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duffyshuffle

There were two bike stands in Aldi East Wall on Sunday down opposite the frozen fruit

Rogue-Trooper

Road ID have a 72 hour sale on at the moment. Just got 20% off a wrist ID.

I put Boards 410 as my next of kin just so yiz know...........

lennymc

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

Road ID have a 72 hour sale on at the moment. Just got 20% off a wrist ID.

I put Boards 410 as my next of kin just so yiz know...........

i juts ordered one - thanks

Alek

Just found http://icestripe.com/ - almost the same, cheaper

Plastik

Road ID is cheaper on sale - €19.78 vs €22.99.

Alek

Icestripe is showing 17.99 for elite and 12.99 for slim versions.

Harrybelafonte

Alek wrote: »

Icestripe is showing 17.99 for elite and 12.99 for slim versions.

Plus €5 postage

Alek

RoadID ships for $4.99...

Ryath

Good value chrono shoes and look pedal combo for €105 in the cycle super store deal.
Road shoe and look keo 2 max pedals or mtb shoes with Look S-Track MTB pedals.

Darkglasses

Road ID discussion moved to a new thread here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057517632

Everyone else, just report it if you want me to split something into a new thread. I'm not likely to see it if you just post about it in-thread, and you're making false-email problem worse. It's likely that a discussion will break out every so often, and that's fine, just report the message (as someone did) and I'll move them.

dastardly00

If you enter the code ARR96NT on the Road ID website, you will get a $1.99 discount (every little helps!)

Daroxtar

Picked up the arm and leg warmers from Cycle Super Store today. Loads left. Toasty

Unknown Soldier

Daroxtar wrote: »

Picked up the arm and leg warmers from Cycle Super Store today. Loads left. Toasty

I was in there myself earlier but are they for external use? It didn't seem like it? More under armour/base layer and compression?

Daroxtar

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

I was in there myself earlier but are they for external use? It didn't seem like it? More under armour/base layer and compression?

There's a few different types of them in there. They're made from a polypropylene mix instead of lycra so they have a different feel to them than regular cycling gear but they have 3M reflective material on the zips so I'd say they're meant for external wear.
The marketing blurb seems to be that they're "Active" compression for use during exercise. They have a "Recovery" range too.
I just spent the last few minutes strutting about the kitchen in them like some weird fetishist. Felt fine

2 Wheels Good

One for the bookmarks, Black Friday deals starting to come out. BikeRadar have a page with links for the best deals

seamus

PX selling a 300L front light for €3 (90% off). Not much info on it, I suspect it's not rechargeable, but for €3 can you really go wrong?

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/LIARHAFL/areo-halogen-front-light?utm_source=The+Planet+X+and+On-One+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=a433141127-2015_11_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_561486488b-a433141127-271312425&mc_cid=a433141127&mc_eid=b86902637c

There's also a big brother here for €9. Seems to be the same light, but rechargeable:
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/LIARHFRL/areo-rhl-01-halogen-front-light

All of the other Areo stuff has good reviews, so looks like a half decent backup light.

Alek

Halogen bulb an 300lumens? I call it BS

ford2600

Shop in Parnell street (Cycleways?) have mudguards including Crud II and proper sks for €20

lgk

Alek wrote: »

Halogen bulb an 300lumens? I call it BS

Used to be common enough prior to the development of high power LEDs. Lumicycles halogen lights went up to 450 lumens using GE bulbs.

Alek

A halogen light needs approx. 25W to produce 300LM, while a LED needs approx. 3W.

A good rechargeable AA has 2500mAh capacity, which is 2.5Ah, so at 1.2V it can run a 3W device for an hour.

4 such batteries give 12Wh.

So, a 300lm (25W) halogen light can run for roughly half an hour on four rechargeable batteries. Considering there are no loses, voltage drop, the capacity is real, etc.

Therefore I still call that BS :P

lgk

Alek wrote: »

A halogen light needs approx. 25W to produce 300LM, while a LED needs approx. 3W.

....

Therefore I still call that BS :P

12 lumens per Watt as above is actually worse than a regular incandescent bulb. 30+ lumens per Watt is achievable, but they'll cost you.

But I agree that particular light is BS. They might use a bulb capable of 300lm, but not while driven with that voltage. Given nowhere else sells those lights, pretty sure it's just another Chinese knock off with their dubious grasp of reality when it comes to specs.

alaimacerc

lgk wrote: »

12 lumens per Watt as above is actually worse than a regular incandescent bulb. 30+ lumens per Watt is achievable, but they'll cost you.

Isn't that the efficiency for spherical lumens? Bear in mind this will be a beam -- potentially a rather narrow one, if that's how it's bigging up the notional brightness...

CramCycle

alaimacerc wrote: »

Isn't that the efficiency for spherical lumens? Bear in mind this will be a beam -- potentially a rather narrow one, if that's how it's bigging up the notional brightness...

MOD VOICE: OK, we are getting off topic again, back to bargain alerts only

trev44

CramCycle wrote: »

MOD VOICE: OK, we are getting off topic again, back to bargain alerts only

Boo ... it was just getting interesting

Darkglasses

trev44 wrote: »

Boo ... it was just getting interesting

Feel free to make a thread about it - this is for bargain alerts only. We literally just had a big string of complaints about allowing chat in this thread.

And don't argue with mod instruction in-thread. It's usually a card.

Unknown Soldier

I know some here swear by Castelli Gabba 2 stuff.

https://www.cyclesuperstore.ie/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=84989

145e and I don't know if you'd still get 10% off that.

When you walk upstairs it's right in front of you...sort of.

G1032

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

I know some here swear by Castelli Gabba 2 stuff.

https://www.cyclesuperstore.ie/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=84989

145e and I don't know if you'd still get 10% off that.

When you walk upstairs it's right in front of you...sort of.

I've only had a Gabba 2 a short while but it's a great piece of kit. Highly recommend it.

Borderfox

Gabba sold out

mathie

ford2600 wrote: »

Shop in Parnell street (Cycleways?) have mudguards including Crud II and proper sks for €20

They have a lot of other stuff marked down too.
Specialized winter jackets and jersey at 50% off and a lot of other deals.

Runways beside them is closing down so I wonder if they are too?

g0g

I see Planet X helmets significantly reduced on their website down to € 17.39. Anyone got one that can vouch for quality? Seems to be lots of stock.

Edit sorry I see this doesn't include postage which might be a bit....