Hey everyone it's Tuesday again
Which normally means that I have a tips and tricks video for you guys
But recently and when I say recently I mean several months ago I was inspired by several videos on
YouTube called buying cheap
Blank fill in the blank off of the wish app and I thought it would be fun to go onto the wish app and buy
some cheap BMX parts and just
See, what we get so I went on there I picked three things out for an order total of eighteen dollars and ninety-five cents with
a shipping cost of six dollars totaling in
$24.95 for these three different items and I thought that we can make a fun video
Opening these BMX parts from the wish app so I actually ordered this stuff
When I had the idea a few months ago I put the order in on August
11th and we're gonna start out with some
brake pads and I want to read the exact title on the wish app for these brake pads it says
equipment holder accessories pads road braking shoes blocks quality rubber cycling bike v
brake bicycle brake and I paid
95 cents for these brake pads I haven't opened yet but typically
when it comes to BMX brake pads you see anywhere from six to
twenty dollars for brake pads whether they're clear
or black compound
So let's get these open and see what 95 cent
brake pads from China look like they're packaged just like anything else you'd expect from China and
Like I said I ordered these on August 11th they didn't come in until
September
22nd so if these turn out to be okay and you're okay with a
Month's wait time then maybe it could be worth it depending upon how much shipping is so
here we are
95 cent brake pads
They give you the normal brake pad hardware
you would expect and
They look like 95 cent brake pads these
almost honestly feel like plastic with like a very thin rubber coating on top they do come with the
Nuts on them that your allen wrench goes into so that's a plus
And they actually are directional front
front left and right which is more than most brake pads have most brake pads just have an arrow it shows which way goes to
the front at least tell you
Which way you should mount them so these are the 95 cent brake pads
Not much to say about them without
actually trying them so let me know in the comments if you guys want me to try out these things that I bought and
See
How they actually work two of them are braking related so these are the 95 cent brake pads
We're gonna toss those to the side and we're gonna move on to the next item from the list
This one was already open but I promise I haven't seen it yet these are some plastic pedals I bought these for
Six dollars on the wish app and like I said I ordered them
August 11th these ones came in
September
22nd as well same day as the brake pads
I paid six dollars for these ones and I want to read you the title from the wish app for these it is one pair
bicycle pedals mountain bike MTB Road Cycling alloy pedal vintage bearing BMX
ultralight pedal bike accessories
six colors as
I'm looking at this title on the wish app right now
they're actually available on there for three dollars and sixty cents right now so if
You like these pedals it might be worth checking the wish app if you don't mind waiting a month to get them so
easy to open here I
Actually paid a little bit more because I wanted the black color I just wanted to make sure that I got black pedals for whatever
and so I can already see reflectors on these I honestly don't even know if these are gonna come in the
9/16 size
that we need for
BMX pedals
it looks like they are they are 9/16
Okay
It is honestly funny I don't
These look used the pins on them are
Awful the reflectors are built-in. Oh
There's no okay, the title said bearing
There is definitely no bearing in here. I'm gonna be showing close-ups on the screen while I'm talking about this
There's no bearing in this pedal
Wow
These are terrible that one doesn't want to spin
the middle is just
terribly made these okay the brake pads a
Maybe those will probably work if you're not really trying to do tricks they could work on a bicycle
so you could probably get away with that these pedals same you could probably get away with just
Having these on a bicycle but there is no way
that you would want to ride these for any period of time on a real BMX bike
Everything about these are just bad other than the fact that they're super light like I said they're on sale for three dollars and
sixty or eighty cents whatever it, was probably not worth it at all
All right so we got a page of pedals pulled up here
oh
There are some pedals that are cheaper than that eight dollars eight dollars for real BMX pedals that are plastic it's
Definitely worth spending a little bit more money to get something real $10
$12
Those are colt pedals so you know that they're at least made by a good company so I would say
Don't waste your time with cheap pedals off of the wish app but
I will say that in looking for pedals on the wish app
I did find some that looked like they would be good pedals and they look legit they were about the same price as
real BMX or mountain bike pedals though so you could probably find something
comparable from a real bike shop or online somewhere
But I'm saving the last one what I think will be best
this is a gyro kit
Everything that you need as far as brake cable and the jakiro goes this was
$12 on the wish app and I want to read you the title for this as well BMX brake cable
front plus rear in parentheses extra long gyro rotor spinner and
it's available for 11 dollars and 70 cents I paid $12 so you could save 30 cents on this
this one isn't a huge difference from what you could pay for a
Odyssey gyro kit but I have a feeling that it's gonna be pretty similar so let's open this up and see. What a twelve dollar
brake kit looks like
comes in its own bag
and
Already you can see?
that it's
Honestly not gonna be that much different
We'll start with the cables oh
Maybe if we can open
So
here are the upper cables
which also look like they're like
Used, but not used they're worn but I mean
these look just like any other gyro cables
Cable is just as thick as any other cables so I mean honestly if you're in a pinch and you had to use these you
could probably do it so that's the top cables let's check out the bottom cable
Bottom cable is about the same it looks just
Dirty like this was in someone's garage
The cable doesn't look new I mean, what do you expect
From the wish app for
$12 it slides decent though so I mean if you had to use this you definitely could, so that's the rear cables
now we've got
another cable
but what I presume is supposed to be the front I
don't know this is just an extra cable I guess but it's
Super super short I don't know what you're gonna use this on
This wouldn't even go all the way to the front I don't know I don't know what this is for I
Have no idea. I guess you could use it as your straddle cable and then
The last piece is here we have a gyro plate
which has this little
slot thing in it for what I'm guessing is a old-school fork this is definitely not going to go on to a
modern BMX fork then we've got
This plate I think it's called but this is for if you don't have gyro tabs and this gives you a I wrote ABS
But again this is definitely for the old-school headset and fork design and then we've got our gyro
which is
And no it's not Ben never mind it looked like it, was bent? But I mean this is what you expect?
whenever you pay $12 from China on the wish app
so
That's everything that I got on the wish Apple my gosh these
Bearings this is so poorly made but like I said that's everything I bought let's let's bring it all together
This is $25.00 in BMX parts
From the wish app
Don't waste your money buying BMX parts on the wish app
I probably didn't have to say that but I did it so you don't have to and
Anything that is on there that looks like it could be worth it costs about the same price as a real legitimate
Company's part does these things are not
safe to put on your bike you might be able to get away with the brake cables and the brake pads for a little bit
but in the long run
spending the extra money to get real parts from real companies
What you need to do and it's?
better off for your safety really
if you guys like this video
And you want me to do more videos like it
I hate to break it to you but it's not going to happen
Because the only other parts for a BMX bike on the wish app
Or is like one stem and some chains and things like that that if you break them and you ride them
you're gonna get hurt and I'm not gonna waste forty bucks on a stem and a
Chain that ten dollars more you can get a different stem from a real company you can actually
Trust if you guys are new here hit the subscribe button down below I will be back next Tuesday
With a tips and tricks video that should actually be helpful and I also make a BMX news video on
Fridays and have other types of riding videos and streams throughout the week
Moral of the story is you get what you pay for and you should never buy cheap BMX parts from the wish app
I want to thank you guys all for being here and watching
don't do what I did and
We'll see you tomorrow for another video goodbye
You