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Realised over the past few weeks I've been a bit spendy. Meh. Also realised post and parcels have slowed right down. God knows why.... Looks like everythibgbi ordered will be seen by SWMBO as she's WFM. (FML)
It started off with a couple of yellow n black Aphex Twin stickers for my bike. Then I got annoyed at trying to listen to music in bed at night with my "big" headphones so ordered some Bluetooth earbuds. Then I got an email about Saint jeans and ordered some work pants (or action slacks). Then Olight emailed me about a "flash" sale which led me to ordering a couple of copper flash lights. And.... 2 different fountain pens.
After a few drinks the other night I was "this" close to ordering some Industry Nine wheels which look lush but fortunately I managed to not buy them... Phew.
So what goodies have you got to look forward to?
Crap, I forgot about the Camelbak HAWG but that arrived last week. Naughty Aphex!
Frustratingly, just a dial to finish a watch I've put together. Don't think I'll see it anytime soon as it's showing as being sat in Hong Kong since 2nd March.
Other than that, I've actively avoided shopping sites, as it wouldn't end well in these levels of boredom!
Are you Donald Trump? I knew he would pop up here one day. I'm ordering nothing,did you know there is a national emergency?
Although I need some new running shoes, so arguing with myself over if those are justified on health grounds.
Waiting on a set of Elite rollers, out for delivery today, looking forward to teaching the wife and kids to use them...
Heat pad for home brewing, change of house means this now has to go on in the garage. Some Thornbridge ales. New helmet and trainers for youngest, some frozen chick'hun burgers from her favourite street food place. Pair of Barker loafers as the have a 25% sale. Lens for middle daughter's camera. And I've ordered some bread, pies and cake from a local bakery to collect before work tomorrow for us and some neighbour's. Back to back working with plenty of overtime, no child care, access to alcohol and having nothing else to spend on is a bit of a balance.
Possibly the last turbo in the country ? After being frustratingly outbid on ebay for the last few weeks I bit the bullet and ordered a new Elite Quoba from Wiggle early this morning. Hopefully it will arrive before complete lock down.
An Xbox one X.
Due to be delivered between seven and ten tonight
Although I need some new running shoes, so arguing with myself over if those are justified on health grounds.
You can always justify new running shoes...he says with 3 pairs sat in his Pro-Direct Running shopping basket.
I’ve so far resisted too many purchases but I have got £150 of wine due for delivery tomorrow.
’m ordering nothing,did you know there is a national emergency
Doing my bit to keep small businesses going. There's a financial crisis internationally. Good people, grrrreat people. Love them a lot.
Windscreen wipers, which have been sent 2nd class so might be here some time ooh, next month?
Also a better charger for my garmin watch, and a USB type c splitter so I can charge my phone and use the USB type c headphones for calls at the same time.
Need some running underwear, and a sweat headband to stop the sweat dripping into my eyes on a run.
Pondering ordering a Cane Creek hellbender bottom bracket and BB press set, a red hope seatclamp. And a luftkappe and 160mm air shaft for my Fox 36's. Oh and a reverb AXS.
Lockdown could be expensive.
Exploding kittens expansion pack, 16kg of breadflour, 1kg of paella spice and a greenhouse. I'm in this for the long haul.
Some Hope Pro 2 15mm end caps, and Rear qr conversion kit.
Tried to buy a trampoline for the kids but everyone else has already beat me to them...
Might buy a dartboard.
Garmin speed candence sensor and a ANT+ dongle for the laptop.
Some grips for the nippers bike.
Tried to buy a trampoline for the kids but everyone else has already beat me to them…
Might buy a dartboard.
Sounds a risky alternative
An incinerator bin thingy - local DIY store is shut and the chains are all prioritising 'essential* items' so could be two weeks before it gets delivered or I can click and collect it from Machine Mart.
*I'm stuck at home, hacking at the garden to pass the time, and the garden waste bins aren't being collected: I'd class an incinerator as pretty ****ing essential...
Like others I’ve got a bit carried away. PS4 pro, Bluetooth Sennheiser headphones, monitor for the office set up, Apple Magic keyboard, Apple Watch and three crates of Thornbridge beer. Oh and an Alpkit dry bag (Christ knows why I need that any time soon).
