£40 to Spend In Halfords (Bike Hut)

meanredspider

It's a long and all-too-painful story but I have been offered "goods up to the value of £40" from Halfords bike shop. TBH, I can't think of anything (other than a shedload of innertubes) that I'd want that they are vaguely likely to carry.

I'm in search of inspiration, please...

Wallace1492

GT85, Mucoff, they have a few quality tools and other spares...
Also tyres as well as tubes.

The Rookie

What bike(s) do you have?

What accesories do you currently have (bearing in mind Halfords do a buy 2 get 3rd free!)

Tyres, tubes, cables, GT85, mucoff, pump, powerlinks, cable ends, etc etc

Simon

essex-commuter

A full service?






I'm funny eh!

Wallace1492

meanredspider do you MTB? Then there is loads of stuff you could get.... i was looking at tyres last week in Halfords, and they had pretty good ones - Mountain Kings, Mountain Queens etc....

Good routes round Strathpeffer, might be up there myself in a few weeks.

gilesjuk

Cable cutters, gear brushes, tubes, cleaning sprays.

mudcow007

i bet you could pick up a nice Apollo bike up for about £40 and be the envy of all your friends....

or GT85 an socket set (life time warranty)

winner!!

Kieran_Burns

I'd grab as much cleaning and lube stuff as I could carry - oh and some spoke reflectors...

UndercoverElephant

Decent track pump if you don't already have one, they stock Joe Blows.

Rigga

+1 for the joe blow track pump, they are superb and about £32 ish.

Stone Glider

Torque wrench? More than £40 perhaps but a big chunk off the sale price of a useful tool.

meanredspider

Thanks for the ideas. So far I'm looking at lots of consumables

Bikes I have

Focus Cayo - RS80 wheels and a few other bits of carbon bling from the PO
Focus Variado - which I really should sell...
Cube Reaction Race MTB
Boardman CX

I have pretty much all the tools I could possibly use (my other hobby is preparing and racing an old Alfa Romeo - at one time or another, I've pretty much stripped it to it's components and rebuilt it - including replacing over 60% of the panels & painting it).

I could get a shock pump but I'd use it about once a year and my mate has one. I have a good track pump (and a back-up cheapy)(oh, and an industrial-scale air compressor).

What I might do is get a set of lights and donate them to the next village raffle thereby doing some good and maybe helping ensure somebody is well-lit. It'll make a change from the can of Campbell's Game Soup that's been through the raffle 67 times to date

rolf_f

They also do Camelbak Podium bottles.

meanredspider

essex-commuter wrote:

A full service?






I'm funny eh!

I can't believe I paid the £30 or whatever to have the service plan thing. I was sold by how many parts they change. Mentally, I've now prepared myself to have to go over everything that they've fitted and check it over.

bails87

A load of batteries for lights, grease, lube, Muc off, brake pads?

SimonAH

bails87 wrote:

A load of batteries for lights, grease, lube, Muc off, brake pads?

Actually the batteries thing might be a very good idea. I seem to recall a Which! (or similar) survey that found that £ per hour of service the Halfords brand of batteries were actually the best on the market.

......mind you, £40 is a heck of a lot of batteries.....

Monkeypump

Does it have to be spent at Bike Hut, or can you use it for car parts?

20 air fresheners?

meanredspider

SimonAH wrote:

......mind you, £40 is a heck of a lot of batteries.....

especially as all but my seat tube rear light are rechargeable! Keep me going for about 10 years

So 15 cans of GT85 :twisted:

meanredspider

Monkeypump wrote:

Does it have to be spent at Bike Hut, or can you use it for car parts?

20 air fresheners?

Dunno - I suppose I could buy some oil for the race car (though last time they had an offer on it, there was only one store in the UK that stocked it).

UndercoverElephant

Just buy something that's eminently eBay-able.

chadders81

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Just buy something that's eminently eBay-able.

My thoughts exactly. Bit of credit in your Paypal account for next time you want to buy something.

61Sigs

You should have said that you had an Alpha in the original post, get one of those trays to catch the oil

joelsim

Alloy wheel cleaner? Muc off? A new chain? Some Knogs?

veronese68

61Sigs wrote:

You should have said that you had an Alpha in the original post, get one of those trays to catch the oil

ALFA! It's not a Greek letter. Sorry, that one always brings out the pedant in me.

SimonAH

Not a Delta Integrale then?

meanredspider

Veronese68 wrote:

61Sigs wrote:

You should have said that you had an Alpha in the original post, get one of those trays to catch the oil

ALFA! It's not a Greek letter. Sorry, that one always brings out the pedant in me.

Glad you raised that

Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili

veronese68

meanredspider wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

61Sigs wrote:

You should have said that you had an Alpha in the original post, get one of those trays to catch the oil

ALFA! It's not a Greek letter. Sorry, that one always brings out the pedant in me.

Glad you raised that

Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili

Indeed, I was trying not to revealt the true extent of my sadness. I do like Integrales as well though.

61Sigs

Veronese68 wrote:

61Sigs wrote:

You should have said that you had an Alpha in the original post, get one of those trays to catch the oil

ALFA! It's not a Greek letter. Sorry, that one always brings out the pedant in me.

Hangs head in shame.