The "what bike bits have you just bought" thread

[BadgerBenji]

Lots and lots, will post the finished item in the show your bike thread, but let's put it this way, there are boxes from Pace, Fox, Thomson, Rotor, Hope, Mavic and Shimano Saint. Enjoying a good preassemble fondle presently of all the shiney before it all gets mucky.

[Gruffy]

Lovely. I'd be very keen to hear how you get on with that. I'll be in the market for an audax bike very soon.

[Granfondo]

swerni said:

A bit of titanium

Lovely bit of kit Swerni!

[Black can man]

richardxjr said:

Swapped bikes with my mate t'other night. He has an awesome CX saddle perfect for the SS mtb, had to have one (and it matches my grips now)

I have one of these {same model }sitting doing nothing, i just can't get on with it. Kills my harris .

If you are thinking of buying one Richard cancel it & have mine , i'm only looking for the postage money.

Edited by Black can man on Saturday 26th September 07:52

Edited by Black can man on Saturday 26th September 07:52

[richardxjr]

Black can man said:

richardxjr said:

Swapped bikes with my mate t'other night. He has an awesome CX saddle perfect for the SS mtb, had to have one (and it matches my grips now)

I have one of these {same model }sitting doing nothing, i just can't get on with it. Kills my harris .

If you are thinking of buying one Richard cancel it & have mine , i'm only looking for the postage money.

Edited by Black can man on Saturday 26th September 07:52

Edited by Black can man on Saturday 26th September 07:52

Could have swapped it for the Aliante I just sold! Happy to buy it Neil, I'll pop you an email.

[Black can man]

richardxjr said:

Could have swapped it for the Aliante I just sold! Happy to buy it Neil, I'll pop you an email.

Not really looking for any money Richard, just the postage will do , i'd rather it go to someone i know who will use it rather than just sit in the garage dusting away,

[anonymous-user]

swerni said:

A bit of titanium

titanium is good stuff

I have 2 titanium frames now, a fixed and a winter. Both ride very nicely.

I also have 2 of these rather nice titanium saddle bag carriers in titanium. Unfortunately they were made in the days when seat posts were 27.2mm and they don't fit my current bikes. One is going to be modified this week to fit. Only 3 of them exist - they were made by a top bloke in my old cycling club who has been dead for about 20 years! Hoarder? Me? never!

[Black can man]

Richard, just confirm that this is the same saddle & i'll pop it in the post Monday morning

I'll pop my details via mail later.

[Gruffy]

swerni said:

Granfondo said:

swerni said:

A bit of titanium

Lovely bit of kit Swerni!

I'm leasing it

Just being built up at the moment with some nice hand built wheels, should pick it up in two weeks.
Really looking forward to it

Darren, pop over and have a go on it, it should be the right size for you.

Cheers Steve, I will have to take you up on that offer. Ti, I understand, is the dream option. I've only ever done proper miles on my carbon aero bike and the cheap alloy Triban. I need a bit of education/experience to understand what I should be aiming for with the Transcontinental n+1. Every so often I have silly thoughts about doing it on the Aeroad, but that's without knowing how much more comfortable Ti/steel is.

[richardxjr]

Black can man said:

Richard, just confirm that this is the same saddle

that's the one

[Herman Toothrot]

Garmin 25 for £95 from chain reaction - had wanted a 510 but couldn't justify the cost for ages just for mtb to get better tracking under trees with the glossnas (I already have a 800 that's been great). Didn't know the 25 existed until chain reactions advert email, the 25 seems to have all the features of the 510 but half the price :-)

[Steve vRS]

Rolls said:

Steve vRS said:

The tyres arrived last week, but I've been told that to get the full potential from them, I need latex inner tubes. This allows the tyres to run down to 30psi for grip.

Now, Wiggle are out of stock of the tubes and they are 2 weeks away from re-stocking. My next race is in 10 days time!

Can't decide whether to use them with standard tubes or be patient and wait.

Steve

Do people still use tubes in mtb wheels? Tubeless all the way!

Managed to blow up two tubes this evening trying to fit the buggers. More tubes ordered.

Steve

[anonymous-user]

CAAD10 ultegra, 1200 from Westbrook so it seemed rude not to....

[E65Ross]

Exposure Blaze MK1 rear light



My Moon LX70 is a good light and bright enough, but the battery isn't very good in my opinion so I wanted a decent light with a decent battery, it would appear the Blaze fits that bill very well indeed.

[jamiebae]

pablo said:

CAAD10 ultegra, 1200 from Westbrook so it seemed rude not to....

Good choice - I have the 105 version but with Ultegra wheels and it's a great bike to ride

[Black can man]

Evans are doing Rapha T's at their marquee tent sale at gatwick for £1.50

Picked up a couple of each of these



Got this one for £14.00




I also picked one of these up for around £12.00 , bloody bright this .




They have quite a few good bargains down there , goes on till sunday i believe.

[richardxjr]

Herman Toothrot said:

Garmin 25 for £95 from chain reaction - had wanted a 510 but couldn't justify the cost for ages just for mtb to get better tracking under trees with the glossnas (I already have a 800 that's been great). Didn't know the 25 existed until chain reactions advert email, the 25 seems to have all the features of the 510 but half the price :-)

No barometric altimeter though, so expect your climbing numbers on Strava to be way down on your 800's. If that matters to you of course.

[anonymous-user]

jamiebae said:

pablo said:

CAAD10 ultegra, 1200 from Westbrook so it seemed rude not to....

Good choice - I have the 105 version but with Ultegra wheels and it's a great bike to ride

To be honest, Pauls Cycles have a 2013 105 model for £850 which is madness given the framesets are still going for £650, for anohter £200 you get the rest of the bike thrown in!.... I liked the spec upgrades on the Ultegra model though as it has the cannondale si chainset and (obviously) full ultegra. It comes with Aksiums which I may well sell, in fact if it fits I'll probably sell the Cervelo too.

All depends on the fitting now as I went with a 54cm whihc just felt a little better than the 56, it was a little more compact but the 56 felt too stretched with the stock spacers etc so removing those would only exacerbate the problem. Hopefully i can get the 54 to fit with a flipped, dropped stem and some seat attention. The amnusing thing is i dont know what colour it will be, could be the all black version, could be silver and red...

[neenaw]

Just ordered a set of these bad boys
New ENVE carbon forks to go on the singlespeed. Looking forward to getting them fitted this weekend!

[bakerstreet]

richardxjr said:

Swapped bikes with my mate t'other night. He has an awesome CX saddle perfect for the SS mtb, had to have one (and it matches my grips now)

That at looks like a horrible saddle. Completely flat at the back??

I bought some used Noprthwave Zero boots which also came with MTB shoes and pedals too. All for £59 on Ebay Both shoes and boots are a little tights, so I shall be selling the shoes straight away and I'll see how I get on with the boots when I start using thicker socks. Pedals are SPD fitment, but not a brand I recognize, so they have gone straight in the spares box.