I Bought 6 Cheap Cycling Products from Temu – Worth the Money?

Are cheap cycling products from Temu actually any good? I put 6 products through their paces to see whether there are any bargains to be had.

https://www.temu.com

Content
00:00 Intro
00:36 3D printed saddle
2:41 Speed cycling shoes
5:04 Cycling glasses
6:47 Multitool
8:37 Bicycle bell
9:31 LED lights
10:33 Are they worth it?

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are you fed up with the crazy high prices of most cycling products these days and want a cheaper alternative where you come to the right place you may have heard of a website called teu a Chinese online store that sells all manner of products at crazy crazy lay prices so to find out if they’re any good I bought six products recently and I’ve been trying them against their mainstream expensive rils to see if they’re actually any good so this sadle for example just 18 and 47 a lot cheaper than this one here which is over £300 but can cheap actually be any good I’ve become a big fan of saddles like this from physique and specialized over the last few years for the use of Cutting Edge 3D printed technology that gives amazing levels of comfort especially on a long ride compared to foam and other technology used right now but Jolly Jolly expensive although prices are slowly coming down but still very expensive so when I saw this saddle listed as a 3D printed saddle where price of just 1847 I clipped by straight away and I’ve been riding it for the last few weeks and well mix of results I have to be honest now it does look like a 3D saddle looks very similar but it isn’t what they’ve actually done is used a foam material and just punched out honeycomb holes around the saddle so you get none of the benefits of the 3D technology we have here and it’s really really quite firm rock hard in fact there’s no no give there at all along any area of the saddle so a very firm saddle but the only saving grace is the shape is quite nice it’s quite broad small hammock shape and a hole down the middle so the shape is okay well really really firm and it’s also really heavy too yes there’s no carbon fiber but heavier than this one from special which also has no carbon fiber heavy lightweight similar shape to the specialized mirror as well but a bit longer in the nose but a similar shape along the back so I am bitterly disappointed that a saddle wasn’t sold as described and the comfort is just terrible so for me yes it was cheap £18 and 47 p is a very appealing price but I won’t be using it any longer because the comfort is just terrible and it’s really heavy and it’s not a 3D saddle at all really feel let down by that a waste of money but hopefully a product behind me might show more promise next up a cycling shoe because shoes can cost a lot of money well over1 and up to 300 if you’re feeling very flush but these were listed for £4 29 which sounded like a bargain so a nice white shoe off a good start of I like white and we have a rotary dial on the top and a felcra strap adorn with text speed which I love and they also come with cleats as well these look Kio compatible cleats but I went for some Shimano SPD SL cleats so so of the shoes is drill for three bolts cleats like these or two bolts if you use Mount bikee style SBD so you have your option so great for commuting if you want that option so there are lots of things to like about this shoe they have a nice soft lining very well cushioned tongue and a size and a shape fit my 45 size feet pretty well but my first ride on these was pretty poor the amount of Flex from these shoes is just off the scale I’ve never ridden such a flexy shoe in my life now the sole of the shoe feels pretty stiff it’s not like race level stiff there’s a bit of give a bit of flex which is okay in a sort of lowend mid-range shoe don’t actually want too much stiffness if you’re just riding to work or riding for fitness and fun but it’s the upper of the shoe that really is a problem there’s so much flexibility so much softness there’s no support at all and I found even after just 30 minutes of riding my feet were sore getting real hot spots around the side of my feet from the lack of support and control these shoes have on my feet and I had to turn around and come home because the pain was off the scale which a real disappointment because the price is amazing on the surface they look good nice closure system uh but the amount of flex and stuff just doesn’t re warrant the low price um if you’re looking for a really cheap shoe maybe for indoor training or just very allegedly casual cycling they might be okay but I re am hard pushed to recommend them over a more expensive shoe even entry level shoe costing 50 or 60 does offer more support and more Comfort than the offer at just under £15 so unfortunately hard to recommend next up I bought some new glasses which I always wear as a contact lens wearer and I am admittedly a big fan of Oakleys always have been but my goodness they are expensive so when these popped up for £330 Yes £330 I snapped them up straight away and these actually aren’t that bad these come in different colors I call like white as you can tell and these are photoch chromatic lenses so they adapt adjust to the levels of lightness and go dark when it’s sunny which I quite like in a pair of glasses so one pair of glasses that works well in different conditions and these actually feel all right they fit quite well I think they look okay and they got the big sort of lens shape going on quite a big field of view we have cutouts in the top to prevent misting nice rubber soft nose piece a soft gripping material on the arms and they fold up quite small and actually they’re okay they don’t feel as I mean