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Weakness of the cyclist ...

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  • 28-10-2008 12:25pm
    #1
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭


    I am tired of getting targetted by these emails promissing me good deals!!!!

    Caroline One-Week-Only Specials from Wiggle.co.uk as they always end up like this: Your order 6181060000 has been placed on Wiggle ... and my bank account like this: your Balance is EUR 00.25 ...

    Please reasure me I am not the only one ... and tell me I do not need a new pair of Cycling shoes just yet as it will not make me go faster ...


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    #2
    kenmc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭kenmc


    you are not alone :(


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    #3
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    kenmc wrote: »
    you are not alone :(

    For I am here with you,
    Though we're far apart,
    You're always in my heart,
    But you are not alone.


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    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    petethedrummer wrote: »
    For I am here with you,
    Though we're far apart,
    You're always in my heart,
    But you are not alone.

    Wow ... Linking Michael Jackson and cycling now ... Mmmmm Not too sure about that.



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    Vélo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Vélo


    Coming on this forum isn't any better.

    These arrived today after someone posted them a while ago and I had to get a pair (Actually 2)

    sockguy-wanker-socks-navy.jpg


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    blorg
    Registered Users Posts: 15,989 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    I have a new workstand sitting behind me here from Wiggle's specials last week. In fairness, I did need one. Tempted by the mid-length tights this week.


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    penexpers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭penexpers


    Too busy buying bits and pieces for my new build...just bought this

    http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Thorn-Thorn-Accessory-Bar-(T-shaped)-with-105mm-extension--mounts-to-1-1-8inch-steerer-tube-for-lights-computers-etc-11040.htm


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    #8
    paddyb
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭paddyb


    im the same! Most of my money seems to end up at wiggle or crc these days


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    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    We're all weak... just this morning I ordered a shiny new helmet... and I still am not sure why -think it was the concussion talking :eek:


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    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    We're all weak... just this morning I ordered a shiny new helmet... and I still am not sure why -think it was the concussion talking :eek:
    Congrats!! I bought nice new gloves ... for my poor broken thumb...


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    kenmc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭kenmc


    concussion from what? Credit card bill fall off a shelf? :)


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    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    kenmc wrote: »
    concussion from what? Credit card bill fall off a shelf? :)

    Ah, you must have missed this....


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,025 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    We're all weak... just this morning I ordered a shiny new helmet... and I still am not sure why -think it was the concussion talking :eek:

    Me too. Bell Ghisallo Black/Carbon FTW!

    Anyone want a 15-year old radiator-white Giro, never crashed or raced? No, thought not.


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    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    Lumen wrote: »
    Me too. Bell Ghisallo Black/Carbon FTW!

    Anyone want a 15-year old radiator-white Giro, never crashed or raced? No, thought not.

    Went for a Giro Ionos myself.

    Biggest problem I have with the Wiggle emails is that I go to the site, get seduced by the 'savings' and order without seeing if it's cheaper elsewhere! :)


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,025 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    Went for a Giro Ionos myself.

    Biggest problem I have with the Wiggle emails is that I go to the site, get seduced by the 'savings' and order without seeing if it's cheaper elsewhere! :)

    Very impressive.

    With the "savings" from my Bell ("only" €60), I bought an Assos skull cap. This is premiership-level weakness - you buy a helmet full of holes, then a hat to keep your head warm.


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    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    Lumen wrote: »
    Very impressive.

    With the "savings" from my Bell ("only" €60), I bought an Assos skull cap. This is premiership-level weakness - you buy a helmet full of holes, then a hat to keep your head warm.
    ... yea you deserve 1st class honours for this one ... very 'weakpressive'


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    kenmc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,276 ✭✭✭kenmc


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    Ah, you must have missed this....

    FORKING HELL!!!!!!
    that must've hurt. get well soon.

    edit.... didn't you already have a Shain like mine? what happened to that?


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    niceonetom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    Lumen wrote: »
    This is premiership-level weakness - you buy a helmet full of holes, then a hat to keep your head warm.

    we do like to create a problem with one purchase so we can solve it with the next, don't we?
    penexpers wrote: »
    ...just bought this

    http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Thorn-Thorn-Accessory-Bar-(T-shaped)-with-105mm-extension--mounts-to-1-1-8inch-steerer-tube-for-lights-computers-etc-11040.htm

    or you've bought so many unnecessary accessories for your bars that you actually need a special bar accessory to add more accessories to. :p


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    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    I have gone completely over the top, for a novice cyclist. Will now be a fully fledged fred.
    Have already spent 4.5x the assumed cycling tax benefit.
    New Bike, coming in a few weeks (Dolan Hercules), New Winter Tights (assos winter tights), gloves (campy), Assos Airjack 851.
    I will now tell myself that I have absolutely no excuse for not heading out in the worst weather imaginable. (Although with two new screaming kids at home, being out cycling in a hurricane and tsunami is preferrable).
    I guess it is a danger of any hobby, in that hobbyist derive as much satisfaction out of the "stuff" that is to do with the hobby than actually
    partaking in the hobby.


