Thread to tell everyone what bike gear you've just bought !

Clever Pun

for the tweed run

linsen

2 x CO2 canisters and an adaptor, some lithium grease and new brake blocks.

The canisters were sufficiently expensive to ensure I don't get a visit from the PF for months.

The brake blocks are for Ashdown - think I will wear a whole set out :shock:

And when I said to the man in the LBS that lithium grease was not good for the environment, he cleverly pointed out that it was to put on my threads, not squeeze into rivers and such like

itboffin

Totalnewbie wrote:

itboffin wrote:

7 speed Shimano cassette for my tourers interim rebuild, I hope the friction shifters still work :?

What could go wrong with a friction shifter? Nice simple things they are (Apart from the cable pinging halfway through an audax when you don't have a spare cable/cable cutters, ahem, but that wasn't the shifter's fault).

Thanks it never occurred to me to carry spare cables I will add a couple to my saddle bag.

verloren

My new Boardman hybrid, ridden for <50 miles, just got its first puncture. This was quite startling as it had been leaning against the wall in my office for the last 4 hours before the tube suddenly went rather loudly.

I know technically this isn't a "tell us what you've bought" post, but it will be once I've found the best price for a pair of Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires

always_tyred

The Salsa bars are *strange* - flared drops, almost no forward reach. Anyone want a pair of Salsa bell-lap bars???

So, just ordered a Thompson elite seatpost AND pro alloy bars, for the new orange wonder steed.

....and another HH baselayer. My mouse slipped.

cjcp

Always Tyred wrote:

So, just ordered a Thompson elite seatpost

An excellent choice.

always_tyred

linsen wrote:

2 x CO2 canisters and an adaptor, some lithium grease and new brake blocks.

The canisters were sufficiently expensive to ensure I don't get a visit from the PF for months.

The brake blocks are for Ashdown - think I will wear a whole set out :shock:

And when I said to the man in the LBS that lithium grease was not good for the environment, he cleverly pointed out that it was to put on my threads, not squeeze into rivers and such like

Why is lithium grease bad for the environment? Its basically soap, isn't it?

sarajoy

Hi all!

Very excited, hope to have my hands on the below within a month, cyclescheme-sluggishness-depending!

Specialized VITA SPORT, size: 51cm

Equipment: Zefal 35mm mudguards, Blackburn Ex-1 rear rack, Agu Yamaska 475 rack pack, Endura Gridlock jacket, Endura Deluge gloves, Kryptonite 4ft cable, Cateye front and rear brackets, Specialized Air Tool Mini pump, Specialized inner tube (x2)

...and the other bits and bobs I've already got. Pictures to follow when I get them!

linsen

Always Tyred wrote:

linsen wrote:

2 x CO2 canisters and an adaptor, some lithium grease and new brake blocks.

The canisters were sufficiently expensive to ensure I don't get a visit from the PF for months.

The brake blocks are for Ashdown - think I will wear a whole set out :shock:

And when I said to the man in the LBS that lithium grease was not good for the environment, he cleverly pointed out that it was to put on my threads, not squeeze into rivers and such like

Why is lithium grease bad for the environment? Its basically soap, isn't it?

I don't know why. Mr Linsen told me and I believed him, because he is cleverer than me

itboffin

Soap you say.......

always_tyred

itboffin wrote:

Soap you say.......

I'm not proposing that you shower with it. But the lithium bit is used in personal care products, so it can't be toxic. Mind you, that's not to say that it doesn't destroy the planet. Keeps leather supple is one thing, planetary destruction another.

spasypaddy

today i received in the post a Descente sleeveless jersey for the summer (i know its winter but it was £13 on PBK) and i bought from Evans at lunch a new Specialized bottle holder for my fixie as i didnt realise but i need to drink whilst riding it even if its just 12 miles each way but too much effort... and a decent set of allen keys as again i didnt have any

itboffin

Always Tyred wrote:

itboffin wrote:

Soap you say.......

