PSAs that may or may not be amazing enough to warrant their own thread

Some decent prices on Maxxis tyres over at Bird.

Looking for deals on a 30.9 dropper. Sods law left the fire sale bargains thinking the current post was all good. It’s now decided to typically die on me! Been a while since the last purchase so what’s the best shouts atm?

Cheers

One Up V3?

new fox transfer is out too, neither bargains but potentially some of the best

Brand X posts are still widely available from people selling on eBay and from some retailers, e.g. Brand-X Ascend Dropper Seatpost 30.9mm (paulscycles.co.uk)

frogstomp

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Some decent prices on Maxxis tyres over at Bird

Nice. Thanks for this.

3 Dissectors ordered. May seem excessive but given how quickly the last one wore out, that might just about see me through the summer

Yonk !  £20 quid tires   yes please

Not sure if this is allowed..
But I logged into Merlin Cycles today, and realised i’ve got 6000+ in loyalty points..
Means I can make loads of codes for –

£5 off orders over £75

£10 off orders over £150

£20 off orders over £275

£25 off orders over £350

You can stack these with other discounts and already discounted products. So can make some things really cheap
Pop me a message if you want a code ☺️ as i will never use these.

Also, please delete this if its not ok.. I wasn’t sure

I thought I was doing well with 1000 points. Best to email them and ask.

I know its okay for me to share the codes, i’ve done it loads before for freinds..

Just wasn’t sure if it was okay to get people to message me and ask for it, or advertise I have them on here.. ☺️

Can’t see the cheap tyres at Bird. I have however found a discounted Aether 9C frame in a rather fetching green (discounted because of ‘imperfect paint’).

I presume the tyres are sold out.

Still there, just use the link in frogstomps post

mtbfury45Free
Looking for deals on a 30.9 dropper. Sods law left the fire sale bargains thinking the current post was all good. It’s now decided to typically die on me! Been a while since the last purchase so what’s the best shouts atm?

Cheers

OneUp selling off the V2 dropper on their site, as V3 has launched, you might get lucky. I need one too, but I delayed and the one I need now out of stock. Gah.

@mtbfury45 i have sent you a pm

Ian

Does any know of any decent gravel tyre bargains kicking around?  700 x 40 for probably 70/30 road light gravel work in a tubeless flavour.

Bought some G One All Rounds 700 x 40 and they’re skinnier and shorter than the 700 x 38’s they were supposed to be replacing….

Several gravel tyre options on banana industries site cheap

Gutted I missed out on those Shortys, would have stocked up for the DH bikes

If anyone’s after a large 29er (or medium 27.5) enduro bike, Paul’s Cycles have the top of the range 2023 Rocky Mountain Altitude at £4.5k down from £12.5k

https://www.paulscycles.co.uk/bikes/mountain-bikes/rocky-mountain-altitude-c90-rally-enduro-mountain-bike-yellowblue__12810

Bought a couple of tyres from Bird, cheers for the link.

There are also good tyre deals at Banana Industries

Tyres

Anyone seen any bargains on rear lights? Mine bounced off the other night 🙁 . I thought there’d be some decently reduced ones now it’s getting out of lights season but I’ve not seen any particularly tempting deals.

Planet X was always my go to for cheap lights, they only seem to have these now:

Plazma Notch COB 50 Lumen Rear Bike Light

But look decent for a tenner.

These look great but for twenty quid you could have two of the above.

Isosceles R100 LED Rear Light

@stayhigh

Does any know of any decent gravel tyre bargains kicking around? 700 x 40 for probably 70/30 road light gravel work in a tubeless flavour.

Tweeks had some Vittorias for £25ish each, e.g. https://www.tweekscycles.com/vittoria-terreno-dry-gravel-tyre-2015053/

For Vittoria Terreno tyres, I’d not use anything but the G2 types as they have the better carcus and rubber.

These are cheaper with the G2 compound and Anthracite side walls

Vittoria Terreno Dry TNT G2.0 Tyre: Anth/Black/Black 700X38C https://amzn.eu/d/3gGNG1r

Finbar – https://www.jejamescycles.com/product/46750/moon-moon-sirius-pro-rear-light/option/

They look like decent lights but in my experience you’re better to have two cheaper lights fitted (one flashing and one steady) than a single more expensive light, plus is one fails you have a spare.

I’ve tried quite a few rear lights over the years and if you ride regularly in the winter in the UK then you’ll be lucky to get a single year out of them. This is irrespective of cost or IP rating, they all leak and die at some point IME.

My moon lights have all been very reliable and the mounts are solid.

Wouldn’t touch Moon lights with a barge pole. I’ve had 3 Meteor C1’s and all have failed in around 6 months. Great battery life on it though.

Whereas we’ve 3x sets of Moon, one set used daily for commuting and Deliveroo for 3 years, and they’re same as the day they were bought…

Some decent prices on Maxxis tyres over at Bird.

Bit of a more general spring clean seems to be on https://www.bird.bike/product-category/outlet/

Not everything is a PSA worthy but some things like 27.5″ forks around the £500 mark, Hope/DT wheelsets £300.

Just picked up some heavily discounted Alpinestars waterproofs at: Alpinestars MTB Clothing (sportpursuit.com)

Thanks for the light tips. I’ve had two Moon lights and I’m 50:50 on whether I rate them or not. I might buy the one @dchwhite recommended as a deciding vote 🙂 .

My Moon rear light has done 4 winters of daily commuting and is still going strong.

I’ve realised I need a gilet for road cycling (after many years of wondering why people bothered).

Any deals on now that I should try out (or any recommendations)?

Try sportpursuit off you have joined. They had rapha stuff on sale last time I looked

if it hasn’t been mentioned, unite components on 50% off everything

get your short cranks in

The Unite website is only showing prices in dollars for some reason. I’ve no VPN and have deleted my cookies for the site, so I’m not sure if the price for the pedals is good or not.

Those Unite cranks are showing as 150 quid and 300 quid RRP. I may have missed it but I’ve never seen their cranks with that RRP, aren’t they usually around 200? Or have Unite gone all DFS sale price on us?

IIRC always been around 250 with a higher RRP.

Just checked an old (18 months old) review and it stated they were 240 RRP. Think I’ll go for Middleburns…

Thanks for the heads up on Unite, don’t think the “rrp” is real tbf but it’s still a decent saving on a lot of the stuff, got me a teeny tiny stem that I nearly paid £70 for a few weeks back