Lidl cycling offers - General thread

Dcully · 29-08-2013 10:33AM

Picked up a jacket,gloves and pump this morning.
Jacket seems pretty good quality and is very comfy,gloves seem a bit meh but dirt cheap,should be ok for my casual cycling.
Pump seems ok for the price too.

BadCharlie · 29-08-2013 10:56AM

Going to get the pump my self, need a new one since i broke my TKmax pump.

gaffmaster · 29-08-2013 11:02AM

J o e wrote: »

Got the GPS computer earlier - currently charging.

Lots of stock and there was only one other person in our local Lidl looking at the cycling gear at 8am so don't expect this gear to fly out the door.

Couldn't see any GPS computers in Moore Street, Dublin around 9.30am. Don't think they were stocked there as I couldn't see any price-boards or empty shelves.

Thargor · 29-08-2013 11:06AM

Anyone looked at the cycling pants yet? Good for light use in the winter or too light/cheap?

Darkglasses · 29-08-2013 11:11AM

Thargor wrote: »

Anyone looked at the cycling pants yet? Good for light use in the winter or too light/cheap?

Just about acceptable for the price, but a long way off the altura equivalent.

Thargor · 29-08-2013 11:16AM

Meant to say heavy there, thanks Darkglasses.

touts · 29-08-2013 11:43AM

Wont get in until after work. Any tyres suitable for road bikes in the winter?

Inspector Coptoor · 29-08-2013 11:47AM

I got a jacket, bib shorts, gloves & the computer.

rollingscone · 29-08-2013 12:18PM

Lots of clothing and helmets in Rathmines.

Got a set of the compression bibs and the arm&leg warmers sets. The wife picked up one of the helmets for her learning exploits.

Was tempted to get a set of bib tights for winter too. Gloves looked like they were cut for wearing with liners.

Also plenty of pumps, bike computers and wall mounts, no sign of the Garmin style GPS.

Get In There · 29-08-2013 12:48PM

Plenty of stock in finglas but much to my annoyance there wasn't any gps devices. The manager said they never came in.

joeKel73 · 29-08-2013 12:56PM

After looking at the manual and software for the GPS computer;

It does record your route and allow transfer back to PC. Lat, Lng, Alt taken every 4 sec.
The software alows exporting as kml. Edit: Exports also as GPX but Strava not happy with the content, will need tidying.
The mount seems to only allow mounting on the handlebar itself, and not on the stem like I'd planned (unless mounted sideways). Edit: Oops, was wrong, it does.
The battery takes 5hrs to charge via USB. I'm still letting it complete a full charge, it comes empty.

rollingscone wrote: »

no sign of the Garmin style GPS.

Get In There wrote: »

Plenty of stock in finglas but much to my annoyance there wasn't any gps devices. The manager said they never came in.

There are loads of these in Doughiska Lidl in Galway. If anyone really wanted one and their local Lidl hasn't stocked it let me know, I could probably pick one up for you.

monkeybutter · 29-08-2013 02:24PM

J o e wrote: »

After looking at the manual and software for the GPS computer;
It does record your route and allow transfer back to PC. Lat, Lng, Alt taken every 4 sec.

The software alows exporting as kml. Strava doesn't support this but there are loads of free online KML -> GPX converters available so should be possible. I've never heard of Strava until this week and seeing it everywhere on the forum now so will sign up later and try record & load data.

The mount seems to only allow mounting on the handlebar itself, and not on the stem like I'd planned (unless mounted sideways).

The battery takes 5hrs to charge via USB. I'm still letting it complete a full charge, it comes empty.

There are loads of these in Doughiska Lidl in Galway. If anyone really wanted one and their local Lidl hasn't stocked it let me know, I could probably pick one up for you.

Hi does it allow you to load a basic route of way points?

BeepBeep67 · 29-08-2013 02:59PM

No arm or leg warmers were delivered in Wicklow, anyone been in Greystones or Bray?

joeKel73 · 29-08-2013 03:18PM

Took it with me for lunch in the car. At work so only had 1 minute to look at the results yet... but it does export to GPX although there are issues with the format (needs tidying for Strava). Also it recorded longitude values as + instead of -, placing me in Germany.

