AliExpress & TEMU Price Hikes: What Cyclists Need to Know for 2025!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Big changes are coming for cyclists who shop on AliExpress and TEMU! The U.S. government has made significant updates to the "de minimis" import rule, meaning buying cheap cycling gear from overseas will soon get more expensive. I dive into what these new regulations mean for the cycling industry, how they’ll affect your wallet, and why prices are expected to rise in 2025. Whether you've bought TPU tubes, pedals, or e-bike batteries from AliExpress, you need to know what's next as tariffs and safety standards are set to shake up the market. This is all part of the larger disruption in the cycling industry, and I'm here to break it down for you.
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Interesting stuff thanks for provided some insight on this!! The store continues to look nice too
Happy that you're happy. When I used to work in a local bike shop (2009-2010-ish) I used to buy all my bike parts from Chain Reaction Cycles (CRC). A brand new Shimano chain was cheaper through CRC than what my local bike shop could buy from the local Shimano distributor (which is absolutely wild!). It took a long time, but CRC has largely been shut down.
It doesn't help that an S-WORKS SL8 frame costs $9,500 AUD, and you can't deny that there are now some quality parts coming out of China that are not direct knock-offs (for example carbon wheelsets which are both lighter and feature more modern internal and external widths than many non-Chinese competitors), but that said it absolutely blows my mind that counterfeit products can be bought on AliExpress (I think the people buying the counterfeit goods are just as bad as the people making them!).
I understand the prices. S-Works has always, always been expensive and I could never afford one, but the SL8 is just as good, just a few grams heavier. Also, there are more bad quality products than good on AliExpress. Some are actually dangerous.
CRC was also an excellent source for tires. At one point there was pushback, and CRC no longer sold Shimano at all. They had way too much high end inventory for MTB at high prices and doing that, along with losing the Shimano inventory, was probably what did them in.
That rule change won't have a thing to do with saving small business. That will force you to use importers and they get their cut. The fact that bike parts cost tons here and are much cheaper for the rest of the world.
This country is all about a middle Men.
Not necessarily true. A lot of countries impose a 19% VAT on top of import fees. So buying SRAM parts in Europe or Latin America is more expensive than the USA
@@gograva come on merlin sells apex axs with cranks for over 100 bucks less than performance does without. So add the crankset you get 1107. To 786. That is just a quick search and that is 321 cheaper.
It is on everything in the industry. The middle man gets paid in the states cuz it is not the shops.
I have ordered from China the UK and Europe because it is always a third or more cheaper. Example ordered ltwoo group and gravel frame then wheels and put an entire full carbon bike together for the wife for the same money as the entry point trek gravel bike. Carbon everything bars seatpost stem frame wheels. The middle Men make all the money but not off of me.
We cracked down on the same thing in my country, result was Amazon got bigger (not exactly only Amazon, but MASSIVE stores, we have 4). With the enshitification of Google personal connections here for bussiness is the only way to grow, im not a social person but ye i can see you happy, you look like a person that enjoy social connections by the way you talk to the camera.
Good information. Thanks for putting it together and sharing! Seems like a good thing in the grand scheme and long term.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. The world of geo politics and cycling collide into a banger of a RUclips suggested video 😅
Cheap products do not hurt the consumer.
Those rock bros bottle cages are garbage, they scratch and lose paint extremely fast. The pedals are nice looking but the bearings are absolute junk. You can't spin them with your fingers and using them with hard bottom cycling shoes is disastrous as the spine for the spindle usually sits almost as high as the cleats. If youre wearing hard bottom shoes, you'll never get solid footing on those pedals. They look well built in my opinion but they failed with the bearings and platform. Just my honest opinion.
Yes, I only buy the bags now. I'm not confident in the rest of their gear.
Its good and bad news, it removes any reason for prices to come down on the big name products.
