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

That Strava seems to be only valid if you use a Brazilian VPN.

You only need to use the VPN whilst buying the gift card – then you disconnect to apply it to your account and that’s that.

yes you go onto brazil, then gift it to yourself, from a secondary email, most people who are signed in to strava are struggling got to be signed out and let strava think you are overseas

fox 38 e-optimised performance grip2 fork 170mm 29 on merlin for £395

Managed to gift myself 2 years worth of Strava at just over £20 each with PayPal’s conversion… Haven’t used a VPN before & it was coming up as £6.50ish in South African Dollars initially so I was hesitant but its all dandy now. Thanks guys.

https://www.tredz.co.uk/.SDG-Comp-Pedal_249238.htm?variations=colour:Black&sku=852423

Decent little deal on some SDG Pedals

25% off Superstar components using code NEWYEAR25 http://www.superstarcomponents.com

Jamis Divide hardtail mountain bike for £195

looks like a “proper” mountain bike for BSO money – basic coil fork, microshift 7 speed gears and cable discs but all looks decent for real world budgets. 🙂

https://www.millets.co.uk/16185394/jamis-divide-hardtail-mountain-bike-16185394

Castelli Perfetto RoS less than half price – admittedly in a ‘interesting’ colour.

https://www.merlincycles.com/castelli-perfetto-ros-long-sleeve-cycling-jacket-328748.html

Saris H3 Direct Drive Trainer £299 from Blacks / Millets

Link

Not the newest of trainers but they were well reviewed at the time when costing £600.

I’ve bought one as I’m getting fed up of how choppy and slow my Tacx Vortex is. Suspect a direct drive trainer will be a huge improvement.

I was checking out Alpkit’s outlet and found this bargain and a half:

https://alpkit.com/products/display-cortex-medium-battleship-gx-eagle-axs

Awesome little trail bike with GX AXS, the Pike Ultimate and a Cane Creek shock for £2,389. If I was in the market for a short travel MTB this would be gone already!

They’ve also got loads of hardtails for under or around a grand

My Cortex was from the outlet section in my local store. It’s worth asking in person if they’re able to do a deal, I got a good discount by haggling in store.

Mine came with an XT group set, Alpha 29 wheels, Helm Mk 2 fork, standard Rock Shox shock and I paid £2200 about 2 years ago.

Keep an eye on their eBay outlet store as well, I got the Cane Creek shock (same as the one on the bike you’ve shared) and only paid £199, it was £100 just to service the Rock Shox shock and £300+ for the Cane Creek shock everywhere else so with a little bit of man maths it made more sense to upgrade to the Cane Creek shock form their eBay store.

Bikepacking tent for under £30.  Not much headroom. But only 1.3Kg.  Ditch half the pegs and use it outer only should be under 1kg.

Cheap not always bad. I toured for years with a £30 Argos tent which while bigger than this one was just over 2Kg.

https://outdoorgear.co.uk/outdoorgear-backpacker-pro-1-tent/

I have a good 2kg bike touring tent. Seriously thinking of buying this for fast and light hillwalking  as an alt to a bivvy bag.

Bargain shoes

Absolute bangin bargain on Ride Concept shoes at Evans especially if you can’t get on with the current narrowness of 5tens. The powerlines linked here are the best flat mtb shoe I’ve had in 20 years ! Just go a full size bigger

Ohhh that’s tempting. Are they really that small? Like, New Balance small or adidas small?

Are they really that small?

I had to go up 1 or 1.5 sizes in my previous RC shoes.

Have ordered some Powerlines and Hellion Elites thanks cnud.

I’m an actual size 9.5 but wear a size 10 five ten impact / freerider etc and a 10.5 is just right for me in the RC Powerline

Probs an 11 for me then (actual size 10, 10.5 in adidas, sometimes 11 in New Balance).

I don’t really need them though, I’ve basically forgotten how to ride a bike and I have a near brand new pair of Spesh shoes.

*hovers over buy button*

Fox 36 Float Performance GRIP (29″) for £249 on Merlin – paint defects (read the description) but still seems a bargain at this price.

I got the fox forks delivered last week, only defect was by the bolt in. Very pleased at this price.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/kvia9qKzjBQKacEh8

https://outdoorgear.co.uk/outdoorgear-backpacker-pro-1-tent/

Combine with PlanetX bags and you’re away on a very modest budget.

