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It'll be interesting to see what turns up on the Kode. The bike in the pics have Shimano Sora components whereas the spec is all microshift 10 speed
Yeah the links don't work for me ('inactive') but items like the Kode are still on the site when searching so worth checking
Thanks Hannah… planning photo books as well… will use the link.
I killed a front rim beyond holding a tyre on last week (it was already a quite random shape, as is the rear) so have gone for the Chiggle Sram/RaceFace wheels. Yes, I know those rims are pretty soft, but I’ve had a few years out of the 27.5 version back in the past. They’ll do.
Fair enough. Just like any other retailer trying to survive rn.
Didn’t Banana Ind already go pop?
Strange, the links for me are working on a phone but not from a desktop browser.... local STW issue?
Chiggle tend to kill the webpage when items go out of stock now
I've noticed that too, but not in the cases of the Octane One bike or the frames/wheel links I shared earlier - definitely all still in stock and live on Wiggle's site.
Maybe it's just to piss off the link police on STW? (although TBF I'm totally behidn the idea that PSAs should always contain the link...)
Edit:
Strange, the links for me are working on a phone but not from a desktop browser…. local STW issue?
Nope, same inactive link error for me from desktop (Chrome on Windows) and mobile (iOS).
Just took delivery of the front SRam/RF wheel (already had enough rear wheels and think the rim will be better suited to front anyway).
999g on the kitchen scale, so not the lightest but not terrible.
Will do me fine to stick a wet tyre on, with an insert in to guard that rim a bit.
£36 is what I'd usually pay for a tyre, not a wheel.
Bought a 165mm 44T Ekar chainset for £61. Not sure how well it'll play with 11 speed GRX, but I suppose I can always sell it on.
My names woodster and I'm addicted to bargains.
I fancy one of those Ekar chainsets, but 123mm BCD and weird bottom bracket design is scaring me off...
I'd be all over one of those Ekar chainsets if replacement chainrings weren't £90+ or there was a 3rd party option. That's my main gripe with GRX as well.
Bought a 165mm 44T Ekar chainset for £61.
🤩🤩
I've been wanting to experiment with 165mm on the cheap, would never have thought Ekar was the way to do it!
Shame about proprietary chainrings though, in recent years 1x chainrings are the only component I seem to have experienced any significant wear issues with...
That’s my main gripe with GRX as well.
Garbaruk and Absolute Black do aftermarket options for GRX, I even got a cheap superstar oval 1x to work (albeit had to space out with chainring spacers to achieve best chainline).
so i ordered the Mach 3 on saturday.. no sign of dispatch, eta the 28th...
ordered the kode and cancelled the vitus... and the vitus is now dispatched...
aah well
so i ordered the Mach 3 on saturday.. no sign of dispatch, eta the 28th…
ordered the kode and cancelled the vitus… and the vitus is now dispatched…
aah well
Wasn't the cut-off the 4th for bikes to be delivered before Christmas? It has been plastered all over the site tbh.
https://www.wiggle.com/p/octane-one-kode-adv-commuter-road-bike-2022?color=whiteblack&sizeStandard=L
Just how painful do we reckon this would be as a winter club run bike?
Chuck some cheap Conti Sport Contact 28c's and normal bars on it?
it is and was.... i did say that i ordered a more expensive bike, but apparently it has left..which is rubbish imho as you get notified as soon as the collection is booked
Never heard of CST tracer tyres, but if they are anything like the city vee tyres that came with my Vitus Zenium they should be binned immediately!
Here's an amusing one.
Harrods, as in the posh London store, appear to have sale on ASICS running shoes with prices as low as I've seen anywhere. Tempting just to be able to say you shop at Harrords...
Continental Cross King MTB Tyre - £18.99 for 29x2.2"
https://www.wiggle.com/p/continental-cross-king-mtb-tyre?color=black&wheelSizeWidth=29%22+%7C+2.2%22
Cannondale 27.5" Habit (alu) frames, no shock, £315: Medium large XL Cannondale Habit 27.5" Alloy mountain bike frame black / silver | eBay
Bonkers Fabric mini pump with a wooden handle that has a terrible review on Road.cc at £40, but only £7.99 delivered: Fabric Megabar mountain bike bicycle free pump classic retro silver free UK p&p | eBay
Continental Cross King MTB Tyre – £18.99 for 29×2.2″
Wire bead, non-tubeless by the sounds of it.. unfortunately.
Just how painful do we reckon this would be as a winter club run bike?
Looked at that before but the top tube seemed to size up very long, the medium might have fitted me with a stem change, but then they sold out apart from the large.
I reckon it would be fun, depending on the group/terrain/distance, assuming it fits you.
POC Axiom Spin helmet for xs heads £9.99
POC Tectal helmet, again xs, £19.99
https://www.wiggle.com/p/poc-tectal-mtb-helmet?color=basalt-blue-matt&sizeStandard=XS%2FS
Bargain for those POC helmets, bagged a couple
all the happy new POC owners today
Some good deals on DHB cycling shoes if the have your size - https://www.wiggle.com/search?categoryNames=Shoes&query=dhb+shoes https://www.wiggle.com/search?categoryNames=Shoes&query=dhb+shoes
Uberbike 20% off site Merry20 code
Some good deals on DHB cycling shoes if the have your size
Gonna try some of those £15 ones for gravelling, ta.
