The "what bike bits have you just bought" thread
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Does a whole new bike count ...? My first bike since i was a teenager 
We've recently moved house and now it's only a 3-4 mile commute to work and I want to start mountain biking again so to get me started again i've just bought a SPECIALIZED PITCH 650B MOUNTAIN BIKE 2015 - HARDTAIL MTB which will hopefully do the trick for a while.
Very excited and looking forward to it arriving on Monday and then i'll be frequenting these pages more often!
We've recently moved house and now it's only a 3-4 mile commute to work and I want to start mountain biking again so to get me started again i've just bought a SPECIALIZED PITCH 650B MOUNTAIN BIKE 2015 - HARDTAIL MTB which will hopefully do the trick for a while.
Very excited and looking forward to it arriving on Monday and then i'll be frequenting these pages more often!
pablo said:
Just bought a Specilasied Evade helmet, I look totally ridiculous in it but the helemt itself looks awesome and thats what matters. Not too bad as far as ventilation goes either but if you tuck your head down the wind finds the vents, doesnt seem to work in "sit up and beg" positions, funny that!!
Had mine about a week and loving it so far. Much quieter than the B'Twin thing it replaced and even on the roasting hot ToC I didn't notice any lack of ventilation. It's quite distinctive looking but I quite like it. The best improvement on my Fisherprice lid is the little rubber loop to hold the excess strap in place. That used to drive me nuts.louiebaby said:
Kermit power said:
I'm really looking forward to giving this one its first outing, even if it will just be a slow run round Haldon Woods in Exeter with my 9yr old on Saturday. He'll be on his "new" bike too. 
That's my neck of the woods, are you down here now, or on a holiday?I went down there for a quick blat round the red and blue last time I was there, and will be back to christen mini KP's "new" bike, which is below...
As you can see, a taste for red finishing kit runs in the family, although the pedals (cheapo DMR V6s) were a bit of a surprise. They turned up out of the blue because I took out a subscription for the online edition of Singletrack, despite there being no mention of it when I signed up!
I recently upgraded my Look 585 to Ultegra which left me with a mint 105 groupset so I thought I would buy a frame and make up another bike
The build will be 105-5700 with H+Son and whatever else I have in the spares box. The only item I need to buy will be a 31.6 seatpost as I have everything else
The build will be 105-5700 with H+Son and whatever else I have in the spares box. The only item I need to buy will be a 31.6 seatpost as I have everything else
47p2 said:
I recently upgraded my Look 585 to Ultegra which left me with a mint 105 groupset so I thought I would buy a frame and make up another bike
The build will be 105-5700 with H+Son and whatever else I have in the spares box. The only item I need to buy will be a 31.6 seatpost as I have everything else
Now that looks nice!The build will be 105-5700 with H+Son and whatever else I have in the spares box. The only item I need to buy will be a 31.6 seatpost as I have everything else
I have a ten speed Ultegra groupset kicking around on a crash damaged bike in the garage. Wheels too, if I can get them trued up. All I'd need to buy would be the stem and bars (side impact, so wouldn't want to risk the crashed items, even though they look undamaged) and the seatpost like you.
I fear that the Deda frameset pictured would be too expensive to sneak past the wife, though!
yellowjack said:
I fear that the Deda frameset pictured would be too expensive to sneak past the wife, though!
The frame was very inexpensive, I had thought about buying a Ribble or Graham Weigh winter frame just to use up the parts but this came up at a silly price and I couldn't refuse. Should be here on Monday so will be out on it on Monday evening if all goes to plan47p2 said:
I recently upgraded my Look 585 to Ultegra which left me with a mint 105 groupset so I thought I would buy a frame and make up another bike.
Just out of interest, what was the motivation for building a second bike?I've got 4 myself, but each serves a very different purpose - a full susser for trails fun, a hardtail for XC and blatting around with my kids, a CX with discs, mudguards and a rack for wet weather and luggage carrying commuting and a carbon road bike which was, in theory, for recreational road riding but in fact never gets a look in against the mountain bikes, so is used for dry weather, no laptop commuting.
Admittedly, the road bike would be the one I'd least see the need to duplicate anyway, but even with the mountain bikes, I'd need to be looking at a particularly different discipline (and one for which in my forties I no longer have the prerequisite gargantuan testicles and "bounceability") before I could see a need for another bike.
