What did you buy today?

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Debs
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Just purchased a can of WD-40 chain lube, not used it before, will see how it goes :)
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I am pleased by the sound of two new Crane Riten bells, a very pleasant dring dring with a long sustain. Hopefully the sound will be better received and understood by grouchy pedestrians than previous ping bells.

Also a PX MTB plastic front mudguard for upcoming mild off road tracks in Scotland. However I suspect it will not last long.
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From the Car Boot today, a combined Broons & Oor Wullie Album, with a ten-up cycle and sidecar combination and Grandpaw Broon bringing up the the rear on a Penny-Farthing on the cover. We used to get the original Annuals for our Christmas; sent down from Scotland from our Aunts & Uncles.
The cartoons used to appear in the Sunday Post, still do I imagine.
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I found a cycling adventure of Wullie's with his pal Bob inside.
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2 chocolate oranges.
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Islabike Cnoc 14 Small
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These beauties at a mega discount.
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mattsccm wrote: 10 Oct 2021, 7:45pm 2 chocolate oranges.
What were the other items of your 5 a day. :evil:
At the last count:- Peugeot 531 pro, Dawes Discovery Tandem, Dawes Kingpin X3, Raleigh 20 stowaway X2, 1965 Moulton deluxe, Falcon K2 MTB dropped bar tourer, Rudge Bi frame folder, Longstaff trike conversion on a Giant XTC 840 :D
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colin54 wrote: 10 Oct 2021, 7:29pm From the Car Boot today, a combined Broons & Oor Wullie Album, with a ten-up cycle and sidecar combination and Grandpaw Broon bringing up the the rear on a Penny-Farthing on the cover. We used to get the original Annuals for our Christmas; sent down from Scotland from our Aunts & Uncles.
The cartoons used to appear in the Sunday Post, still do I imagine.
P1150501.JPG
I found a cycling adventure of Wullie's with his pal Bob inside.
P1150506.JPG
Click-click to read
We used to have them religiously each Christmas and used to fight over them.

Must get over for a ride sometime..

Cheers James
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Being so very please with my recently purchased and installed TSDZ2 mid drive motor and 10Ahr bottle battery (for £352 from PSW Power, German Warehouse) and fitted it to my Dawes Super Galaxy, I bought a duplicate setup to put on my wife's bike.

PS - Before anyone asks about battery range, I use quite low levels of assist and in recent tests on only slightly undulating roads, I managed to get 50 miles out of the battery.
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bikes4two wrote: 10 Oct 2021, 10:17pm Being so very please with my recently purchased and installed TSDZ2 mid drive motor and 10Ahr bottle battery (for £352 from PSW Power, German Warehouse) and fitted it to my Dawes Super Galaxy, I bought a duplicate setup to put on my wife's bike.

PS - Before anyone asks about battery range, I use quite low levels of assist and in recent tests on only slightly undulating roads, I managed to get 50 miles out of the battery.
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Bought a wee zip toolbag for my rear rack.
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Bought a mattress topper from eBay just now, for our put-you-up bed as the mattress itself is a bit thin.
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Bought some Shimano shoes out of urgent necessity. They have that fancy BOA lace thingy system (only ever had proper laces before). It works quite well hope it lasts cos them cables look very slim. Caused me to check out the spares availability to make sure I wouldn't be left with a useless pair of shoes in 12 months time. Anyway some of my best purchases have been made in a hurry so there's hope yet.
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Spoke tension meter... Ztto digital.

Jagwire Pro shift kit, now put my 3x9 on full length outers ready for winter crud riding... shifting feels considerably better than the spit system as standard.

A Rivnut install kit, as the CUBE frame rivnuts for both rack and bottles need replacing.. now done .
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Accessories and spares for the new bike.

Got myself a chainstay protector, spare chain link and a spare inner tube.
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