to even the balance.
Jelly babies
Jones bikes, a custom made to your size/spec'd Titanium frame from a master of the frame building art?
On-one pompino or inbred frame set or even surly crosscheck for out and out versatility
erm rear led light in supermarket in france, when we got to check out no price coming up for it so they said just take it, might have been swayed bt the £300+ of wine we had in the trolley at the same time 🙂
Shimano's cheapest shoes with a lacekeeper. 7 yrs old and still in good nick.
Pedros tyre levers
z1ppy - Member
Jones bikes, custom made to your size/spec'd Ti frame from a master of the art?
zippy, kinda like a bike for life, eh? 😀
Crud guards
Hope hoops w/stans rims. There's no wheelset to touch it on value. Superstar Nanos.
Castelli gilet. £80, 16 years old, 500p a year...
M520 spd pedals. Picked some up BNIB for £15 the other day. Almost as cheap as the cleats themselves. Even at that price they last forever and are semi-servicable. Bonkers.
bonty mud x.
Ton, I doubt it, as no bikes for life, unless your not interested in progression.
...just balancing the scales for them, after several comments against them on another thread 😉
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(Not an owner or a fanboi but I understand why they sell)
Gear cables. 2 Shimano inners and a selection of lengths of SP60 outer to suit lots of frames. £5.99 Makes the gears feel like new again. Don't have to go into one of them fancy dan bike shops either.
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Old school Shimano Deore XT thumbies.
On One 456 in steel or carbon proper VFM!
Shimano SPD pedals (the bottom of the range) £28 I paid and still going strong after four years.
i was gonna say a on one 456 to be honest. £169 for a half good bike frame is good value i reckon.
be it gas pipe or not........ 😉
Any sub £300 bike - as long as you actually ride it.
The health benefits are huge. Money well spent.*
*Of course you may then succumb to a downward spiral of upgrade-itis, to the point where you're riding a £4k monster.
Specialized 2bliss tyres.
smell_it
I think you posted that in the wrong thread, you want the waste of money one 😉
Castelli gilet. £80, 16 years old, 500p a year...
Really, £80 16 years ago was a lot nearer £200 in todays money.
£5 a year and a 5 year life would get you quite a few Gilets, they are not a high wear item.
Mmm, yes, maybe you're right, still my favourite thing tho..
Gore RideOn cables (full liner set). Fitted once, several years ago, never touched since.
Most of the stuff I bought on the stw forum (although I've not bought much in a couple of years - I hear prices have gone up?!)
Cotic Soda Mk1.5 - obviously it was expensive at £950, but for me it's the last bike I need to own as it's great fun, spot on for size and suits my riding to a T. Plus a replacement now would cost about 50% more, so it's real VFM!
Shimano QRs. Free with the hub and last forever.
When I finally find a comfy saddle - that will be the best money I can ever spend
Yeah had a 456 before too so can't argue with that
Kneewarmers
2bliss tyres
I think you posted that in the wrong thread, you want the waste of money one
As a lifelong maxxis fanboi I was skeptical, but they really are pretty great, and cheep too.
my decathlon track pump has given me good service for a cheap price over the years, saves so much time and hassle.
Shimano QRs is a good shout. As are cable sets above.
My vote is for the occasionally derided round here(not sure why) DMR V8s.
Just took a set off my commuter yesterday. They were still going just a bit rattly.
Bought new in about 1998. Never serviced. Daily use since then. About 3000+ miles last year alone.
Now that is value!!
XT thumbies. I still have a left/front one in regular use.
Specialized 2bliss tyres.
I'm pretty impressed with them for a £20-25 tyre.
PD-M520s
Deore cranks
On 'ride value' for £ - P35 rims, WTB Rocket V saddle
Shimano QRs. Free with the hub and last forever.
This. I have a 15 year old qr on the back of my full suss.
I bought some ssc tools the other day to replace lost/lent out ones; paid £11 including delivery for the same quality (if not the actual same tools) that would have cost me easily £20 as 'Bikehut', 'Cyclo' or 'Fat Spanner' branded stuff.
Charge Spoon saggle innit.
Tonto i so happen to have that very saddle in the forsale forum SDG Formula FXR
Many On-One products, especially Pompino and Scandal.
planet x gilet bought 2005 £18.50. - do the math! 😆 Worn regularly & still looks good. Zip, reflectives ok.
Pedros tyre levers
They are very good
For me a decent gilet is an awesome bit of kit, don't think I realised quite how much I used it until lost mine.
original kool tool....still going
cannondale headshock fleece gillet from 98 12.00 still going
My original M755 4 pot XT disc brake. Bought for £120 from LBS and now 12 years old and only 2 bleeds its still going strong despite regular all year round use. Doesn't owe me a penny.
Aldi shorts, socks, gloves & jackets.
Shimano 8 speed drivetrains.
Mavic rims.
Stronglight cranks.
Alpkit Gourdon backpacks.
Decathlon baselayers & bladders.
50w equivalent, 60 smd led GU10 light bulbs, to your door for £2.99 all the way from China.
With 4m + high ceilings and a burn time of 50k hrs, these are a godsend. Let alond the leccy saving with 12 in the kitchen ceiling.
Oh, those pink tyre levers for a bike item... (not the park ones, they are too brittle).
Thin merino sweaters in a size or 2 smaller than normal, £10-15 in TK MAxx. Base layer bargain.