And added a £10 POC helmet for my lad to grow into, to get the free postage.
There's gonna be a lot of youngsters in very posh helmets eh.
Some decent deals on SP on cycling and other stuff…if they have your sizes.
Big Agnes Platinum Tiger Wall 2-person for 369 - probably a couple of hundred cheaper than I've seen elsewhere.
Mega-light (1kg) for a two-person bikepacking tent.
The Vitus Mach 3 is here
the vee tyres look Ok, but wire bead and not tubeless ready i believe so I'm chucking a set of wheels i have on it, but
is there any PSA on any tyres 700x38 ish.. reasonable puncture resistance, mainly commuting on road, with scope to hit a dirt path.
Commute will be an occasional 14 miler, and the occasional fast road ride, if i want to do proper mixed surfaces it won't be on this
Ive had wtb byways and hated them
Gravelking SK which were light and fast, never punctured them but was sceptical i might
Vittoria Torreno Zero, been great on my commuter, but not sure if they feel slow or a 17kg ebike past ~20mph is to be expected as draggy
Gravel bike had schwalbe g ones in 45mm and they feel great on the road, again dont know how much protection they might have and are definitely a grave grave tyre, yet feel faster than the torreno's..........
The Vitus Mach 3 is here
I've got a Mach 3 VR I'm swapping bits around on: mechanical discs being replaced with cheap Shimano hydraulics, and bar/stem from my spares as I didn't like the feel of the combined one it came with. Hoping to run those Vee tyres tubelessly but yet to try - I've had success with 'not tubeless ready' tyres in the past so nothing to lose trying with these. No rear tyre clearance for anything bigger than the 38s on mine after adding SKS Edge AL46s.
yer i most likely will swap in a set of drop bars and stem and put a set of spyres on it, if not also got a few sets of no model shimano hydraulics. i am not loving that all in one bar at all, might try those tyres then, they have light puncture protection and look to be what i would look for.
haven't decided on guards yet...
got any pics with the guards on?
No photos at all so far but hoping to finish it tonight. I've got flatmount Shimano UR300s to fit and not looking forward to the internal routing. Rear mech cable also rattled around inside the downtube like a skeleton having a **** in a biscuit tin, so I've added foam around the cable and will do the same to the rear hose.
Aiming to keep mine as inconspicuous as possible but not helped being a lovely deep, glittery metallic dark grey that looks far more premium than it should!
Anyone know if these are the lyriks that can be run above 160mm travel?
Yikes... typo...I meant 180
Has anyone seen any deals on youth full face helmets?
Quite like the Endura one but can't see it for less than £80.
WHYTE Coniston Electric Hybrid Bike - £1299.99 - Shimano motor
https://www.evanscycles.com/brand/whyte/coniston-electric-hybrid-bike-930625#colcode=93062502
Cheers for the Whyte PSA which lead me to this £1100 Specialized ebike down from £3700 seems a bit of a steal too.
All versions of Shokz bone conduction headphones are reduced by £50 almost everywhere.
Help me out folks as totally clueless.
Looking for cheap bike to have permanently on trainer (wahoo kicker core) that myself and the mrs can use. Have been sticking one of our mtbs on there but sick of the hassle and mud everywhere.
Anything in the chiggle madness that would fit the bill? Have only ever stuck our through axle boost 1x stuff on there to date and clueless about all other bikes and standards and what would work on the wahoo trainer.
^^ the Chiggle Vitus Mach 3's are quick release assuming you have that as an option on your trainer? note, the mach 1 is not QR and is bolt through so you'd want to avoid that i think
Daffy
All versions of Shokz bone conduction headphones are reduced by £50 almost everywhere.
They are great things, use them more than any other headphones, £50 off is a crazy bargain
Careful who you buy the shokz from thou as I bought mine from what I'd consider a mainstream UK retailer (JD Sports) and Shokz wouldn't honour their warranty as they're not an authorised reseller - quite how they came across the stock then is a different matter.
And they are a bit fragile, or at least dont last as long as I'd expect. I've got through three sets, the first couple lasted about 12-18 months before they died on one side. The most recent (the pro model) the on/off switch stopped working but they did last a bit longer.
@riddoch - may I guess, the right hand end breaking over the ear so it just dangled down? - that's how I got thro the 1st two of mine. I won't give them any more money now since the warranty issue, I believe there are cheaper alteranatives that work just as well which i'll be looking into
hmm not sure how old my shockz are and have been faultless.. .the waterproof ones....
A friend bought one of the cheap Kinesys ebikes a couple of days ago and Wiggle have emailed to offer immediate delivery if he is happy to do a bit more assembly or wait a few weeks for them to PDI. Could be good if you want it quick
@nicknameless the Brand X Road Bike is under £200:
https://www.wiggle.com/p/brand-x-road-bike<br /> <br />
Reviewed here:
Edited to add this bike has a 7 speed freewheel rather than a cassette. You would need a cassette for a Kickr Core and I’m not 100% sure that it’ll work with 7 speed , would need some more research.
