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Altura Esker trousers for £18 on amazon.
Is there a link? I get a Kindle preview image (that doesn't load)
hmm amazon weirdness! if you search Altura Esker, they show up as £42 but the M are showing £18 for me
£50;odd now 🙄
They fall down as soon as they're wet anyway as there's not enough tension in the elastic and the belt loops are too big to be useful. If they were under a tenner they'd be worth buying to stitch on some velcro straps. The new model has a built in belt now I see.
Checked the Met helmets when delivered, manufactured 2022 and 2023 (size medium, whatever the two green colours are called)
I am not normally a fan of off the shelf bikes as I think you get better value if you DIY but on this occasion Peter, I think this is superb value at £2,200, albeit only in L:
Weak link being the wheels I think but spend £220 on those Syntace wheels off Sport&Leisure and sell the OE wheels for £150?
DB8 brakeset is £59.99 at banana industries this weekend.
I've got 3 x levers (full master cylinder, not just blades) from Maven Silvers. I've bought 2 sets of DB8s this weekend for the boys 'spare' and for his Fuel. But i'm actually thinking about pairing the Maven top end with the DB8 bottom end. That comes in at £100 an end and gives full RSC/Swinglink etc. Obviously it doesn't give a bleeding edge port sadly as the DB8 doesn't come with that, but i can bleed a top end well enough. But i think it'd make a nice pairing with the MavenDB8.
Fox 38 Performance in 29in and 170mm for £350 at Merlin.
https://www.merlincycles.com/fox-38-float-performance-grip-boost-mtb-forks-29-329366.html
I have the same fork that came stock on my Orbea and it's really been good. Doesn't seem to need any upgrades or tweaking (not saying I won't do any though).
That Fox 38 is a bargain, especially if you're not interested in endless messing with compression settings. Just set up air, tokens and rebound to your liking, set damping to open and off you go.
(I've got both a 38 Elite and a 38 Performance).
The 38 Performance is a great fork, but I do prefer the Elite version - I think mainly because of the high and low speed rebound. HSR and LSR of the elite, with the LSC of the performance would be ideal I think.
Just set up air, tokens and rebound to your liking, set damping to open and off you go.
I'm running the damping dial about 55-60% closed, as it was a bit divey fully open and the compression doesn't add much harshness. Maybe I need to try a touch more air as well, but hitting full travel is quite rare - and I haven't even checked for tokens (I might do that and remove if there are any).
Carbon bars for £33 (£38 in p&p).
Are they any good? Worth the upgrade over aluminium bars?
For some reason the same bars are £49.99 on their (Tri-sport) eBay store
Are they any good?
Yes, if 31.8 works for you
Worth the upgrade over aluminium bars?
Not if your aluminium bar is still working but I have never let this stop me
I really liked my Horizon V2s until my bike decided to have a lie down on the bike rack and the bars hit the motorway at 70mph. Give them their due, they held the bike up so nothing else got damaged! 😀 Would get another if it was needed. It's not.
And Nukeproof Sam Hills in Blue for £50
Best flat pedals I've owned those Nukeproofs that CRC sold off cheap.
Just set up air, tokens and rebound to your liking, set damping to open and off you go.
I'm running the damping dial about 55-60% closed, as it was a bit divey fully open and the compression doesn't add much harshness. Maybe I need to try a touch more air as well, but hitting full travel is quite rare - and I haven't even checked for tokens (I might do that and remove if there are any).
Never found them divey, I only ever close compression slightly, I do run them on my uplift bike and one ride aside, the last time I spent an extended time on them was in Morzine where I like the forks to be pretty soft to ease the braking bumps. I think mine had 3 tokens (170mm) but I removed one, and I run a little less air than recommend for my weight too, they still ramp up a lot at the end and I've not bottomed them out (I only ever properly bottomed out a previous set I had on a horrible drop to flat(ish) landing. I've got 2 days at BPW next weekend so may try a tweak of them.
