What have you bought for the bike today ?

[Alex321]

A new 11 speed chain. I'd left it a bit long to check, so I hope I haven't worn the cassette out too. I'll find out when I fit it (before riding again).

Not the cassette, but the big chain ring. Unrideable in the big ring, fine in the small ring. Picked up a gash in the back of my calf muscle i the process of finding out how badly it was slipping.

Have now ordered a new 50t chainring.

 

[Dan Lotus]

Technically not today, but today is the first day I have looked at them.
Whilst on holiday I noticed that the excellent Sigma Sports had some rather high end Lake shoes on offer for basically 66% off, as there was a 10% off code I could use as well. This made them not the RRP of £325, but iirc, something like £109 per pair.

It's the CX 302 in narrow fit.
Luckily I found a youtube review where one person commented saying that these shoes weirdly size up about an entire EU size smaller than your average Lake shoe.

I bought some cheapie Lakes ages ago in a 44, but ended up giving them to my bro who said they are great all be it a tiny bit big for him - they fitted me fine.
Based on this I ordered myself a yellow (surprise) pair in 45, and as a future present for my bro, a black pair in 44, and today I opened the box.

Good news is that the 45 looks spot on for me, which I think will mean the 44s (in black) for my bro should also be spot on.
Quality and boa dials to my eye looks excellent, or certainly worth £109 at any rate.

Having just checked, the yellow ones are now a crazy £94!
Just been onto their live chat, and asked if they could refund me the difference, or whether I would need to send the yellow ones back and re-order.
Oddly they needed a picture of them to prove they were unused, and are now partially refunding me the £15 I guess it will be.

 

[ColinJ]

Something I un-bought for my mountain bike... a bottle cage!


(A friend asked if I had a spare cage for him to fit to his wife's bike. I don't ride the mountain bike much these days** so I donated one of its two. If I ever do another MTB ride needing more than one bottle, I can use my Camelbak.)



** Note to self - start doing more offroad rides!

I just remembered that I have 2 bottle cages on my turbo trainer bike and I do not intend to ever need the second cage so I have replaced the one I took off the mountain bike. (They were all an identical type/colour.)

 

[Animo]

A digital caliper and a valve core removal tool for the princely sum of six pounds from AliExpress

 

[postman]

A bargain a blue cycling cap £1-05 off Ali Express,i love it.

 

[Binky]

A new bike and pedals separately. Well I say bought, on my daily check of Canyon website the bike I wanted showed available to buy albeit not in stock yet so I took the plunge and placed order. Bike due 21st Sept - 02 Oct but I'm hoping comes forward(unlikely I suspect).

Pedals I ordered Ultegra PD-8000 from Halfords as they were cheapest at £81 delivered which I thought a bargain. Delivery due Monday.

Now need to order some bottle cages, head unit mount etc. Won't be from Canyon as they are way over priced.
If anyone has recommendations for the above shout out please.

 

[DCLane]

Bought some matt lacquer for the 1948 Claud Butler - more updates on that in the 'fettled' thread shortly.

Plus two tubes of carbon tubular glue as I used the last one. That's getting difficult to find now tubs are less popular.

Oh, and a 9 speed cassette for the Giant FCR for when I next need one.

 

[mrushton]

New groupset (Chorus) and a new to me set of pedals