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One the its expensive and pointless. Alloy tyre levers, who needs um and why are they £9.99
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Most expensive bike bit for what it is
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My pet hate here. Bar mounts. You've spent 250 quid on a light or a GPS and have the idea of putting a mount on more than one bike. The only people who are going to going to get the money for this are the manufacturers because obviously the fit is vendor specific so you tootle off to chainreaction thinking 4 maybe 5 pounds for a piece of moulded plastic or bent metal with a screw in it because it for sure costs less than 7p to make and then you rub your eyes as the item scrolls up your screen with a 15 or 20 pound price tag on it.
But where else are you going to go?
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Mech hangers
STI shifters seem ludicrously expensive to me as well.
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brake pads at £20ish a set ford focus £25 per axle(2sets)why are manufacturers pads so dear (but disco and superstar are about £6 and are imo as good in terms of wear and performance)) and does anyone buy them
!sits back and waits for torent of abuse as to why SS etc are shite! gPosted 2 years ago # -
i think the conclusion is, cycling is a bloody rip off!!
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i think the conclusion is, cycling is a bloody rip off!!
Well actually no. if you pop to halfruads you can be up cycling fully kitted out for just a few hundred quid. Which is less than the price of a set of over priced suspension forks.
While on the subject shock service costs are a joke. It costs £200 to get the front and rear shocks serviced. My car costs £120 and the cambelt service only cost me £220.
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XTR cassette £160 RRP, that's about £1 a mile if you ride on the road....in the dry.
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Velcro.........quite expensive.........i'd go as far as to say........... it's a "rip off"!!!!
Sorry, i'll get my coat.
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2nd the xtr cassette..
But suspension forks are way over priced.... and I sell them!
£700 to £800+ for suspension forks...
It's just wrong.Just keep in mind people where astounded at fork over £500 only 18 months ago.
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agree about the suspension forks, well some anyway - my £500+ revelations make knocking noises because rockshox 'forgot' to shim out the travel adjusters and it needs doing aftermarket... jokers
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"brake pads at £20ish a set ford focus £25 per axle(2sets)why are manufacturers pads so dear (but disco and superstar are about £6 and are imo as good in terms of wear and performance)) and does anyone buy them
!sits back and waits for torent of abuse as to why SS etc are shite! g
"superstar pads oer wheel ~£5
cheep OEM car pads per wheel ~£5Given the cost of manufacturing both is probably comparable I fail to see your complaint, I was looking at £45 brakepads (per wheel) the other day for my car!
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XTR cassette £160 RRP, that's about £1 a mile if you ride on the road....in the dry.
"What road are you riding on! I get 3000miles from a chain on the road! 10k easily form a cassette (and 4 chains)!
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That shimano yumeya stuff. In my personal frame of reference it's just the ultimately in tosser-y.
Hey ho, it ain't my cash
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The Hope GXP >> Hope/Shimano BB converter. £9ish for two little aluminium rings, in fact these
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Fork seals get my vote:
Seal Kit, 40mm, Totem
RockShox Fork Seal Kit, 40mm. Fits Totem forks. Comprises 2 Samurai wiper seals, 2 oil seals.
Price : £34.99Four bits of rubber for £35...?
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There's lots
£4 Fox Shock bushes can be had for £1
Crank Bros 4Ti Pedals? WTF!?
£40 chains that work and last no better than £10 ones
Cycle specific greases and oils - Fork oil especially!
Chainring prices for anyhting above Deore. All makes, all OTT.Posted 2 years ago # -
I just Googled for Speen Umlenker and it's even more ridiculous than I thought! I think we have a winner...
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Hijack: the tyres have now joined the other 30 pairs in my shed! Cheers Pete!
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Cycle specific greases and oils - Fork oil especially!
Anything is cheaper when you buy in bulk. Personally I'd pay a premium not to have an enormous tin of manky fluff-encrusted grease taking up a shelf in my shed.
Motocross fork oils are knocking on for MTB prices, and I reckon they've got better economies of scale than Rock Shox or Fox.
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Tyres/innertubes - overpriced by a mile. I once got told that innertubes cost 11pence to make.
Road bike handlebar tape - average is about £7, in reality I reckon they cost pence to make.
Would have to agree with road STI's, even Sora are over £100 a pair now.
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goodridge brake cables?
yup, I used to work folk that make the brake hose for them.......... Goodridge were one of my accounts....Posted 2 years ago # -
I'd always considered kit from Hope to be expensive, but considering its UK made, & CNC'd from solid, its actually not that bad.
I'll bet your talking pence each for some of the cast bits that Shimano use.That £7k Scott, now that's overpriced. £7k gets you a bloody nice car!!!
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+1 Mech Hangers! Rararara!
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crank bolt washers - a shop tried charging me a quid each when i needed 5!
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