Online bikestore?

ILoveBIKES

Hello all,

I was told about an online bikestore about a week back. Im going crazy here trying to remember!!!

It does a next day deliviery and its supposed to be a great store.

Anyway, need to get a few things, cycling around Dublin city everyday:pac:

Could anybody throw around a few names... thanking you!

Google wiggle, chainreactioncycles, probikekit. And get another credit card.

flickerx

ILoveBIKES wrote: »

I was told about an online bikestore about a week back. Im going crazy here trying to remember!!!

It does a next day deliviery and its supposed to be a great store.

Anyway, need to get a few things, cycling around Dublin city everyday:pac:

Ah, so you admit you're the crazy one, not us. Glad you agree with us
There are loads of bike shops in the city centre, and pretty much all of them have what you would need (which is?) for general cycling purposes. I find online retailers are better for more brand-proprietary parts or hard to find material - or from the reports on here, getting a higher end road bike, at a discounted price compared to retailers here. But for stuff like chains, brake cables, tubes, etc, you are better off supporting your LBS.

Nietzschean

flickerx wrote: »

But for stuff like chains, brake cables, tubes, etc, you are better off supporting your LBS.

tubes? defo an online purchase and in bulk!

flickerx

Actually on a related note, has anyone here experienced any problems/delays with getting stuff sent over from the UK with the postal strike on there? I may need to pick up a truvativ powerspline bb (probably from chainreaction or wiggle) in the coming days, and just wondering if i should just leave it and use a different cranks+bb I have already...

flickerx

Nietzschean wrote: »

tubes? defo an online purchase and in bulk!

Oh? You got a link for a place that does tubes for 700x23's with the extra long presta valves for less than a fiver or so each? Thanks muchly if so...

ILoveBIKES

ha ha, no im gonna write up something later about the mass... think I got off on the wrong foot. I get excitied you know.

Thanks for the info, im actually looking for a specific one, I was told it was great. Im just getting a helmet, carbon-filter bike mask and a few other bits and bobs, but this place has really good stuff, cheaper than others.

ILoveBIKES

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, chain reaction!

Thank you kindly my friend

ILoveBIKES

its not Irish?

nomadic

ILoveBIKES wrote: »

its not Irish?

Northern Irish

Nietzschean

flickerx wrote: »

Oh? You got a link for a place that does tubes for 700x23's with the extra long presta valves for less than a fiver or so each? Thanks muchly if so...

http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=Y2022
http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=Y1016

granted neither are in stock atm, but i didn't look very hard, PBK every so often tend to have decent bulk deals if you get 5+ tubes at once...

Raam

flickerx wrote: »

Actually on a related note, has anyone here experienced any problems/delays with getting stuff sent over from the UK with the postal strike on there? I may need to pick up a truvativ powerspline bb (probably from chainreaction or wiggle) in the coming days, and just wondering if i should just leave it and use a different cranks+bb I have already...

I have ordered from each of the following in the last two weeks and I haven't noticed any real delay: probikekit, chainreaction, prendas, wiggle, evans. Christ, I have a serious problem.

Nietzschean

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=26778 ... €3.33 60mm valve

blorg

flickerx wrote: »

Oh? You got a link for a place that does tubes for 700x23's with the extra long presta valves for less than a fiver or so each? Thanks muchly if so...

Ribble. The long valves are more expensive but still around £2.50 each. Short valves £2 each for the Vittorias. Let me know if you want to share on postage, I need to get some stuff from them myself.

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/productdetail.asp?productcatalogue=CONTTUBE450

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/productdetail.asp?productcatalogue=CONTTUBE400

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/productdetail.asp?productcatalogue=VITTTUBE220

ednwireland

dont forget www.bikedock.com do free shipping to the republic as well (admittedly they arent as cheap as the rest but sometimes have thaose hard to find things)

Raam

Raam wrote: »

I have ordered from each of the following in the last two weeks and I haven't noticed any real delay: probikekit, chainreaction, prendas, wiggle, evans. Christ, I have a serious problem.

I am now noticing delays.

alfalad

Raam wrote: »

I am now noticing delays.

I ordered two days ago and was hoping for delivery tomorrow but they only shipped it today so no hope

paddyc

Quote:
Originally Posted by ILoveBIKES
its not Irish?

Northern Irish

we are all one


paddyc product of the 6 counties:)

Glitterangel76

alfalad wrote: »

I ordered two days ago and was hoping for delivery tomorrow but they only shipped it today so no hope

I ordered from CRC on Saturday, it was shipped on Monday, was hoping it would arrive today..but nothing so far

lukester

blorg wrote: »

Let me know if you want to share on postage, I need to get some stuff from them myself.

I'd be up for sharing on postage- wanted to do a bulk buy of tubes.

Caroline_ie

I had ordered a few things and it too and it took 1 whole week to deliver.

alfalad

Glitterangel76 wrote: »

I ordered from CRC on Saturday, it was shipped on Monday, was hoping it would arrive today..but nothing so far

CRC should be quicker as it's based in the North and not the mainland UK. I feel your pain, everyday your hoping, waiting, expecting and the then nothing!

Ryaner

flickerx wrote: »

Actually on a related note, has anyone here experienced any problems/delays with getting stuff sent over from the UK with the postal strike on there? I may need to pick up a truvativ powerspline bb (probably from chainreaction or wiggle) in the coming days, and just wondering if i should just leave it and use a different cranks+bb I have already...

