’t random.

They will very likely be back, so keep any expensive bikes in the house for a while.
Secure it the best you can, but generally, if they want to break in, they will, all you can do is slow them down.

There are several accounts with the same sort of bikes, plus none of the bikes are particularly top end, which are the bikes that normally get posted in hacked accounts.
The fat bike prices are about right for the type of bikes they are too, and I have been watching them for a few weeks now, and hacked accounts are usually sorted pretty quickly and the sellers don’t respond to bad feedback.

Ive got an OO Fatty thats a year old, I didn’t think I needed another one, but I was wrong!
I am now building a Fatty Trail for racing/fast road rides because the frame was half price :/

Yeah, they just seem to do the typical Chinese thing, and that is just throw a lot of English words and numbers at their ad and hope for the best!

Floaters are half price at the moment, £20 and I think there is a tyre code out there which will give you another few pounds off that too!

Erm, £15 for pair with free post.

You don’t need a small wheeled fatty, you will be fine on a small framed normal fatty.
My friend who is around your hight, had a shot of my small OO Fatty and the only issue was the 130mm stem being to long. With a shorter stem, it would’ve fitted her perfectly.

My Fatty Trail frame arrived today, everything was perfect, but mine was a small frame.
They probably used the same size box as mine, which is where the issue probably is.

There is no real reason to doubt it, last year they had 25% off everything, thats why I now have a fat bike!

I am going to get a can or two of this, and make anything I want reflective.

Pawsy_Bear, if you actually read the OP, he got the phone face to face and then used PP gift.
That is the part I don’t understand, why would you not just give her cash?

Glad I could help 🙂

They’re normally for mounting a bike computer on TT bars etc…
Im sure you could make it work on the stay and you would have a round attachment for the light.
Obviously it would be sticking out from the bike and not in-line!

Use this mount on they stay, and you’ll be able to use any light you want without worrying about it being at the wrong angle.

There are two pairs off OO Fatty wheels plus tyres, on ebay at the moment.

Do you want a proper mudguard?
Some people use thse and they work really well.
And smaller.

I was coming home at midnight and the arseholes were still out firing off the loud ones next to peoples houses!

Li-ion, but check the voltage.
If your pack has 4x 18650, then it will likely be 8.4v.

Ive never had a Nate, but what about a Floater?
When I do road rides with mates on their road bikes, I was using V8’s, but A few times I couldn’t be bothered swapping tyres and just left the floaters on, put them up to 20psi and found they weren’t that much harder to pedal.

The problem is with the reflector size.
In the effort to make everything smaller, they reduce the reflector and then have to increase the lumens to make up for that.
Lumens is a worthless figure if the reflector doesn’t or cant do its job, its just wasted light.

As others have said, the old 10w Halogen lights were pretty good (for the day) because the reflector was big it made all the difference, and you could get away with smaller output.
Whereas now, some of the small lights these days could probably fit inside the old 10w halogen head unit/reflector!

1000-lumens-v-500-lumens

There you go, I fixed the title from you.

I agree, they’re great, but so much cheaper on ebay.

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Projector for cinema room, TV’s are big ugly things.
What distance will you be sitting from it?
Do you not have a blank wall to project the image onto?
I used my friends white/cream wall to project a huge 120/140″ picture and it worked really well.
My 42″ TV broke a few months ago, and because I had a small pocket projector (see here)already, I just got a 100″ pull down screen, and I now use that for viewing TV etc…
Despite the size, I do prefer it over having a big TV sitting in the corner all the time as I can just put it away when I not using it.

I thought I’d update this thread because the second set of Ceramic pads lasted a few months & 900 miles while using brand new AVID HS1 Rotors, again, 95% road riding.

While having a look on their forum, I noticed I wasn’t the only one having issues with their ceramic pads.
There are no pictures, but he said the pads last a few hundred kms and nearly broke his XT-discs, so no lightweight disc there.

I wasn’t going to bother contacting DB, but after the second set of pads wore very quickly, I sent them an email with pictures.
They are now going to send me new pads and discs, and they want to check out my discs and pads, so I will be sending them off.

