The "what bike bits have you just bought" thread

[neenaw]

yellowjack said:

...because, at the same time I bought a pair of Northwave Celsius GTX boots for the princely sum of £75.

All from Wellington Trek in Sunningdale, who have a 50% shoe sale and 20 to 25% off lots of other accessories, if you're close enough to pop in

That's a great price for the Northwave boots. I've had mine for a couple of years and they've been fantastic.

I might have to head out to Sunningdale to see if they have the road version of them in the sale.

[GuinnessMK]

Picked up one of these tonight http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/ice-toolz...

Not bad at all for £3.39, the chain is a hell of a lot cleaner now, but the whole house smells a bit of gunk. Perhaps I should have worked outside instead of the utility room.

[littleandy0410]

bakerstreet said:

The different colours designate how much float the cleats have and are nothing to do with them matching your shoes.

FFS!

Sorry, forgot the winking smiley! I am aware of the reason for the different colours, I was only half joking about the colour coordinating!

JustinF said:

I use blue shimano cleats, if you've got a straight clean pedalling action then they might suit.

Thanks. I don't think I rotate my feet much at all, so think I could get away with the blue cleats. I need new ones soon, so might give them a try instead of my current yellow ones.

[Max5476]

I've just bought a surly Tuggnut, new chain ring bolts and chain ring spanner. Need to replace the bolt that fell out, and hoping the tuggnut stops the rear wheel from pulling itself out of alignment up hills.

http://surlybikes.com/parts/drivetrain/tuggnut

Will fit tonight and hopefully post some pictures afterwards.

[Magic919]

Some these for my Topeak Dual Touch bike stand.

[5678]

New shoes all round recently... Northwave Sonic SRS for the road bike and some Giro Privateer HV for the MTB.

[duff]

Been taking advantage of some good sales recently :

Lezyne SuperDrive XL front light, micro drive front and rear lights, pod caddy and mini pump £95 from Upgrade outlet.
Sidi 5 pro mega from Merlin £116
Castelli Velocissimo shorts from Castelli cafe £45, plus socks and a nice grey bottle
Garmin Edge 810 £230 from Amazon (had a £120 voucher to use)
Belkin shorts and jersey, £25 from the outlet store
Plus a few bits from Evans - Swisstop green pads, shimano cleats, new cables, ultegra chain.

[doolie]

New Bike - RT-57 with SRAM Force (C2W)
New cassette and chain for the winter bike
Additional 10speed cassette for the TT bike second wheelset
Lezyne Duo light (via procycling subs)
Additional Look Keos for the new bike

[LordJammy]

Just bought this, I needed something to go with my new shorts.

[sjj84]

sjj84 said:

I bought some shimano SPD pedals, got delivered today. Haven't got any shoes to go with them yet, or a bike. Got some free haribo though. I'm doing this wrong aren't I?

Got some northwave shoes at the weekend to go with the pedals. Still no bike though and had to buy my own haribo.

[GG89]

Just agreed to buy a bike on Saturday. 2014 giant trance advanced 1 in matt black, really looking forward to it I'll post some pictures when I get it looks awesome.

also a 661 recon helmet and some nuke proof electron pedals to go with it.

Edited by GG89 on Thursday 29th January 00:23

Edited by GG89 on Thursday 29th January 00:24

[GarryDK]

Northwave overshoes

[tobinen]

During a 76 km ride at the weekend, I couldn't feel my feet after 5 kms so I've ordered a pair of dhb neoprene overshoes

[Gruffy]

The same thing happens to me. I can get away with just a mesh base layer and a jersey in the depths of winter but anything below 10°C and my feet turn to blocks of ice. The new strategy is merino socks, Castelli neoprene overshoes and then Rapha oversocks on top of those. This seems to cope with all but the very coldest conditions.

[pbarlow0032]

I suffer with cold feet too. I've found the wooly booly socks make a huge difference, and teamed with some Endura neoprene overshoes I can just about cope. Don't feel the cold anywhere else I.e base layer, jersey and arm warmers are enough down to about 5 degrees, but feet just retain no heat

[Gruffy]

Delivered to France, because Euros. If it arrives in time I should be bringing it back with me when I visit at the start of March.

[TheLemming]

Gruffy said:

Delivered to France, because Euros. If it arrives in time I should be bringing it back with me when I visit at the start of March.

Nice

The more I look at those the more tempted I get. If they did a Force 22 build it would be on order.

[Gruffy]

At their prices (especially given the Euro's slide, if EU delivery is an option for you) would it not still be 'cheap' to buy and swap the groupset, flinging the outgoing one on eBay or on the bike this would replace?

[seadragon]

Jersey and socks from Isadore Apparel

http://isadoreapparel.com/long-sleeve-jersey-poten...
http://isadoreapparel.com/merino-socks

Focus carbon bottle cage from J.E. James

http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/focus-carbon-bottle...

Bern Watts carbon fibre helmet (Blue) from The Board Basement

Endura ¾ MTB shorts from some site on ebay.

[TheLemming]

Gruffy said:

At their prices (especially given the Euro's slide, if EU delivery is an option for you) would it not still be 'cheap' to buy and swap the groupset, flinging the outgoing one on eBay or on the bike this would replace?

Please don't tempt me.... would end up costing a couple of hundred quid all in I guess to flog ultegra and buy and fit force 22.