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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭stecleary


    i was looking for something that offers a little more coverage at the back of my head so went with this bad boy

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  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    stecleary wrote: »
    i was looking for something that offers a little more coverage at the back of my head so went with this bad boy
    Sorry - doesn't properly match club gear - you're dropping down the NCD fredness league ...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭stecleary


    ah now come on your "orange" POC is miles off the club gear.
    And as for them shoes, way off club colors


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    stecleary wrote: »
    ah now come on your "orange" POC is miles off the club gear.
    And as for them shoes, way off club colors

    Didn't you get the memo? We're changing the club gear colours to make sure they match those oranges and blue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭Danny dyers double


    Bought my first road bike yesterday . A carrera virtuoso it's called . I can't wait to get started today . Cycled home from the bike shop last night to get a feel for the gears and breaks .

    Only thing I'm a bit nervous about is . When I stoped at lights and I go to restart I found it very difficult to get my feet back into the peddle straps. Twice I had to stop and lean against a fence and place my feet in before I pushed off .

    Bought the bike for extra fitness and I can leave the car at home and cycle in 3 from 5 working days .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Only thing I'm a bit nervous about is . When I stoped at lights and I go to restart I found it very difficult to get my feet back into the peddle straps.


    Take them off and just use the flats then when you feel like you want a better connection on the pedals upgrade to clipless pedals.

    Those toe straps create more issues than they resolve and a more difficult to use than clipless imo.

    Congrats on the new bike may ye have many memorable miles together :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


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    Bow-chik-a-wow-wow.

    Unfortunately both my knees are now acting up. Oh the inhumanity of it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    Didn't you get the memo? We're changing the club gear colours to make sure they match those oranges and blue

    I heard it's going to be red, black and white like ours....and the blanch lads.....and the clontarf lads....one big cycling conurbation on the northside.


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I heard it's going to be red, black and white like ours....and the blanch lads.....and the clontarf lads....one big cycling conurbation on the northside.
    Yep - now understand the big club in the area is swallowing up the minnows, and we're going for United's colours (the guy in charge of the money insisted on that apparently) - already have the red Bont's on order (another 7 weeks for delivery though which should give us a bit of time to get the "takeovers" sorted)

    Anyone looking for a pair of blue and orange Bonts (special limited edition)?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭stecleary


    Beasty wrote: »
    (special limited edition)?

    THANKFULLY


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    "Team" Bonts all round - pity none of you lot are in my team:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    What size are those shoes? They look tiny.


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    What size are those shoes? They look tiny.
    Get yourself a larger computer screen - they will look bigger then....

    They are only 43/44, but are extra, extra wide - would usually need 46s in "normal" cycling shoes to get them wide enough, but can get into 45s with the Sidi Megas and size 43/44 when made to measure. It's a nice change to have some shoes that are snug all round like them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    Get yourself a larger computer screen - they will look bigger then....

    They are only 43/44, but are extra, extra wide - would usually need 46s in "normal" cycling shoes to get them wide enough, but can get into 45s with the Sidi Megas and size 43/44 when made to measure. It's a nice change to have some shoes that are snug all round like them

    Extra, extra wide eh? Wow, you must have massive ............ socks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Bow-chik-a-wow-wow.

    Red? Is this Tour de Fer? looks stunning!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Alek wrote: »
    Red? Is this Tour de Fer? looks stunning!

    Nope it's the Croix. despite the un-cx'y cable routing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Aaah, for some reason I understood you're getting a 2nd hand one, and this is 2015 Croix 10.

    What size is it? I wonder what is the difference with the curvy fork... Straight one (2014) is very flexy front/back, and I like it.
    the un-cx'y cable routing.

    Its not a CX bike after all :) More of an all-rounder, but bottom cable routing does not really affect racing. I guess it was always necessary for canti brakes, with discs does not matter anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    Lovely, RollingScone!

    Hope you get out on 'er soon!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Alek wrote: »
    Aaah, for some reason I understood you're getting a 2nd hand one, and this is 2015 Croix 10.

    What size is it? I wonder what is the difference with the curvy fork... Straight one (2014) is very flexy front/back, and I like it.



    Its not a CX bike after all :) More of an all-rounder, but bottom cable routing does not really affect racing. I guess it was always necessary for canti brakes, with discs does not matter anymore.

    Nah twas OldBean who bought and subsequently "lost" a second hand CdF.

    Tis a 58cm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Tis a 58cm.

    Perfect :)

    (This has nothing to do with the fact that I know where you live)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    Nah twas OldBean who bought and subsequently "lost" a second hand CdF.

    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Alek wrote: »
    Perfect :)

    (This has nothing to do with the fact that I know where you live)

    Oh yeah. Well I know where you buy your adult toys!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Nice bike rollingscone, looks like it would be a good cycle touring bike, am I wrong?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Brian wrote: »
    Nice bike rollingscone, looks like it would be a good cycle touring bike, am I wrong?

    You mean something like this?http://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/bikes/adventure/expedition/tour-de-fer

    😉

    The Croix de Fer does have bosses for racks & mudguards though so other than geometry I can't see any reason not to tour on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    Where did you buy yours?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Brian wrote: »
    Where did you buy yours?

