Robbing Barstewards the chinese... I try to avoid all things chinese but it ain't easy!
Buy British (or European or American)
I was chatting to an owner of a company yesterday who makes specialist performance bits for bikes in alloy or Ti
All engineered to do a job and perform
He answered my call at 5.22pm on a Friday(the website said they closed at 5pm)
I enquired about an item that was out of stock on their website and he said he had some (give him a minute and he would alter his website’s availability)
I asked about another part in Ti, which wasn’t showing and he said he removed most of the Ti, due to price rises, but still had what I wanted on the shelf & just buy the Aprillia one and he will swap it to the part for my bike, just add a note on the order page
So I bought them online, whilst on the phone and he would ship Monday
Superb service from RaceTorx
He was bemoaning the Chinese copying his engineered parts and then making them from
Monkey metal and then not adding specialised coatings to harden and prevent wear
But people buy the crap because it’s cheap and not durable