Lidl crap...

Highway_To_Hell

If you picked up the lidl saddle bag last week dump the tyre levers in the bin and buy decent ones. Got a puncture on my way into work and struggled for 10 mins with the levers bending and flopping around the place before I got the tyre off.

cunnins4

Highway_To_Hell wrote: »

If you picked up the lidl saddle bag last week dump the tyre levers in the bin and buy decent ones. Got a puncture on my way into work and struggled for 10 mins with the levers bending and flopping around the place before I got the tyre off.

had the exact same thing no more than 20 minutes ago. Pure sh1te.

Would've used my other levers only the lever fairy used them on his sh1t bike and broke one of them and lost the other two.

Leave my tools alone.:mad:

CheGuedara

Could be a message about getting what you pay for there unfortunately.

Made the same mistake with cheap equipmant before but it was the dogbone spanner that let me down.

A guy turned up to go training with us, really unprepared, both man and machine (he was wearing jeans! and had maybe 30psi in the tyres) and enevitably got a puncture after ~15 miles. No quick releases, so the lidl dogbone came out to undo the nuts to get the wheel off. Much huffing, under the breath swearing and then *crack* - the bloody thing broke with resultant brused fingers and not-so-under the breath swearing... been getting proper stuff since

sy

Thanks CheGuedara, a lol moment

Highway_To_Hell

I have now promised my self not to buy sports stuff/tools in lidl/aldi again, todate I have not been happy with anything I have bought (except for the sports socks). it is is either never worn or binned.

On the way home I will be doing what I should have done in the first place and buy a second saddle bag and decent tools for my commuter bike.

crazydingo

I like the jerseys becase they are nice an cheap and handy. They aren't fantastic quality but I wouldn't expect them to be when they are from Lidl. I don't want to go buy a proper jersey running colours and logos of something I'm in no way associated with which is great about the Lidl ones because they are blank

kona

thumbs anybody???

short circuit

OK .. let me confess that I don't have the lidl saddle bag with the tool kit ... but I believe the entire thing to be worth it, just for the saddle bag .. regarless of the tools.

As far as the tools go ... I don't trust anything to the saddle bag unless I have tried it first in the comfort of my warm living room. If you can't get it working there, you won't be able to get it working on a cold rainy day with fingers frozen ... I even try out my puncture patches before I take them out ...

victorcarrera

Cheap tyre levers let me down once. I think they came with a Halfords saddle bag kit. Got the tyre off with the screwdriver part of the multitool. If you cycle alone alot it may be better get the metal ones, or plastic SKS ones from one of the UK sellers are supposed to be good.

Explosive_Cornflake

I bought the saddle bag for that reason, just the bag. It's cheaper than a bag from anywhere else.
I was putting new tyres on in my kitchen one day used the levers from the kit. They are woeful, but I got there.
I picked up a nice set of BBB levers years ago, they slot into each other and are fantastic.
I picked up the rain jacket also, a spare is handy for when it is really wet and my good one is soaked.
Some dude was buing the pump whilst I was in the shop. I warned him not to, told him where it woud break. He said it'd be fine, he'd stick a jubilee clip on it, but also pointed another point where it would fail, but for €5 he couldn't go wrong. It seems he went €5 wrong that day.

If they haven't changed anything since last year - Yeah, the levers are crap. Multi-tool is pretty good for most minor things, and I've had no problems with the puncture repair stuff. Overall for what you pay for it I think it's good value.

kenmc

yeah the saddle bag itself is fine. I got one a year or 2 ago. The patches do what they are supposed to also, as does the glue. My one came with a multitool which remains in the shed, it's big and clunky. I have used some of the allen keys occasionally when it was nearest to hand.
Recommend the Crank Brothers Speed Lever though as a tyre remover/installer.

Highway_To_Hell

The clasp on the saddle bag didn't look great so I didn't put it on the bike, just looked like it could work loose going over bumps, anyone have this problem?

liamo

Dónal wrote: »

Multi-tool is pretty good for most minor things,

The multi-tool fell apart in my hand. Literally!!
I was left with an empty hand and a garage floor covered in tools.

Other stuff I bought in a moment of cheap-price-induced madness...
Mini pump : Didn't work
Track pump : Stopped working
Saddle : Is starting to come apart.
Water bottle : Why on earth did I buy a metal bottle? Every tried to squeeze one?
Shorts : Not immensely comfortable
Waterproof Jacket : Pretty good.
Saddle bag : Not bad. Still using it.

Highway_To_Hell

Highway_To_Hell wrote: »

The clasp on the saddle bag didn't look great so I didn't put it on the bike, just looked like it could work loose going over bumps, anyone have this problem?

Nope, hasn't become loose on the bit connecting to the saddle or the stem at all.

Jawgap

liamo wrote: »

The multi-tool fell apart in my hand. Literally!!
I was left with an empty hand and a garage floor covered in tools.

Other stuff I bought in a moment of cheap-price-induced madness...
Mini pump : Didn't work
Track pump : Stopped working
Saddle : Is starting to come apart.
Water bottle : Why on earth did I buy a metal bottle? Every tried to squeeze one?
Shorts : Not immensely comfortable
Waterproof Jacket : Pretty good.
Saddle bag : Not bad. Still using it.

Had a Topeak milti-tool come apart once, so it's not just the Lidl stuff!!

I haven't really got anything from Lidl or Aldi except some apparel and it seems to be that their clothing is alright (not outstanding, but acceptable), everything else is pretty rubbish.

Squeezing metal bottle is no problem - except you can only do it the once

Turbulent Bill

I have this multitool in my saddlebag, decent quality tools and the tyre levers are integrated into the tool holder (very sturdy).

Lumen

One of my Park multitools fell apart too - the nylocked bolt came off and was lost, presumably to the same place as all the socks and biros live.

Jawgap

Lumen wrote: »

One of my Park multitools fell apart too - the nylocked bolt came off and was lost, presumably to the same place as all the socks and biros live.

The bolt came out of mine too and I brought all the bits back to the shop. The guy there tried to blame me saying I hadn't kept the bolt tight - when I asked how I might have achieved that he suggested I use a multi-tool!!!!!

So you actually need 2 according to this cycling genius!!!

Irish_Army01

Might I say.. I bought two pair of the "padded Shorts" and find them pretty good..They do the job, although I gone any any major cycle yet with them on. Furthest has been 20k.:D

Civilian_Target

CheGuedara wrote: »

A guy turned up to go training with us, really unprepared, both man and machine (he was wearing jeans! and had maybe 30psi in the tyres) and enevitably got a puncture after ~15 miles. No quick releases, so the lidl dogbone came out to undo the nuts to get the wheel off. Much huffing, under the breath swearing and then *crack* - the bloody thing broke with resultant brused fingers and not-so-under the breath swearing... been getting proper stuff since

Yeah, got a cheap Atlantic homecare fix pack. I don't know why I was taking off a wheel halfway between Belfast and Bangor but I remember that the dogbone broke reattaching the wheel. I wobbled slowly to the station and onto the next train home

It's been good equipment since, and it's been worth it. The dogbone has easily repaid it's price, as has the blackburn minipump and allen keys from who-knows-where.

Turbulent Bill

I bought one of the computers last week actually and something I've noticed is that it works in the morning when I cycle to work, but not on the way home. I assume it's something to do with the temperature since I leave it inside at night but it's in the open air (well, in a bikeshed with no roof) at work.

There hasn't been a lick of rain over the last few days so I don't think it's that.

Turbulent Bill wrote: »

I have this multitool in my saddlebag, decent quality tools and the tyre levers are integrated into the tool holder (very sturdy).

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