Author Topic: Bought any cycling stuff today? (Read 874843 times)

BrianI · « **Reply #4450 on:** 20 March, 2015, 01:43:34 pm »

A Skiiddii Single Wheel Bicycle Trailer off Amazon!

This one seemed to have the best reviews. Looking forward to doing some bicycle camping touring over the summer!

Canardly · « **Reply #4451 on:** 20 March, 2015, 06:47:19 pm »

Cor they are slightly bargainous let us know how you get on.

interzen · « **Reply #4452 on:** 20 March, 2015, 06:48:19 pm »

A Gen3 SPOT tracker.
My bank balance will recover. Eventually.

robgul · « **Reply #4453 on:** 20 March, 2015, 06:56:11 pm »

A s/h Van Nicholas Ventus f&f ... and then some bits from Chain Reaction.

I already have a Van Nic Yukon - hopefully my wife will never see both of them at the same time and I'll get away with it

Rob

Karla · « **Reply #4454 on:** 24 March, 2015, 09:29:03 am »

A disc whel

My bank balance might recover eventually, I live in hope.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #4455 on:** 24 March, 2015, 05:37:04 pm »

A Road Morph, to replace the one I managed to smash.

mcshroom · « **Reply #4456 on:** 25 March, 2015, 10:38:15 am »

Ordered one of these

http://www.merida-bikes.com/en_int/bikes/road/race/2014/scultura-cf-904-318.html

I think this means it's time to lose the Raleigh Crit (with the filed out sprung front dropouts, framesaver nut and other bodges that's probably not a bad thing)

Canardly · « **Reply #4457 on:** 25 March, 2015, 03:22:21 pm »

Oh very nice...!

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #4458 on:** 25 March, 2015, 05:59:32 pm »

Nice!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4459 on:** 26 March, 2015, 09:57:03 pm »

A packet of Haribo.

The vendor threw in, for free, 2 x gear cables, 2 x brake cables 1 x rear mech.

Jurek · « **Reply #4460 on:** 26 March, 2015, 09:59:30 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 26 March, 2015, 09:57:03 pm

A packet of Haribo.

The vendor threw in, for free, 2 x gear cables, 2 x brake cables 1 x rear mech.

I think you'll find that the Haribo are metric and will, therefore, be useless on your imperial Mercian (Green, in colour).
Best forward them to me.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4461 on:** 26 March, 2015, 11:18:04 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 26 March, 2015, 09:59:30 pm

Quote from: Tim Hall on 26 March, 2015, 09:57:03 pm
A packet of Haribo.

The vendor threw in, for free, 2 x gear cables, 2 x brake cables 1 x rear mech.
I think you'll find that the Haribo are metric and will, therefore, be useless on your imperial Mercian (Green, in colour).
Best forward them to me.

Thank you for your concern. Sadly, some greedy bastard* has scoffed the lot.

* me.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4462 on:** 26 March, 2015, 11:39:56 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 26 March, 2015, 09:57:03 pm

A packet of Haribo.

What colour ~~are~~ were they?

rafletcher · « **Reply #4463 on:** 27 March, 2015, 11:15:43 am »

A pair of very YELLOW Bont Riot MTB shoes from Wiggle.

T42 · « **Reply #4464 on:** 27 March, 2015, 04:02:59 pm »

Ordered a back wheel rebuild from LBS.

Andrew Br · « **Reply #4465 on:** 28 March, 2015, 02:15:11 pm »

After two previous attempts, I finally got some Gore Windstopper leg warmers that fit.
The 1st pair were M (like my failed pair) but I couldn't get them up my far from massive thighs.
The 2nd pair were L and were very tight but also too short.
These are XL and they fit very nicely at the top of my legs but it's a little bit of a struggle to get them over my calves and my calves are quite skinny.
It's lucky that I no longer play football; my legs have shrunk considerably since I stopped.
Strange that Gore don't expect cyclists to have leg muscles ............

Praise to Bike 24 for having good prices and an excellent returns system

After today's windy ride home from Helen's, I'm thinking about a pair of Windstopper arm warmers.
I just need to decide on the size

ETA: there's an excellent sewing place in Whitefield and they managed to fit a new zip to the old pair so they've been given a new lease of life.

tiermat · « **Reply #4466 on:** 30 March, 2015, 02:19:20 pm »

Four caps, two plain old cotton ones (due to me snapping the peak on my other two) and two Walz wool with earflaps (due to me having temporarily mislaid the one Ruthie bought for me).

anna load of socks.

Vince · « **Reply #4467 on:** 31 March, 2015, 11:14:57 pm »

A pump. The little spigot thingy that lets all the air out of Schrader valves had broken off the long unused mountain bike's pump and I would like to ride it next week.

Quint · « **Reply #4468 on:** 01 April, 2015, 02:01:12 pm »

A red Hope rear hub, white Halo rim and some Swiss stainless spokes (red nipples of course) for Barbara's ICE 26, twill make it even posher

rafletcher · « **Reply #4469 on:** 01 April, 2015, 02:36:51 pm »

A stem, to fit my new (oversized) bars. And a longer Di2 cable than the one I originally fitted, so I can pull the seatpost battery out without risking hauling the internal JB down the downtube into the BB.

Oh, and some Superfeet insoles to try and see if I can resolve the numb toed issue that persists despite trying different pedals, shoes and cleats.

T42 · « **Reply #4470 on:** 01 April, 2015, 02:45:48 pm »

Iwanson gauge, for a chum.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #4471 on:** 01 April, 2015, 06:38:07 pm »

Not "bought", but took delivery of a replacement Garmin after my old one started behaving very oddly. Top service from Garmin who replaced it FOC.

interzen · « **Reply #4472 on:** 01 April, 2015, 06:51:16 pm »

Not quite yet, but when I've done a bit more measuring and checking of various things: a diamond shaped sculpture made from lightweight iron pipes.

Karla · « **Reply #4473 on:** 02 April, 2015, 12:12:56 pm »

Phanta, how old was the old one?

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #4474 on:** 02 April, 2015, 01:41:19 pm »

Cheap as chips Aldi bike pump (5 Euros). Possibly useless (have not tried it) and undoubtedly tricky for an effectively one-armed lady but having bought a CO2 pump and cartridges a friend told me not to just rely on that but also have a backup pump. So I wanted something small and light as the backup pump which hopefully I won't need to use.

Also, rather handily, Aldi were selling German cycle route books/maps so I got the two Rhein ones that my upcoming tour covers. I already have the Bikeline books but these books have more detailed maps (although less other info, not that I need that as I know what I'm doing) so I'll take the Mannheim to Köln one instead of both Bikeline books (I know the way home from Köln so don't need that one). The Bikeline books are from Konstanz to Mainz and Mainz to Rotterdam so I'd have needed to take both.

The Aldi books were 4 Euros. Bargain!