This is something Brian Van owner of sportbike track gear has been screaming about for years. Especially about brake levers than break off in your hand while braking to foot pegs that break off.
Always so many idiots on the facebook groups buying these knock off parts. It'll be good to be able to share this video. Hopefully it'll knock some sense into people!
The problem starts with ridiculous prices for local products. If prices were reasonable people wouldn’t hunt for cheaper options. Good work shaming consumers but not critiquing manufacturers.
If a company spends £10,000 developing a part it will only sell 1,000 of, that's £10 per unit to recoup before anything else. The fakers aren't paying anything. Never mind the vast difference in production and material costs. Surely anyone can see why genuine parts are much more expensive.
£250 for a set of GB racing and £25 for a knock off set. So in theory you could buy two fake sets and stack them together making them twice as thick and still save £200 which is half a weeks wage for most people. For a lot of people the price difference is just too big to justify for something that isn’t safety critical. Then going on about the safety of these fake products as a major key factor and then using the engine casing shields as the product to conduct tests on…. Maybe crash bungs are a little more critical but not really for rider safety more for just trying to protect more expensive parts of their motorcycle.
Have them for years on my track bikes. Tested already three times unfortunately, but fortunately they never gave up and fully protected the engine covers. One with 180kmh, 160kmh and one with 90kmh. People forget if they buy this stupid fake stuff, when their engine covers and in worst case even inner parts are damaged during a crash, let it only happen once, they could afford the original covers 10 times. Don't save money on the wrong end folks. Love the GB racing covers, greetings from Germany.
I've used GB Racing covers on all my track bikes. Thankfully I never had to put any of them to the test, but they certainly felt dense, substantial and just really really solid and purposeful. Plus they looked trick as owt too
A big issue is that a lot of products are manufactured in China and branded by UK companies to be sold as UK products. Admittedly those UK companies may have better quality control and check on importation. However there's also the legacy of poor manufacturing quality of British products of bygone years. Today's companies unfortunately have to work harder to prove themselves. Personally I don't need engine covers but I'm assuming GB know what they're doing and I hope they're not greedy when it comes to profits.
Good points made Taylor 👍🏻 You wouldn't buy a knock off helmet to save your head, why would you fit knock off engine protectors for your pride and joy ? GB racing are the industry standard.
You’re also not buying FIM tested helmet only! Which GB Racing is! If all you can buy tomorrow is FIM lid for £1k , then I am sure people will be buying knock off Helmets for their heads without even thinking twice! 🤷🏻♂️
@@isitmeorwhat But for the street it does work and depending on the quality of the clone product it will work perfectly for the track too and many people attest to.
@@MrBCRC I agree, as I say a lot of UK designed parts are made elsewhere. Triumph and Harley even Kawasaki and others manufacture in China. Who is to say these fake parts aren't of a standard? Personally I think it's pot luck quality wise as whomever makes these things skimps on process and materials to make more money not unlike the British companies of the past. I've seen Aston Martins with Modeo switch gear and 80's Rolls with MDF parcel shelves. Buyer beware!
The reality is that there's a market for street level case protection and GB racing aren't interested in that market so the Chinese went and picked up the slack. There's no valid reason to lay any blame for that on the Chines or the consumers that are buying them. No one buying these thinks that they're genuine. This video is just fake outrage, fake exposure, fake comparisons. Grass brake pads means that some engine case covers won't work??? Seriously did you smoke those brake pads? Everyone knows that these are visual knockoffs which is the only downside of the whole thing. They're falsely claiming to be GB racing when they're not. Remove the GB racing name and people will still buy them because the fact is that they do the job for a reasonable price and they're cheap enough to replace frequently if needed. Plenty of people have crash tested them (even on the track) and proven that they work. The only downside of them is that the bolts should be discarded and replaced with good ones and you didn't cover that at all. A better test than drilling through them would have been to put a flap disk on an angle grinder and see how well it wore through. After all, isn't that their purpose? No one is buying clones for track use where they're ideally built to handle a slide from 200+ km/h. They're being bought for street use and for that they're sufficient and they're also priced accordingly. You falsely claim that GB racing are missing out on sales. That's utter BS. If the clones suddenly disappeared tomorrow people wouldn't run out and buy genuine GB racing covers because they're way too expensive for what the consumer wants or needs. The only way you can claim this is hurting GB racing is if they actually did make a street version which they don't. It's track or nothing when it comes to GB racing and thus people won't buy GB racing even if the Chinese clones didn't exist.