That said, it appears have recorded the route accurately when these are fixed, I'll make a converter to make the output Strava-compatible.

Will post more details after work....

monkeybutter wrote: »

Hi does it allow you to load a basic route of way points?

Yes you can create waypoints in Google Earth then transfer to the device via their very basic software.

touts · 29-08-2013 03:21PM

Some shops dont have the gps on display. You have to ask for them at the checkout and they get them.

You can record a route as a .klm. Someone already answered the question I was going ask which is that this can be converted to a file strava can read. Of course no way to be sure until we try but that convinced me to go for one.

Either way you can record and store your past rides on the software provided with the device. It also says you can view routes on google maps.

It says you can plot out planned routes on Google Maps. No idea how easy or hard thst is but I'll try it for this weekend's cycle. I would definately prefer if I could import some routes from Strava but maybe this is where the difference between €200 and €50 kicks in.

Overall not sure yet but I think it is worth a try.

wonderboysam · 29-08-2013 03:28PM

So I cycled all the way to lidl today only to realise when I got there that I was in aldi! fml

Squidgy Black · 29-08-2013 03:34PM

wonderboysam wrote: »

So I cycled all the way to lidl today only to realise when I got there that I was in aldi! fml

I've done this a few times, tried to return Aldi gear to Lidl too, only to be told by the poor cashier that I was in the wrong shop.

Darkglasses · 29-08-2013 03:35PM

Checking your co-ords every 4 seconds is a little disappointing but fair enough for the price I suppose. 4 second margin of error will annoy you if you want chase KOMs on Strava.

joeKel73 · 29-08-2013 03:43PM

touts wrote: »

You can record a route as a .klm. Someone already answered the question I was going ask which is that this can be converted to a file strava can read. Of course no way to be sure until we try but that convinced me to go for one.

I discovered the kml file actually doesn't contain any time information so Strava doesn't accept it. You can save as GPX though when dealing with data you've imported. Strava isn't happy with this either as it must not strictly match the GPX format convention.

Will have a good look later, a Lidl GPS to Strava converter may need to be made for handiness.

slfcarro5 · 29-08-2013 04:06PM

Get In There wrote: »

Plenty of stock in finglas but much to my annoyance there wasn't any gps devices. The manager said they never came in.

They have tonnes of gps units in Lidl clonee which isn't too far from Finglas

aFlabbyPanda · 29-08-2013 04:41PM

Ballincollig have loads of stuff, picked up some bib tights and gloves.

BofaDeezNuhtz · 29-08-2013 05:27PM

Loads of GPS in the locked glass counter in Baldoyle.

I only went in to grab a pump as my own has been acting up lately.
Came home let both tyres down, pumped up to 120psi to count pumps needed,
let down again & re-pumped to 110psi and made a cup a tea and suddenly boom
pssssssss behind me. Turned around and me back tyres flat. Dafuq? Then I notices
that the front is also flat WTF? Both wheels were fine beforehand as I had had to
let them down to try the pump out, 5 mins after using it and both tyres are flat.
And 1 went with a bang. Thought it had ripped the tyres at the valves at 1st tbh.

So I investigates and the banger had a hole in the tube opposite the valve and the
other had a tiny hole about 1 inch away from the valve. Checked wheels and inside
the tyres for possible bits that may have punctured the tyres but found nothing.
Strange as fuk, so dunno maybe the pressure guage is badly calibrated...

If anybody has the pump there let both tyres down and pump them back up.
Warning: Explosions may occur, get one of the kids to do it

Squidgy Black · 29-08-2013 05:29PM

Those gauges are far from calibrated. I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it. Best thing to do is just do it by feel, you should feel the tire being rock solid and the resistance in the pump as you push.

touts · 29-08-2013 05:53PM

Followed the instructions for the GPS to create a route in google earth (using the path function). It seemed fairly straightforward. Will wait for advice from those more knowledgeable than I on converting into Strava.......

joeKel73 · 29-08-2013 05:58PM

J o e wrote: »

The mount seems to only allow mounting on the handlebar itself, and not on the stem like I'd planned (unless mounted sideways).