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    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,025 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    penexpers wrote: »
    Too busy buying bits and pieces for my new build...just bought this

    http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Thorn-Thorn-Accessory-Bar-(T-shaped)-with-105mm-extension--mounts-to-1-1-8inch-steerer-tube-for-lights-computers-etc-11040.htm

    Superb! Not sure if you're joking or not, but I was actually thinking of fitting a second stem for my completely pointless "3600 Lumen project" (4 x 900 lumen flashlights). This looks much neater, and only 110g.


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    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    I got the Ionos too, €120 off CRC. I already owned a helmet, I notice no difference in weight or quality between the two and helmets still sit really weird on my head compared to "regular" people.

    I was swayed by the "Sale - 30% off!"

    I swear, its like eurosaver. Whenever I hit the eurosaver after a night out I must spend about a tenner because so many bargains are hurled at me. False economy, no?


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    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    I am not helping I know ... I resited but will you? I was out to Lidl to get apples for my special Chaussons Aux Pommes during my Lunch break and I saw that ... 9.99 for the double funtion pedals ... Lidl in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre ... Note as well HR Monitor for those interrested ...

    65584.jpg


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    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    kenmc wrote: »
    FORKING HELL!!!!!!
    that must've hurt. get well soon.

    edit.... didn't you already have a Shain like mine? what happened to that?

    Still hurts quite a bit now!

    Yes yes, I have the Shain, hence the comment that it must be the concussion talking... I never found it all that comfortable tbh (part of the not wearing it factor), and the Giro was reduced on CRC so had to be got... I'm so weak :(


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    stuf
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭stuf


    which LIDL were those peddles in Caroline? a tenner's very nice for an SPD fixie experiment

    EDIT - ahh blanch I see by scrolling half a mile to the right - hmm - might try the one on Cork St. after work.


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    #25
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    TinyExplosions wrote: »
    Still hurts quite a bit now!

    Yes yes, I have the Shain, hence the comment that it must be the concussion talking...


    MMmm that's what competitive high speed cycling does to you ... You're such a bad ass cyclist tiny!!!!

    I think giro also do these ones ...
    65587.JPG


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    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    MMmm that's why competitive high speed cycling does to you ... You're such a bad ass cyclist tiny!!!!

    I think giro also do these ones ...

    Awh man, laughing hurts quite a lot right now, and I'm in agony after seeing that! You rock Caroline!


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    E@gle.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    blorg wrote: »
    Tempted by the mid-length tights this week.

    Just get a pair of knee warmers they are cheaper


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    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,268 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    E@gle. wrote: »
    Just get a pair of knee warmers they are cheaper

    Big plus one. I only bought knee warmers for the first time this year and they're a bloody great invention. Mind you, today was a full length tights day. Went out hopelessly underdressed.


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    #29
    zzzzzzzz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    ROK ON wrote: »
    I have gone completely over the top, for a novice cyclist. Will now be a fully fledged fred.
    Have already spent 4.5x the assumed cycling tax benefit.
    New Bike, coming in a few weeks (Dolan Hercules), New Winter Tights (assos winter tights), gloves (campy), Assos Airjack 851.
    I will now tell myself that I have absolutely no excuse for not heading out in the worst weather imaginable. (Although with two new screaming kids at home, being out cycling in a hurricane and tsunami is preferrable).
    I guess it is a danger of any hobby, in that hobbyist derive as much satisfaction out of the "stuff" that is to do with the hobby than actually
    partaking in the hobby.

    Let me know how you get on with those assos tights - I'm seriously considering them...


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    Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 3,187 ✭✭✭Junior


    You all need to step away from ther computer and the credit card..


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    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    aidan.offbeat wrote: »
    Let me know how you get on with those assos tights - I'm seriously considering them...

    Assos Winter Tights are the biz. Was out on Sunday, my torso froze to near death. My ass, and legs were nice and toasty. They are so comfy that I would consider wearing them all day every day!!! Fleece lined.


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