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I recently bought an Easton Haven carbon bar at £39.99 and a set of Bahco round ended Allen keys at £8.99 which were recommended by other STWers on this forum. Both excellent.
What have you bought following recommendations by fellow STWers?
A Commencal Meta AM2 29er.
on-one inbred and conti vert pro’s
both poor recommendations based on misguided fanboyism and the glib acceptance of mediocrity.
cheap bog roll
Set of flow snowboard bindings. I'd always avoided them because of poor reviews but that turns out to have been a big mistake- they're great
One of these.
It was shit.
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A pair of knock off chinese sunglasses, some dodgy replica team kit, a bike made from gas pipes, a bike with the gears missing, a bike with stupid clown tyres and some low rent supermarket branded bike gear - all crap
Cotic Soul 🙂
That mould remover stuff. Worked well as long as you can leave the room unused for a while to let it de-gas.
Alpkit Ailok Extra dry bags - good.
Endura Humvees (a few years ago now) - awful.
Basit light, followed by Solastorm - great.
hmmmm - surprisingly little actually, although my build kit for my new bike will take some views on here into account.
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Avoided lots of things because people said avoid - cheap brake pads being one example.
Hope hubs with stans rims
Esi grips, pedros tyre levers and prob went tubeless from reading ghetto threads initially then buying some crests.
Same as you OP.
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Innis & Gunn beers probably the main one.
Very little stuff on here that I can afford or need.
Already had a Soul before I joined, was ahead of the curve with the Arkrose. Was in to Greggs steak bakes long before Binners.
I probably ought to buy one of the recommended skills courses though!
Just turned up, not 5 minutes ago.. some Deda Carbon bar tape 🙂
[i]Very little stuff on here that I can afford..[/i]
£5.99 from Wiggle 😉
That Howies windproof jacket that Wiggle were doing cheap recently.
Not used it yet but it fits well, looks good and that's all that really matters.
Those 'damaged' On One/Planet X jerseys that they were selling for mega cheap and had no damage on them that I could see.
Garmin Edge 500 that was reduced to £155 in Halfords with the HRM & cadence sensor.
LED bits for Lumi halogen conversion a couple of years ago.
c&b seen light - it's actually pretty good
Ho's & coke. Poor value 🙁
Cotic Soul
This little toy:
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Solarstorm x2. Great light, battery needed replacement as expected
A cheap casio - replaced another cheap casio - no complaints
Also followed up quite a few of the PSAs for single malts. 🙂
SLX brakes and they were gash. Other recommendations from here have been ok though generally. The BFe was alright but not as good as the forum led me to believe.
Just off to buy some Ethiopian Curry ingredients courtesy of this
http://www.ethiopianspices.com/html/recipes.asp
though shopping locally, edinburgh instead of the US - need to keep our pounds in the right place 😆
EDIT - Just fitted some SLX brakes and you ^^ are the first dissenter I have ever heard! STW Proving the rules everyday 🙂
A bean to cup coffee machine
A fair bit of Finisterre clothing and a Ruark R4i Stereo.
The stereo in particular is awesome both in looks and sound.
Thank you STW.
Tin foil hat
Hans Dampfs - they were rubbish
Maxis Beavers - they punctured all the time, rubbish too.
PSA rather than recommendation, Charge Spoon with a shoe bag and some grips. Grips were shite, saddle is good.
Spesh Stumpy FSR Evo Expert - at 40% discount as previous year's model. Obviously I read some reviews as well - but the forum pointed me in the right direction
Joakely Jawbones
Solar Storm X2
N/W rings
T-Rex
Salsa Bend 2 bars arrived this morning, just fitted 'em, off out to try 'em soon.
I'm really regretting buying one of these:
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Just cant get used to the colour 😳
I bought a Soul and XT brakes on recommendation, and in one instance a Ragley carbon bar simply on the strength that Hora said they were shit
Only ESI grips, lately- really pleased with them, though they don't last.
Nobby Nics and Hans Dampfs
Bfe (although was originally looking at Soul)
Mucky Nutz fender
A single speed, specifically an inbred.
Lights off smudge/mtbbatteries.
2 road bikes
Putting cheese slices in fish finger butties (don't)
There is a strong chance I will own a fat bike before the weekend is out.
Beer in The Cask pub in Pimlico.
All my bike stuff. Just searched the forums till I found an opinion that matched mine,and happy buying!
Solar storm light, good but crap battery.
Cheap Casio G shock, good but really didn't need it.
Cheap Oakley Flakjackets, good but again, didn't really need them.
Conti GP4000s tyres, average at best, as all Conti tyres are in just experience.
Mould Spray which is excellent.
Bender fender
520 SPDs
KS eten dropper
rubber queens
All very good.
Ooh, what mould spray was that?
