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I've ordered one of their long sleeve aero jerseys for £21 to replace my Rapha one that someone half-inched from a changing room. I'm expecting great things!
I've ordered one of their long sleeve aero jerseys for £21 to replace my Rapha one that someone half-inched from a changing room. I'm expecting great things!
The designs look....familiar
They gave Aldi a good roasting earlier in the year for that!
I went with the cheapy Eurobike pads and regretted it, got less than 1500 miles out of each of them (bought 3 sets). Changed to the Shimano J04 and enjoying them but not ridden in loads of wet weather (barely ridden in any rain for months)! Looking at Strava they've done 1200 miles, plenty of wear left and no issues.
Haha, awesome! Offer is still on the table for the future if we cross paths somewhereNot to worry, it didn't cost me anything to send it anyway as the wife put it in with her works mail so her company paid for it
What was delivery time like? Tried any shorts?Anyone that is interested in some very high quality cycling gear - https://spexcel.aliexpress.com/store/2219030
Interested in how you find it.I've ordered one of their long sleeve aero jerseys for £21 to replace my Rapha one that someone half-inched from a changing room. I'm expecting great things!
According to here the Deore M515 are resin compound pads. The Black J04 I have are metal compound. I've not played around enough with different compounds to really make any selection. I just know the 'race matrix compound' (whatever that is) on the Uberbike ones I had was rubbish. It seemed to glaze over with mucky general road use. I've been meaning to wet+dry the surfaces of the pads to see if that revived them so they're not utterly wasted. Although I'd soon get bored of doing that every other few months! I wanted pads the same as the ones my BR-785 'Ice-tech resin with fins' came with. But hard to track down specifically which Shimano ones they where!The pads I bought were Shimano Deore M515, which I thought were fine until I got cought out in a down pour. The brakes just didn't work, pulling the levers as hard as I could to get minimal breaking power it felt quite dangerous.
Guessing either the pads are garbage in the wet or both the rotor and pads are contaminated/glazed.
Bought SwissStop D15 pads as replacements along with cleaner for the rotors. Hopefully it'll get better.
Great guards. I still rate them although not using them. Fixed guards are supreme in all aspects - but price and fitment.Love my raceblades, they are so easy to get on and off as well, I re-attached mine this morning in about 60 seconds. They'll probably stay on for a while now though
Great guards. I still rate them although not using them. Fixed guards are supreme in all aspects - but price and fitment.
Second bike commute this morning and much more organised. Breakfast, laptop and shoes were already at the office, so a much lighter rucksack. Felt like a proper commuter filtering through the slow traffic queuing through the roadworks near the office
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Yeah I got the endurance bib shorts with the pockets, pretty impressed with them - the pad isn't as good as the Rapha classic bibs, but it isn't far off. Easily on par with DHB pro or castelli nanoflex.What was delivery time like? Tried any shorts?
Yeah I got the endurance bib shorts with the pockets, pretty impressed with them - the pad isn't as good as the Rapha classic bibs, but it isn't far off. Easily on par with DHB pro or castelli nanoflex.
Delivery wise - dispatch took about a week, then another 2.5 for delivery roughly.
dispatch took about a week, then another 2.5 for delivery roughly.
No import charges whatsoever, I only ordered two items together so might not have hit the threshold.Did you get stung with any import charges?
Ahh good call hiding it - that would've really stuck out like a sore thumb!I didn't like the look with the silver hanger and bolt showing! Normally it'd be hidden by a rim brake caliper.
Thanks, may give them a shout as need some smaller winter thermal tights! I'm certainly not an XL any longer (Medium in some Rapha now)!Yeah I got the endurance bib shorts with the pockets, pretty impressed with them - the pad isn't as good as the Rapha classic bibs, but it isn't far off. Easily on par with DHB pro or castelli nanoflex.
Delivery wise - dispatch took about a week, then another 2.5 for delivery roughly.
Same here. Except NoPinz where I got my WBR club kit from. Delivery quoted 4-6 weeks, actual 10 (nearly 11). I was chomping at the bit and nearly gave up waiting!I actually like parcels that take ages. I forget I've ordered them and have a little woohoo when they arrive
Mega results mate, well done!In Vets there were 12 riders who managed to score points, I finished 4th (1st and 2nd were A Cat riders)
In B Cats there were 28 riders who scored points, I finished 11th.<snip>
Finally - I'm so proud of my two daughters who also raced - Jessica age 8 and Isabelle aged 13, Jessica came in 5th in her group and Isabelle a solid mid table 7th in her group. They did just amazingly well, really proud, they both showed the kind of grit and spirit any parent would be happy to see in their kids
Mega results mate, well done!
Well done to the girls too, they love it or think they'll not continue when they get older?
See you on Zwift racing more over the winter then!