My wife has a set of those 38s. She runs them with compression wide open and the sag and rebound set as per the standard settings recommended on the YT website. Bloody good forks, not divey, good traction and still allow her to hit jumps and drops.
Bird Cycles have got EX1700 wheelsets for £350 with XD drivers. For another £50 they will fit a Microspline and also include the XD driver for later changes or selling on.
I don't think you can get anywhere remotely close to this price for an Enduro wheelset. EX511 rims and 350 hubs 36t ratched and comp spokes.
Also picked up some of the RF Turbine pedals from Tredz listed above although they have Giant Pinner Pro pedals for £50 (with £5 discount code). This is a crazy price for aluminium pedals of this quality. I just received two pairs and they look very well made (no surprise as it's Giant).
Lastly, Windwave have size small Transition Sentinel GX for £2,700 which feels like a good price for a bike of that type and with that spec (Fox Performance Elite suspension, full GX, Code RSC's and DT Swiss wheels).
Have you got a link to the Bird wheels perchance?
£1 off ‘Plopp’ chocolate.
lidl.co.uk
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you may lose a few kilos:)
Adidas sale with extra 20% off for any 510 fans
I got the goretex 510 for £83 rather than £160...
Sorry didn't realise it hadn't pasted before
https://www.adidas.co.uk/five-ten-trailcross-gore-tex%C2%AE-mountain-bike-shoes/S29146.html
I don't know if this has been posted before, but Banana Industries have Fuguzzi gravel frames & forks at heavily discounted prices (I assume that they're own brand).
The might make the foundation of a cheap build if anyone's interested. The frames in the pictures though don't appear to be painted, I'm not sure if that's how they come.
https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/products/fugazzi-aluminium-adventure-gravel-bike-frame
https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/products/fugazzi-gravel-carbon-gravel-fork-with-12mm-maxle
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@thered no code, they gave an extra 20% off the £104 sale price when I ordered it, but now I see it looks like that isn't on anymore 😭
Few things left on Stif now - these are worth a purchase. I had a constantly deflating tyre and one of these sorted it. Full price is crazy, but at this price 👍 Reserve-filmore-valves
Plus Burgtec bars for £30
Best go in through the front door as some stuff doesn't show up under the categories https://www.stifmtb.com/
https://www.e-bikeshop.co.uk/products/electric-bike-orbea-rise-m-ltd-2022?variant=42482869174510
£3500 for a carbon ebike with carbon wheels, fox factory suspension and XYR groupset seems a deal to me?
XL only though
Well, thanks to this I've managed to pick up the last Stif Squatch!
This has been an expensive thread for me...
Just picked up an Ohlins TTX2 shock for £375 from that Stif closing sale to go on this which I ordered from the Canyon PSA... 😂👍🏻
Nice, but I am biased! 😀
The sale bikes at Stif are discounted further if you click the link. The GT seems a steal at £1699, so much so I'm tempted myself!
https://www.stifmtb.com/collections/bike-outlet
The GT is a huge bargain, for sure
Assuming it's the correct size for someone (XL only), this is an utter steal. £3.2k for GX AXS-equipped SC 5010 (a £7.7k build)
https://www.stifmtb.com/products/santa-cruz-5010-carbon-c-custom-gx-axs-kit-w-pike-ultimate
Both gone now which has saved me a few quid!
Yes good value, nearly bought the 5010 last night but changed my mind at the last second as perhaps a big long for my 6ft and couldn't be bothered swapping the bloody Reverb and switch to cabled gears...
GT Sensor Large £1999 at Leisure Lakes sounds good
GT Sensor Carbon Pro Mountain Bike 2024 Dusty Blue
Apparently a better version , in all sizes , at
2024 GT Sensor Carbon Pro LE Mens Carbon MTB in Green
^Who wants a bike the colour of a 1970s public toilet.