I'm not proposing that you shower with it. But the lithium bit is used in personal care products, so it can't be toxic. Mind you, that's not to say that it doesn't destroy the planet. Keeps leather supple is one thing, planetary destruction another.

planetary destruction you say woohaha!!!!!!!!!

Oh yes and I bought a huge AXE today not sure if it will or will not be cycling related yet :shock:

boy on bike

so, lithium in batteries is certainly a bit of a nasty, that's why you're not supposed to throw batteries into landfill (along with the cadmium and other stuff!). So does that mean lithium is always bad to get into water courses (such as when you wash lithium grease off your bike). Or is there "bad lithium and nice lithium" (to misquote Johnny Vegas in Black Books)?

always_tyred

boy on bike wrote:

so, lithium in batteries is certainly a bit of a nasty, that's why you're not supposed to throw batteries into landfill (along with the cadmium and other stuff!). So does that mean lithium is always bad to get into water courses (such as when you wash lithium grease off your bike). Or is there "bad lithium and nice lithium" (to misquote Johnny Vegas in Black Books)?

Well, you'd think that a decade of education in Chemistry would enable me to answer that. :oops:

The lithium stearate in grease (face cream or otherwise) is very similar to soap, but I honestly don't know if the lithium version is worse for the environment than, say, the sodium or magnesuim version.

I also throught that the main problem with batteries was that they were landfill that ought to be recycled (instead of, say, mining for more raw materials). The problem with old acid batteries was definitely a direct environmental one, rather than an indirect "waste of resources" one. But there are embarrasing gaps in my knowledge.

"Environment", certainly when I was studying, was irrelevant, just something that sandle wearers who could safely be dismissed would rant on about in order to try to prevent all chemistry.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

My guess is that it would take a LOT more grease than batteries to destroy the planet.

So, what bike gear have you just bought?

I'll have a pee please Bob.

singlespeedexplosif

ooh...guess what just arrived. Yum.

always_tyred

singlespeedexplosif wrote:

ooh...guess what just arrived. Yum.

I take it that these aren't for commuting?

My mouse accidently slipped again.

Speedplay X2's for the new commuter. I have now blown my "be sensible, your commuter will eventually get trashed so don't spend too much" budget by 50%. But, I am fed up of the scuzzy old ones that I can't, in any case, get off the scuzzy old cranks.

Should have used lithium grease! (Is that bad for the environment, by the way?)

singlespeedexplosif

depends if there's a weeknight time trial or not

Totalnewbie

Apparently my pink-lensed glasses (that just happen to match the jersey I wore this morning) make me look like a 'tart'. Not sure if bloke meant in the SCR sense but he did say that I was only wearing them because they matched my jersey, which is untrue, it said the pink lenses were for overcast conditions and it is overcast. Oh the injustice.

The bike I'm riding is un-tarty in the extreme, anyway.

always_tyred

Totalnewbie wrote:

Apparently my pink-lensed glasses (that just happen to match the jersey I wore this morning) make me look like a 'tart'. Not sure if bloke meant in the SCR sense but he did say that I was only wearing them because they matched my jersey, which is untrue, it said the pink lenses were for overcast conditions and it is overcast. Oh the injustice.

The bike I'm riding is un-tarty in the extreme, anyway.

Okay, I'm going to get scientific again.

I thought the the theory behind tinted lenses for low light conditions was to trick the brain into opening the iris more by filtering out light at the ends of the optical spectrum that aren't that useful in low light anyway - hence yellow lenses.

The same idea can't work for both red and yellow tints, can it? One has to be style and the other substance, surely?

itboffin

Condor carbon TT forks, I fear I may have started something I can not stop.

always_tyred

itboffin wrote:

Condor carbon TT forks, I fear I may have started something I can not stop.

Disc and deep V carbon wheels are expensive, you know.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Always Tyred wrote:

"Environment", certainly when I was studying, was irrelevant, just something that sandle wearers who could safely be dismissed would rant on about in order to try to prevent all chemistry.

I think it would be a mistake to assume that that is a discredited, or even discarded view today.