Nike Kato spd shoes and shimano spd pedals
16th birthday present, I'm now 36 and they are used for commuting
Plastic bung for stopping crud getting into underside of steerer tube and neoprene headset protector, both free with mbuk about 18 years ago and again still in daily use
B17 saddle. Bought used about 10 years ago for £20 and it looks like it has another 40 years in it at least.
Pedros tyre levers +1
Specialized 2Bliss +1
Cane Creek S3 headsets.
A cycling specific polartec 100 flece gilet bought in 2003 (just before Sports Direct got their chavvy mitts on the brand) for a fiver in the LBS bargain bucket.
Aldi winter gloves. four quid. four years. loads of use and still going strong. just right for cold but not freezing days like most of the british wintrr too
Those hard-to-find bags of Haribo jelly babies- all the jellybabiness of a normal bag of Supermix, but without the weird milkbottles. Rocket fuel of the gods.
And Deore steel chainrings. Cost half as much as products that work no better and last 1/4 as well
I was just on the Clas Ohlson site after the linky earlier.
It made me laugh how on their puncture repair kit they had a patch missing 😆
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lot's of good choices already listed; shimano QR's, and selling another factory wheelset against Hope Hoops must be hard work (as good as the Hope's and only twice the price), pedros tyre levers - carry one all the time
I have a thin bandana thing (that i think i got from singletrack on a stand at the 2001 Schwinn mountain marathon) still wear it all the time
Superstar pedals. £15 3 years ago. One of them died this weekend and I was gutted.
foook all 🙂
Blower - Member
foook all
not even them 'cough cough' cheap oranges........... 😆
On-one merino l/s top
Muckynutz Bender Fender mudguard
Spesh Captain Control 2.2 tyres
These things, absolutely brilliant
1)On-One's tyre sales - £20 Nobby Nics were a bargain.
2)My WTB SST Ti railed saddle lasted about 9years, just got another one.
3) Paracetamol - 16p per packet (got minor man flu.. :cry:)
sidi giau,11 years old this year,still look new-ish.
selle italia slr,10years old,only recovered it because the leather ripped in a crash.
shimano sq taper bbs
520/530 pedals.
bike manuals pdf off the internet..
Mountain bike Britian book
Great when I'm working somewhere new and want to take the bike with me
When I think about what conditions they have to work in, under stress, and the sheer number of parts they are made from, I'm always surprised chains cost as little as they do.
Rachel
My Decathlon gillet, thermal top and base layers. So cheap and still going strong after five years.
Another vote for shimano Qr's
Original Hope Bulb (with bolt on spider), now relegated to the other half's bike.
The Cannondale Beast of the East that I inherited from an uncle.
Original kool tool. Used it a couple of weeks ago when a friend's chain broke.
Shimano SPD pedals - 3 pairs here, all going after many years with no maintenance at all. Splashed on the M540s - they were going cheap at the time.
My Marin hardtail frame. Everything else has been changed on the bike, but frame is original, and has a lifetime warranty. Fit's me really well, don't see a reason to change.
Steel 456 frame. Find something so versatile and good to ride thats cheaper.
Original ti railed flite saddle. Bought cheap in 1997 and still in use, albeit looking a bit tired!
Gore Bikewear Windstopper jacket, £28 in the sale from Wiggle several years ago. Too warm for all but the coldest weather but still a total bargain.
SRAM powerlinks
+1 On One 456
+1 for shimano 540/520's
Shimano alfine rear hub ( long lasting 8 speed gear system for <200quid!)
Aldi cycling shoes (or were they lidl, can't remember)
Buff-style thingies that aren't made by Buff or were free
Also impressed with Hope stuff - I have some HopeEnduro 4's which I can still service.
XT rear mechs have lasted me very well over the years (I have one that's 12 years old)
best bargains I have:
Park Tools tyre levers - £2.99 for good strong tools in 'that' blue 🙂
Muckynutz fender bender
Toronto cycles jockeys £8 a set
Wellgo MG1 pedals
new shimano trail pedals M530 - ie M520 with a cage.
Transfil cable sealing kit - £3. Well expensive for some tube but cheap for what they do perfectly.
My Giant Anthem 3..the local bike shop offered to price match an online deal i'd seen so I got 800 quid off and they still offered me my 6 week service!
Does make you wonder about the profit margins however doesn't it..
*raises head above parapet*
King hubs and headsets (not tried a BB yet). They provide a lot of value for a lot of money..... And have a pretty ace warranty, not that I've ever needed to use it. The shinyness helps soften the wallet pain too!
*retreats*
Aldi and Lidl lycra shorts and compression wear.
Hope C2 brakes
Endura basic roubaix knee warmers - £14 about five years ago and pretty much indestructible. Still £14 now. Some Endura stuff falls to bits when you sneeze at it, but they did these right.
Wingnut packs / DaKine bladders
Sealskinz
Reba/Revelation
Someone's already said Deore chainrings - can't knock 'em.
Topeak Hummer. Built umpteen bikes & rescued umpteen riders.
Cane Creek S3 headset.
Lezyne Alloy Drive pump.
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Specialized BG saddle, had mine for well over 4 years now and its been comfy since I got it. the spesh arse-ometer/memory foam gauge thing really does help.
My mini-pump. bought for £3 in one of those "cycle promotion sales" about 15 years ago and its still going strong.
Endura 3/4 thermal bibs - just binned mine after around 10 years of regular use, a fine bit of kit.
As above, bottom end shimano spd pedals. Work perfectly and last several years. It's often the same price to buy cleats and pedals as cleats on their own, so I have a pile of them now.
Specialized Nimbus tyres - bought in a pair from wiggle as a deal with tubes about 8 years ago and still going well on my hack bike.