Vampire or Orion?

[gnr racer]

I am after a lipo saddle pack, currently looking at the Vampire & Orion packs, the Orion being 5c higher & 100mah more.they are similar price, can anyone give me any feedback that would sway to me either pack?
Cheers

[markwilliamson2001]

Well I got the Vampires...they are pretty good.
They 'look' like the intellect saddles though, which are cheaper, but you need to shop around for them.

DMS do the vampires.

Hope this helps!

[dave-p]

i run a new set of intellects and 2 older vampires and the vampires are a lot better than the intellects.

[Darren Boyle]

Most of the LIPO's come from just a small handful of factories in the far east, however, many companies (including Vampire) will specify to the factory the spec that they wish to have made for them (which in turn will effect the price that they end up).

Just because some cells "look" the same, does not mean that they are the same inside, even "if" they have originated out of the same factory....

We here stories like those above very often that some cells look the same but get outperformed on the track, which is why we have been so happy with Vampire this season (and last) since in our opinion (yes I know we are expected to be biased) they deliver the best performance in relation to cost that there is - and several national off road victories this year and last go to prove that too. I understand there are more powerful packs out there, but they cost as much as £100 per pack whereas the Vampires have an RRP of just £69.95 and are available through many of our XF UK dealers for even less than that.......

HTH

[JohnM]

Like Darren said, just because they look the same, they're not, last year I had some Vampire saddles, and a pack of Demon ones, looked the same, but the Vampires were better in every way.