We’re predicting the Chinese brand takeover: Alex & Ollie discuss if 2025 will be the year Chinese bikes enter the World tour and if a Chinese bike brand (XDS Carbon-Tech) will be used at the Tour de France…
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00:34 Our set…
01:22 Astana Qazaqstan & Chinese brands in World Tour
04:37 What actually is XDS Carbon-Tech?
10:17 Hot and spicy tech
10:25 New limited edition Colnago
12:52 Demi Vollering’s one-of-one $50,000 Specialized S-Works bike
15:11 RACEMAX Integrale WPNT
17:17 New Pinarello F1
18:29 Dynamo hub from DT Swiss
20:31 Wahoo’s Desk V2
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22:35 Comments of the Week
25:09 Bike Vault
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24 Comments
What are your thoughts on Chinese brands? 🚴♂What do you think this will mean for 2025? 👀 Let us know what you're thinking! 👇
The amount of AD350 road bikes XDS sold during the cycling craze in China ( They are everywhere) allows it to fund its X-LAB project and start sponsor Astana. The team is in good hands in terms of frame quality, but Astana will need to help XDS develop something more distinctive and original.
I also apperciate your "ambiguity" when you were talking about Giant and Merida's place of origin.
"For charity" that's a nice way of putting it. In the 1920's, the mafia used terms like "extortion"
I hope a chinese company uses their own branding. Cuts the prices and gives younger riders a chance to buy a cheaper good quality carbon bike. And hopefully it destroys the cycling snobbery
Specialized : "Made in China"
Another brand : "Made in China"
GCN: OMG pros are gonna ride Chinese bikes.
Smuggle via Mexico 🇲🇽 😂
Guys the colnago video was awesome but even more awesome was the bike itself, colnago have really surpassed themselfs, the welding & design is just lovely
They’re all on Chinese brands.
Was Dare not Chinese
Chineese companies… i still want to make sure my neighbours and myself have a job. So no. I will keep buying as local as i kan. If only campag would make something priced as a 105…
Were Saint Piran testing the xts bikes this season?
As per the website, the Colnago is priced at € 17.500. It is a ton of money. However considering the price of other super bikes from Trek, Pinarello etc and the craftmanship in the limited Colnago it seems like a fair price – not that I'll be buying one soon :o(
XDS might be the best selling road brand in China for the past two years thanks to its AD350 model.
Although some of the China brand have a high quality finishing but I will still choose a European or US brand bike. Just like their China phone. Still a question quality till now.
I believe a brand represents a product service or concept. The consumer makes the decision based on the value proposition of the brand. Broadly if you like/dont like the brand you buy it/dont buy regardless of where the actual product is made. Most of us choose iPhones over Huawei. Both made in China……
I was just looking at the website and they don't even hide the fact they produce frames for Orbea, so their frames are already in the peloton
Just wanted to thank you for talking about new 3T paint schemes and not showing a single one. Outstanding job there!
are you moving to hanks barn?
I'm mildly worried that the Chinese framesets/components are going to go up in price, so they won't be such a great deal, and then there are going to be a new breed of low cost Chinese framesets, and the QA/durability issues will start all over again (risk goes back up). I hope not, but companies have to make money, demand is there, they are cheaper than "name brand" stuff, etc.
Politicians screw up everything they touch. Higher tariffs on goods from China is not going to help increase manufacturing in the US when the environmental laws, zoning, prices of raw materials which will have to be imported, hinder any startups. I don't get Trump's idea of making America better when in fact this move is going to hurt our economy drastically. Who the Hell asked him to do this? To make his plan work we have to become an industrialized manufacturing nation again which means pollution and increase use on resources.
It simple don't buy anything associated with America. there is plenty alternatives.
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I need a less expensive bicycle. I can’t afford even a mid level with cable shifting. I’m keeping my 2011 Fuji alive. I only upgraded to 11 speed 6 years ago when it was already about 9 years old at the time. 13 speed coming out or already out. Recently was shown an ad on FB for a Chinese company brand electronic shifter with derailleurs. Something called Winstop. It is very similar to SRAM but way less expensive. Does not ship to the United States.
Wahoo's new head unit is gonna be cool. Finally getting a big o touchscreen