GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Park Tool - buy once, use forever. Can say I've ever broken a park tool, can't say the same for any other brand I've purchased.
What is the biggest rip-off
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Rahul Sapariya
Regular
- Location
- Leicester
On an individual using park tools, it will probably last a lifetime but when it is used multiple times a day, I'd give the lifespan of the tools a year at the most. Because they break every year and they are twice the price of normal tools, you'd rather get slightly cheaper versions. For me, I compare park tools with apple, stupidly expensive and people buy them because the brand is one that you can brag to your friends but actually does less than other competitors. For instand, their high priced toolkit, the £7000 one, well you could save yourself about half the money if you spent some of it buying slightly cheaper ones, and the quality is the same. Some things, park tool do make the best but for me, park tool are highly over-rated.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Not found another brand that hasn't broken with light usage... so which slightly cheaper brands don't break?
jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I know people who swear by Assos!
(I'd rather swear at it!)
I'm a shade under 6ft 3'' with long arms. I have bought a couple of long sleeved cycling tops, one was a little under £60 the other a little more & I'm forever pulling the sleeves down over my wrists as they ride up as I'm cycling along. It gets really annoying and cold wrists are not nice in the winter! My Mrs was lucky enough to get a decent Christmas bonus this year and said I could have something cycling related that we couldn't normally afford. I looked at Assos tops and saw this with what looked like extra long arms so I ordered it. What a fantastic jacket, so comfortable, it doesn't move at all, I haven't had to pull the sleeves down once. Its is thinner than my other tops but warmer than the other two. I had a bit of inheritance money recently and on the strength of the top I ordered I bought an Assos wind jacket, again with extra long arms, and no flapping like the jacket which it replaced (broken zip, couldn't fix it). So for me Assos clothing isn't a rip off.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
As I wrote before - I know people who absolutely love it and spend a fortune on it.
I've never been able to afford Assos, and even if I could, I'd rather spend the money on a bike or cycling holidays. I've been able to find cycling clothing which suits me for much less than the cost of Assos.
It's not that I don't like expensive stuff, it''s just that I'm tight! I have a pair of SIDI shoes which would have been pretty expensive at full RRP but they had been sitting unsold in a bike shop and I managed to get them for £30!
Ha, that's nothing.
I take two of mine, in a car, to a location B quite a distance from A, whereupon I place one on the ground, and ride the other one around in circles until finished, unless circumstances dictate that I change bikes. I then use the car to take them both back to point A.
Rahul Sapariya
Regular
- Location
- Leicester
Anything really. As long as it isn't from a pound shop and you are comfortable using it, then it's all good. At the shop I work at, a lot of our tools are over 5 years old. And the amount of park tools stuff out of the 5 year old stuff? Probably about 5% of it is. The rest broke of the park tools stuff was replaced because of wear and tear.
