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I totally don't do my lockrings up that tight. I probably should but after chewing up the freehub body of one set of wheels and spending about 2 hours removing the cassette I'm a bit paranoid.
 
Just received the LifeLine torque wrench from Wiggle. £24. What a bloody bargain, how can they make and sell this so cheap? Was not expecting half this much quality for £24!
 
xdcx said:
Just received the LifeLine torque wrench from Wiggle. £24. What a bloody bargain, how can they make and sell this so cheap? Was not expecting half this much quality for £24!
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Yeah, I have the same and really rate it. Only slight annoyance is that I could do with another one for higher torque settings.
 
ArmoVanBuuren said:
I've been looking at Garmin's as can get one for 50% off with my new work health insurance and then also they'll pay £100 towards it, so I'm getting a 520 for £20, so cant complain!
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That's an amazing deal!
ArmoVanBuuren said:
Vitality Halth insurance: http://www.pruhealth.co.uk/vitality/partners/garmin/

Seems really good so far, but you get points for being active and having free health tests and then the points take you to different tiers which gives you different levels of discounts i.e. flights, eurostar, cinema tickets and also I get £30 cashback a quarter for not smoking and having the saliva test to prove this. Points are given for uploading rides/runs from my garmin and it giving 10 points for a 30 min run for example! Only downside is you can only get a max of 40 active points a week which I'm maxing in my quest for the platinum tier!
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This also seems awesome, who'd have thunk it - health insurance that encourages you to be healthy! :eek:

Thinking about it, £30 a quarter cashback for not smoking = £120 p.a.
50% off a new garmin every 'year' = £100+
Selling used Garmin p.a. = ~£50
Yearly(?) contribution towards new garmin = £100

Those benefits and 'cashback' are worth quite a bit regardless of the cost of the actual insurance!? :o
SoliD said:
Where's it going to go though, it's shoved in between two massive carbon planks!
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I've always told myself this... I usually do mine up 'man tight' but not at the extreme end of my wrench so I know I can get them undone again in future! ;)
There's plenty of other things on bikes which don't seem to stay tight at the right torque, even with loctite! :eek::rolleyes:
 
xdcx said:
Just received the LifeLine torque wrench from Wiggle. £24. What a bloody bargain, how can they make and sell this so cheap? Was not expecting half this much quality for £24!
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Great deal tbh!

I got the X Tools one from CRC a few months back for around the same money/torque range. It's a great wrench but didn't come with any bits and they were a pain to source being 1/4" and not 3/8" or whatever the 'normal' one is.
 
xdcx said:
Just received the LifeLine torque wrench from Wiggle. £24. What a bloody bargain, how can they make and sell this so cheap? Was not expecting half this much quality for £24!
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I have the professional one. I'm not sure what's so pro about it, except the price. It was a present, though, so not my money!
 
xdcx said:
Just received the LifeLine torque wrench from Wiggle. £24. What a bloody bargain, how can they make and sell this so cheap? Was not expecting half this much quality for £24!
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Damn. I need to get myself one of those. That's an insane price!

Shame it's only 24 max, but I think the only thing you need above that for is the cassette and cranks.
 
madindehead said:
Shame it's only 24 max, but I think the only thing you need above that for is the cassette and cranks.
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I wouldn't advise doing cranks much over 24 Nm as they are always a PITA to remove, unless of course they're Garmin Vector 1s or such and have to be an exact torque!

To be honest my cassette lockrings 'man tight' is only slightly more than 20 Nm when I measured it. My pedals are probably less but I've never had one come undone. Pretty much what we were discussing yesterday ;)
 
Thanks for all the input regarding the Garmin vs Wahoo!

I'm going to go with the Garmin 520, I watched a few vids and I really liked the look of the Wahoo and if it was a similar price to the Garmin I would've went for it. I've checked on the maps website and I can get my area on for about 50mb so that's all good.

Hopefully have it for my weekend ride, I'll let you know how I get on!
 
Roady said:
Yeah but anything under £300 is good! You're only jealous as you probably spend more on yours?! :p ;)

Trek Domane SLR looks pretty awesome and some great comfort tech... Now if only they did it with discs! :cool:

Love the outfront garmin mount from the stem, anyone know what it is?
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3T make one similar

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Barfly do something for a Fizik stem too.
 
Roady said:
Yeah but anything under £300 is good! You're only jealous as you probably spend more on yours?! :p ;)
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Heh, I came in at around £265, buying most of the bits from Ribble and CRC. I had a spreadsheet to work out where the cheapest place to buy the bits was! I could have got the whole lot for about £260 with CRC discount, but I had an Amazon voucher to use, so I got the rear mech from them, so my actual cash outlay was about £250.
 
Lethal` said:
3T make one similar
Barfly do something for a Fizik stem too.
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The Fizik one is reknown for dropping Garmins (and easily breaking) while the 3T is just damn fugly! :p
Saytan said:
they are!

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/...-with-front-and-rear-isospeed-launched-46744/
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That's another for my christmas list...! Still at £4000+ it's a bit on the steep side...!
Vonhelmet said:
so my actual cash outlay was about £250.
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Good work! I remember you saying before about CRC and your voucher, just didin't appreciate you'd got the parts at an initially cheaper price! :)
 
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