Monton
harksy
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Has anyone any expierience of buying from this site? just looks to good to be true...
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The prices look WAY too good to be true. A kit for $31?? I don't think so.0
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Either nobody has tried or is going to admit they got there gear on the cheap..
either way it does look a bit dodgy but decided to give it a go, ordered a Rapha team kit for £29 payment went through paypal and looks ok.
will let you know what the quaity is like when it arrives0 -
I've got a couple of bits of kit from them. Basically, because i've been dropping weight and size like crazy, and there was no point in paying Assos / Castelli money for kit that wasn't going to fit for more than a couple of months.
Bought 'em from various ebay accounts (but they're all made in same factory, labelled monton, and with exactly the same pictures etc.
Delivery via fleabay wasn't that bad - standard 2-3 weeks boat from china to the uk, marked as "samples" with "nominal value" so don't get clobbered in customs.
Quality. Hmm - they're pretty much what you'd expect from a £15 shirt - the fabric's not too bad - appears to be "fabric dye inkjetted" onto plain cloth, so they can pretty much produce anything that they can scan and get into photoshop. Fine for general riding - a decent base layer sorts out wicking, and good in cold conditions as a "colourful overshirt" with a darker warm/windproof layer.
I bought 2 l/s full zip tops for spring riding conditions which saw me through fine, and are now a bit baggy for roadwork, so it's going to be relagated to on the MTB and getting muddy in the next few months or so. I also bought a full set of the garmin barracuda team strip, faux castelli kit. The Shirt's pretty damned nice, and now they're no longer under the same name, I don't mind wearing it. The shorts... well - again it's fabric dye and lycra - the printed blacks are dark grey at best, and the "coolmax" pad is (ahem) minimal let's say... wore them once, on the indoor trainer, washed them, and they've not come out of the kitbag since.
They did the job for me, and at the start of next year's s/s shirt and shorts season, if they're too big, then WTF - bin 'em - though I'll admit if I'm down to somewhere near target, I'll be buying something a little more kosher0
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