Family living off frozen food for a month now I think.
A Singletrack t-shirt
Oh yeah I forgot the 34" ultrawide monitor delivered a few days ago.
Pretty much an essential though if we end up WFH for the next few weeks as I think will happen.
Summer wax motorcycle jacket and armoured jeans. Hopefully some summer left when we are allowed outside again. Might buy a dartboard too. I used to play years ago so now could be the perfect time to bring back the skills.
Some tools some gardening bits including a scarifier rake that i already regret!
Wine. Vet formula cat food for our elderly cat. The latest edition of ST magazine (there's a magazine? etc).
I’d class an incinerator as pretty **** essential…
Going on just your username alone I'd guess so.
Ordered some bearing from CRC on thurs evening. Arrived today
Also an e bike kit as I may well be gong back to the long commute. £660 for a tongshen mid mount with 600whr battery. ( my old one failed)
Edit - all essential as this is my commute to work in hospital bike.
Treated myself to a new makita impact wrench. Seller sent me the wrong item then closed their warehouse. I'll live, but it's just ironic since I've been putting off buying one for a year
Some old school Hope bits. Not needed really, but impossible to find otherwise. Spiders and lockrings for the early hubs.
And I've just sold a mixed bag groupset. Was going to take it down till things have calmed, but someone came along before i could. I've no idea though if the po is accepting parcels or even if they're open. Find out tomorrow.
Bread flour from Shipton mill. Received the box with wholemeal and mixed grain flour. Also ordered a 15kg sack of white. Sharing with a neighbour. That's not arrived. Been out for delivery on 3 occasions with parcel force. Thinking it's been swiped by someone.
A new Ti frame, direct from China.
Bought and paid for before the virus!
Thankfully I have all the parts required to build it up, I don't want to be spending on bike stuff for the next while.
For me a bunch of trivial stuff from before the 'event' thats variously on slow boats or back orders
A deburring / chamfering tool that has been travelling from the Far East so slowly that I've forgotten why I wanted it
A book about Kumiko
A new battery for a cordless Dyson that I didn't realised shipped from abroad until after I'd completed the order
A bottle of Baby Bio
I knew someone would say that we shouldn't be frivolously shopping online. But our economy needs us to.
Small businesses need the income to out food on their tables, and big ones need to keep running so they dont end up paying people off.
Singletrack order & keyboard for works iPad and I'm pretty sure there is something else but I can't remember what.
A loads of beers from Vocation brewery as my OH's birthday was yesterday. Have to say we both enjoyed the heck out of them !
Today I finally cracked and ordered some new ski goggles and a merino t shirt that I didn't really need but it meant free postage and £10 off the order. That's my justification and I'm sticking to it !
Vegetables. And one of those Elite Sterzo pivoting front wheel turbo blocks. Also about to order a 10-litre beer box from the local brewery 🙂
Waiting for the last turbo in Europe to arrive, we're not allowed to cycle for fun here in France
New tyres for trip to alps in the summer, wish full thinking I'm being to think.
Beers from Freedom
A case of Naked wine
New cycling kit in sales Morvélo and Aussie Grit
Sennheiser noise cancelling headphones to WFH
Disney +
You can see I have a weakness for PSAs
GF beer from Westerham Brewery which has turned up and being consumed far too quickly.
Currently waiting on paint tester pots for the conservatory which I'm decorating to stop me being annoying whilst Mrs M is WFH. Don't think they're turning up any time soon so it'll be Nordic Blue.
Brake pads front and rear for my KTM, so I can carry on commuting to work by motorbike and minimising sitting on trains.
Sackcloth.
Ashes.
Assos bibs x2
Mavic crossmax pro shoes
About 10 books, mostly for the nipper.
Stuff that's already arrived:
About 30 beers from Vocation
Elite Zumo turbo
Naim Uniti Star hifi
House deposit taking a battering!!!
A super hard to find Lobster Johnson graphic novel, that is somehow stuck in germany!
Weirdly, everything I’ve ordered since lockdown (small bits and tools for impending bike build) has arrived. It’s the stuff that was ordered prior that isn’t here yet. (Main bits for impending bike build...)
200 nitrile gloves.
