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

sarajoy

Can we use this thread for stuff we wish we could buy at the moment?

I want one of these, but my money-saving willpower is currently stopping me... I don't /need/ it... but I /wants/ it my precioussss....

Jay dubbleU

Not tartan - please ! :shock:

sarajoy

Whyever not?

Jay dubbleU

Looking at Edinburgh Cycles over the weekend - quite fancy one of these

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwGetI ... geName=%5F

Jay dubbleU

sarajoy wrote:

Whyever not?

It will make you look like an American tourist

[Tim]

From Ribble (Extra 15% off at the mo)
12-27 105 Casette (Ready for hills)
Spare look delta cleats (For the tri shoes)
2x red/black michelin pro race 2 tyres (To make me quicker)
Assos chamois cream (To make me compfy)
Carbon assembly paste (To stop the seat post slipping)

From ProBikeKit
38 piece pro tool kit (To fit the bits bought from ribble, and replace crap allen keys)
Short finger gloves (all of about £4)

Can you tell the 'nice' bike is getting treated in advance of it's first competitive outing of the year?

Wanted: A torque wrench (2-40Nm should do)

ride_whenever

Tim, you might stuggle to get 2-40Nm as a torque wrench , but weldtite do a nice one for 2-20Nm wich is fairly nice, and what i use

redvee

sarajoy wrote:

Can we use this thread for stuff we wish we could buy at the moment?

I want one of these, but my money-saving willpower is currently stopping me... I don't /need/ it... but I /wants/ it my precioussss....

The price on that webbie seems OTT to me. I sold these when I was in the bike trade and they were priced to retail at £20 max IIRC. In the meantime pop down to Bridgewater and get on of these for your Speccy hybrid, your work colleagues will soon get bored of taking the Pi$$

lost_in_thought

2 days 18 hours

snellgrove

Mickey Eye wrote:

Snellgrove, what type bag is that? I'm getting a bit fed up that my only sweaty bits these days is my back suffering under a Crumpler laptop bag. Does that one have a laptop slot for example? [edit] Found it was the Ortlieb velocity and you can buy laptop inserts for it, please tell me how you get on with it.

Well, it turned up today - got quite a few comments from people in the office asking what the heck a company called 'Wiggle' could possibly sell

It's a nice bag, much more comfortable and my back was definitely cooler on the way home. I put my old bag inside the Velocity :shock: it's quite a bit bigger.

I decided to take a few pictures - Only just got in from work when I took them lol the lounge was a bit of a state while I migrated my stuff from one bag to the other!! I got told off by the boss :P

You can click the pictures to go full-size





The cats found it interesting! The insert clips onto the two inner-most popper bits, at the top of the bag.



Vents keep your back cool. Strap can go across your chest & another across your waist, which I didn't use.



So far, very happy with it :-) 5 year warranty is cool, says 25yr waterproofing. Doubt it, but that's great if it is.

One last buy but can include in here, as although I won't be wearing it, I did pay for a 2XU Tankini tri-top for Mrs Snellgrove and that seems up to 2XU's usual high standards - looks really nice on [her] & is made of their compression polyamide / lycra (80 / 20 %) which so far has proven to be very comfy & warm (on my base-layer, featured in this thread a few pages back).

We got the black one, and the stitching is actually light gray / white.

cjcp

Four Michelin tyres.

For the car.

Ouch.

snellgrove

cjcp wrote:

Four Michelin tyres.

For the car.

Ouch.

I feel your pain! Bought two for mine the other day, the Mrs car needs 4 I so need to sell my car!!

redvee

lost_in_thought wrote:

2 days 18 hours

Somebody's clock watching. BTW 2 days 17 hours 30 mins now.

jonginge

snellgrove wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Four Michelin tyres.

For the car.

Ouch.

I feel your pain! Bought two for mine the other day, the Mrs car needs 4 I so need to sell my car!!

Double ouch. Expensive times.

Buying bike stuff temperence is still holding. It was been 3 weeks since my last wiggle.


Edit: 2 days 18 hours 30 mins

lost_in_thought

redvee wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

2 days 18 hours

Somebody's clock watching. BTW 2 days 17 hours 30 mins now.