Oakes are plastic aren’t they they’re plastic glasses but even these which are quite old feel nicer they have a smoother hinge they have a sort of more reassuring feel these do feel if I’m being honest cheap the hinge is a bit Snappy and they quite sharp in the edges and they have a sort of quite stiff feeling uh material about them so they don’t feel quite as nice as these yeah so I’m quite happy with that purchase £330 for a decent pair of Shades um yeah those are okay so those are staying in the keep pile right next up a multitool because everybody needs one of these for home Workshop jobs or on the road in your saddle bag and this one cost just £359 which is very very cheap indeed so 16 Tools in one fairly bulky fairly heavy but no bigger or heavier than that silker I often use and we have all the Allen key hex bolts there on this side we have screwdrivers flat blade and flips head and interestingly we have three sockets I’m not sure where the bike you can use those also have those old spanner bits as well three sizes of SP banner and that’s a Spoke nipple adjuster tool so I use a tool to work on my bike the other day I was changing stems around and adjust my satle height and use the tool bits are four and five mostly and those initial good Impressions quickly faded away because I discovered the tall bits are made from a very soft metal and even the five after some use some light use is rounding on the edges already so that shows the quality the metal in the tools just isn’t on the same level as a multitool from a well-known company like line um Silka and other companies that operate in this space so technically it does work but I am concerned worried already that a tool bits are rounding off after just some light use so for that reason it’s hard to recommend you can’t use a tool that’s rounding off and might do damage to your bicycle do damage to the bolts and it really is worth investing a high quality mul tool one with proper high quality metal tool bits that won’t round off after just 5 minutes use right next up some small accessories I bought a bicycle Bell looks very familiar to another Bell on the market from a company in Australia so I often put a bell on my mountain bike and my gravel bike when I’m riding off-road in the woods on shared paths we often come into contact with other Trail users dog walkers and having a baell is quite useful so I bought this Bell and put it on my mountain bike and it’s been pretty good actually it has a bail like sound it’s fairly high pitch not the loudest or most imposing but does make a nice tinkle and the fact it cost just £148 is pretty amazing so that I’ve been quite happy with and that going back on my bike after this video so it goes in the good pile now last up is a light and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to test a light when it cost 59 59 for an LED lights is just nuts so it comes in white and red for front and rear usage I have a rear light already so I bought a front light in white and if I turn on with but the front different modes that works okay actually they’re very simple it feels very lightweight which is good feels a bit flimsy Maybe and uses a simple rubber band to hoop around and loop onto the hanahar and this is actually been okay this I don’t mind so much I’ve used it in the rain a few times because it’s raining all the time here in the UK right now and it’s been okay but I can’t say it’s been absolutely drenched or kind jet washed but that is an Okay purchase that for 59 for I guess a fair disposal front light isn’t so bad so that is going in my good pile and I might buy a matching rear light to go with it so what is my takea away from buying cheap cycling products from teu well buying from Team itself was fairly painless and my shopping experience was okay really and the products arrived fairly quickly if worth adding that there have been reports in the media of te company uh selling your data which is a concern so definitely worth reading about t before you go and use a website but my experience buying from them was actually okay and the shipping time uh was pretty quick and I had no Customs issues like that but my experience with the actual products well hit and miss a 50% hit rate but multi tool rubbish shoes yeah no good at all saddle very disappointed I had high hopes for this one but I’ve since bought another saddle which hopefully actually is a 3D saddle from teu and that’s on it way now so stay tuned for the update but Shades yeah I like these they’re good light yes very happy with that Anabelle yeah okay so yeah some stuff on t- it’s okay some stuff is absolutely not worth the time money at all um so there are there are cheap products out there but some are too cheap to be any good is my experience so let me know what you think of the video and if it was helpful or interesting or entertaining and let me know what other products you want me to take test from teu or other websites like AliExpress by leaving a comment down below now I should add I came into the video hoping to find some genuine alternative to expensive products and I had no agenda I wasn’t deliberately going to slam any products under the bus I gave them a fair testing a fair trial uh over the last few weeks but some product disappointed and some impressed um I’ll put a link to T down below if you want to check out their products that are loads on there and as I said I bought another 3D printer saddle coming very soon to make sure subscribe to the channel by hitting that button right there and in the meantime if you want to see some other actually really good affordable products watch your video right here but that is all for today thank you so much for watching I’ll see you again very soon