    ThinkBike in Rathmines


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    havent posted in here in a while. ordered this today - Caad 10 force racing edition

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    Might weight weenie it to annoy carbon bike riders... :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    lennymc wrote: »
    havent posted in here in a while. ordered this today - Caad 10 force racing edition

    Might weight weenie it to annoy carbon bike riders... :)

    Nice machine. If you look on the weight-weenies forum you can see that it is a popular bike there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    saw that alright. Some might light bikes.
    I think i will go wheels/tyres, maybe stem and bars and seatpost. Dont want to sacrifice reliability


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭ford2600


    Tb14 rims with ultegra hubs.

    Went with box profile with comfort in mind, but it looks well also. Black rim, I presume it'll wear off like the archtype rim.

    I'll test the comfort theory tonight on a few choice roads


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    Picked the Edge 25 up today with an out front mount
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Picked up a Garmin Edge 200 today.

    Just mounted it now.

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    And lights off;

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭3102derek


    Credit card took a beating this month..

    Red Shifters and lizard skin tape to replace my broken rival shifter

    & new Shoes, can never have enough shoes, Northware Extreme Tech Plus

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,263 ✭✭✭✭Borderfox


    Picked up a Castelli Pocket Liner on special from crc for €285. Out yesterday and just Wow!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    Having bought a bike and started to cycle to work recently, finding this thread is not good.

    It's amazing what i can justify buying if when i convince myself all the money I'm saving on diesel!


  • Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Borderfox wrote: »
    Picked the Edge 25 up today with an out front mount
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    Really like the compact size of those.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭omri


    Hasmunch wrote: »
    Having bought a bike and started to cycle to work recently, finding this thread is not good.

    It's amazing what i can justify buying if when i convince myself all the money I'm saving on diesel!

    The key here is to "save on diesel for a year" and then see what that money can buy you :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    omri wrote: »
    what that money can buy you :)

    more bikes


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭omri


    lennymc wrote: »
    more bikes

    MERIDA ??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Hasmunch wrote: »
    Having bought a bike and started to cycle to work recently, finding this thread is not good.

    It's amazing what i can justify buying if when i convince myself all the money I'm saving on diesel!

    It's actually quite easy to buy stuff for your bike/cycling. What I do is go into a clothes shop, pick out a few pairs of jeans and a couple if shirts and maybe a jacket. Make sure they all fit properly and then leave them back on the rack. €200 saved in one foul swoop. Get online and buy s new saddle/jacket/handlebars/tyres etc etc with the money you saved not buying the clothes earlier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    It's actually quite easy to buy stuff for your bike/cycling. What I do is go into a clothes shop, pick out a few pairs of jeans and a couple if shirts and maybe a jacket. Make sure they all fit properly and then leave them back on the rack. €200 saved in one foul swoop. Get online and buy s new saddle/jacket/handlebars/tyres etc etc with the money you saved not buying the clothes earlier.

    That energy would be better spent on the hills. Would you not window shop online, decide not to buy and simply exit the site. Same saving and vital energy saved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    omri wrote: »
    MERIDA ??

    Mower buyek


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Scrappy600


    before......
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    after.....duuuuurty!!
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    Wont eat for the rest of the year but thats a small detail.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭3102derek


    love the wheels, tubs or clinchers? do you mind if i ask how much they set you back?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Scrappy600


    3102derek wrote: »
    love the wheels, tubs or clinchers? do you mind if i ask how much they set you back?

    Clinchers, and no dear wife, no matter how many fake accounts you set up on boards you'll not find out! ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,180 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Scrappy600 wrote: »
    Clinchers, and no dear wife, no matter how many fake accounts you set up on boards you'll not find out! ;)
    Point of order...

    This thread is about spending money. On this thread beauty is off-topic.
    There's another thread about beauty. On that thread money is off-topic.

    So I think you posted in the wrong thread :)

    (I am not a mod)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭Dipsomaniac


    Have a trip coming up and went a little overboard with the credit card last night and Wednesday on a few bits and pieces. Mostly Castelli

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    Got a chain as well.

    Need to get a spare hanger now for the trip just in case


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Scrappy600 wrote: »
    before......
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    after.....duuuuurty!!
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    Wont eat for the rest of the year but thats a small detail.....

    Belongs in the "Now I need to change my underwear" thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


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    Signed Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb jersey arrived today, bought via their FB competition. They were auctioning off 102 of them, for charity (German youth cycling...so yeah, not exactly Oxfam).

    It was a pretty generous deal, my bid was a bit less than the retail price in the webshop, and they paid the postage and 19% tax. Delighted with that. Hoping to mount it on the wall somehow.


  • Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CLufcnoWUAA-VOg.jpg

    Signed Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb jersey arrived today, bought via their FB competition. They were auctioning off 102 of them, for charity (German youth cycling...so yeah, not exactly Oxfam).

    It was a pretty generous deal, my bid was a bit less than the retail price in the webshop, and they paid the postage and 19% tax. Delighted with that. Hoping to mount it on the wall somehow.

    Very nice!


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