Everything you say sounds very logical however the fact of the matter is even if GBRacing created a "Street" version the price difference would be so slim that it wouldn't justify the cost/effort to manufacture two products side by side. They would still be the same RRP and the street version would effectively be a worse product. GBRacing know what they are doing and simply cannot compete with the price point of Chinese clones. It further rubs salt in the wound when the cloned products piggyback and leverage themselves from the path that GBRacing paved. I do agree with the somewhat biased approach of the video, but what it more so highlights is a far more complex problem at hand that will damage the motorbike industry in the long-term. Without companies like GBRacing supporting and innovating the bike industry, the companies that directly clone products won't have any good or new products to copy in the future.
Most important fact is some Chinese GB Racing copies come with free longer bolts! DO NOT USE THEM THEY WILL SNAP IN YOUR CASES! Plenty videos on you tube about this problem.
I always buy direct from GBRacing but this issues has been rampant and obvious for decades at this point. Off topic comment... I wish GBR would up the quality of their bolts that come with the kits. There are always a few bolts that corrode and go crusty after a year or so. I've had 3 or 4 that have corroded so much that they ended up stuck in the engine block and needed drilling out.
I’m in New York and got scammed on a Chinese made alternator cover. Almost destroyed my S1k. It broke my crank sensor. The company claimed to be a US based bmw parts dealer. When dug deep I found out it was a Chinese company that made a fraudulent website that now doesn’t exist the second I found out. I hope this video reaches motorcycle lovers everywhere
Good to see Chinese fakes exposed, maybe something to think about if you're thinking about buying a Chinese bike. Or anything else. Hope Taz was OK with you drilling holes in his engine protection.
Weird irony that some of R&G products despite being made here n the UK the quality is bloody awful. I'm on my second tail tidy from them and I've had to basically repair it a few times.
Well done that video is GREAT!!! I have visited GB Racing a few years ago and I also know R and G and I have seen exactly how well their products are designed and manufactured. These Chinese engine cases are worthless and if you think they are gonna protect your bike well er NO WAY. You get what you pay for eh???
I had a customer snap off a clutch cover bolt from a cheap copy set that I had to drill out,what a nightmare job. He said there genuine gb racing & I’ve fitted enough to know that was a load of rubbish
The bolts are the real part that needs exposing with these and this video completely ignored them. The covers are generally perfectly fine for street use but the bolts should be discarded and replaced.
GB covers are the best product to come into bike racing ever..trust me ive had the riders that tested them so many times! they work... buy the real ones you will not regret it.
Won’t run a bike road or track without gb covers! Expensive? Kind of, but they are cheaper than oem casing and when you crash as much as me, every penny saved helps 😂
It's not protective covers you should be worried about - 80% of spark plugs on Ebay and Amazon are fake. NGK, Champion, Bosch, Denso. That's what will fuck up your car or bike in a heart beat.
