What have you bought for the bike today ?

[Gunk]

My Aliexpress light arrived today, it was about £13 landed.

The mount wasn’t quite right, far too tight, but I had a spare male Garmin repair kit so I fitted that and it’s perfect.

 

[Dadam]

@Gunk Nice neat solution. How does it get power, is it just separately rechargeable with its own integral battery or can it draw power from the Garmin? Alternatively if the former, can it power the Garmin? I'm not seeing any electrical contacts so probably not?

 

[fossyant]

I have just received 2 x Shimano 7 speed cassettes and matching kmc chains from David Hinde Bikes another good delivery and easy purchase.

Can't believe they are still going !

 

[Gunk]

@Gunk Nice neat solution. How does it get power, is it just separately rechargeable with its own integral battery or can it draw power from the Garmin? Alternatively if the former, can it power the Garmin? I'm not seeing any electrical contacts so probably not?

It’s rechargeable, doesn’t provide any charge to the Garmin but as you say a nice neat solution

 

[biggs682]

Can't believe they are still going !

They offer a good service and have some good offers

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Bling handlebar bungs for the tandem

 

[Alex321]

Ordered a new left crank arm (105 7000 series), after mine decided it wasn't going to stay put any more on my ride today. When I got home (some walking, then a kind gentleman gave me a lift home - he is a cyclist too), it turned out the tines were pretty well stripped.

£39 including postage from the bay.

 

[si_c]

Ordered a new left crank arm (105 7000 series), after mine decided it wasn't going to stay put any more on my ride today. When I got home (some walking, then a kind gentleman gave me a lift home - he is a cyclist too), it turned out the tines were pretty well stripped.

£39 including postage from the bay.

Reminds me I have a spare left side crank lying around somewhere - the downside of getting a third party power meter can be that you have a free, and now somewhat useless spare arm.

 

[ColinJ]

I had a puncture last week, caused by what turned out to be an absolutely tiny sliver of glass in the tyre. It was extremely hard to find!

I used a magnifying glass at home to examine the tyre. That is too big to carry about with me but it struck me that a smaller magnifier would be a handy addition to the tool kit.

I found something suitable on eBay for under £3...

 

[8mph]

A 26 x 2" folding Mondial tyre to keep the Sardar on the road during winter. If I can squeeze one on the front I'll buy more. The ride quality of this bike is lush and I'm tempted by so so many potential grades. This tyre was under £40 thankfully!

 

[DCLane]

This evening I picked up a new-to-me frameset, ostensibly to replace the Viner Mitus 'winter' bike I have. Today's audax clearly demonstrated the limitations of using a pure race bike as a winter bike, with the tyres constantly scraping the mudguard mounts and eventually clogging.

It's a 2018 Ridley Fenix SL frameset. Son no. 2 has a 2017 one, but the standard version. The build will be done either over Christmas/New Year if the weather's awful or at some point when I can get the time to swap components between the two. I paid probably more than I would normally but as it's the SL version that's OK to me.

This is the Viner for comparison. Looks good but completely inappropriate for winter use with far too little mudguard clearance, particularly at the brake mount points/fork:

 

[Bristolian]

A Bryton Gardia 300L rear radar and light unit . Couldn't afford the Garmin version