Direct drive wheel at Lidl! (April Fools 2021)

[David O'Reilly]

I picked up one of these yesterday, the quality is unbelievable.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Purchased one myself this morning. Glad I got in line early enough as they sold out in less than a few minutes.

 

[Terry Rock]

Wow! that's a great price for a direct drive wheel.
Maybe one of you should write a review on quality and experiences.

 

[random_racer]

Lucky you!
At least the housing for the electronics looks like the former sim-plicity one's with the original simucube board.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Wow! that's a great price for a direct drive wheel.
Maybe one of you should write a review on quality and experiences.

Would love to do that. It's so direct that it puts out 10000NM on each rotation. Unseen. During demo in our local Lidl I saw arms being ripped off flying around the store. Crazy amount of power.

Seems the Aldi is coming with a stunning cheap pedal set soon as well.

 

[Botmeister]

That Lidl logo on the rim OMG. That is so bad it's actually becoming quite good.

 

[Daniel R.]

Yep, got myself one too...

It says Leo Cocknar on the side. So no question where the quality comes from!!

And the triple screen, 36 button, 10 rotaries F1 Replica Wheel that comes with it is just RAD!!!

 

[cnhoff]

They also sell modified shopping carts as rigs.

 

[CRMS]

Good to see the Parkside sticker is so professional!!

 

[Michael Krone]

Lol, ok.. Wtf is going on here?!?!?

Haha that URL...

 

[Dont Panic]

The sensational low cost DD has arrived! DD 0.5

Millions of you asked for this product and we listened! A direct-drive wheel base with near-Podium performance at the price of an entry level wheel base!

We gave this almost impossible task to our brilliant engineers and their solution was ingenious: cut our DD1 in half! Everything will be smaller, even the giftbox and the driver software.

And while we were at it, we even integrated the super-innovative FluxBarrier™ technology. I can’t really explain what it does but it is sensationally good… as if it came straight from the future.

Of course we needed to save weight to reduce the shipping costs so we made the internals from carbon fibre, another innovation for sim racing and indeed electric motors in general.

The result is our brand new DD 0.5, available for €/$ 349.95!

This product combines the latest technology at a low cost, something we could only achieve by producing it completely with robots and selling it with chatbots. Even this text was generated by our new blogbot.

Watch out for more details soon.

 

[Michael Krone]

Kirkland DD wheels......

 

[Terry Rock]

Hopefully that Parkside Direct will make it's way to the US market.
I would have to build an 80/20 to support it but at that price, I certainly would.
Can't believe that price.
Makes you wonder if that Fanatec option is not as a result of the competition in this sector?
Anybody know what ever happened to those guys from Ukraine?

 

[Deleted member 197115]

I picked up one of these yesterday, the quality is unbelievable.
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That looks like sim-pli.city product. What is NM in that one?

EDIT:
Definitely like discontinued SW20. If it's the same 20NM Mige, it's a very good price for brand new Simucube1.

 

[Klingomucingo]

That looks like sim-pli.city product. What is NM in that one?

EDIT:
Definitely like discontinued SW20. If it's the same 20NM Mige, it's a very good price for brand new Simucube1.

probably will be available again @ Lidl on April 1st, 2022

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Oh man, seems like I got pranked. LOL

 

[metalnwood]

Oh man, seems like I got pranked. LOL

Hey, it could happen to any of us..... but it only happened to you..

 

[Deleted member 963434]

lol you got me there xD i even start checking lidl in my country was about to tell they maybe soon came to us too xD i checked brand and was amazed that drill and lawn movers company released its own DD xD that lidl logo though xD ebay for sure would be swarmed with them rims for 20 dollars price xD

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Had no idea what Lidl is, to be honest, we don't have this store chain in US, the price for now discontinued SC1 sounded almost reasonable. Guess only UK folks got it.

 

[AccAkut]

Had no idea what Lidl is, to be honest, we don't have this store chain in US, the price for now discontinued SC1 sounded almost reasonable. Guess only UK folks got it.

Lidl is a cheaper supermarket chain you find over much of Europe, and Parkside is their in-house brand for (rather shitty) tools and stuff. Once had a Dremel clone from Parkside, it worked for like one DIY project before dieing in a cloud of blue smoke