I would have bought the non carbon versions for a like for like comparison as csrbon look a like are a different material. My friends bought real smd fake gb covers and we nearly muxed them up they were so close
I should have said I cut that from the video as it was too long with it in but they’re not carbon they’re basically just a plastic that have got a carbon sticker on 😂
My work mate bought a "Brembo" RCS19 break and clutch system. They looked absolutely legit and I was impressed. He initially said he paid the $480NZ for each which is the typical price here in New Zealand each side sold separately. 3 weeks later he had an accident low siding his bike, thankfully for him only on a 50kph suburban street causing mostly cosmetic damage to the bike along with the foot peg on right hand side coupled with his ego taking a hit. Talking to him later he said that the front break Master cylinder seal burst when applying the break lever spewing break fluid down and under the bike causing him to lose traction and low side. Talking with him a few more weeks later asking him why he's not taking a warranty claim with the Brembo distributor her in NZ, he finally admitted he bought them off Aliexpress for $130NZ for the pair. Also admitting later he was a fool. He apologized for lying too and admitted it was because he knew everyone would call him a fool for wasting the money and putting his safety at risk. You have to be some kind of special to take a chance on knock off break parts already knowing you're being a fool and doing it anyway !!
What's so shocking about good parts at a reasonable price? Sure like any marketplace there's good and bad but take the time to read the reviews and you're be able to skip past the bad.
This is something Brian Van owner of sportbike track gear has been screaming about for years. Especially about brake levers than break off in your hand while braking to foot pegs that break off.
Always so many idiots on the facebook groups buying these knock off parts. It'll be good to be able to share this video. Hopefully it'll knock some sense into people!
The problem starts with ridiculous prices for local products. If prices were reasonable people wouldn’t hunt for cheaper options. Good work shaming consumers but not critiquing manufacturers.
If a company spends £10,000 developing a part it will only sell 1,000 of, that's £10 per unit to recoup before anything else. The fakers aren't paying anything. Never mind the vast difference in production and material costs. Surely anyone can see why genuine parts are much more expensive.
£250 for a set of GB racing and £25 for a knock off set.
So in theory you could buy two fake sets and stack them together making them twice as thick and still save £200 which is half a weeks wage for most people.
For a lot of people the price difference is just too big to justify for something that isn’t safety critical.
Then going on about the safety of these fake products as a major key factor and then using the engine casing shields as the product to conduct tests on….
Maybe crash bungs are a little more critical but not really for rider safety more for just trying to protect more expensive parts of their motorcycle.
Have them for years on my track bikes. Tested already three times unfortunately, but fortunately they never gave up and fully protected the engine covers. One with 180kmh, 160kmh and one with 90kmh. People forget if they buy this stupid fake stuff, when their engine covers and in worst case even inner parts are damaged during a crash, let it only happen once, they could afford the original covers 10 times. Don't save money on the wrong end folks. Love the GB racing covers, greetings from Germany.
I've used GB Racing covers on all my track bikes. Thankfully I never had to put any of them to the test, but they certainly felt dense, substantial and just really really solid and purposeful. Plus they looked trick as owt too
A big issue is that a lot of products are manufactured in China and branded by UK companies to be sold as UK products. Admittedly those UK companies may have better quality control and check on importation. However there's also the legacy of poor manufacturing quality of British products of bygone years. Today's companies unfortunately have to work harder to prove themselves. Personally I don't need engine covers but I'm assuming GB know what they're doing and I hope they're not greedy when it comes to profits.
Good points made Taylor 👍🏻 You wouldn't buy a knock off helmet to save your head, why would you fit knock off engine protectors for your pride and joy ? GB racing are the industry standard.
You’re also not buying FIM tested helmet only! Which GB Racing is! If all you can buy tomorrow is FIM lid for £1k , then I am sure people will be buying knock off Helmets for their heads without even thinking twice! 🤷🏻♂️
Not everyone can afford the stuff, because the prices are literally insane, of basically everything.
So why spend money on something that doesn't work? Leave the bike as is. It's probably better as OEM than fitting sub-standard parts to be honest.
@@isitmeorwhat But for the street it does work and depending on the quality of the clone product it will work perfectly for the track too and many people attest to.
@@MrBCRC I agree, as I say a lot of UK designed parts are made elsewhere. Triumph and Harley even Kawasaki and others manufacture in China. Who is to say these fake parts aren't of a standard? Personally I think it's pot luck quality wise as whomever makes these things skimps on process and materials to make more money not unlike the British companies of the past. I've seen Aston Martins with Modeo switch gear and 80's Rolls with MDF parcel shelves. Buyer beware!
