My starter for 10 is the Camelbak Big Bite Valve - £6.99
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FFS!
brake pads............... 😯
anything with XTR on it!
xt770 chainrings
virtually any after market bar mount. See the ten quid you have to pay for a GPS mount or twenty quid for an Exposure light mount.
www.shimano-yumeya.com
£449.99 Acros Headset?
Its over priced for a headset but not for the quality & technology.
J
have to agree with you about camelbak stuff geoffj.when i bought a new camelbak bladder,discovered that it didn't come with the 90 deg lockpiece.that was £7 extra.their cleaning brushes cost £10 for 2 brushes.i still bought em though. 🙄
Its over priced for a headset but not for the quality & technology
Is it not a pair of full ceramic bearings in a couple of alu cups? Can be had for a whole lot less than £450!
This must be a contender:
[url= http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Lightweight_RD_-_Rear_Derailleur/5360040339/ ]£800 derailleur[/url]
most of it, particularly suspension forks
Anyone mentioned Jones and any of the other niche-fanboy-frottage-frames yet?
😉
One of those sh1tty specializedneeds triple clamp forked cross country bikes.
Cheap but still over priced tat.
Anything by Chris King.
Bike lights. £400 for a battery and some LEDs.
Stu, can you please return my hook, my line and my sinker as soon as possible? Thanks.
*yawn*
Oh, sorry, didn't mean to offend your magnificent nicheness. I apologise for riding a mainstream brand, how foolish of me. I really must go and buy something made by a man in a shed, it's bound to be far better, isn't it?
Get over yourself.
[i]Oh, sorry, didn't mean to offend your magnificent nicheness[/i]
yeah you did. This kind of dull reverse snobbery is beneath you.
get over yourself 😉
this will end in tears...
Yeah, I did, nickc, you're right. Irony is so hard to type!
Many of the niche/custom frames out there are superb pieces of kit, but I firmly believe that in many cases, people are paying a massive premium just to be [i]different[/i], not better.
Perhaps. Nowt wrong with different though, depends what you want from your cycling experience I guess.
I think the OP has to be close though.
I'd rather have better than different, thanks, regardless of the cost.
Yeah, i think that's where Jones is coming from as well
From riding one, I would disagree. Not that impressed, to be honest. But, takes all sorts.
trek make/made a carbon fibre pannier rack. incredibly expensive and very light and capable of carrying a flapjack
nickc.
i wouldn't bother wasting your time on him.
His head's so far up his own arse he can't hear you.
Oh do go on, Stu, please. It's fun. It's called a "difference of opinion". What it means is, other people have an opinion, regardless. My opinion is that much of the niche stroking "ooh look at me, I'm different!" brigade are paying over the odds just to be different, not necessarily better. I've ridden enough not be be that impressed, but I would be happy to have something made for me in steel at some point in the future. I wouldn't feel the need to trumpet how fantastic it was, however.
What's your opinion of people who buy bikes from large companies with massive R&D budgets and great warranty back up?
If that's your idea of fun you must have a very dull life.
Nice bit of editing there
What's your opinion of people who buy bikes from large companies with massive R&D budgets and great warranty back up?
What like some of my other bikes you mean.
*yawns again*
£185!
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For the xc bike, hmmmmmmmmm.
Outskirts of London dilletante served by Snetter shocker
*wonders why Stu gets so offended. Decides not to bother wondering any more!"
aviemoron, I reckon almost any of the current vogue for white grips and saddles must rate as overpriced! They'll look tatty soon enough and have to be replaced, meaning you'll have to keep on buying them to keep on looking white and bling and ting!
I like to be different by flting past people who have awesome bikes and no idea how to ride them... i recently went on an organised ride, this one guy was talkin bout his asos shorts and only durace this and that will do...he was competing in races dont you know... well im a fat mountain biker but i still dropped him by about 2 miles in the forst 3 miles...damn that feels good... 😛
dano: righteously satisfactory result
aP.
I'm the wrong side of the border to be a snetter.
And I don't live in the outskirts of London, either.
dano, have you ever been "roadie chasing"? See a roadie while on a tarmac linking section of an off road ride, razz the nuts off them and overtake, then hide behind the next available hedge!
SSS - touché. Haven't been to see Col for while. Anyway, how's the tandem?
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=38205 ]Polar CS Cadence Magnet[/url]
A very small magnet
A very small sticky pad
A piece of tape
I best not talk about it as it's not mainstream enough.
Still a laugh though.
Bring yours next time your up.
Stu, all tandems are good, regardless of niche-ness! 😉
*goes out and sells the tandem*