ESI grips and Osprey hydration pack.
Oh, and Chunky Monkey/Smorgasbord combo.
Deore brakes - Bargain good brakes
Catlike Leaf Helmet - Way cheaper than equivalent quality Giro etc
Bender Fender - Just works
Osprey Escapist rucksack. - Why did I ever think Camelbak were good !
MoreCashThanDash - MemberOoh, what mould spray was that?
This one:
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Lumenator light.
SLX brakes.
Lidl bike stand.
Probably more that I can't remember.
Cotic Soul. What sn awful wet noodle thst was.
Evil sovereign. Good for crashing.
Conti vert pros. Awful.
Rancilio Silvia/Rocky. Great.
Merkur razor. Cheap to run.
A T5. Great.
A Giant Anthem. Good bike.
Selvedge jeans. Great but not really worth the money.
SDG bel air. Ok saddle.
Aeropress. And a handspresso.
SKS rennkompressor.
Katec bearings.
Bender fender.
Trainerroad.
Strava.
Pistonheads told me to get an mx5.
Sunline V1 flatbars
Solarstorm x2
Batteries from Torchy the battery boy
Harviestoun Bitter & Twisted
BMW 3 series.
Emergency flag - for in case somebody covers the cat in sudocrem.
A Prince Albert, haven't regretted it once 😀
Have dodged quite a few bullets that have been recommended on here
The most expensive one was the Mondeo replacement clutch + DMF that turned out to be just the tyres 🙂
Hope wheelset and Hope lights -both on 'group' orders arranged via people on here - whatever happened to those?
The mould spray!
Custom Oakleys via PSA on here that turned into free Oakleys!
Horst link 5 Spot
Stove! Not the model but the principal...
An orange 5, an Audi, a wood burner, a nespresso machine, some 5-tens, a solarstorm light, some LED light bulbs for the house and a thule roof mount for my audi 😉
An Inbred
A singlespeed inbred
White Industries Hub
Kenda Nevegel and Bluegroove
Superstar components brake pads !!!
SKS Reconpressor
Ghetto tubeless
Scandal 29er
Cotic Roadrat
and
mould spray! 🙂
Inbred
Chromebook
Gaggia Classic
Aeropress
Alpkit Filo
Lights
To be honest quite alot
rubber queens
😯
hmmm - feel like I've missed out here.
Going to get some mould spray at the weekend. 🙂
Ah - forgot about the Flak Jacket XLJ's
And the 'sandwich' PSA which made me make a couple of fish finger sarnies with ketchup
Hareydan - MemberA Prince Albert, haven't regretted it once
Was it painful?
cheap PSA but nothing else
a Lifestyle.
Specialized S3 helmet on a PSA that Spesh were doing a replacement scheme for old helmets
Lidl Bike stand
Aldi cycling gloves
Dirtworker when Halfords were selling them off for about £20
...and probably a few other things I have forgotten about.
Charge spoon --- rubbish
A PSA to Scott stuff ( thanks Dezb) ,got me a Gore stopper gilet at super cheap, it is teh awzum.
A PSA to some 5:10 boots -- Excellent
The Aldi Winter gloves -- (fast show voice) brilliant!
Squirt lube -- very good
Hmmm. More than I thought, it seems.
Just on "Hey, look how cheap these are!" PSAs: O-O OG bars, Easton Havens bars, Garmin Edge 200 Halfords/cashback. Dialled PA.
Plenty of things I've heard of on here that have ended up going into the mix and being bought, or searched for "singletrackworld ..." on google for a bit of feedback.
Without doubt the best things have been entries to SSUK13 and SSUK14, and Charlies Gravel dash. Great fun, and met some brilliant people.
Makita LXT drill
Eco tyres for the car
Shimano brakes
XTR BB's from Rose
Chinese lights
Oh yeah, and a Sanderson Life for my mate from TINAS!
A Ti Tripster (awesome x a gazillion)
Kinesis cx disc wheels (amzing value wheelset)
Flow EX on Pro2 (can fault em)
specialized butcher tyres (havent fallen on my face yet)
solarstorm x2 (great light and havent burnt the house down yet)
A D2B softshell (actually lasted ok)
Just a Luminator & mucky nuts.
Oh , and the audi, coffeemachine , shaving brush&razor , humidor ,lawnmower , etc etc 😉
Lumicycles Lights (back in the days of the old forum)
Panaracer Tyres (back in the days of the old forum)
Coffee machine (back in the days of the old forum - the coffee lounge!)
Coffee beans
Innes & Gunn Beer
Wood burning stove
Alpkit mat
Alpkit head torch
Loads of shaving stuff
Haford Advanced bike rack
Some Aldi bike stuff (bobbins)
2x Howies Merino Wool things
and an Octavia vRS estate !