Cheap things aren’t good & good things aren’t cheap
@@Bernie1964 sometimes things being expensive does not guarantee they're of good quality either.
The reality is that there's a market for street level case protection and GB racing aren't interested in that market so the Chinese went and picked up the slack. There's no valid reason to lay any blame for that on the Chines or the consumers that are buying them. No one buying these thinks that they're genuine.
This video is just fake outrage, fake exposure, fake comparisons. Grass brake pads means that some engine case covers won't work??? Seriously did you smoke those brake pads?
Everyone knows that these are visual knockoffs which is the only downside of the whole thing. They're falsely claiming to be GB racing when they're not.
Remove the GB racing name and people will still buy them because the fact is that they do the job for a reasonable price and they're cheap enough to replace frequently if needed. Plenty of people have crash tested them (even on the track) and proven that they work. The only downside of them is that the bolts should be discarded and replaced with good ones and you didn't cover that at all. A better test than drilling through them would have been to put a flap disk on an angle grinder and see how well it wore through. After all, isn't that their purpose?
No one is buying clones for track use where they're ideally built to handle a slide from 200+ km/h. They're being bought for street use and for that they're sufficient and they're also priced accordingly. You falsely claim that GB racing are missing out on sales. That's utter BS. If the clones suddenly disappeared tomorrow people wouldn't run out and buy genuine GB racing covers because they're way too expensive for what the consumer wants or needs.
The only way you can claim this is hurting GB racing is if they actually did make a street version which they don't. It's track or nothing when it comes to GB racing and thus people won't buy GB racing even if the Chinese clones didn't exist.
Exactly my thoughts
Everything you say sounds very logical however the fact of the matter is even if GBRacing created a "Street" version the price difference would be so slim that it wouldn't justify the cost/effort to manufacture two products side by side. They would still be the same RRP and the street version would effectively be a worse product.
GBRacing know what they are doing and simply cannot compete with the price point of Chinese clones. It further rubs salt in the wound when the cloned products piggyback and leverage themselves from the path that GBRacing paved.
I do agree with the somewhat biased approach of the video, but what it more so highlights is a far more complex problem at hand that will damage the motorbike industry in the long-term. Without companies like GBRacing supporting and innovating the bike industry, the companies that directly clone products won't have any good or new products to copy in the future.
Most important fact is some Chinese GB Racing copies come with free longer bolts! DO NOT USE THEM THEY WILL SNAP IN YOUR CASES! Plenty videos on you tube about this problem.
Nice one taz good luck for next season.
please keep this series coming for other fake items.
I always buy direct from GBRacing but this issues has been rampant and obvious for decades at this point.
Off topic comment... I wish GBR would up the quality of their bolts that come with the kits. There are always a few bolts that corrode and go crusty after a year or so. I've had 3 or 4 that have corroded so much that they ended up stuck in the engine block and needed drilling out.
That's why I always try to buy from factory, read reviews etc.
I’m in New York and got scammed on a Chinese made alternator cover. Almost destroyed my S1k. It broke my crank sensor. The company claimed to be a US based bmw parts dealer. When dug deep I found out it was a Chinese company that made a fraudulent website that now doesn’t exist the second I found out. I hope this video reaches motorcycle lovers everywhere
Thanks Taylor! Crazy the level the reached!
Good to see Chinese fakes exposed, maybe something to think about if you're thinking about buying a Chinese bike. Or anything else. Hope Taz was OK with you drilling holes in his engine protection.
Definitely! And he was luckily 😂
Fake Alpinestars gloves actually come with a fancier bag than authentic ones.
This is an impressive advertorial for GBRacing, look forward to more paid for promos
Super insightful! Liked and subscribed, thanks TMac!
Thanks Archie 💪🏼😁
Weird irony that some of R&G products despite being made here n the UK the quality is bloody awful. I'm on my second tail tidy from them and I've had to basically repair it a few times.
