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- Glastonbury Somerset
What have you bought for the bike today ?
- Thread starter Dark46
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Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
Two Schwalbe G-One Allround RaceGuard 700x35 tyres from Winstanley.
Converting my old Dawes Discovery into something resembling a gravel bike to cater for my mixed surface rides through the winter.
Converting my old Dawes Discovery into something resembling a gravel bike to cater for my mixed surface rides through the winter.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
A Charge Spoon saddle to go in the spares cupboard having fitted the previous spare one to a bike earlier in the week, a 12 speed chain also as a spare plus an extra quick link for the saddle bag of said bike.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Effectively for my current ‘Road Bike’ build. Which incidentally also has: Drop bars; the lot 😙 🤣
And I mock myself as a semi-serious Cyclist. Who appears to have gotten the bug. And is now thinking of Joining a local club. And has bought THESE:
……to go on that same Road Bike. It’s all getting very serious now 🤣🤣
**Getting shoes I was 110% comfy in: turned into a faff with my OCD. It took a few new pairs, much trying on, and eventually hunting down and waiting for a rare 45.5 Euro sized pair of obsolete Mavics in ‘As new condition’ to appear on eBay until I was happy. I need to cosset these 🙄
And I mock myself as a semi-serious Cyclist. Who appears to have gotten the bug. And is now thinking of Joining a local club. And has bought THESE:
……to go on that same Road Bike. It’s all getting very serious now 🤣🤣
**Getting shoes I was 110% comfy in: turned into a faff with my OCD. It took a few new pairs, much trying on, and eventually hunting down and waiting for a rare 45.5 Euro sized pair of obsolete Mavics in ‘As new condition’ to appear on eBay until I was happy. I need to cosset these 🙄
Shearwater Missile
Veteran
- Location
- Stowmarket
They look like nice shoes but my wide feet would feel the pinch, that`s why I just wear everyday trainers.
sevenfourate
Devotee of OCD
- Location
- Lowestoft, Suffolk
Oh I hear you. I’ve been ecstatically happy in Trainers. Just felt if I’m going drop bars / expensive and light bike / carbon wheels blah blah……I perhaps owed it to myself to try Clipless.
I don’t tolerate anything I don’t like. So we’ll know soon enough 😁
Shearwater Missile
Veteran
- Location
- Stowmarket
My second pair of Rockbros pedals came today. The first pair went onto the winter bike and now the new ones are for the summer bike. The bike in between will just have to wait.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Lock bolt swapped to the XT's and the 540's serviced and cleaned up. Now spare and don't actually look that battered since a quick clean up.
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Insurance!
Cautionary tale, if you buy new new exensive bike make sure your home insurance covers the value of it. The value of my new bike exceeds value home contents covers which renders entire contents invalid so I had to change insurance provider.
Basically I rang existing insurer to add new bike and when value exceeeded cover they provide for a single bike I was told even if i insure new bike with a separate provider it invalidates current house contents.
Sounds nuts but it's true.
Cautionary tale, if you buy new new exensive bike make sure your home insurance covers the value of it. The value of my new bike exceeds value home contents covers which renders entire contents invalid so I had to change insurance provider.
Basically I rang existing insurer to add new bike and when value exceeeded cover they provide for a single bike I was told even if i insure new bike with a separate provider it invalidates current house contents.
Sounds nuts but it's true.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Now, that would match my MTB.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Leisure Lake Bikes for the Charge Spoon
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Bits bought since mid-August:
- A vintage La Sella Italiana Per La Tua Bicicletta saddle very cheaply for the 1948 Claud Butler. By the smell when it arrived it's been in a shed for many, many years. Now cleaned and on the bike. It's really comfy. I'm hoping the lingering smell will ameliorate with time.
- Also a Bontrager Arvada and a Bontrager Montrose saddle via eBay auctions to test.
- A pair of Shimano 600 aero brake levers for a plan that was forming in my head, but instead I picked up some Profile Design aero brake levers very cheaply that will work better on the project.
- A pair of Shimano Dura-Ace 7800 shifters which went on the Carrera Vengeance magnesium after cleaning the hoods.
- A pair of Dura-Ace 9100 jockey wheels.
- And finally, a Bontrager Aeolus 5 TLR carbon rear wheel.
