I’ll download the Garmin App and go for a ride tonight and report back on it

Garmin connect is worth a look then. I’ve been thinking about getting a GPS.

6.99 is too much for something i will use once or maybe twice a month, and will only use 20% of the functionality. Its really good value if you use it frequently and use the tools you get with it, but i don’t use it frequently and don’t need all that analysis etc, just a basic tracker, but with segment timings.

I just want to record my rides, and see how I’m doing on segments vs previous attempts. I dont need the maximum speed, calories burnt, heart rate etc, just a record of how my segment times round Llandegla etc are looking vs my riding mates

it seems to me a much better solution would a pay per ride. For me, especially in the winter when days are short and weather terrible, I will be doing well to get a ride a month in. 6.99 is too much. I’d happy pay a pay per use charge, 50p per ride or something like that.

6.99 is too much money for something I use once or twice a month. Simple as that. I dont need the route planning element, just the segment timing so I can see if I’m getting fitter, if I’m as fit as before an injury etc. Is there an alternative out there? Ad boosted is fine, thats how the rest of the Internet makes its money

I thought that, but it happens pretty frequently and Its happened across 3 phones, always kept in the very top pocket of my pack. I would edit them out, but the app functionality doesn’t allow it i don’t think.

Looking down my rides over the past year, theyre full of false positions, weird spikes into the middle of nowhere etc. If you live on your bike then its worth it, its not if you ride once or twice a month around other commitments

Its not about survival, its about boosting the financial results for a sale. Don’t be so naive.

Couldn’t agree more with this.

I use strava to compare myself to my previous efforts, the KOM for the places I ride (mostly trail centres) mean that the top 10 is totally irrelevant. Im hopeful a better, free or add boosted, app will come along to wipe strava out and step into its place.

Strava are clearly going for a big sale to one of the big boys, and want their balance sheets to reflect x quarters of increasing revenue. What they’ve done is create a scenario where the only people who use it will be the mega dedicated, not the casual, once a fortnight rider

Yer I need the oil and grease, but thats not a problem. I can’t see any major pitfalls in the process but I just thought I’d check

My trance was superb, can’t recommend them enough. The whytes are lovely as well, you can pick a 2018 used s150s for that price.

Very good point. the reviews of this bike all mention the heavy wheels. Not sure how much of that will be solved with the lighter cassette. I love the bike, but I would like to lose a little bit of weight off it if possible

I’ve just fitted a set of code r to my s150s. Very very impressed with them.

The cassette is an NX Eagle. 12 speed.
I’ve read that, constrained by the design of the standard Shimano hub, the smallest gear is 11 tooth, whereas the GX and up use the XD drive, which can go down to 10 tooth. The shimano 12 speed I think use the microspline freehub to allow the to fit the 12 cogs on, but I don’t know what’s on the market that uses a standard Shimano style hub, but is 12 speed

My younger brother and myself buried my youngest brother in the garden whe he was about 4. Buried vertically, up to his neck. We were on our way to a christening and he was wearing a white outfit for it. He wasn’t too bothered by it, my mum wasn’t too impressed though.

The main reason I’m looking to upgrade is because I’m jealous of how plush my mates new lyriks are!

I take it that doesn’t wreck it’s climbing ability etc

Ok fair enough, new hose it is then

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/hope-hose-connector/rp-prod3257

Not one of these?

Boo

I bought a 2018 s150s 12 months ago and have been very very impressed with it. There’s some baragins out there on the 2018 model as well. Just make sure you change them blue grips.

https://whyte.bike/products/s150s-2018

Should be a GX in 2018 spec, but a Truvativ in 2019.

Possibly it was a last of the line bike and they had run out of the GX.

I suspect 18.5 could be the way to go unfortunately. I’m 5ft9 with I’d say average size limb to body length

It’s only an hour away but I know what I’m like. I’ll throw my leg over, want it, buy it convincing myself it’s the right size, and it’ll be on the classifieds in 6 months for half the price I paid for it.

Just wondered if anyone had one. I ride a medium 26in trance at the moment and it’s pretty much perfect

Stuck on this question at the moment. Really like the look of the Whyte 150 as well

I’ve always had used bikes in the past, which of course is still an option, but if I was going for new on a pay monthly type basis I would be going to a local bike shop (leisure lakes, formby cycles, one planet llandegla, etc) so it would have to be a mainstream brand rather than some internet only thing ie Trek, Specialized, Whyte etc rather than YT, Rose, Canyon etc

If you check one if my previous posts about a year ago I’ve got a set of bars for your golf. Haven’t got the bike racks but you can get them from wherever and they’re not that pricy

Why did you put £50 as a ‘best offer’ if you were prepared to offer £54?
Seriously?

Semi, and semi- tongue-in-cheek.

My initial response was to adrec who said

i had one the other week, a set of cranks posted at £55 or best offer, so offered £50, i thought fairly, they rejected, so i offered £53, rejected, £54, rejected.
why put it on sale as ‘or best offer’

and they kept rejecting his ‘best offer’ because he kept going back, showing that the £50 (or £53) wasn’t actually his best offer after all, because he kept making a better one. Hence my comment.

There is an art to negotiation and when done right doesn’t end up as just reaching the halfway point between your first offer and the original price. But keeping going back and upping the offer to end up at the asking price isn’t it (although the other fella played his hand pretty nigh perfectly)

(look, really I know that best offer on ebay as IRL doesn’t really mean best offer, it’s a negotiating point, but the protest seemed to be ‘why did you say you’d take offers if then you didn’t – and the answer to that bit is as above, because adrec got outnegotiated)

Go on then, Sir Alan, tell me what i should have done rather than offering below the asking price. refuse to budge and miss out on something for the sake of £1?

my point was, he wasnt prepared to take an offer, he wanted the full asking price, yet clicked the ‘or best offer button’ when setting up. ‘or best offer’ as far as i can tell is Ebay speak for ‘open to negotiation’, and that clearly was not the case.

iirc it was getting towards then end of the auction anyway, so i really dont know what more this fella wanted.

also annoying when someone posts ‘or best offer’.

i had one the other week, a set of cranks posted at £55 or best offer, so offered £50, i thought fairly, they rejected, so i offered £53, rejected, £54, rejected.

why put it on sale as ‘or best offer’

idiots

cheers i’ll look into that.

probably try a post in the wanted section on here later as well

its a flat spaner for tightening the spacer on the non drive side

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FSA-Bottom-Bracket-Adjuster-Spanner/dp/B0029LD6FE

this

Have a look at moneysupermarket. I’ve just got a loan over 5 years at 3%, works out the same price as a pop but I’ll own the car after 5 years rather than give it back after 4

Taken them apart tonight and they were cup and cone. Like new now after a strip down clean and re grease

Apparently the fronts are cartridge. They feel too rough to be ball bearings that just need a service

Does anyone know the difference between mt15s and mt35?

Working in a busy bar while I was in uni was great. Basically a night out, surrounded by good looking barmaids because the landlord new what attracted business and all the shots etc bought for you by cucustomers. Wouldn’t have wanted to do it forever but it was good fun at the time

Who in their right mind is bidding on these?

+1 for the epic bleed solutions video guide. I was close to losing my marbles with mine before I wwatched it.

Does anyone know what happened to all them bmw motorbikes which were washed up in Cornwall a few years back? The urban legend said bmw said the beach combers could keep them as a demo of how well they were put together.

Yer you can from crc. Guess they must be this year’s because you didn’t used to be able to. There a safe bet, just heavy.