What is the biggest rip-off

[totallyfixed]

in cycling? My nomination goes to Look Keo cleats, Noticed today they were down to the screws, too late to order from Ribble so went to lbs, £19.99 for essentially a moulded piece of plastic [might as well be cheddar cheese].

 

[ColinJ]

I had the old-style Look cleats on the SIDIs I used to wear when riding my Cannondale. I felt the same way about the cost of those cleats. It wasn't just the cost, it was the fact that they wore down so quickly.

I reckon most sports/energy drinks are way too expensive. I buy maltodextrin in bulk and make my own for about 35p a litre.

 

[topcat1]

crank bros cleats made of cheese

 

[oldfatfool]

Speedplay cleats at £35 a pop.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Speedplay cleats at £35 a pop.

+1, although they are more than a standard cleat but even so. Glad I managed to acquire a spare set for mine

 

[MacB]

special shoes and clippy pedals

 

[totallyfixed]

There's a theme developing here

 

[ohnovino]

I needed longer bolts to fit my cleats to my shoes:

Shimano "cycling" bolts - £6.99 for 6
Normal bolts from a hardware shop - £3 for 50

 

[smokeysmoo]

I needed longer bolts to fit my cleats to my shoes:

Shimano "cycling" bolts - £6.99 for 6
Normal bolts from a hardware shop - £3 for 50

That's where a good LBS is worth it's weight. I needed one cleat bolt a while back, my LBS had some loose ones and it only cost me a few pence

 

[CopperCyclist]

Hmm. Overshoes. My Altura Nightvision ones have worn off with about six months of on-and-off use through the wet weather. I'm trying to scrap through with them before they fall apart completely as the weather gets warmer, and might look to get a specialist wet weather cycling shoe for next winter such as the Louis Garneau Glacier - although Evans haven't answered my query about whether these will take SPD-SL!

 

[youngoldbloke]

in cycling? My nomination goes to Look Keo cleats, Noticed today they were down to the screws, too late to order from Ribble so went to lbs, £19.99 for essentially a moulded piece of plastic [might as well be cheddar cheese].

+1

 

[screenman]

What is a rip off, all the overheads that go into running a business so that guys have somewhere to buy from.

 

[youngoldbloke]

What is a rip off, all the overheads that go into running a business so that guys have somewhere to buy from.

See posts above. I won't buy cleats from my LBS for 19.99 so its a bit counter productive isn't it?

 

[screenman]

I will buy from a LBS just to help keep them in business, some owners are taking less than minimum wage out for themselves just to stay open.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

in cycling? My nomination goes to Look Keo cleats, Noticed today they were down to the screws, too late to order from Ribble so went to lbs, £19.99 for essentially a moulded piece of plastic [might as well be cheddar cheese].

The price of the bikes themselves, even in this day and age once you get over a grand for a bike its starting to get silly, if I'm ever in the position to pay more than a grand for my transport I'm going to buy a car.