Best (cycling) thing you ever bought?
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landsurfer
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Re: Best (cycling) thing you ever bought?
My specialist cycle tools. Top quality and cheap stuff but useable tools all. My 70's and 80's bikes are a joy to work on with the right kit.
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Re: Best (cycling) thing you ever bought?
My Aldi Bikemate wireless bike computers. All the usual functions plus a heart monitor all for less than £15 I think. I have one on all 3 main bikes. Still going after 6 years or so.
Al
Al
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Re: Best (cycling) thing you ever bought?
al_yrpal wrote:My Aldi Bikemate wireless bike computers. All the usual functions plus a heart monitor all for less than £15 I think. I have one on all 3 main bikes. Still going after 6 years or so.
Al
I have a wireless computer on one of my bikes - not the same one as you mention, and minus the HRM. Although it performs very well normally, and I'm pleased to be relieved of the nuisance of snagged and broken wires leading down to the forks, I have the problem that it stops working altogether when I have my front light on low-intensity (i.e. rapid-cycle pulsed) mode. Not a big problem, but annoying.
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Re: Best (cycling) thing you ever bought?
Slightly OT, but the best cycling thing I ever *sold* was the second car.
Brought a perverse kind of freedom - no questioning whether to take the car because it was cold, just get on the bike (trike now).
Also of course makes a reasonable budget for cycle maintenance....
Brought a perverse kind of freedom - no questioning whether to take the car because it was cold, just get on the bike (trike now).
Also of course makes a reasonable budget for cycle maintenance....
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Elizabethsdad
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Re: Best (cycling) thing you ever bought?
Right now it would be my Bakfiets Long John cargo bike fitted with the Nuvinci hub gear. A close second would be my Carrera Subway Ultra 8 with alfine 8sp hub and disc brakes - these days I just don't look at derailiers and rim brakes. Otherwise in now particular order - Exposure lights, Lezyne micro floor pump with screw on flip chuck and pressure guage, Marathon plus tyres.