aroundqube
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Please post em if you got em. I'll start - EM3ev 10% off batteries Black Friday Sale – Get 10% Off All EM3ev Batteries | EM3ev
Black Friday Sales
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Not sure how many of them are actually "sale" prices, vs prices that have been lowered after raising them to make them look like sale prices, but there are a fair number of useful cheap items on Aliexpress at the moment, supposed to be going until Dec 5th.
I found a few ebike and bicycle related items that could be useful, some of them at pretty good deals, such as some Avid BB7 calipers (almost certainly clones) and kits. Though it's always hard to be sure you're not getting a counterfeit (and thus possibly unreliable) item, there's a new problem that makes this worse:
They have changed their system so that reviews and ratings are no longer for the item you are actually looking at. They are now stated to be for items that are "similar" to the one you are looking at, sold by anyone on the site. So you can no longer tell whether any item is good, bad, or even has ever been reviewed at all, which makes it very unsafe to buy anything at all there anymore. The actual phrase they use is "The reviews displayed are from various sellers for similar product in AliExpress."
I had a bunch of cheap crap in my cart I was considering for the Snuggles The Wolf project (mostly servos and the like) until I saw that notice under the reviews on an item that seemed like a particularly good deal. Since some of the parts I want would be far outside my budget (of zero :lol: ) any other way, I'll probably get them anyway...but if I had any affordable trustworthy source I'd use that instead.
It's also very hard to actually get to specific items, since a page may show you an item you want to see more about, so you click on it, and instead of taking you there, it may take you to a completely different "deals" page that might, somewhere in the thousands of things on it, contain the item you were looking at...but since it only loads a few of those at a time as you page down, and you can't search it, and eventually the page will crash before it ever finishes loading all the items (after a few dozen page scrolls usually), you can probably never actually get to and purchase that item you first saw, so it might as well just be a scam.
Note that if you can figure out (via full item names / etc, urls and item numbers) which item you're looking at on a page, you may find that identical item on a "sale" page with other items for cheaper (sometimes a by a lot), but restricted on the number of them you may purchase at a time. (it doesn't usually stop you from making a second purchase with more of them, though, as long as they have that many in stock).
I found a few ebike and bicycle related items that could be useful, some of them at pretty good deals, such as some Avid BB7 calipers (almost certainly clones) and kits. Though it's always hard to be sure you're not getting a counterfeit (and thus possibly unreliable) item, there's a new problem that makes this worse:
They have changed their system so that reviews and ratings are no longer for the item you are actually looking at. They are now stated to be for items that are "similar" to the one you are looking at, sold by anyone on the site. So you can no longer tell whether any item is good, bad, or even has ever been reviewed at all, which makes it very unsafe to buy anything at all there anymore. The actual phrase they use is "The reviews displayed are from various sellers for similar product in AliExpress."
I had a bunch of cheap crap in my cart I was considering for the Snuggles The Wolf project (mostly servos and the like) until I saw that notice under the reviews on an item that seemed like a particularly good deal. Since some of the parts I want would be far outside my budget (of zero :lol: ) any other way, I'll probably get them anyway...but if I had any affordable trustworthy source I'd use that instead.
It's also very hard to actually get to specific items, since a page may show you an item you want to see more about, so you click on it, and instead of taking you there, it may take you to a completely different "deals" page that might, somewhere in the thousands of things on it, contain the item you were looking at...but since it only loads a few of those at a time as you page down, and you can't search it, and eventually the page will crash before it ever finishes loading all the items (after a few dozen page scrolls usually), you can probably never actually get to and purchase that item you first saw, so it might as well just be a scam.
Note that if you can figure out (via full item names / etc, urls and item numbers) which item you're looking at on a page, you may find that identical item on a "sale" page with other items for cheaper (sometimes a by a lot), but restricted on the number of them you may purchase at a time. (it doesn't usually stop you from making a second purchase with more of them, though, as long as they have that many in stock).
offGridDownUnder
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From Australia, Cap Rouge has good batteries, and say their Black Friday sale will begin tomorrow.
Electrify Bike in Utah says 10% off for Black Friday
Electrify Bike in Utah says 10% off for Black Friday
Yes agreed to all your difficulties/ranting about deceptive/untruthful/obfuscated reviews/product details/product selection, etc. on ali*.*. And just try successfully redeeming any of the offered coupons.
The best "Black Fridays" are at my local secondhand on 50% off days. Mid 90s Trek 850, ready-to-ride $15. Specialized Stump Jumper (missing crank) $10.
FYI... Make the rounds in alleys & second hand outlets ASAP after Xmas, 'cause that's when old bikes start littering dumpsters & secondhands.
FYI... Make the rounds in alleys & second hand outlets ASAP after Xmas, 'cause that's when old bikes start littering dumpsters & secondhands.
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ebike4healthandfitness
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I hope you do not plan on electrifying that 1995 trek 850.
No plans to motorize the 850, it has chromoly tubes,... so will likely be surgically dissected for future 'bent projects.
docw009
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Why not? I have an electrified steel 1990 Trek 800. I thought it would be rolling when all the alloy frames will have carcked. Is it a death trap.
were you using just the original pads, or did you try something like koolstop?
Alternately, a different cable, or lever, or even different calipers.
I had a trek 800-something similar to that that had plastic levers; using metal ones off something else made the brakes better in hard braking. Pads were aged hard so I had already replaced them.
I had a different bike (forget which kind, maybe it was the nishiki I still have in the shed) from the same era, same type of brakes, and the problem was with the y-connector that pulls the calipers up and together; something about it having too much slack to take up so by the time the lever was fully pulled it still didnt' pull hard enough. I fiddled with it not really knowing how to adjust it and eventually made it work as needed, but I am not sure what I did. I replaced the pads too, as they were rock hard and didn't work right.
Another one I changed the fork to one with bosses in the right spot for "modern" linear-pull arms and changed out the levers/etc (all those came off a different bike that was junked frame/etc).
Alternately, a different cable, or lever, or even different calipers.
I had a trek 800-something similar to that that had plastic levers; using metal ones off something else made the brakes better in hard braking. Pads were aged hard so I had already replaced them.
I had a different bike (forget which kind, maybe it was the nishiki I still have in the shed) from the same era, same type of brakes, and the problem was with the y-connector that pulls the calipers up and together; something about it having too much slack to take up so by the time the lever was fully pulled it still didnt' pull hard enough. I fiddled with it not really knowing how to adjust it and eventually made it work as needed, but I am not sure what I did. I replaced the pads too, as they were rock hard and didn't work right.
Another one I changed the fork to one with bosses in the right spot for "modern" linear-pull arms and changed out the levers/etc (all those came off a different bike that was junked frame/etc).
15% off here, mostly for Canada/USA, but do ship world wide just need to contact directly for outside North America
www.AffordableEBikes.ca
www.AffordableEBikes.ca
Here's a possibly useful link for those that need to figure out if aliexpress items are actually sales or not
www.pricearchive.org
used it to compare prices for the last few months of all the stuff in my cart and found that all but a couple were several dollars higher "on sale" than their typical regular prices...not very surprising.
AliExpress Price Tracker: Pricearchive
The only price tracker for AliExpress with price history since 11.11.2016 + browser extension for Google Chrome, search by image, parcel tracking, price drop email alerts.
used it to compare prices for the last few months of all the stuff in my cart and found that all but a couple were several dollars higher "on sale" than their typical regular prices...not very surprising.
