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I ordered a new bottom bracket and a 12spd quicklink from Merlin yesterday and it came to about £28.50, and free postage kicked in at £30 (it was £2.99 otherwise).
Now, in the olden days I'd have bought an inner tube, or a quick link (because they used to cost a quid...) or something to make up the difference, but I had a total mind blank, couldn't think of anything I particularly needed, so after about 10 minutes of fannying about on the site I just coughed up the £2.99.
So I have ideas in future, what's the couple of quid stuff that you get to get you over the free postage line?
Gear cables, brake pads, gels, whatever looks a bargain when I sort by biggest discount or lowest price.
Sports drinks, energy bars and brake pads. Lots of brake pads.
Socks
electrolyte tabs
energy gels
Gear cable
Tubeless valves
Valve cores
Headset spacers (why do I never have enough of these?)
Chains
'Consumables' so Sprots foody/drinky stuff, lube, maybe some bikewash type stuff. Or socks.
The kind of things I'd never go and specifically set out to buy, but do actually always need.
Headset Spacers. I think they're the bike equivalent of the 10mm socket in car mechanics terms in that the moment they're put down they either change size, location or just disappear completely and you can never find enough/the right one again.
Stainless gear cable
Brake housing (good for dropper posts)
Have a look at the tools section.
Any grease, lube or oil
Small Hope parts
Magnetic parts tray
Best one ever was a DVO travel indicator o-ring. It was green and the wife likes colour matched stuff on the bike.
Lovehoney always get me on this, we now have a stash of small vibrating objects and clothing items that are more air than material, when all I wanted was the sexy tiger stripe man pouch thong
PSA, with this code HUKDFREEDEL free delivery limit is only a tenner atm
Gloves for me, they're normally under a tenner and last a year
Lovehoney always get me on this, we now have a stash of small vibrating objects and clothing items that are more air than material, when all I wanted was the sexy tiger stripe man pouch thong
Ironically, I've got a drawer full of unused sexy tiger stripe man pouch thongs when all I really wanted was small vibrating objects and clothing items that are more air than material
Surely you can't have one without the other?
Self adhesive (Park) puncture repair patches.
Tubeless repair kit
Tyre sealant
Lube
Tubeless rim tape
Grips
Or any other consumables
I actually have a list of non urgent bike bits to buy on my phone. Just look at this.
Gear cable inner and outers are a good one.
As are hydraulic brake olives.
Bar end plugs the last time.
Buying CDs was similar. They would often cost £9.99 but free postage would start at a tenner.
This is why when I actually need stainless gear cable inner there's none in stock 😤
No bike related, but I just ordered some crockery from John Lewis that came out to be £2.50 short of being free delivery to the nearest Waitrose. Socks was the answer.
Tyre sealant
Yeah, in hindsight, this would have been an idea
Lube - as in small sachets of arse lard for long days in the saddle, could probably be used for dry chains as well
I guess that answer might work for the LoveHoneys too
I guess that answer might work for the LoveHoneys too
Ditto for cleaning products.
IHN and Kimbers look like they could be a sexy time match made in heaven.
CO2 canisters
I usually go with socks. Water bottles are always needed in our house, the amount the kids lose at school, so they can be good as well.
Turned out to be bar tape today
Hose/outer frame clips! Like headset spacers there are never enough.
CRC have great prices in Shimano RT66 rotors, I wanted one 180mm for £6.99 and then added two 203mm rotors at £19.98 for a mate.
"CO2 canisters"
Jeez do people still use these little environmental hand grenades?
Wiggle plus
There was definitely a thread about this a couple of months ago, of course it's impossible to find it.
Jeez do people still use these little environmental hand grenades?
Why are they environmental hand grenades? You do realise that the CO2 is captured from fertiliser production and would otherwise go directly to the atmosphere anyway? - just like the CO2 from a few pints of beer.
I normally first ask mates if they need to order anything and sometimes one of them will say something to round me up. Otherwise latest one was some birzman rotor spacers that will set the correct distance without me squinting. I may never use them but I love tools so who cares!
You could have added anything around £2 thrown it away and still been better off. Little Hope bits are usually my go to.
all the above,
on crc/wiggle/merlin/tredz i've not paid postage ever. click on accessories and sort low-high..
tools/allen keys/lubes always good.
ps on merlin check your account points, £5 off £75 spend, so i tend to buy a spare tyre to hit the spend..
Brake cables, for some reason the two bikes that still run cable brakes (one V one drum) seem to eat cables way faster than the fancy bike's gears.
Hose shortening kits.
Grip and bar tape (I have sandpaper hands, corrosive sweat and must 'throttle' the bars a lot) so tend to get whatever happens to be cheap in awful colors and just accept that it only lasts a short while.