Ordered from CRC on Monday the 26th, didn't arrive till Tuesday the 3rd. Longest ever delivery from CRC.

I don't like this postal strike

ednwireland

great this complaining i ordered nokia maps software in july it arrived on tuesday :eek:

3 months (the company did send me out the code for it so i used it ok) but how does an envelope take 3 months to get from uk to ireland

seamus

Raam wrote: »

I am now noticing delays.

Wiggle claim to be shipping everything via courier at no extra charge, so you shouldn't notice any difference from them. CRC shipping via GLS is only a fiver, so if your order is worth more than €30, I'd say it's worth it.

blorg

I got reasonably fast delivery from Wiggle and VERY fast delivery from PBK recently (fastest ever from PBK.)

Glitterangel76

alfalad wrote: »

CRC should be quicker as it's based in the North and not the mainland UK. I feel your pain, everyday your hoping, waiting, expecting and the then nothing!

I'm also waiting for a parcel from Wales...and that was dispatched on Monday too, I wonder which will arrive first

alfalad

Glitterangel76 wrote: »

I'm also waiting for a parcel from Wales...and that was dispatched on Monday too, I wonder which will arrive first

Its a race so! (Prob the only one I have a chance of winning!)

Glitterangel76

alfalad wrote: »

Its a race so! (Prob the only one I have a chance of winning!)

You are on! (I'd better win or I'm crawling under my desk and hibernating!)

lukester

flickerx wrote: »

Oh? You got a link for a place that does tubes for 700x23's with the extra long presta valves for less than a fiver or so each? Thanks muchly if so...

Just noticed that PBK are doing a buy one get one free offer on tubes, 4 quid for 2 tubes.

Paul Kiernan

I saw 700x23 tubes in a French hypermarket 2 summers ago for 79c. For some inexplicable reason I didn't buy any and haven't been able to bring myself to buy a tube since. As a result I now have about 12 patches on my back tube, 10 on my front and God knows how many on my only spare.

Paul Kiernan

lukester wrote: »

Just noticed that PBK are doing a buy one get one free offer on tubes, 4 quid for 2 tubes.

Finally cracked, couldn't resist this, ordered 4. Thanks, Lukester.

Nietzschean

ordered 8... + random other stuff. Damn you lukester

flickerx

The strikes are off until the new year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8345423.stm

gleep

My flatmate uses Maxgear for biking gear with free delivery to Ireland. Im not a bike person,( just ambled by and thought I'd give you may 2 cents!):D

chakattack

ILoveBIKES wrote: »

ha ha, no im gonna write up something later about the mass... think I got off on the wrong foot. I get excitied you know.

Thanks for the info, im actually looking for a specific one, I was told it was great. Im just getting a helmet, carbon-filter bike mask and a few other bits and bobs, but this place has really good stuff, cheaper than others.

I have this carbon filter mask and this helmet for sale if you like.

The mask was used once. The helmet is used but with brand new pads from the top end Giro Ionos (Silver woven anti-bacterial pads)

You can have both for 50 if you're interested.

Some other good cheap sites are Ribble, Parker International and Slane Cycles.

penexpers

lukester wrote: »

Just noticed that PBK are doing a buy one get one free offer on tubes, 4 quid for 2 tubes.

They have a current stock of -11 for those tubes

mattock

penexpers wrote: »

They have a current stock of -11 for those tubes

Is that minus 11, I purchased 8 last night and the stock listed was +10

lukester

penexpers wrote: »

They have a current stock of -11 for those tubes

Maybe there's been a run on them Only bought a few myself as had already opted for a Ribble bulk buy.

MadHatter

penexpers wrote: »

They have a current stock of -11 for those tubes

Yeah, stock if -11 last night when I had a look too. So I got some of these instead - however, they are now current stock of -2! These things move fast.

May have been mentioned before, but is it worth having a dedicated thread for bargains? Post a link to a good deal - after you've helped yourself first of course

blorg

On PBK it goes into the negatives when they run out of stock.

Nietzschean

blorg wrote: »

On PBK it goes into the negatives when they run out of stock.

sweet, wonder how they set it up with the 2 for 1 deal though, did they half the stock that appeared on the site?

lukester

blorg wrote: »

On PBK it goes into the negatives when they run out of stock.

Presumably when it's in negative figures, your order will still be honoured?

blorg

lukester wrote: »

Presumably when it's in negative figures, your order will still be honoured?

I wouldn't count on it, possibly the last 11 ordered won't go out. Certainly both CRC and Wiggle have cancelled orders on me in the past although has never happened with PBK yet as far as I can recall.

lukester

I figured if they were unable to re-stock an item it would show up as such. The negative implies, to me, that stuff will be on back-order. Will be interested to see.

Raam

lukester wrote: »

I figured if they were unable to re-stock an item it would show up as such. The negative implies, to me, that stuff will be on back-order. Will be interested to see.

Or maybe the system has a bug and no one is going to get any tubes.

Don't mind me, I'm just stirring the pot.

lukester

At least imma gonna get my tubes. Should have ordered more.

blorg

lukester wrote: »

I figured if they were unable to re-stock an item it would show up as such. The negative implies, to me, that stuff will be on back-order. Will be interested to see.

No, with PBK it always goes to negatives first, even when the next step after the negatives is the blank "that product is not in our database" screen.