Assorted cheap stuff from Planet X - padded wheel bags and the like.
A Macbook pro and pink hair dye (for my daughter).
New tyre for the commuter bike.
Larger chainring for the commuter bike so I have better gearing on the turbo trainer.
Singletrack mug (not urgent).
A few Lego sets in preparation for the full lockdown.
A warranty replacement rear brake is on it's way too.
Already delivered has been a turbo trainer, turbo trainer tyre, cheap fan and a speed/cadence sensor. That's my spending for the month done as I want to keep the rest of my 'extra' money aside. Want to get some summer tyres for two bikes and one could do with the suspension being serviced but as that bike will have little use over the next few months I'll leave the winter tyres on and there's still a while before the suspension definitely needs a service, I always do it every autumn and spring so they can go to July or so under normal use with regular aircan/lowers services. Probably won't need doing before October at the current usage rate.
I've ordered a head torch for me & a pair of 20inch by 2.7 inch creepy crawlers for little un. The tyres on his specialised are 1.5 & are just sinking into the dirt & slowing him down. Which he finds extremely annoying. I need the torch for getting out of the house in the dark to avoid as many people as possible.
A good selection of beers from Brewdog and a case of 'proper' Somerset cider from Burrow Hill! 😋 🍻
Headset, quick link, gear cable set 15mm end caps and a couple of inner tubes for my old hradtail that I'm bulling up. Just need to get either new brakes for it or for my full suspension bike and swap the old ones across.
New fork decals for my full suspension bike.
A tubeless conversion kit for the gravel bike
A new air filter and pollen filter for the car.
Think that's it.
Hub, rim, spokes. Not sure what I'm going to do with them though. Any suggestions?
A rowing machine
- XT 12sp groupset
- Hope microspline freehub
- New rug for the living room
- Giro bib shorts
- Shock tuned by jtech
Need to stop now as I've got other things waiting to go in baskets 😀
I've spent the afternoon tidying the garage - too much stuff. I'm never ordering anything again!
Mixed case of 24 bottles from Fallen Acorn brewery in Gosport.
I think bulkier items are probably the most difficult to get delivered at present...
After the thread the other day that mentioned indoor bouldering walls I've now got 20 hand/foot holds sat in the garage but nothing to bolt them to and if I want any Plywood sheet delivering it looks like it's going to cost about triple it's regular price...
I'm not toying with the idea of ordering some anchor bolts to just fix them straight to the brickwork (inside the garage) as it would be cheaper and easier to get those delivered than ply sheets.
Otherwise I'm keeping my discretionary purchases to a minimum (although I do keep eyeing up various watches)...
Hurray!
Xbox has arrived. Should be set up and updated in time for Xmas
Waiting:
Rapha Pro Team Training Top and Core Mitts
2 X 5 litres Creocote
100 Native Hedging Plants
Arrived:
Rapha Festive 500 Top from Archive (and yes I did)
Brick Waterproofer and Sprayer
25 Bottles/Cans Ale from Gloucester Brewery
4/5ths of F all at the moment as I don't need stuff other than food.
Once I've had a think about it I will order stuff from firms I trust to do the right thing. And only then if I need it, I know this might not give the right impression of supporting in times of crisis but do we really want to add more junk to the planet
I was expecting another Sick Bikes thread, very disappointed.
Wahl hair clippers, it’s all getting a bit Chewbacca at the moment.
Everything I've ordered has arrived...
New Camera tripod
Nice pen
Two pairs of shoes
...But I have not. Stuck on the ship, nearly 6 weeks in (usual 4) another 3-4 weeks expected due to relief crew can't get to Guyana. 😥
A 1950's CTC pin badge from Ebay.
A custom Wizard Works handlebar bag to pin the former.
Tin of red gloss paint. I'll either use it to paint the front door, it's looking a bit tired. Or if it gets too bad I can use it to put red Xs on doors
Treadmill
Solo tennis trainer
Clicker counter (for doing munros on my 3 stairs!)
Cakepop maker
Cakepop maker
a what now ?
Me, LiPo battery for the KTM
Logo'd clothing for my new forum http://revtothelimit.co.uk/index.php
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Hub, rim, spokes. Not sure what I’m going to do with them though. Any suggestions?
a dream catcher
Arrvied:
Service kit for my Lyriks.
