The "How Much?" / "Having a Giraffe!" Café thread...

[Jody]

Nope, £30k+ for processors that are three generations old, and last generation graphics ... absolute madness

Looks nice though

 

[Chris S]

£1000 for some NOS mudguards. They've never been used, they're scratched because of poor storage.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/726857615210549

 

[Grant Fondo]

Keeping my eye on the 'avin a giraffe profits that energy companies make in 2022 ....
.... the top two, british owned SSE and spanish owned (!) Scottish Power made well over £1 Billion in 2021.

 

[Alex321]

Keeping my eye on the 'avin a giraffe profits that energy companies make in 2022 ....
.... the top two, british owned SSE and spanish owned (!) Scottish Power made well over £1 Billion in 2021.

Which is actually a smaller margin than previously. Scottish power earnings rose by 45%, while profits only rose by 2.6%. Their retail profits (what they make from selling energy to consumers) FELL by 60%.

Just saying they made a billion pounds profit is meaningless, without knowing margins.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Which is actually a smaller margin than previously

That's put my mind at rest.

 

[Chris S]

£200 for a Brompton chain tensioner seems a bit steep.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195595504602

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

£200 for a Brompton chain tensioner seems a bit steep.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195595504602

Does it come in other colours??

 

[Grant Fondo]

Which is actually a smaller margin than previously. Scottish power earnings rose by 45%, while profits only rose by 2.6%. Their retail profits (what they make from selling energy to consumers) FELL by 60%.

Just saying they made a billion pounds profit is meaningless, without knowing margins.

Interesting this news of the Shell boss and his big bonus. Over at BP they have posted a £23bn profit, and the BBC note,
..... It has meant in recent years, the likes of BP and Shell have paid little or no UK tax.
All good in the 'hood then .... and the boss of BP is called Bernard Looney and got a £2.4m bonus last year.
You couldn't make it up.

 

[Jameshow]

£15000 Scott foil and £600 assos jacket in last weeks CW.

Interestingly the ultegra di2 foil was only £6k bargain!!!

 

[Grant Fondo]

£15000 Scott foil

48/35 chainset? That's odd for a 'pro' bike?

 

[DCBassman]

I may be wrong here, but isn't this thread supposed to be about expensive cake stops?

 

[ColinJ]

I may be wrong here, but isn't this thread supposed to be about expensive cake stops?

No, it is the thread in CycleChat cafe about expensive things which are not vintage bikes!

While I am here... I thought £4-5 for a skinny spacer for an 11-speed cassette was a bit steep, but I wanted one in a hurry so I didn't want to wait for a cheaper one brought over on a slow boat from China!

 

[antnee]

What you need is a proper hardware shop...The one in Holmfirth is excellent. Ask for a single small spring/washer or similar widget and the old chap in a brown smock will suck his teeth, then rummage about in one of the many drawers before producing said item. Usually for pence.


Also sells wellies, clothes pegs, and pretty much everything else.

And The Black Mills Band playing thay much abused piece of music that accompanied the lad pushing his bike up Golds Hill.

 

[DCBassman]

No, it is the thread in CycleChat cafe about expensive things which are not vintage bikes!

Cool, not paying attention/wrong end of stick!

 

[ColinJ]

Cool, not paying attention/wrong end of stick!

Given what you have been going through recently, I think that we can forgive you!