What have you bought for the bike today ?

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[Sixmile]

2 x Specialized Coolcave Panniers (I only wanted one but worked out better for free delivery to buy one for the other side)

Hex Set, cleats and puncture patches added for the craic.

 

[ColinJ]

A remote-controlled turbo trainer cooling fan of death! Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my new Cleva Vacmaster Cardio54...

They are £99.99 but you can get 10% off your first order if you sign up to the Cleva newsletter. Free next day delivery.

 

[Emanresu]

A Knog Oi Classic arrived today. Paid £12.99 but it's on offer at £12.34 on Ebay with a 5% voucher.

 

[Sixmile]

A Knog Oi Classic arrived today. Paid £12.99 but it's on offer at £12.34 on Ebay with a 5% voucher.



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I ordered one of these today too - £11.69 at Halfords with BC 10% code. Picking it up with a wee bundle of Autoglym gear in a few days.

 

[DCLane]

Having bought a pair of Madison large long finger Spring/Summer gloves to give my re-built index finger a bit more space, I bought another from the same seller. That should do me for this summer as I can't see me being able to use mitts.

Also, a pair of Shimano 5-8 speed jockey wheels from an offer, plus a very budget Dura-Ace cassette. It's well used but I'm only aiming to use two cogs and the lockring from it on a hardly-used cassette where the 19-21 cogs are broken.

 

[HLaB]

Optimistic that summer is on the way 🤞 I ordered a new pair of Ekoi bibs last night and som Ekoi jerseys. My castelli bibs that I wore today are starting to get thin so I ended up ordering a pair of Grib Grab ones and a pair of their summer overshoes.

 

[HLaB]

A remote-controlled turbo trainer cooling fan of death! Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my new Cleva Vacmaster Cardio54...

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They are £99.99 but you can get 10% off your first order if you sign up to the Cleva newsletter. Free next day delivery.

Too late, but about once every month or two they drop them to £79.99. They are reasonable fans but I'm not blown away with mine.

 

[ColinJ]

Too late, but about once every month or two they drop them to £79.99.

Oh well...

I think the fans could do with 4 settings, with the extra setting being one third to half the power of the current minimum.

They are reasonable fans but I'm not blown away with mine.

I see what you did there!

 

[TheDoctor]

10 speed 12T 14T and 17T sprockets, a 10 speed chain, and a 50T narrow/wide chainring.
I've also got a friction thumbshifter in the spares pile, should it be necessary.
I'll do some Brompton fettling tomorrow
Old gearing - 32" 39" 50" 62" 79" 97"
New gearing - 30" 37" 43" 47" 57" 67" 74" 90" 105"

The best bit was the price.
I got the parts from Ali Express, plus a complete Brompton toolkit. £40 all in.

 

[TheDoctor]

Fettling complete!

Out for a shakedown ride


12-14-17T cassette


Thumbshifter


Toolkit and tools

 

[HLaB]

I'm still waiting on the Ekoi stuff but that's the GribGrab stuff and chamois cream here. I've not used chamois cream in years but after getting a boil that took two days to go down, and with a cycling holiday booked for later in the year I thought I'd get some for emergency.

 

[DCLane]

@HLaB - the Veloskin stuff is decent. My students did a launch project with the company founder.

 

[Dan Lotus]

A remote-controlled turbo trainer cooling fan of death! Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my new Cleva Vacmaster Cardio54...

View attachment 766694

They are £99.99 but you can get 10% off your first order if you sign up to the Cleva newsletter. Free next day delivery.

These are truly excellent fans, all be it VERY directional - I use one for my face and upper body, and then this one for my lower body/legs:
https://growpro.co.uk/products/tornado-dc-18-floor-fan?_pos=3&_sid=ea423d07a&_ss=r

It's REALLY good, with 6 speed settings, I rarely have to use it on full speed, same with the Cleva.

@HLaB I've been tempted several times by the Ekoi kit, but presume we will now get hit for a ton of import charges and admin fees - would you mind updating once it arrives as to how much that added on please?
I normally estimate it at around 30% on top.

In other news, as I am a bit of a Rouvy addict now, and wanted the virtual shifting that my 8 year old turbo is unable to do, I have treated myself to the below:

£999 delivered from the ever excellent Sigma, plus this from the equally excellent Balfes for £70 delivered using BC discount plus a tiny bit of credit I had:

£1070 all in.
Entertainingly, had I bought direct from Wahoo, I could have had a reconditioned unit for £1070 delivered without the zwift cog and clicker

Next year, I will consider the climb, but I think this will be enough of a seismic change to start with.

 

[HLaB]

These are truly excellent fans, all be it VERY directional - I use one for my face and upper body, and then this one for my lower body/legs:
https://growpro.co.uk/products/tornado-dc-18-floor-fan?_pos=3&_sid=ea423d07a&_ss=r
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It's REALLY good, with 6 speed settings, I rarely have to use it on full speed, same with the Cleva.

@HLaB I've been tempted several times by the Ekoi kit, but presume we will now get hit for a ton of import charges and admin fees - would you mind updating once it arrives as to how much that added on please?
I normally estimate it at around 30% on top.

In other news, as I am a bit of a Rouvy addict now, and wanted the virtual shifting that my 8 year old turbo is unable to do, I have treated myself to the below:
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£999 delivered from the ever excellent Sigma, plus this from the equally excellent Balfes for £70 delivered using BC discount plus a tiny bit of credit I had:
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£1070 all in.
Entertainingly, had I bought direct from Wahoo, I could have had a reconditioned unit for £1070 delivered without the zwift cog and clicker

Next year, I will consider the climb, but I think this will be enough of a seismic change to start with.

They arrived today. Ive never been hit by import tariffs for Ekoi kit and Ive ordered enough that I'll get free gifts that are actually good quality.