Road Cycling

Vonhelmet said:
Londoners! If I attempt to ride from Stratford to Canary Wharf and back on a Boris bike will I die in a horrific accident? I'm staying in Stratford tonight but fancy a meal and cinema in the evening. Any suggestions route wise?
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Unfortunate timing. In just on a train heading back to Manchester. Could've joined you in your HGV adventure :p
 
platypus said:
Oh are they not allowed then? People have offered cheaper stuff on here before baying it for years, I thought that was a reasonable part of the community.
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I'm afraid not. If you were offering to send them on for free then it's the kind of thing that might have a blind eye turned to it but full on sales we can't allow unfortunately.

I'd quite like for us to be allowed but understandably the forum has to remain pc-parts focussed.
 
Absolutely lovely day though a bit windy up in the hills. Took it pretty steady for the most part aside from a bit of Pyms where some beardy guy almost overtook me :p To be honest I'm sure his time up there was way quicker than me but not being overtaken is important...

Ended up being 90 miles with all the hills done in the first 40 or so. Actually not feeling too fatigued at all and didn't have much in the way of aches/pains so I'm pretty happy with that. Hopefully it bodes well for me being able to do more long distance stuff with my current setup and fitness.

https://www.strava.com/activities/933388859
 
Vonhelmet said:
I thought as much. I'm looking at buying some disc brakes and you can get them cheap on eBay, but if they gave the true value and they took a full hit of duty and vat they'd barely be cheaper than just buying the product in the uk with proper warranty and so on.
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If it's a physically small item and they mark it low value the chances of you not being charged are quite high. If it's a bit bulkier then you're almost certainly out of luck. Personally for something like disc brakes I'd buy locally - or at least from somewhere in Europe. Bike24 used to be quite cheap but that was before Brexit caused the value of the pound to tank.
 
lordrobs said:
You were spot on FT, adaptor in the box. Why Wiggle felt the need to state twice on their website that it didn't come with one I don't know :mad:

My old one has also gone back to being smooth as silk :confused: I'm heading out for 60 miles today so that will tell if it was all in my head or not.
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Ah, good news. On Sat I realised that I'd thrown away my new, non-knackered adaptor and kept the broken one. :rolleyes: I need to order another to see if I can sort out this annoying creaking.
 
SoliD said:
Whats the difference, I'd almost to be tempted to buy a new one and send it back under the old order :D
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It's only a tenner...tbh that thought did cross my mind :p It's out of stock since the new platinum discount though (interesting timing...) and I'm too lazy. It's a nice improvement over my broken 810 and I'm happy with the price I paid.
 
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