Temu for cycling goods

[Stoffel76]

13 hours ago, V18 said:

Love temu and buffalo shipping. By the time you receive the order you've forgotten what you needlessly added to your trolley a few weeks ago. Like a real surprise gift from my past self! (he had terrible taste. I like it.) 

Lol, I have a car cigarette lighter in the form of a big red button with the words FIRE MISSILE on its way with my current order! 😄🤦‍♂️

 

Did get some cycling niknaks - clips to hold cables together, value caps, and presta to schrader valve adaptors   

[The Ouzo]

23 minutes ago, Stoffel76 said:

clips to hold cables togethe

these are crap.

They are a 2 piece design. great in principle because it allows the 2 sides to swivel independently from one another, but the mechanisim to hold them together keep coming apart

[MajG]

9 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

these are crap.

They are a 2 piece design. great in principle because it allows the 2 sides to swivel independently from one another, but the mechanisim to hold them together keep coming apart

I have the same clips that's swivel from temu and with a wknd riding witfontein trails and tokai DH trails they held up perfectly 

 

Maybe you just toooooo fast lol

[bebnin]

I have no self control and bought a bunch more stuff from temu. Mostly for the next 2 bikes I want to build.

 

Hybrid brakes, red levers. Green and red bb, "photochromic" glasses. Cable housings, bb tool, brakes pads, fancy oil slick chain, Pedal straps. Everything looks pretty good quality. (Brake levers aren't as nicely finished as I would've liked, the rest is good though.)

[justinafrika]

I'm going to be somewhat judicious about what I buy from them in future.  Last night Channel 4 aired The Truth About Temu: Dispatches.  Carabiners had fraudulent safety claims and markings (and had never even been submitted to the UIAA), a baby harness which was claimed to be safe up to 15kg broke at the first instance and immediately with a 5kg sandbag, and insulated screwdrivers and wire strippers had fake safety markings and fraudulent certification (What the actual ....).  Oh, and all the metal jewellery submitted for analysing had extremely unsafe levels of various heavy metals.

Let's just say I ain't buying brakes from these guys.  At this rate I'm wondering if the cycling socks and loose shirts for chilled summer rides I got are emitting unsafe levels of alpha, beta or gamma rays.

Edited June 1, 2024 by justinafrika

[splat]

18 hours ago, justinafrika said:

I'm going to be somewhat judicious about what I buy from them in future.  Last night Channel 4 aired The Truth About Temu: Dispatches.  Carabiners had fraudulent safety claims and markings (and had never even been submitted to the UIAA), a baby harness which was claimed to be safe up to 15kg broke at the first instance and immediately with a 5kg sandbag, and insulated screwdrivers and wire strippers had fake safety markings and fraudulent certification (What the actual ....).  Oh, and all the metal jewellery submitted for analysing had extremely unsafe levels of various heavy metals.

Let's just say I ain't buying brakes from these guys.  At this rate I'm wondering if the cycling socks and loose shirts for chilled summer rides I got are emitting unsafe levels of alpha, beta or gamma rays.

You get what you pay for...

[Guest Mike Dewing]

23 hours ago, bebnin said:

I have no self control and bought a bunch more stuff from temu. Mostly for the next 2 bikes I want to build.

 

Hybrid brakes, red levers. Green and red bb, "photochromic" glasses. Cable housings, bb tool, brakes pads, fancy oil slick chain, Pedal straps. Everything looks pretty good quality. (Brake levers aren't as nicely finished as I would've liked, the rest is good though.)

How are the photochemical lenses from them.? I was back and forth of getting from Temu but I just bought Oakley sutro.. 

did I f$&k up.? Are the lenses good.?

[Scott roy]

28 minutes ago, Bichael Dewing said:

How are the photochemical lenses from them.? I was back and forth of getting from Temu but I just bought Oakley sutro.. 

did I f$&k up.? Are the lenses good.?

You won’t regret the Oakley’s. They’re fantastic. 

[Guest Mike Dewing]

1 minute ago, Scott roy said:

You won’t regret the Oakley’s. They’re fantastic. 

I just love Oakley.. these photochrome sutro are to replace my regular lenses sutro and I have the flight jacket with prizm lenses that I will rotate between.. wanted a photochrome pair for those early starts.. otherwise the flight jacket are just epic and would use those for everything if they came in photochrome.. 

[MajG]

1 hour ago, Bichael Dewing said:

How are the photochemical lenses from them.? I was back and forth of getting from Temu but I just bought Oakley sutro.. 

did I f$&k up.? Are the lenses good.?

I have oakley photochromic x 2 pairs

Bought pair of scvcn brand off temu photochromic for like R187 and they don't darken instantly, but also not too slow. 

Very comfy too. 

Build quality not thee best but decent. 

Only concern is if the lenses  break in a crash... Do they shatter or snap into small shards etc to hurt ur eyes

[Guest Mike Dewing]

2 minutes ago, MajG said:

I have oakley photochromic x 2 pairs

Bought pair of scvcn brand off temu photochromic for like R187 and they don't darken instantly, but also not too slow. 

Very comfy too. 

Build quality not thee best but decent. 

Only concern is if the lenses  break in a crash... Do they shatter or snap into small shards etc to hurt ur eyes

Yeah I wasn’t convinced I was going to receive a good product from Temu.. that scvcn is what kept popping up.. stuck to what I know to be solid🤷🏼‍♂️

[MajG]

1 minute ago, Bichael Dewing said:

Yeah I wasn’t convinced I was going to receive a good product from Temu.. that scvcn is what kept popping up.. stuck to what I know to be solid🤷🏼‍♂️

I was OK to risk the R187

 

And it's not bad at all, but it's not superior over the oakleys

[Guest Mike Dewing]

4 minutes ago, MajG said:

I was OK to risk the R187

 

And it's not bad at all, but it's not superior over the oakleys

Oakley are great, they just consistantly solid.. 

[bebnin]

I got the scvcn for like r66 somehow, so it was very much worth it to try. wouldn't have paid r187.

[ChrisF]

https://dailyinvestor.com/retail/53682/blow-to-temu-and-shein-in-south-africa/

[Alouette3]

4 hours ago, ChrisF said:

https://dailyinvestor.com/retail/53682/blow-to-temu-and-shein-in-south-africa/

They make it sound like the tax is something new to target Temu etc. There have always been that tax on clothing good, Temu, Shein etc just wasn't declaring it correctly, so this was bound to happen. One of the main reasons I've always tried to avoid bringing clothing into the country, unless you willing to pay the tax and then VAT