Best & Worst Buys Of 2018

[Brandane]

Is that Arran?

Arran is in the background, with Cumbrae in the near distance. Photo was taken near the top of the Fairlie Moor road. Needed an excuse to stop!

 

[MartinQ]

I was ripped

off or ...

Not quite sure how going down the gym makes you overspend on brakepads.

 

[Slow But Determined]

My worst buy has to be the 11-32 rear cassette (to replace 12-28) I paid good money to an lbs to order in and fit for me prior to going on a cycling holiday involving lots of climbing.

My mate on the the same ratio was doing ok whilst I was struggling like a good un on certain climbs.

Cleaning the bike the other day I got the cassette right clean and shiny like new and lo and behold there stamped on the largest cog is 30 not 32!!! I had never even thought to check at the time you just assume ( obviously incorrectly) that you would get what you ask for. Lbs has now shut down by the way.

 

[nickyboy]

Best....everything I bought from Decathlon

Worst.... everything I bought elsewhere

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Arran is in the background, with Cumbrae in the near distance. Photo was taken near the top of the Fairlie Moor road. Needed an excuse to stop!

Ah, I thought it was but maybe taken a little further south on the Dalry - Ardrossan road

 

[cosmicbike]

Best buy was some go faster stripes. The improvements are unbelievable.

I presume they were red ones? No other colour offers the same performance improvements...

 

[Spiderweb]

My best ‘accessories’ buy has to be the Lezyne 1100i loaded front light I bought from Pro Bike Kit, reduced from around £160 to £50. Super bright and in addition to the built in battery pack it also has a spare plug in battery so 1100 lumens for 3hrs 20 minutes or 240hrs on the lowest 15 lumen setting!
They are so good I ended up buying another one!
They are back in stock now if anyone fancies one;
https://www.probikekit.co.uk/cyclin...-drive-1100i-loaded-front-light/11509389.html

 

[User6179]

Worst buy - Spent about £10 x 4 (£40) on a set of Ultegra brake pads BR-6810 (R55C4) - WHY ???

I got the Shimano R55C4s for 50 pence a pad from Rose bikes a while ago, fine in the dry, not so great in the wet.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Worst:

Bought a tubeless tyre and it was already flat!

 

[biggs682]

Best was this TEC bike

 

[Smokin Joe]

Best was the Planet X RT58 I've just built up.

Worst was the KMC chain I bought for it. The tool free link would not close for love nor money, despite the best efforts of myself and a cycling mate.

 

[Milkfloat]

Best was an Edinburgh Cycles frame brand new for £50 to replace by knackered Holdsworth fixedframe.
Worst, a jacket from Evans Cycles that took 4 months to arrive and when it did was the wrong colour.

 

[palinurus]

shoot, hardly bought anything. Best: The cycling cap I bought where the elastic still works, worst: the one where the elastic went and it fell off into the middle of the A4147. Snag is they were both the same cap (I liked the colour)

 

[palinurus]

Oh, just realised this one was this year.

This is the best thing.

 

[Specialeyes]

I'll nominate my Mk2 Raleigh Chopper (20Kg of Nottingham's Finest) and Gipiemme L Cranks both in both categories!

Best: fabulous time machines that can take me back to my misspent youth and always conversation-starters
Worst: absolute form-over-function triumphs of marketing, where looks > all else

Bloody love 'em though