Online bike bits

[Lord Pikey]

Morning All.

I am looking to do an order for a bike bits but i cannot find what i want from "giggle" or
"painreactioncycles". Are there any other large mail order companies out there that i am forgetting. I would prefere to order from one place as shipping to Europe isn't cheap.

If it helps my shopping list is.

lightweight full finger gloves
bar tape
shock oil
brake booster

Cheers

LP

[-C-]

Merlin, Stif, UKBikeStore, cyclestore, etc. That should keep you busy for a while

[mk1fan]

LBS?

[anonymous-user]

geoffrey butler and dave hinde are also worth a look.

as much as i want to support my local bike store, i can only really get there on a saturday or sunday where i am greeted by a surly teenager who thinks my custom is an interuption to his day and serving me with any modicum of advice is a chore.

as much as bristol has bike shops, one with some passion, an appreciate of customer service and some realistic pricing policies would clear up...

[khushy]

pablo said:

geoffrey butler and dave hinde are also worth a look.

as much as i want to support my local bike store, i can only really get there on a saturday or sunday where i am greeted by a surly teenager who thinks my custom is an interuption to his day and serving me with any modicum of advice is a chore.

as much as bristol has bike shops, one with some passion, an appreciate of customer service and some realistic pricing policies would clear up...

CLASSICS!!!!

LOL

khushy

[snotrag]

pablo said:

dave hinde .

I dare you to type 'dave hinde' into a cycling forums search box right before pressing the 'order' button.
Anyway - Gloves - go to your LBS, you should try things like that on.

Bar tape - any shop should have that.

Fork oil - halfords/motor factors. About 3 litres of putoline for the price of a dribble of fox / stendec oil.

[Lord Pikey]

mk1fan said:

LBS?

Sorry, taken me several hours to work out what you meant.

The local shops here in germany are quite expensive so me and a few work mates are ordering from the uk

[anonymous-user]

snotrag said:

pablo said:

dave hinde .

I dare you to type 'dave hinde' into a cycling forums search box right before pressing the 'order' button.
Anyway - Gloves - go to your LBS, you should try things like that on.

Bar tape - any shop should have that.

Fork oil - halfords/motor factors. About 3 litres of putoline for the price of a dribble of fox / stendec oil.

i have been around long enough to know about the reputation of Dave Hinde but thought that was predominantly things like wheels an other stuff that required some degree of assembly. surely they can be trusted to put some off-the-shelf bits into an envelope and post them?

[Lord Croker]

Is Dave Hinde really that bad? Years and years ago he had a great reputation but his operation is on a much bigger scale these days, so I can see why things might have gone downhill. He's bloody cheap though!

ETA I've had a look around bikeradar and it's pretty shocking how bad he can be...

try http://www.parker-international.co.uk/ for parts.

Edited by Lord Croker on Tuesday 28th April 10:57

[PooPoo]

tredz.co.uk seem good enough for me.

[anonymous-user]

Lord Croker said:

Is Dave Hinde really that bad? Years and years ago he had a great reputation but his operation is on a much bigger scale these days, so I can see why things might have gone downhill. He's bloody cheap though!

ETA I've had a look around bikeradar and it's pretty shocking how bad he can be...

try http://www.parker-international.co.uk/ for parts.

Edited by Lord Croker on Tuesday 28th April 10:57

slating hinde has become a bit of a hobby for some though. no one ever goes on line and says "i bought some stuff, it arrived, it was the right stuff" only to say that "i ordered some stuff and the wrong stuff arrived etc etc" i still believe that the right stuff gets sent and delivered more often than not its just the trend to get on the internet the minute there is a mistake.

though the customer service stories are somewhat legendary...