What have you bought for the bike today ?

[ColinJ]

I used up the last of my maltodextrin on my midweek 115 km ride. At 01:00 today I ordered a 2.5 kg bag for £9.99 from Bulk, via Amazon, and by the mighty power of Prime it is due to arrive any time now!

 

[sevenfourate]

More Titanium. Fixings that is. Race spec; drilled now. Because the standard ones are so yesterday 🙄

 

[ColinJ]

I used up the last of my maltodextrin on my midweek 115 km ride. At 01:00 today I ordered a 2.5 kg bag for £9.99 from Bulk, via Amazon, and by the mighty power of Prime it is due to arrive any time now!

And, just like that...

Whatever one might think of Bezos, 15 14(!) hours delivery time is pretty impressive !

 

[YMFB]

Emergency fibre spoke kit & TPU inner tube for my gravel bike. Both are just in case for touring.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

And, just like that...

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Whatever one might think of Bezos, 15 14(!) hours delivery time is pretty impressive !

Easy when you have a defacto monopoly, abuse workers rights and pay no tax.

Enjoy the maltodextrin.

 

[mickle]

For £10 bought a used Planet X carbon fibre fork for my road bike from our local bike recycling shop. The original steel thing weighed a ton. I managed to drill out the rusty seized brake back nut and my local bike shop took their grinder to the rusted on crown race after their £300 Park tool failed to pull it. Worth every penny of the fiver they charged me. I like the idea of installing a troubled, used carbon fork to a bike whose theme is blackness, death and the occult. If the fork fails and I die you may conclude that i brought it upon myself. It looks really good though, and it rides very nicely. Slightly shorter from headset to axle and a little less offset.

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Two like new (came with the bike and removed by owner) Schwalbe Marathon tyres. £20 from good old fb marketplace 1st commute Tuesday hopefully less punctures!

 

[Animo]

Kinesis Fend Off Shorty mudguard for the gravel bike

 

[Jameshow]

Bb30 bearings!!

Stop that creak!

 

[DCLane]

Another set of cables - this time braided ones. I'll have a think which bike these go onto as I've got a couple needing new ones.

 

[DCLane]

I picked up this 13 Bikes Intuition Beta earlier this afternoon. It's had a top RH front impact, breaking the RH shifter and scraping the bars / LH shifter plus a bit on the frame. No seatpost / saddle.

Cleaned up and checked over so far. The rear wheel's a bit out of true, which will be a pain as it's built into the rim. Everything works bar the RH shifting mechanism but it'll probably be parted out.

Edit: threw some pedals on, plus a seatpost and saddle for a short test. Given it's hardly been used the brakes are genuinely atrocious, which now doesn't surprise me that it was in a crash. Just how did Halfords think they could sell this for £1400 with TRP aero/underslung time trial brakes? The above link mentions very poor braking; I tried them and simply sailed on without any measurable response.

 

[cyberknight]

Popped into a second hand/ discount clothing store for a quick browse and picked up what looks like a brand new long sleeve jersey for £10 , seen the ss version on amazon for around £30

 

[bikingdad90]

I did wonder what happened to 13 bikes, they only seemed to last one season before they disappeared off the shelves.

 

[geocycle]

Carradice Cambrian saddlebag to replace my 20 year old barley which was has a broken fastening strap. The Cambrian is advertised at 9L but has a huge internal collar and a double length lid meaning it can expand to double that size. This was a surprise as I had paid for the simple MK1 version but ended up with an upgrade from SJS.

 

[Jenkins]

I did wonder what happened to 13 bikes, they only seemed to last one season before they disappeared off the shelves.

Wasn't there rumours at the time that Boardman & Halfords were going to go their separate ways? I got the idea that 13 Bikes were being brought in as a replacement, but when the Halfords/Boardman alliance continued 13 were quietly dropped.

Edited to add that I had one of the 13 Hybrids for a while and it wasn't a bad piece of equipment.