So, not a great experience with these expensive ceramic pads, but it does seem to be a bad batch because even the cheap ebay Sintered ones I got for a few pounds a pair lasted twice as long and that was through winter riding.

Suggestions?!
Yeah, don’t lock nice bikes up outside in view of the public.
Just think of a lock as something that will slightly slow down a thief that really wants your bike.

I use a Masterlock Street Cuff, but its only used to lock up my £30 runaround.
Can you not buy a cheap runabout?

As long as you remember its about quality, not quantity, then you should be good.
Joes book should be fine for you, but don’t let that stop you searching the web and reading about what others do.
10-15 quality hours a week should be all you need.

There is one off them ending soon on ebay and an OO-Fatty with carbon fork too, a bargain to be had over the new price.

You can get fake Jawbones etc… from ebay around £10-£15 and you usually get several spare lenses with them, never seen them coming with clear ones though.

A lot of posts, but none mentioned that an XM-L will only put out around 1000 Lumens in optimal lab conditions, meaning, as said above, counting for heat/glass loss, a single properly driven XM-L at full power will give you around 800 Lumens and that will get less the more leds you add to small light due to the heat issue.

That figure would probably drop to around 300-400 lumens max each for any light with more than 2 leds.

Usually when the Chinese start selling/advertising stuff, the figures are only 10-20% inflated, but all it takes is for one of the liars to up the figures a bit and then everyone joins in, and then you get the stupid figure we’re on now.
The problem is, is that it works for the less informed buyers, so they buy the light with the biggest number.

As for saying that there are fake Solarstorm/Magicshine lights out there, do you guys not understand that those lights ARE the fakes?!

The Chinese rarely design stuff themselves, they wait for companies around the world to design and make them, then they just copy them and think of a stupid name to sell them under (it usually takes a few trys to find a stupid name that buyers like!).

There is probably very little difference between all the similar Chinese lights for sale (head unit only), only the speed of manufacturing. The ones that last longer are probably the ones that have had a bit more time spent on building them and making sure all the screws are tight and there is heatsink in all the correct places.
The battery packs are where you are better just making or buying your own, see my reply here.

You want this.

The mAh only tells you the capacity, its the volts you need to know.
Yours will probably be 8.4v, but make sure you know.
The 6800mAh pack will total BS, maybe half that at best, which is what the Chinese lies normally are!
I use 4x Panasonic in my box, just make sure they are ALL the same voltage when you put them in the box, DO NOT mix and match them. Get a multi-meter to double check before inserting them.

Get this charger, I just got one and its very good for the price.

As others have said, there is pretty much nothing you can do to stop someone stealing a bike if they really want it.

The only way around it is to buy a really cheap bike which will be more of an inconvenience than a financial loss if/when it gets stolen.

I managed to find an Edinburgh Contour 100 for £25 when I needed a cheap runabout which was going to be locked up in public areas.
My lock I use costs more than the bike.

Something like this would do, but even that looks a bit flashy!
All you need to do is just make the bike look a bit scruffy, slap a bit of Duct tape over the frame names etc..

My computer was getting really slow and constantly freezing, so I found some Youtube clips and this is one of the better ones ~

While you are cycling, you are so hyper aware of your surroundings,

Really?!

Where do you ride because nearly every cyclist I see has no interest in what is going on around them, so much so, it is actually frighting to see them cycling in traffic, and its not just the inexperienced ones either!

The fine seems too high, but he clearly decided to ignore the advice/course he was given and paid the price.
We need more done to stop these clueless cyclists riding about without lights at night.
The ironic ones I see are the ones with the bright cycling jacket and sometimes a helmet, and decided they don’t need lights because thats enough!

Vroom vroom!
Its heavy, but cheap. They are going for around £700.

My 9x XM-L was tested at around 5000 Lumens at start up, then down to about 3500 once it settles.
I got mine purely for curiosity, it is totally in-practicable, and I only need low for cycling around, high was only for willy waving and flashing (during the day or night) drivers who were naughty.