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

thedirge

newbie here, bought my first mountain bike today. Giant Yukon 3, thanks to a certain forum poster for pointing it out. I was looking to go budget hardtail but just couldn't resist the bike after reading so many good reviews of it.

£310 all in from pauls cycles.

I guess it'll be upgradeitis from here then. If anyones got advice on the bike or whatever let me know, cheers.

Lee.

AndyManc

Highly recommended.

The material is soft (cotton like) and breathable, far better than the usual shiny material that makes you sweat even more than you normally do :?




http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=19805


This is definitely my last short/sleeve I'm going to buy this year :roll:



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il_principe

sarajoy wrote:

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.)

Oh me likey!

Sara = Clever

prawny

Is that ft or m?

biondino

It's feet, and kilometres, in mine anyway! Jash's commute is pretty long...

prawny

Oh yeah I didn't even look at the distance :shock:

il_principe

Not my commute, my favourite training ride!

Supposed to be miles and feet, but looks like km and metres to me. Toggling between KM and M makes no change to the graph in bikehike.

biondino

I chose to do my commute along the Fulham Road rather than Kings Road as otherwise we're going to have a whole lot of familiar-looking graphs...

jonginge

jashburnham wrote:

Not my commute, my favourite training ride!

Supposed to be miles and feet, but looks like km and metres to me. Toggling between KM and M makes no change to the graph in bikehike.

You've got a garmin connect account, yes? You could make activities public and do something similar... I've not gone that far but added a couple of links to my sig

sarajoy

That's metres! Blimey, never knew it was so hilly around there... Makes mine look piddly

And how in hell are you cycling below sea level?!

Also - that's a round trip out into the country isn't it... rather than a commute...

itboffin

Now we know where you all live and already know when your at work, is there any personal information left to revel?

No need for id theft here you people are giving it away

itboffin

JonGinge wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Not my commute, my favourite training ride!

Supposed to be miles and feet, but looks like km and metres to me. Toggling between KM and M makes no change to the graph in bikehike.

You've got a garmin connect account, yes? You could make activities public and do something similar... I've not gone that far but added a couple of links to my sig

Holy crap man is that HR data correct for the HOTA ride? if so how the hell did it drop as low as 33bpm and only peaked at 168 :shock:

jonginge

itboffin wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Not my commute, my favourite training ride!

Supposed to be miles and feet, but looks like km and metres to me. Toggling between KM and M makes no change to the graph in bikehike.

You've got a garmin connect account, yes? You could make activities public and do something similar... I've not gone that far but added a couple of links to my sig

Holy crap man is that HR data correct for the HOTA ride? if so how the hell did it drop as low as 33bpm and only peaked at 168 :shock:

I think the 33 is a data anomaly, probably around the time I crashed. I wasn't eyeballs out on HOTA, though. A bit steady, eddie on the climbs. Did have a bit of a blast (as much as my wrist would allow) up the lanes in the last few miles, climbing Pantani style on the drops. Fun

itboffin

JonGinge wrote:

itboffin wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

jashburnham wrote:

Not my commute, my favourite training ride!

Supposed to be miles and feet, but looks like km and metres to me. Toggling between KM and M makes no change to the graph in bikehike.

You've got a garmin connect account, yes? You could make activities public and do something similar... I've not gone that far but added a couple of links to my sig

Holy crap man is that HR data correct for the HOTA ride? if so how the hell did it drop as low as 33bpm and only peaked at 168 :shock:

I think the 33 is a data anomaly, probably around the time I crashed. I wasn't eyeballs out on HOTA, though. A bit steady, eddie on the climbs. Did have a bit of a blast (as much as my wrist would allow) up the lanes in the last few miles, climbing Pantani style on the drops. Fun

Tiz true the weather very much dictated the pace that day, perhaps we should arrange an SCR summer HOTA :shock:

AndyManc

My very first bib shorts, I'm hooked, dead comfy (miles better than the Aldi carp ) and on sale from Evans .





http://www.evanscycles.com/products/cannondale/domestique-bib-shorts-ec017713




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sarajoy

Ooooo there's lot on sale at Evans! Damn it more to tempt!