I was wrong there, part of the mount actually pops out and can be rotated 90 degrees so it does mount on the stem. Happy days.

joeKel73 · 29-08-2013 08:31PM

I mounted the GPS computer onto the bike and gave it a test...

It mounts well on the bike, clicks nicely into the mount and stays in place.

The software is very basic, just usable for transferring data over and back from the computer. Even route-planning has to be done in Google Earth (save as kml) and passed through the software.

It can export files as KML or GPX standard formats but there are a few big issues with the files it saves....

It saves ALL your tracks into the one file, even if you select one. Odd.
Longitude values are positive instead of negative, so it maps a mirror image of the route in Germany. Was probably only tested in Germany, they may issue a firmware fix if possible and intend to sell in future.
Strava can't import the GPX file due to "formatting" problems.

So to get around this and test the output I did the following;

Use this site to convert from GPX to GPX. It sorts the formatting.
Now open in a plain text editor and you'll see your routes between the <trk> </trk> tags. Delete all the tracks apart from the one you wanted, they're named as they appear in the software.
Do a find/replace and find lon=" and replace with lon="- .
Upload to Strava.

The resulting data is actually pretty good.

The wobbly path at the end is true, I called into two car parks and the loop at the end was when I took it off the bike and went through the shopping center... how it maintained GPS signal inside I don't know!!

View here: http://www.strava.com/activities/78503516

Hopefully I'll get time this weekend to put together a file converter to do all the tidying up and filtering of the files it produces. Something web-based I'd say, unless people prefer desktop app.

ezra_pound · 29-08-2013 08:38PM

J o e wrote: »

I mounted the GPS computer onto the bike at gave it a test...

It mounts well on the bike, clicks nicely into the mount and stays in place.

The software is very basic, just usable for transferring data over and back from the computer. Even route-planning has to be done in Google Earth (save as kml) and passed through the software.

It can export files as KML or GPX standard formats but there are a few big issues with the files it saves....
It saves ALL your tracks into the one file, even if you select one. Odd.

Longitude values are positive instead of negative, so it maps a mirror image of the route in Germany. Was probably only tested in Germany, they may issue a firmware fix if possible and intend to sell in future.

Strava can't import the GPX file due to "formatting" problems.

So to get around this and test the output I did the following;
Use this site to convert from GPX to GPX. It sorts the formatting.

Now open in a plain text editor and you'll see your routes between the <trk> </trk> tags. Delete all the tracks apart from the one you wanted, they're named as they appear in the software.

Do a find/replace and find lon=" and replace with lon="- .

Upload to Strava.

The resulting data is actually pretty good. The wobbly path at the end is true, I called into two car parks and the loop at the end was when I took it off the bike and went through the shopping center... how it maintained GPS signal inside I don't know!!

View here: http://www.strava.com/activities/78503516

Hopefully I'll get time this weekend to put together a file converter to do all the tidying up and filtering of the files it produces. Something web-based I'd say, unless people prefer desktop app.

That would be hard to fix if you were cycling around London east and west of Greenwich!

Thargor · 29-08-2013 08:41PM

Did anyone find any XL cycling trousers anywhere? Loads of XL Bibs but all I could get was L and they're more like an M, very tight, would have preferred XL especially if Im putting another layer underneath in Winter, maybe just being a bit picky though, they'll probably be fine after breaking in.

BofaDeezNuhtz · 29-08-2013 08:47PM

I call BS Joe Carpark me arse it looks like ya stopped at the pub 3k from home then continued on...

kildarecommuter · 29-08-2013 09:14PM

Thargor wrote: »

Did anyone find any XL cycling trousers anywhere? Loads of XL Bibs but all I could get was L and they're more like an M, very tight, would have preferred XL especially if Im putting another layer underneath in Winter, maybe just being a bit picky though, they'll probably be fine after breaking in.

Got the trousers last year they went into clothing bin 2 weeks ago only used them 3 times don't fit well padding crap your prob better off spending extra few €s on decent ones

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