What Santa DIDN'T bring...

barrybridges

Good evening all - and merry Christmas!

Santa was very good to me this year and brought me lots of good stuff for my bike, but I now have a dilemma and need a bit of help.

I am looking for:

Heart-rate monitor
Pair of sunglasses (well, clear lens to be precise)
Warm pair of long bib-tights with padding as mine are wearing out a bit

I have a £50 Amazon.co.uk voucher and a £50 John Lewis voucher, plus £35 cash (and my own money, which I'd rather not spend).

Can anyone recommend good products above?

I am thinking of getting the Garmin Forerunner 50 HR Monitor as it's good value and has all the basic functionality I need (ability to set HR training zones, download to PC etc):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Forerunn ... 217&sr=1-1

Other than that, I'm open to recommendations. I don't think the John Lewis vouchers are actually that useful (they do do HR monitors, but they are overpriced and only the very basic polar ones on there).

Unfortunately, only about 30% of Wiggle's stock appears to be on Amazon, otherwise it would be easy.

Suggestions most welcome!

Specialized Needs

barrybridges wrote:

Good evening all - and merry Christmas!

Santa was very good to me this year and brought me lots of good stuff for my bike, but I now have a dilemma and need a bit of help.

I am looking for:

[...]
Pair of sunglasses (well, clear lens to be precise)
[...]
Suggestions most welcome!

At the cheap and cheerful end of the scale, if you have a local Aldi, then from this Sunday they have these 'sports' glasses for £3.69 - 2 different designs.



If these are like the ones on sale over the summer, they come with yellow-tinted, clear and sunglass lenses; I keep 3 sets (of the one style - the lenses are not interchangeable between styles) - one with each of the lenses in (saves hassling to swap over, and the chance of breaking a lens). These, IMNSHO, are good (except the rubber covering to the arms does slide off - needs a dab of superglue to prevent loss). I'm sure some others will chip in with other ideas. Some may even have found problems with these.

fluff.

got some of these clear glasses a few weeks ago, really quite good for £6 + postage.

http://www.safety-one.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CONTPSI

also available with a metal frame for a couple quid more.
http://www.safety-one.co.uk/proddetail. ... d=CONTMPSI

Gav888

Santa didnt bring...................Angelina Jolie

Rich-Ti

ProBiktKit.com do some great glasses really cheap - 5 pairs of lenses for something like £16! I use the 'Iron' model in black and love them.

fatherchristmas

Sorry folks.

Write to me in good time next year.

Lagavulin

Dear fatherchristmas

I promise to be a good boy if for christmas 2009 you could bring me Claire Forlani.

Unless you reply to the contrary I will consider this as sufficient notice.

Kind regards

SteveR_100Milers

Basic Polar HRM's are likely to outlast a more spec enhanced garmin. But Polar seem to have the rights to the concept of basic......I have used 4 different makes, and the Polar has outlasted them all by a country mile, and its rarely missed a beat.

redddraggon

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

Basic Polar HRM's are likely to outlast a more spec enhanced garmin. But Polar seem to have the rights to the concept of basic......I have used 4 different makes, and the Polar has outlasted them all by a country mile, and its rarely missed a beat.

My Polar CS100 lasted only 5 months, and from what I've heard it's a common problem, so I doubt they'll last longer than a Garmin....

SteveR_100Milers

Ive only ever used a F11 and a 725x, so cant comment on the CS100. I guess then they are all pretty crap, so dont expect more than an average 12 months life out of any of them!

Crapaud

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