And not just so far as chemistry is concerned :twisted:

greg66_tri_v2.0

Totalnewbie wrote:

Apparently my pink-lensed glasses (that just happen to match the jersey I wore this morning) make me look like a 'tart'. Not sure if bloke meant in the SCR sense but he did say that I was only wearing them because they matched my jersey, which is untrue, it said the pink lenses were for overcast conditions and it is overcast. Oh the injustice.

The bike I'm riding is un-tarty in the extreme, anyway.

If he thinks that there is anything wrong with kit that matches, he should be taken outside and quietly shot.

I suppose he wanders round in all the colours of the rainbow...

greg66_tri_v2.0

Always Tyred wrote:

I thought the the theory behind tinted lenses for low light conditions was to trick the brain into opening the iris more by filtering out light at the ends of the optical spectrum that aren't that useful in low light anyway - hence yellow lenses.

The same idea can't work for both red and yellow tints, can it? One has to be style and the other substance, surely?

Dunno, but I've used yellow and red tints when skiing in flat light, and they both provide some (albeit subtly different, and beyond my ability to explain) help.

Totalnewbie

Greg66 wrote:

Totalnewbie wrote:

Apparently my pink-lensed glasses (that just happen to match the jersey I wore this morning) make me look like a 'tart'. Not sure if bloke meant in the SCR sense but he did say that I was only wearing them because they matched my jersey, which is untrue, it said the pink lenses were for overcast conditions and it is overcast. Oh the injustice.

The bike I'm riding is un-tarty in the extreme, anyway.

If he thinks that there is anything wrong with kit that matches, he should be taken outside and quietly shot.

I suppose he wanders round in all the colours of the rainbow...

No, he's just jealous (he tried them on and said he wanted some!). And p'raps feeling a tad insecure after reading a certain thread last month; I think perhaps he would rather I was wearing sackcloth and ashes to cycle in (which would be wholly impractical).

I am just going by what it said on the wiggle site about the lenses. Perhaps it is marketing sh*te. Mostly I wanted something to stop my contacts getting grit in them, and I don't have any decent clear ones that don't make me look like a frog, yet. So pink it was.

Coriander

Always Tyred wrote:

boy on bike wrote:

so, lithium in batteries is certainly a bit of a nasty, that's why you're not supposed to throw batteries into landfill (along with the cadmium and other stuff!). So does that mean lithium is always bad to get into water courses (such as when you wash lithium grease off your bike). Or is there "bad lithium and nice lithium" (to misquote Johnny Vegas in Black Books)?

Well, you'd think that a decade of education in Chemistry would enable me to answer that. :oops:

The lithium stearate in grease (face cream or otherwise) is very similar to soap, but I honestly don't know if the lithium version is worse for the environment than, say, the sodium or magnesuim version.

I also throught that the main problem with batteries was that they were landfill that ought to be recycled (instead of, say, mining for more raw materials). The problem with old acid batteries was definitely a direct environmental one, rather than an indirect "waste of resources" one. But there are embarrasing gaps in my knowledge.

"Environment", certainly when I was studying, was irrelevant, just something that sandle wearers who could safely be dismissed would rant on about in order to try to prevent all chemistry.

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

My guess is that it would take a LOT more grease than batteries to destroy the planet.

So, what bike gear have you just bought?

I'll have a pee please Bob.

I am currently at home proof-reading our report on ecosystems services and biodiversity in Europe (calm down, you all, you'll have to wait until 17 February when it's launched for your copy), and it's clear that the whole environment thing is way more complicated than we like to think. For every pollutant enters the water system, for example, there is a knock on effect on the whole ecosystme based around that water. It's rather fascinating (yeah, I know, I need to get out more) and rather bleak and depressing at the same time.

symo

Just bought these to go with my road bike once I decide which one to get:



Less than £40 from Jejames for Shimano R099s.

cjcp

http://store.trekbikes.com/shopping/product/alternateviews.jsp?iProductID=658&picindex=1

itboffin

@cjcp given your recent speed I think you'd could happily wear these with those shoes



I've just bought a 1990's Campy C Record groupset