Kermit power said:
Just out of interest, what was the motivation for building a second bike?
N+1The options I had were sell the groups or buy a cheap frame and build another bike, so I guess that building another bike at the price I paid for the frame is the least expensive in the long term as I can make more money when I sell the bike on at a later date
Kermit power said:
I've got 4 myself
Only 4!!! 
Kermit power said:
...one for which in my forties I no longer have the prerequisite gargantuan testicles and "bounceability"
At almost 50% older than you I'm way too old for mountain bikes, the thought of rattling down a dirt track fills me with dread so I'll just stick to the hard tarmac 
47p2 said:
At almost 50% older than you I'm way too old for mountain bikes, the thought of rattling down a dirt track fills me with dread so I'll just stick to the hard tarmac
I doubt it's something I'd want to start in my sixties, and having only started in my thirties, I'll never have the gung ho lunatic strain of some of the guys in their forties who've been riding trails since they could ride a bike (which, I hope, my kids are on their way to becoming), but I would be utterly filled with dread at the thought that one day I might not be able to go rattling down a dirt track! In fact, this has been my biggest single motivator for losing weight. I've always been pretty fit (blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol and everything else all pretty much nailed) but hidden it under 19 stone of insulation. I looked at my mother earlier this year, who, at 71, can't do much of anything active at all, not because of any intrinsic health issues but because she's too fat and has knackered her knees from all that body weight and a fall, and thought "Oh God"!
I've lost just under 2.5 stone in the last 4 months, intend to lose as much again by the end of the year. I can already ride far further, far faster than I could when I was 35, and I reckon I'm well on track to be fitter and faster at fifty than I was at 25. The rungs on your ladder might decrease with age, but if you never climbed beyond the first few rungs in the first place, you can always get higher!
My family tree suggests I should have a good chance of living a fair way into my nineties. I'm hoping to be in a position to email Strava to tell them I'll finally be ready to pay for a Premium subscription if they'll just introduce a 90+ category in the age ranges!
My grandfather and father both had their first heart attack at the age of 47, my grandfather died at the age of 59 and my father at 54, and with all the hype of inherited heart conditions I grew up expecting to be gone by the time I reached my mid 50s. Last year the NHS fitted me with a heart monitor plus I had several ECGs' and an angiogram and a few weeks later I was summoned by Glasgow's top heart specialist for the results. His words were "You're not going to die of a heart attack, in fact you're heart is one of the healthiest I have seen in a long time" Just goes to show that the inherited heart condition is not always relevant and it now looks like I could outlive my other half 
47p2 said:
My grandfather and father both had their first heart attack at the age of 47, my grandfather died at the age of 59 and my father at 54, and with all the hype of inherited heart conditions I grew up expecting to be gone by the time I reached my mid 50s. Last year the NHS fitted me with a heart monitor plus I had several ECGs' and an angiogram and a few weeks later I was summoned by Glasgow's top heart specialist for the results. His words were "You're not going to die of a heart attack, in fact you're heart is one of the healthiest I have seen in a long time" Just goes to show that the inherited heart condition is not always relevant and it now looks like I could outlive my other half
I'll almost certainly outlive mine, as she's a type one diabetic. 
All the more reason to want an active hobby for my old age though!
New bike time... Got the 2am Dovert to Dunkirk ferry, got to Koblenz at 11am after getting stuck in two traffic jams. Managed to get back for the 6pm ferry back to the uk and my final drive back to Norwich. I rolled in the front door at 10.45 having driven 950 miles in just under 24 hours on my own after my co-driver decided he couldn't make it!! I was in the bike shop yesterday morning having a bike fit, so I'm just getting changed to go out for my first ride on it. 
37Flipper said:
New bike time... Got the 2am Dovert to Dunkirk ferry, got to Koblenz at 11am after getting stuck in two traffic jams. Managed to get back for the 6pm ferry back to the uk and my final drive back to Norwich. I rolled in the front door at 10.45 having driven 950 miles in just under 24 hours on my own after my co-driver decided he couldn't make it!! I was in the bike shop yesterday morning having a bike fit, so I'm just getting changed to go out for my first ride on it.
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