>>1786063>they're stolen designs so it's okthat's the thing though
I've bought many clones and replicas of all sorts of components and gear. Occasionally its fine, but invariably the cost cutting will also include dodging the various construction methods that makes something good in the first place - single stitches instead of double on fabric items, poor quality fabric (that looks almost identical but doesn't have the denier or ripstop or continuous fibre length etc), worn out imprecise injection moulding on plastic, cheaper grades of resin and plastic without the reinforcement or stress modelling on carbon fibre, cheaper grades of aluminium prone to galling, shittier alloys, no forging where the original had it etc, and of course all assembled by people who are contemplating sticking their heads into the machinery they're forced to use.
