The "I should have left the credit card at home" thread

derealbadger · 04-07-2013 01:12PM

Are you by any chance the man that got a puncture before Dunlavin on the Wicklow peaks
@ Mossym

mossym · 04-07-2013 01:19PM

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Now, I wonder if you can get a nice Carbon Fibre wedding band...

if you can't find carbon, mine is tungsten carbide...haven't been able to mark it in 6 years. usually generates a bit of interest when people realise it's not a standard ring.

won't be as light as CF though...:)

ednwireland · 04-07-2013 01:23PM

TinyExplosions wrote: »

Now, I wonder if you can get a nice Carbon Fibre wedding band...

there ya go
http://diamondring7.com/jewelry-review/tungsten-carbide-ring-affordable-price-for-wedding-ring

15 bucks on ebay

shaka · 04-07-2013 02:22PM

mossym wrote: »

good reason. the other being that as soon as you put the second ring on that finger all purchasing will stop immediately so get it in while you can

So true , you will have to buy everything with cash. Luckily my LBS does wife receipts

mossym · 04-07-2013 02:39PM

shaka wrote: »

So true , you will have to buy everything with cash. Luckily my LBS does wife receipts

really? that's handy. i must shop there.

the ability to trade in the wife is a nice option to have.

mossym · 04-07-2013 02:52PM

derealbadger wrote: »

Are you by any chance the man that got a puncture before Dunlavin on the Wicklow peaks
@ Mossym

nope, not me, sorry, i'm down in munster, have never ridden a bicycle in wicklow

derealbadger · 04-07-2013 03:00PM

mossym wrote: »

nope, not me, sorry, i'm down in munster, have never ridden a bicycle in wicklow

Another Mossy so did you ride the Tour de hartlands in Athlone ?

mossym · 04-07-2013 03:03PM

nope, again not me

sled driver · 04-07-2013 03:13PM

mossym wrote: »

nope, not me, sorry, i'm down in munster, have never ridden a bicycle in wicklow

mossym wrote: »

nope, again not me

@mossym. You don't remember any of that? You were wearing your blue jumper

TinyExplosions · 09-07-2013 07:33AM

I should really have left the CC at home, then I wouldn't have brought a groupset with a Standard Crank instead of a Compact... return, try to sell of HTFU for a year... decisions, decisions....

ROK ON · 09-07-2013 07:51AM

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I should really have left the CC at home, then I wouldn't have brought a groupset with a Standard Crank instead of a Compact... return, try to sell of HTFU for a year... decisions, decisions....

Firstly - Congrats man. Best of luck.

On the groupset - if you can't return it just get a wifli RD.

merc230ce · 09-07-2013 08:26AM

shaka wrote: »

Luckily my LBS does wife receipts

That. Is. Brilliant.

OldBean · 09-07-2013 12:54PM

I came back to my bike and found someone had broken the pedal on the right, looked like it was kicked/jumped on. Popped into Rothar to get something cheap and cheerful (and not matching the other pedal) to get me home on, where I duly took out my credit card and bought the following shiny things. Which I definitely should not have.

Squidgy Black · 09-07-2013 12:55PM

Splurged on a Dolan Pre Cursa frame set, and a few other bits like a chain and tools for the build.

Now to find some way of paying it all off the card....

lennymc · 12-07-2013 07:48PM

just ordered this:

to build something like this:

because geared cx is simply not hard enough.

rollingscone · 12-07-2013 08:04PM

Chain tensioner, and s/s conversion kit for doing up the old steel mtb from my dads garage as a beater.

Screw in bar plugs because I'm tired of getting back from spins with one.

Ordered from wiggle today.

TinyExplosions · 12-07-2013 10:11PM

Latex tubes, and butyl ones with 60mm valves (as well as a valve extender) because I'm an idiot who forgot I had ordered 38mm wheels when ordering the 40mm valve tubes!

Also a compact Force crankset... This cycling lark is expensive innit!

Plastik · 12-07-2013 10:47PM

Not quite a today purchase, but a today arrival. An Islabike Luath 24. We're very impressed with it so far! Much better than the equivalently priced Viking racers found in a lot of shops here.

RossieMan · 12-07-2013 10:50PM

The size of that rear cassette is unreal:eek:

Plastik · 12-07-2013 10:55PM

Little legs need big gears!

colm_gti · 12-07-2013 10:58PM

Plastik, I have a LHS Sora brifter just hangin around my spares box you're welcome to take for when Plastik jr. needs some more gears....

ROK ON · 12-07-2013 11:00PM

Plastik wrote: »

Little legs need big gears!

My eldest daughter got the exact same model for her birthday last year. She is 8 and that gearing ratio has seen her spin up some reasonably steep climbs (albeit short).

Plastik · 12-07-2013 11:22PM

colm_gti wrote: »

Plastik, I have a LHS Sora brifter just hangin around my spares box you're welcome to take for when Plastik jr. needs some more gears....

Cheers, Colm. It's interesting actually. I'm not sure whether it's just marketing bumf from Islabikes or they have carefully considered these things, but they deliberately supply the 24 and 26 inch wheel Luath bikes with a rear derailleur only. The reasoning for this is that they believe that kids don't properly understand gearing and are better off with a single wide ratio cassette. It's not until you get to their 700c bikes that they provide a FD. Watching him flying around on his last bike, and this, I'm inclined to agree!

Seweryn · 13-07-2013 12:08AM

Going on holidays next week, so drained the plastic card on various cycling accessories and then on top of that I just decided to... treat myself with a holiday bike, so bought one over there

RossieMan · 14-07-2013 12:44AM

Plastik wrote: »

Little legs need big gears!

I'll buy the cassette off you when he/she is done with it.

might make me go a bit quicker. :P

joey100 · 15-07-2013 11:41AM

Just ordered this this morning,

http://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/frames-c6/road-frames-c112/scott-cr1-pro-hmf-road-frame-set-2012-p194664

Now beings the slow process of ordering all the pieces to finish it off one by one and convince herself that it came like that......

hypersonic · 22-07-2013 09:03PM

I just bought the poor man's version of a power meter.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innovativeappdesigns.cyclepowermeter&hl=en

it is a lot of fun, plenty of colourdy maps, max braking effort, cadence sensing, realistic calories and of course MAX POWER!

Darkglasses · 22-07-2013 09:09PM

hypersonic wrote: »

I just bought the poor man's version of a power meter.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innovativeappdesigns.cyclepowermeter&hl=en

it is a lot of fun, plenty of colourdy maps, max braking effort, cadence sensing, realistic calories and of course MAX POWER!

Wow looks great, would love to hear how you get on with it.

hypersonic · 22-07-2013 09:20PM

Darkglasses wrote: »

Wow looks great, would love to hear how you get on with it.

I've had it out for one short spin, and most of the figures look reasonable. I'll throw up some data from my commute tomorrow.

hypersonic · 23-07-2013 01:10PM

Yip loads of noise, It probably works much better if its mounted on the handlebars.

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