I'm all for small businesses coming out on top. I think even with the tariff increase, it'll still be cheaper to buy things like wheels and groupsets direct from Chinese manufacturers, but I can't feel bad about that--a lot of those manufacturers are also doing the work for North American/European companies, and then THEY turn around and mark the price up 200% and pretend like they did it themselves. But it's not unreasonable for everyone to have to play by the same import rules, and I won't feel bad if AliExpress and Temu lose out here.
and this is most temu for most that read why show ur bias not our faul aliexpress is chapter than most shops , u add alir but the law was written FOR TEMU
It really depends. The company in the USA does all the design and engineering. They also pay for all the safety certs. Some companies also have to pay initial tooling costs to outfit the factory. The water gets really muddy pretty fast.
@@gogravabro, it's not rockets we're talking about here is it? I don't think there's much innovation happening with bike bags.
Let's not beat around the bush, batteries aside, cheap plastic/metal parts from bikes need minimal regulation. Noone is interested in regulated UL coded tpu inner tubes.
Sounds like US term for capitalism suited for the US people. Don't get me wrong, most countries biases themselves too, but don't pretend to fly the flag of freedom/capitalism 😊
I’m not saying it necessarily needs regulation, but what is your legal recourse if something (wheel, crank arm, frame, seat post, crank arm) break when descending at 30mph? You can’t seek legal recourse against a Chinese company.
@@gograva life doing dangerous stuff has risk. That is the problem people want to call a lawyer when they probably should live in bubble wrap. the facts that most countries you won't go bankrupted from a bike fall. One real injury I will lose my house and I know that every time I ride. I still do it cuz you only live once. I just do it on my Chinese carbon and others do it on rebranded Chinese carbon at four times the cost.
@@gograva In the corporate world, they have very creative ways to weasel out of legal recourse, they use professionals to do it. the reason they have professionals is the value/consequence is higher.
Little insider knowledge, more often than not, its the threat of discontinuing business which hurts the most rather than compensation/correction. Sometimes the "victim" will actively foot the bill, I am talking Tier 1 automotive OEM (GM/Ford/BMW) level.
Money buys assurance, understanding what the true value is for quality/assurance/reliability is where you get the most value.
The bike industry brands has been milking the margins for decades vs the amounts of technology/innovations invested. I'm truly surprised it took this long to even start leveling out the playing field.
# You remember how expensive bottle cages used to cost? it's a piece of moulded plastic/metal you can get in similar quality in DIY stores!
# Axles are modified M10/M12 bolts you use for fencing
# Bars etc are bent pieces of extruded aluminium for $/meter. Even use a construction style pipe cutter to cut it.
I bought a suspension seat post from aliexpress and it arrived as an empty thin plastic mailer with a seat-post sized hole in it. They said I couldn’t get a refund because I didn’t film the “unboxing” process.
It’s a risk
Consider focusing on used bikes and reusing used 🚲 parts.
Tariffs are needed by countries too incompetent to manufacture products themselves. Solution is to let the dead wood go bankrupt, let innovative companies take over.
Nope they force companies to make local or give a hand up that is it.
Harley Davidson has gotten more Free govt cheese than almost anybody. Old union buster in Ronnie signed a increase of 50% tariff on bikes over 700ccs. Did good old HD innovation happen yet? Still waiting. What about the chicken tax that keeps light truck market unfair because of the 25%.tariff imposed in 1963. Nope it is not how it works. When the big three auto makers in the states needed 60 years of help to compete in their own market it is a fucking crime.
You spew nonsense because huge companies have lobbed for their interests and never get competition because they buy not having it.
Most of the changes were are looking forward to were already on the way thanks to the current administration. All of the changes we're dreading, are coming thanks to the next one. And no talk of raising the federal minimum wage to go along with this.
shouldnt the title be "What US Cyclists need to know?"
There are variations of what the USA is doing that is also being reflected in other countries like the EU and AUS.
I see that you've removed my comment pointing out that these rules have only been proposed and still have months before becoming final. Are you that thin-skinned?
I haven’t removed any comments unless RUclips’s auto filter did.
@@gograva Then I apologize for making the accusation. It's possible my comment was deleted for having an external link. In any event, my point was that these regulations are only proposed and probably have months to go before they become final. If you google "de minimus new regulatons," the first result you see will probably be the White House press release announcing the proposal.