I’ve been let down by R&G not once, but twice on the quality of the finish… Even wrote a direct email to R&G about decline in quality control! 😔
Well done that video is GREAT!!! I have visited GB Racing a few years ago and I also know R and G and I have seen exactly how well their products are designed and manufactured. These Chinese engine cases are worthless and if you think they are gonna protect your bike well er NO WAY. You get what you pay for eh???
Cheap things aren’t good and good things aren’t cheap
I had a customer snap off a clutch cover bolt from a cheap copy set that I had to drill out,what a nightmare job.
He said there genuine gb racing & I’ve fitted enough to know that was a load of rubbish
The bolts are the real part that needs exposing with these and this video completely ignored them. The covers are generally perfectly fine for street use but the bolts should be discarded and replaced.
Great work, Taylor.
Thanks 😁
GB covers are the best product to come into bike racing ever..trust me ive had the riders that tested them so many times! they work... buy the real ones you will not regret it.
I can also vouch for testing them numerous times 😂😂
Great video. All the best.
Won’t run a bike road or track without gb covers! Expensive? Kind of, but they are cheaper than oem casing and when you crash as much as me, every penny saved helps 😂
Pity GBracing didn't make name plates that didnt wash off !!!!!. Lot of money for something u can't even see the name on in a few months
I got as far as 'we're losing tax money'.
Thought you were testing a lap timer!?
cool, but perhaps make them more affordable? £50 for a brake lever protector is also a scam.
It's not protective covers you should be worried about - 80% of spark plugs on Ebay and Amazon are fake. NGK, Champion, Bosch, Denso. That's what will fuck up your car or bike in a heart beat.
Any discount codes available from GB racing? 😅
I would have bought the non carbon versions for a like for like comparison as csrbon look a like are a different material. My friends bought real smd fake gb covers and we nearly muxed them up they were so close
I should have said I cut that from the video as it was too long with it in but they’re not carbon they’re basically just a plastic that have got a carbon sticker on 😂
Good job dawg
My work mate bought a "Brembo" RCS19 break and clutch system. They looked absolutely legit and I was impressed. He initially said he paid the $480NZ for each which is the typical price here in New Zealand each side sold separately. 3 weeks later he had an accident low siding his bike, thankfully for him only on a 50kph suburban street causing mostly cosmetic damage to the bike along with the foot peg on right hand side coupled with his ego taking a hit. Talking to him later he said that the front break Master cylinder seal burst when applying the break lever spewing break fluid down and under the bike causing him to lose traction and low side. Talking with him a few more weeks later asking him why he's not taking a warranty claim with the Brembo distributor her in NZ, he finally admitted he bought them off Aliexpress for $130NZ for the pair. Also admitting later he was a fool. He apologized for lying too and admitted it was because he knew everyone would call him a fool for wasting the money and putting his safety at risk. You have to be some kind of special to take a chance on knock off break parts already knowing you're being a fool and doing it anyway !!
Plastic engine covers?? NRC alloy are solid and not plastic
Will save your time:
Original is good, fake is bad.
Fake may be bad but isn't always. Plenty of people have crash tested these (including on the track) and shown they're up to the task.
good video. I thought the genuine ones were a bargain anyway.
Absolutely stunning video
Thanks so much 😁💪🏼
Crash protection stuff is a bit like a condom, you need to know that you can rely on it when push comes to shove! Flimsy is not a good attribute.
Also not good if they come with unexpected holes in
And to see UA-camrs openly buying Ali express parts and trying to praise them is shocking. One female UA-camr in particular!
What's so shocking about good parts at a reasonable price? Sure like any marketplace there's good and bad but take the time to read the reviews and you're be able to skip past the bad.
You just figured out that the Chinese brands sell fake gear?? 🤣 Who'd have thought!
So should we buy a Chinese motorcycle? If this is the best they can do then I don’t think so.
10:26 WRONG you have Mad Mark!
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