Frame bearings and headset bearing for my Bird.
New decals for my Lyriks, which I did a terrible job of fitting.
Awaiting.
Curtain hooks.
A number for our door - is de-numbering your door a thing? When we got the keys, even before we moved in the Mrs, who's usually pretty lazy was out there scraping off, the admittedly cheap / ugly numbers off the equally cheap ugly UPVC door. Wouldn't be drawn on why. It's only come to light since Covid that not only don't we have a number on our door, but neither do our neighbours and the next house along. WTF Postie took an earful off next door (or rather the daughter who lives there about every 3rd weekend) for delivering our post to them AGAIN. As if life for a postie wasn't hard enough at the moment.
Egg timer.
Paint for the bathroom
Silicone sealant to try to make my garage watertight.
My precious, getting very close 🙂
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Weirdly despite trawling various forums and eBay, so far my only purchase during 2 weeks of lockdown has been a cheap Spot Brand SS frame on eBay although no idea when it'll be arriving! Other than that, I'm saving loads of money as I'm not wanting to overload the delivery companies to get them to delivery stuff for me. I have been looking at Lupo GTIs though!
@bedmaker - China, Hong Kong, Germany I'd be bathing that in Dettol whatever it is!
A number for our door
House number here too. I took the old Spanish style ceramic tiles off the wall as I was sick of looking at them - it took a good hour given the array of different adhesives used to fix them to the textured brick... Hammer. Chisel. Wire Brush. Acetone. And now we're numberless for the foreseen future.
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@bedmaker – China, Hong Kong, Germany I’d be bathing that in Dettol whatever it is!Posted 2 minutes ago
IPA spray at the ready 🙂
To be fair, if I was Chinese I'd be more worried about recieving a parcel from the UK now...
A Timberbell off STW
Some Mavic goretex SPD shoes
A seat collar with rack mounts to go on my CX bike so I can put a rack on the back. Trying to up carrying capacity of my bikes to reduce car use.
About to order a couple of iSpindel hydrometers and a wireless relay/display unit for them so I can monitor temps and fermentation of my beers from my phone as my wee brewery is in a different town.
Using money refunded from a music festival I'm not going to any more.
Have had a big list of things I've wanted to buy for ages - some things have been on there for 2 years, so I've decided to just complete the list.
PACT coffee subscription 4 days late and I've run out of the last lot. Shit just got serious 😡
An Asgard shed that was ordered well before any panic, delivery delayed twice and now unlikely to see it this side of summer. They claim to be focussing on the needs of the NHS so either the NHS has ordered a shed load of sheds or they're making things other than sheds in the factory!
That means the whole garage clearing excercise is on hold, just when I finally had firstworld time to do it..
Also far too many coats, the aim being that at least one would fit! Three heading back to where they came from!
A new cycling jacket from Aussie Grit that may end up on the classifieds as I didn't see the no returns bit when I ordered. Shorts ordered as well because I'm probably down to 6 useable pairs (seduced by the discount).
A carpet cleaner because I am told the carpets need cleaning.
I sense that boredom will lead to more...
A bound copy of Cycling 1918 from Cz.
Needed to fill one of the gaps in my collection from 1893 to 1945
Nearly all of the bike parts i ordered arrived today. Just waiting on filters for the car and new fork decals.
Crap, also got US navy Goretex jacket on the way... Well it's rainy season here soon. And it was cheap. Can't turn down cheap Goretex surplus can you? (clearly I can't)
an audio adapter plug 1.4" - 3.5mm , so when my daughter is teaching herself piano (electric piano) in the same room i am working from home, i can hear myself breath.
A short sleeve thermal jersey and arm warmers from Le Col. Should have been delivered a week ago, according to the courier (dpd) it has been delivered and signed for by someone whose name I don’t recognise. As my daughter has had a cough for a while we have been self isolating so able to guarantee no delivery has been attempted. Bit frustrated now as Le Col are waiting for their courier to complete their internal investigation. (I’ve checked and neighbours don’t have it)
Also ordered a lawnmower, desperately needed!! No idea when this will turn up though, was due on Friday but that one is my fault for not ordering before lock down.