SportPursuit have some Topeak stuff on sale, some nice stocking filler stuff, and 27.5 Halo wheels
Half price pedal powered cargo ebike van anyone?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395061732573
may I guess, the right hand end breaking over the ear so it just dangled down?
Exactly what happened to mine this year. They were about 6 years old and the charging was dodgy by this point anyway, so I was reasonably happy to buy a new pair of OpenRun.
Disappointed to hear longevity is questionable on those. If mine don't last I'd look elsewhere on account of the proprietary charging cable alone!
nicknameless
Free MemberLooking for cheap bike to have permanently on trainer (wahoo kicker core) that myself and the mrs can use. Have been sticking one of our mtbs on there but sick of the hassle and mud everywhere.
TBH pretty much any old shit will do the job well. I found an abandoned road bike on facebook for £30, threw most of it in the bin, replaced the front wheel with a wooden stand for compactness, put a new chain and a comfy seat on it and that was pretty much it. It's way easier with kit like the kickr because it provides the "hub" and a bunch of adapters so all you really need is frame, seat, bars, fork, cranks with one functioning chainring and rear shifting, and loads of frame standards can be easily made to work. If you buy a whole cheap new bike for it probably half of it goes completely unused and the bits you do use like saddles, grips, shifting tend to not be that great
Both pairs of my Shokz have only lasted 2 years before terminal faults. The first, the LHS conductor died. The more recent Aeropex (OpenRun) have both started rattling inside the conductors and whilst they still work, it's really annoying. They can't be opened to fix the problem. You can drill and Sugru it, but it's a poor bodge at best and compromises the sound. Mine get used 5 days a week for a total of around 1o hours in all kinds of weather, so I cant really complain at less than £1/week. I wish they had sove value at the end of two years, but hey ho - there's really nothing else I can safely use on the bike/running.
slight detour
tyres on that mach 3 (vee tyre) are wire bead, and when i popped them on my vel wheels the bead rested so far away from the rim that it would be a massive faff to get any kind of seal
Amazon have Gravelking slicks same size, tan wall, for 32 a pop atm
Is it churlish to grumble that the rim tape on those £135 carbon gravel wheels was applied really crappily?
Don't worry, I'll answer that myself. Yes, it is.
Gx scandals back at £799 again.
Daffy, that's what's wrong with my current ones - don't recall what model but rattling. Makes a change from the ear piece snapping I guess lol.
Merlin also have the "in a box" 105 version of the Felt AR Adavanced in 54/56cm for ~£1650, great deal if it's as slippy as the Zwift version! 😉
https://www.merlincycles.com/felt-ar-advanced-105-road-bike-boxed-302870.html
Rental bars and stems 50% off àt sportspursuit
Fatbar carbons for £86
https://www.sportpursuit.com/sales/renthal-dec23
Also deals on abus locks and helmets
BBC PSA Made me smile, but not worth its own thread...
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/bbc-presenter-middle-finger-video-b2464841.html
Rental bars and stems 50% off àt sportspursuit
Good spot.. but can't help thinking it's better to buy than rent in the long run?
Altura shop on Amazon has some good discounts. Some of it is available elsewhere like cycle store but a few unique items.
Esker dune Jacket for £50
You've put photos of road shoes though 😉
Possibly a bit niche, but 3 speed Nexus hubs for £23.74 - Nexus 3D55 3 Speed Gear Hub | Wiggle
The cheap XC POCs are still available too.
I had one of the cheap POC's turn up today. Thanks for the PSA!
Same price as the decathlon one my wee one is growing out of.
Looks better, I'm not sure it will make much difference other than a hat will fit under better
Oh bugger! Wiggle order was being delivered now being returned to retailer...
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took the Mach 3 out for a road ride yesterday, a solid 42 miles, changed the stock tektros for a set of spires i had, swapped the wheels for my VEL items and Gravelking slicks
Bike still weighs more than my Nukeproof Digger RS somehow..
But... quick on the road, bit of chain slip putting the power down on one of the gears.... not sure why
next to get the drop bars on it, 9 speed cassette and a set of mudguards and she will be commute/road ride ready
definitely a 10 out of 10 £200 bike....
definitely a 10 out of 10 £200 bike….
Not really a £200 bike though anymore with all those upgrades!
This popped up earlier and looks like a cracking bike for the money - https://www.balfesbikes.co.uk/bikes/mountain-bikes/trek-slash-97-slxxt-29-full-suspension-mountain-bike-2022-in-green__28341
This popped up earlier and looks like a cracking bike for the money –
Absolutely, one of the best deals I've seen in the current sales frenzy.
Two of my pals have this generation Slash. I was tempted myself, but I'm aware the dropper insertion is somewhat limited (I tend to have to slam mine) and the mullet bodge is sub-optimal.
Brilliant deal for a taller rider committed to full 29 though.