What has the bike stuff fairy brought you today?

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Marcus Aurelius
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philvantwo wrote:New shoes on the table!!!!!!

Strictly speaking they’re on a box, the box is on the table. So it doesn’t count.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote:
philvantwo wrote:New shoes on the table!!!!!!

Strictly speaking they’re on a box, the box is on the table. So it doesn’t count.


:roll: It does count. :lol:
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A selection of new headgear & matching face coverings from PlanetX for shop & train use. Here are a couple of them
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cycle tramp
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A lovely second hand 39 tooth chainring, courtesy of a very kind John2

It's going to be used as a single chainring with a sun race 5 speed freewheel... giving me 72, 63, 50, 42 and 36 inch gearing. The chainring will be slightly of spaced so that the chain runs straight on the 63 inch gear - which will be my tapping along gear. The chain ring will also be mounted back to front so that I'm using the less worn side of the chainring teeth.

Thanks John2! :D
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cycle tramp wrote:….It's going to be used as a single chainring with a sun race 5 speed freewheel... giving me 72, 63, 50, 42 and 36 inch gearing. The chainring will be slightly of spaced so that the chain runs straight on the 63 inch gear - which will be my tapping along gear.....


sounds good; it is very easy to overlook the virtues of a simple transmission in this day and age.

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Jamesh
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Another m591 rear mech as they are hard to find these days new.

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Swapped out the leaky original brass valve on my Rennkompressor with a more practical dual valve thingy:

Dual valve
Dual valve


First time I’ve bought inner tubes (Schwalbe) that weren’t in retail packaging:

Tubes
Tubes


These bad boys are going on my jazzy bike’s wheels:

Conti 5000
Conti 5000

They smell nice :D
ratherbeintobago
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Some new Giro Xen gloves (the mesh on the side of the fingers goes after a while)

A pair of Novatec hubs for a project

And the traffic free cycling trails book that was in the latest mag.
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keyboardmonkey wrote: ….They smell nice :D


nothing like the reassuring smell of fresh rubber!

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freeflow
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The bike fairy was supposed to bring me a lovely new frame and forks last Friday.

Unfortunately, having tracked me down the fairy found they'd forgotten to load my parcel into the fairy conveyance. Delivery rescheduled for Monday.

On Saturday I was surprised that the Fairy had got up early and decided to have another go at delivering my parcel. On this occasion the road the fairy wanted to use was closed and the diversion that was half a mile longer was far too scary for the fairy to travel down so they went home.

To make life easier for the fairy, I redirected the parcel to the local parcel shop (the option for which only appeared online after I'd had a gentle whinge with the fairy customer avoidance operator.

Monday morning shows fairy hard at it having set of with my frame at 7:12 am.
At 8:12 pm fairy arrived at the parcel shop to find it closed due to restricted opening during Covid 19. Fairy was obviously feeling tired as the 2 miles from the shop to my address was far too far at that time of night.

Today Fairy must have had a sleep in due to yesterday's travails as they didn't set off until 8:30 ish and managed to make it as far as the Parcel shop by 16:30.

Unfortunately the parcel shop did not want such a large item obstructing the stock room so fairy took the frame away again.

I spoke to the customer avoidance operator again today who admitted that the fairy was a bit remedial but was able to arrange for me to collect the frame from the depot.

Its only a 120 mile round trip......
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10/10 for sarcasm.
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In anticipation of shorter days and reduced visibility and before the prices start to rise; 1200 lumens of loveliness.....
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Hi,
Is that an expensive 1200 LM light? I have a few cheap ones but they don't have reflectors, plus part is it's got a zoom control so So you can adjust the angle of the beam that's the field.

Parcel delivered this morning from DHL, not opened it yet but I think I know what's inside, two antique Brake caliper sets that I brought for a song, if the condition is as good as a picture then there worth several times what I paid for them, good investment as these parts tend to dry up quite quickly nowadays.
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Carradice super c rack bag, 40 cm leather staps to tie stuff to the lid, Shimano 12-36 9 speed cassette, sram 9 speed chain, steerer mounting bell.
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