Are BEIOU bikes any good?

Are BEIOU bikes any good?

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Phooey

Original Poster:

12,575 posts

168 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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On Amazon - £599 for a Carbon fiber bike (BEIOU Carbon fiber Mountain Bike complete bike MTB bike BOCBM05A). rrp is £2000!

Seems a bargain. Are BEIOU bikes any good?

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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RRP isnt £2k! No one on earth would spend £2k on a mtb and be satisfied with that spec!!

Amazon at least, has a "suggested" then the "sale" price which makes it look like a huge saving. If it was a £2k bike it would have Rockshox or Fox forks, SLX/XT drivetrain and some wheels I had at least heard of, the components on the BEIOU are fit for a £300 bike at best, they obviously think the carbon frame will tempt people and BEIOU bump up the price accordingly. It will be a generic Chinese carbon frame, nothing bad about that in principle but its barely worth £600...

I'd look at the £600 bikes from Radon, Univega or one of the other Euro-centric brands from bike-discount.de first. They will be alu not carbon but with more reliable components.





Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 21st April 12:01

JEA1K

2,485 posts

222 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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A friend of mine once bought a CF full sus bike which he thought was the dogs. He was told it was a £2k bike reduced to £600 ... he couldn't give me any spec details (his bike knowledge less than poor) but when I finally saw it, I couldn't help but laugh. I seriously wouldn't have paid £100 for it. And he had the cheek to laugh at my bike because it was a hard tail.biggrin

Anyway, never heard of them and I wouldn't advise buying a bike from somewhere like Amazon unless you know what you're actually buying.

hondafanatic

4,969 posts

200 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Slightly O/T - This might not be a new thing and it's passed me by all these years...but I love in the description;

Speed Control System: SHIMANO ALIVIO(9S)

I'd have thought that Speed Control System would be brakes or using their method, legs.

hehe

Phooey

Original Poster:

12,575 posts

168 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Cheers guys. It's st then laugh

Flippin' Kipper

637 posts

178 months

Tuesday 21st April 2015
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Yea utter crap - frame may be ok but not much else.