really busy week at work, so asked my darling retired mother to pop into the local bike shop to pick up some supplied for the weekend, 4m of outer cable (i have a specialized with continuous outers), 2 gear cables, 4 end caps and 2 ferrules,
she sent me a joke email that it cost £31, but she was serious,
You realise thats about the same price as CRC.
£4 / meter for outer
£5 / inner
£2 for 4 end caps (in the 'sale')
= £28
Just paid 3.99 for a gear cable, price looks fine to me.
Wouldn't have been better to have hidden the shop name while trying to flame them?
Stop whining, that's about right for what you got!
Shimano sp40 end caps are now 99p each. You got off lightly!
fair enough, I am pretty sure I paid a lot less last time, oh well apologies
Cool mum!
Gear outers are expensive in the LBS - standard sort of price to pay.
I think the point is you need them for 2 days time, so you don't get to moan. That's what the LBS is for (for me) - it's too late for an online purchase so you basically need it now. That's why you pay the premium.
aye. About right as I recently discovered when pricing it up at CRC for a friend.
But get the clarks stuff and you can get continuous outer, inners, ferrules and the same again for brakes for £18 including £6 delivery.
PS you can get 20m of SP41 for about £20 and shimano cables for about £2 each if you shop around.
Don't forget to factor in the price of flowers - or a bottle of wine - for your Mum 
http://www.thebikechain.co.uk/ sold me a Ride On Gore set for £16 last week in thier sale. Cheers peeps.
*sits smugly*
BUY CABLES IN BULK!!!!!
Outer - (10 meteres) £28 delivered
http://www.parker-international.co.uk/5084/Shimano-SP41-Outer-Casing-4-mm-x-10-m.html
Inner cables (Clarkes) are 99p in Wilkinsons, I've got 5 hanging up in my garage, I stock up when I go there
Ferrules 150 for under £7, and can be had cheaper
http://www.parker-international.co.uk/5084/Shimano-SP41-Outer-Casing-4-mm-x-10-m.html
(Inner tubes are under £2 from Tesco, too, BTW)
all seems expensive for bog-standard.
last time i was in parkers they had a big box in the store room and on it in black marker it said..shite gear outer for peter.
honestly now.
I bought SLX shifters with inner and outer cables for £36 yesterday, the link soon disappeared! And 4 of the painted inner cables for a fiver off ebay. Then again, I wouldnt buy cables at the price your mum paid for them- a good relationship with your LBS would have got them for less surely?
last time i was in parkers they had a big box in the store room and on it in black marker it said..shite gear outer for peter.
LOL
That's SP41. Otherwise known as XT or XTR gear outer. 
Gear outer @ £4 per metre = 16
2 gear wires at 2.50 each = 5
Ferruls, 65p each = 1.30
Cable caps @ 5p each = 20p
Grand total of £22.50 in the local bike store.
£31 sounds expensive to me.
we do a kit for a full bike at £13. 4m outer, all the caps - should I put the price up?!
price seems normal round here..
we do a kit for a full bike at £13. 4m outer, all the caps - should I put the price up?!
"normal" maybe, but you can get cheaper
A while ago a top lbs in Edinburgh wanted 80p for a outer cable end-cap. My more local place sold me a handful for £1.
If she really loved you, she would have bought you a set of these http://www.vertebr.ae/ceramic-bicycle-components/
Wilkinsons do cables and in pretty sure they will be less than half that.
My LBS gives me free outers and end caps. In return I use them for most things. Plus doing a coffee and doughnut run for them helps.
Cables, inner and outer, should be supplied with free caps and ferrules.
The 99p Wilkos/Clarkes ones come with 2......
I have just got the same, the outer is £4 per metre, inners were £1.50 each and then the end caps and ferrules.
Total for me was £23
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