What have you bought for the bike today ?

[EckyH]

New brakes for the Tokyo Fixed, a Brompton Aluminium Hinge Clamp and Rear Frame Set for the "Romped On" project and brown bar tape.

E.

 

[fossyant]

Few bits for the CX bike. Longer front cable hanger and smaller 55mm brake pads to hopefully reduce brake judder on my canti's. Also picked up some used Mavic Cosmic Elite wheels. Look in great condition (braking surface) but the rear hub was advertised as seized. £56 including delivery. New SKF bearings on the way for both hubs and freehub, plus some Vittoria Corsa N-EXT 26c clinchers for a bargain from Banana Industries.

 

[EckyH]

Vittoria Corsa N-EXT 26c clinchers

Very good choice. These are my favourite road tyres at the moment for long rides, because they roll fairly supple, add some kind of comfort, have enough puncture resistance, rolling resistance is acceptable as well as the price.

E.

 

[sevenfourate]

A wet Sunday just after payday:

Tour / High waist shorts. Because I love BIB shorts, but have a need for shorts / jersey for some rides….

Short sleeve, casual MTB / BMX top:

Randomly came across this. Handy spare !

Spare bottle. Just bought / started using one and it’s good 👍

Use these on a few of my bikes. Always good to have a few pairs in stock:

Just padding out an order TBH…..

 

[Animo]

Another Halfords bike stand. One of the spring loaded type ones which you just push the bike onto.

Have already got one of those and a few of the metal Pro prong type ones.

My latest bike doesn't work well with the prong style ones so needed another of these to keep things tidy.

 

[DCLane]

A few bits:

- Four Velox Guidoline Ultra bar tape packs for less than the price of one through a couple of eBay bids,
- A pair of Schwalbe Winter Snow Stud tyres, because I live in Yorkshire
- A 26.8mm seatpost for the Peugeot 653 build, and
- A some Dura-Ace 7410 cranks for the grasstrack bike.

 

[sevenfourate]

……on sale at £25 and change posted; from about my favourite eBay seller.

**With possible square-drive crank arm issues / wear: I might now be replacing “some drivetrain” sooner rather than later.

And if so / having only swapped the chain last time - I shall now change: Crankset, Cassette, Chain and Derailleur in one hit.

Time will tell…….

 

[mrushton]

Chorus 12 speed groupset and some time from Mapdec in Kendal. The owner Paul rang me and answered some questions. You can watch him on YouTube. Bit of a trek up there but the service operation appears to be very high standard.

 

[pjd57]

New bar tape on my Dolan bike.
Black.

 

[Homers Double]

I took delivery of some headset bearings from our engineering supplier if that counts.

 

[ColinJ]

For me, on the bike, rather than for the bike itself...

Since the weather is trying to pretend that it is the second week of February rather than the second week of May, I bought a pair of these stretchy lightweight RockBros cycling trousers. I tried them out this evening when it was 3 degrees C here (!!!) with a significant wind-chill worsening that.

I am happy with my purchase. Good for chilly to warmish conditions. Not warm enough for very cold conditions without an extra layer underneath, and too much for very warm conditions, but probably good for UK riding on at least 2/3 of the days in a typical year.

I am 1.86 m (6' 1") tall and currently weigh around 82 kg (12 st 13 lbs). I find XL a good fit for me.

 

[Jameshow]

For me, on the bike, rather than for the bike itself...

Since the weather is trying to pretend that it is the second week of February rather than the second week of May, I bought a pair of these stretchy lightweight RockBros cycling trousers. I tried them out this evening when it was 3 degrees C here (!!!) with a significant wind-chill worsening that.

I am happy with my purchase. Good for chilly to warmish conditions. Not warm enough for very cold conditions without an extra layer underneath, and too much for very warm conditions, but probably good for UK riding on at least 2/3 of the days in a typical year.

I am 1.86 m (6' 1") tall and currently weigh around 82 kg (12 st 13 lbs). I find XL a good fit for me.

Nice are they padded or unpadded? Would be good for walking too if unpadded??

 

[ColinJ]

Nice are they padded or unpadded? Would be good for walking too if unpadded??

Unpadded.

I think that they would be very good for walking, though I have a pair of Endura trousers that I would normally wear unless it was a bit warmer.

Probably Enduras for cold conditions, RockBros for chilly to mild, shorts for warm to hot.