Triban 3 Owners Club

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

hey guys just wondering what lube you use on the chain been working away and come home mine looking like it will rust. On a budget so bargains appriciated!

cheapest option is chainsaw oil (I kid not). I am just waiting for my existing oil to run out (I use dry oil year round btw) before I change over to chainsaw oil (others have mentioned it and at £4 for a litre it is cheaper than bike oil which for what I have £7.99 for 250ml (but that lasts me about 6 months of almost daily use between 6 bikes).

Don't worry about the chain - rub it down with elbow grease and then use the bike and it will come off just as quickly as it arrived. But I will say I found the original chain rusted very easily. I now use a £4.49 KMC Z51 chain (quicklink not included in that price) with quick link and it does not rust anywhere near as easily. You can get it in a pack that includes the chain link as well - this one on Amazon appears to contain a replacement quicklink for £6.55 ex P&P.

 

[andyoxon]

I used to use WD-40 on chains! But no more... http://sheldonbrown.com/chains.html

WD-40 and other thin sprays are intended more as solvents than lubricants. They evaporate quickly.

Have bike oil from Halfords I've used sparingly on the chain recently (since getting the T3)
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_715097_langId_-1_categoryId_228374

 

[andyoxon]

What GPS bike units do people have here? Half thinking about getting an Garmin eTrex.

 

[martin122]

What GPS bike units do people have here? Half thinking about getting an Garmin eTrex.

I just got a garmin edge200 and its very good, my first bike gps, its easy to upload to garmin and mapmyride sites.

 

[G3CWI]

What GPS bike units do people have here? Half thinking about getting an Garmin eTrex.

Before spending money check out what your phone will do for free. There are lots of great cycling apps.

 

[andyoxon]

Before spending money check out what your phone will do for free. There are lots of great cycling apps.

My phone is a next gen tiny clamshell phone, with small energy saving screen & the liberating advantage of having no real useable internet...

 

[Highland]

Hope the link works

http://www.btwin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/road-offer-2013.pdf

 

[Phred1812]

Its true then. The Legendary Red is no more. Surely to become a collector's item. I cannot see the the new T3 becoming anything like as succesfull.

 

[Radchenister]

Ah ... but the T7 !!!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Ah ... but the T7 !!!

Yes, they've got you snared and invented a whole new set of bikes to renew your custom! (I've seen a couple of the Facet7 frames in the shop and they're handsome, plus seem very well priced. I wonder whether Decathlon will set up a trial ride system. You'd want to know how it rides, wouldn't you?)

 

[Radchenister]

You make a lot of assumptions - it may have been tongue in cheek on my part; equally, your response might have been a double bluff but from the pattern of your posts so far I'm reasonably safe in saying you've not yet dis-proven yourself to be a dumb@rse !

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

a bumb@rse! Where else should my bum be?

 

[Radchenister]

a bumb@rse! Where else should my bum be?

Tbh, who cares, I'll be riding a Bianchi this time next year and am only hyping the T3 to maintain the resale value .

 

[Billy Adam]

Tbh, who cares, I'll.be riding a Bianchi this time next year and am only hyping the T3 to maintain the resale value .

Only if its not to cold!

 

[Phred1812]

Tbh, who cares, I'll.be riding a Bianchi this time next year and am only hyping the T3 to maintain the resale value .

You don't mean that surely? Bianchis are built or at least assembled dangerously close to Etna