Re the fox 36 forks

I’ve to be carful what I day at this stage

Upon receiving my set the paint finish all over the lowers was like a 3 year old had got excited with a paint brush

The fork mounts were jo where near flat and they weigh an absolute ton compared to the exact same fork on my other bike

Alarm bells were ringing …..but surely a shopmin question would not be selling something f##e

I contacted fox to ask some questions and after a few exchanges and some images sent they have requested to inspect the fork along with my pop.

Theg are collecting the fork at there expense .

I’ll update as soon as I hear anything back

@big-bud, I appreciate if you want to be careful with what you say but for clarity where were these fox 36s from?

There is a post further up about fox 38s on merlin, I’m trying to work out if they’re linked

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Forerunner-Running-Smartwatch-Tidal/dp/B0B553HT2B/ref=sr_1_5

garmin forerunner 255. all of the bells,none of the whistles. had mine for about two years now and very happy.

forgot to add the price! <200 in blue, 220 in black.

50% off Endura Humvee Hoody, limited colour but lots of sizes.

https://www.endurasport.com/hummvee-hoodie/14268192.html?switchcurrency=GBP&shippingcountry=GB&variation=14268195&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=UK+-+Endura+-+Shopping+-+Brand&utm_term=&utm_content=All+Products&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyoi8BhDvARIsAO_CDsA2vZCo0k4StiTIxY5vqgQNNYlkkVFQo1r0fVAkHDDndqlDw9aVwpkaAvWNEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

I’ll update as soon as I hear anything back

popcorn at the ready

Had a closer look at the 36’s I had delivered and they look absolutely genuine. Similar if not a bit lighter in weight to my Marzocchi z1s and serial number on them identifies them as OE with no graphics on the Fox website.

chris

My guess on the forks is that someone ordered them and sent back some fake ones. No one checked them properly and they got sent back out. Odd not to go back to the seller in the first instance if it was a big online retailer.

@jonba odd you assumed I hadn’t.

I did contact the retailer of whome I have a long standing relationship with as a customer and they, like every good online retailer offered to exchange or refund.

Hence I’m not naming the shop even though it’s obvious as I genuinely think they are the best at what they do.

The forks were actually collected today instead of the planned Monday.

It could well be there just terribly finished oem forks and at least I’ll have piec of mind .

Now please bare in mind ì never contacted fox saying are these fakes or not as such

I questioned the quality of the finish etc which then lead to the request to see them .

I have also jot accused anyone of selling fakes I just want to be clear about that.

I’m just highlighting caution .

Now continue with your daily mail please:)

If you have size 6,7 or 9 feet and like zero drop running shoes, altra lone peak are half price on go outdoors

https://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/19648467/altra-men-s-lone-peak-8-trail-running-shoes-19648467

Sadly, I’m a 9 1/2 🙁

Discounts off nearly everything at Silca

Semi-Annual Sale

£15 off the chain wax pot. 20% off super secret wax.

30% off some (still expensive) pumps.

Harknott saddle adventure pack now £11.99

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156262642866?itmmeta=01JHD9VY993H2VD6D6PVEQ1F0X&hash=item2461fab4b2:g:qLEAAOSw-WhnaWb1

Spesh purg t9 in 2.4 £20

Got on on the front of the hardtail and it’s been decent so far.

https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Specialized-Purgatory-Grid-T9-Tyre-29-x-2-4_262276.htm?variations=colour:Black&_gl=1*1mx33fe*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..

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As per hotukderals post https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Momentum-Transend-E-2024-Electric-Hybrid-Bike_262940.htm for £999?

british cycling members seem to have a fair few new discount codes, sign in select the product/company and generate a discount

7% Tredz

10% Halfords / Balfes bikes / Adidas / Footasylum / gone wild festival / go outdoors / decathlon / frog bikes / frewheel / lazer / quadlock / bikmo

15% blacks / millets / ultimate outdoors / berghaus / orro bikes / Ale /

20% Osprey / Muc-off / fitbit / days brewing / garmin /forestry england / ass saver / tannus tyres / band of climbers

22% gym&coffee

30% ordance survey

50% singletrack magazine