Damn it, I'm an hour ahead of the UK... 2 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes...

Big Wib

One of these



because I'm feeling childish and its the only hope I have of looking skinny

[and a lock & stuff]

b0y1nterupted

these



& these

tedlarue

b0y1nterupted wrote:

these



& these

If you don't mind me asking, did you get those shoes for a decent price? Just about to go clipless myself and got the pedals for £15 off eBay but since I first started looking all the shoes seem to have shot up in price.

jonginge

lost_in_thought wrote:

redvee wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

2 days 18 hours

Somebody's clock watching. BTW 2 days 17 hours 30 mins now.

Damn it, I'm an hour ahead of the UK... 2 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes...

Now, wait a minute young lady. Using my crazy maths skills you'll be heading over to Epic in the middle of the afternoon. I know bike shops aren't the earliest opening emporia but I expected you to be beating down their door at the first opportunity. Tsk.

the_hundredth_idiot

Got me a Rapha Musette



I know, I know: ponce/tart/etc. I meant to get one of the X-small Timbuk2 messenger classics (X-small being perfect for most days and I have a bigger bag for the stocking up on shirts, underwear, etc days) but the Musette seemed so much classier and for not a lot more money really. Mind you, given this morning's ride in, I should have pondered the meaning of "water resistant" (i.e. not water proof) for a little longer. Everything (except me) was dry when I got to work but I was a little distracted wondering whether my iPod, Blackberry and phone would be fizzing when I took them out of the bag.

Mickey Eye

snellgrove wrote:

bag review]

Thanks...but... I already bought it. In yellow, so I have to stop by the post office on my ride home and pick it up.

b0y1nterupted

TedLaRue wrote:

b0y1nterupted wrote:

these



& these

If you don't mind me asking, did you get those shoes for a decent price? Just about to go clipless myself and got the pedals for £15 off eBay but since I first started looking all the shoes seem to have shot up in price.

no dont mind at all, didnt do too badly with the price i dont think

the retail is £69.99 at evans but got a 10% off voucher through the post & used that

lost_in_thought

JonGinge wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

redvee wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

2 days 18 hours

Somebody's clock watching. BTW 2 days 17 hours 30 mins now.

Damn it, I'm an hour ahead of the UK... 2 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes...

Now, wait a minute young lady. Using my crazy maths skills you'll be heading over to Epic in the middle of the afternoon. I know bike shops aren't the earliest opening emporia but I expected you to be beating down their door at the first opportunity. Tsk.

Not booked in until 1400. Still going to get there at 1200. Just in case, you know.

1 day, 13 hours, 51 minutes...

mountainroadie

s-works silence lotto 09 lid
foam lock ons
endura leg warmers
slr fibra carbon rails{on order}
needing a track pump never get round to buying one :?

sarajoy

I keep buying dresses!

OK I know, not bike gear.

But I seem to have bike and gear sorted to a good level at the moment, so, dresses it is.

itboffin

@sarajoy
Excellent use of bikehike in your sig, Chapeau!

sarajoy

Cheers ITB, though it does let everyone know where I live and work...! Ooops.

Pretty pleased with it though, and the elevation thing makes it look impressive (though it's only 30ft min to 300ft max)

prawny

Sarajoy, how do you do that? It's genius we should all have one like a badge of honour

As you can see I've tried and failed

sarajoy

Well what I did:

Go to bikehike.co.uk and input your route, then save it, and get a URL for it

Then click the 'Show Elevation Data' box, and take a screen capture

Edit the screen-capture down in your fave image-editing software to just show the elevation graph

Upload it to your chosen image host, and get the URL

Then add the following into your sig in your profile, changing the { } for [ ] and **** for the ID in your saved bikehike URL

{url=http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=****}{img}http://yourimage.url/here.jpg{/img}{/url}

(It's possibly more useful if you include the scale on the graph image, unlike wot I did! But people can find out the real details if they click the image.)

prawny

Wicked! Cheers I shall be playing about at that tonight (much to the annoyance of t'other half :twisted: )