DomPro

Jockey wheels !! £81, (reduced from £100)

AndyManc

sarajoy wrote:

Ooooo there's lot on sale at Evans! Damn it more to tempt!

Bike shops (and internet) are fighting over each other to get a decent market share of the customers.

There's been a massive increase in cycle buying public over the past year, we may see some casualties but many bike shops will profit, as will we




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sarajoy

Quick, someone tell me to hit BUY on two jerseys and a pair of shorts for under £40 quick before I bottle it...

AndyManc

sarajoy wrote:

Quick, someone tell me to hit BUY on two jerseys and a pair of shorts for under £40 quick before I bottle it...

BUY BUY BUY .... SUMMER IS COMING



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AndyManc

NO NO NO , I was only kidding

It's going to be an awful summer , buy some thermal tights and a flask. :roll:



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mountainroadie

DomPro wrote:

Jockey wheels !! £81, (reduced from £100)

81.00 did u not try kcnc jockey wheels

sarajoy

DONE!

This: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/pea ... y-ec002393
This: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/hel ... s-ec002200
And these: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/tre ... t-ec017502

All in size L (tell you what, it's a googling exercise finding out the sizing!)

(good thing I'm a sweaty betty for this stuff, I boil in my long sleeve jersey atm!)

LazyBoycp

sarajoy wrote:

DONE!

This: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/pea ... y-ec002393
This: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/hel ... s-ec002200
And these: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/tre ... t-ec017502

All in size L (tell you what, it's a googling exercise finding out the sizing!)

(good thing I'm a sweaty betty for this stuff, I boil in my long sleeve jersey atm!)

So does this mean you're going to go commando under your shorts now that you have more than one pair?! (Not that I really want to know, it just seemed to be a bit of a bone of contention a week or so back... :oops: )

(in black)

(in red)



and



at the Edinburgh Bike Co-op last weekend, 15% off.

sarajoy

LazyBoycp wrote:

So does this mean you're going to go commando under your shorts now that you have more than one pair?! (Not that I really want to know, it just seemed to be a bit of a bone of contention a week or so back... :oops: )

haha, no actually :P

I'm quite comfortable, it turned out the discomfort was indeed from the saddle. The current one is much nicer

On longer rides, I may consider it. Maybe. Not yet!

AndyManc

LazyBoycp wrote:

(in black)

(in red)



and



at the Edinburgh Bike Co-op last weekend, 15% off.

That's my helmet :shock: and my cage :shock: ..... seriously though, the helmet is well comfy, I bought my stuff last weekend too




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bear baun

Genesis Core 20........................thats all that needs to be said

LazyBoycp

AndyManc wrote:

That's my helmet :shock: and my cage :shock: ..... seriously though, the helmet is well comfy, I bought my stuff last weekend too
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I know, I think I was inspired to go to the EBC by your post! Didn't plan to buy the same things as you though - had meant to get a new saddle (the Toupe on my Roubaix is less than comfy sometimes, though I think it may in part be because of my shorts) but the one I wanted looked used and a bit grubby for some reason. Liked the look of the Propero, tried it on and, amazingly (first time ever for a Spec), it fitted nicely so I got it to replace my elderly Giro.

Think I may be turning into a bit of a tart though - the helmet, cage and top all go with the colour scheme of my 2007 Roubaix Expert! :oops: Still have some way to catch up with Jask though...

redvee

sarajoy wrote:

DONE!

This: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/pea ... y-ec002393
This: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/hel ... s-ec002200
And these: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/tre ... t-ec017502

All in size L (tell you what, it's a googling exercise finding out the sizing!)

(good thing I'm a sweaty betty for this stuff, I boil in my long sleeve jersey atm!)

The jersies look (h)armless enough, ideal pub ride clobber.

Mickey Eye

Posting to see my new signature, thanks Sara.