Your most recent cycling related purchase

bianchi10 · #1 09-01-2013, 11:46 PM

What was your most recent cycling related purchase?

Mine:
I just SCORED a deal on a Rapha Pro team Jacket!!! Gonna look pimptastic with my insulated Pro Team Bibs I'm gonna get this winter! Their pro team line is amazing

kramnnim · #2 09-01-2013, 11:48 PM

In the last 5 minutes I tried to snipe a GXP BB on eBay and lost...and used BIN to buy a different one. Boring.

cachagua · #3 09-02-2013, 12:11 AM

After watching half a dozen Salsa quill stems in the size I need go by at $65 or so on Ebay, I got one for $5 at my local used-bike-stuff store.

No stickers.

Which saved me taking them off.

bianchi10 · #4 09-02-2013, 12:24 AM

Nice!! Good patience saved you some good $!

OtayBW · #5 09-02-2013, 10:21 AM

2nd K-Edge Garmin bar mount,
2 pkg Cinelli cork wrap (I still like it the best...),
3 Vittoria Tubes, threadless. My favorite....

Not very glamorous, just keeping me on the road...

Fishbike · #6 09-02-2013, 10:26 AM

Brake and shifter cable and housing set
Clamp to use a braze on FD

Gsinill · #7 09-02-2013, 10:31 AM

Mirror polished TB14s to build up 2 gorgeous 36h 7 speed Athena cassette hubs to complete the Shimano to Campagnolo conversion off my Appel

vav · #8 09-02-2013, 10:34 AM

MattTuck · #9 09-02-2013, 10:43 AM

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awesome.

bobswire · #10 09-02-2013, 10:48 AM

A set of H + Plus Son TB14 , they are everything I was hoping they would be.
The wider rim really does give a smoother ride with better traction.

noshaver · #11 05-21-2015, 11:55 AM

Road Holland bibs. Excellent choice, all day in the saddle stuff.

mktng · #12 05-21-2015, 12:10 PM

Enve 2.0 road fork to replace a Wound Up.
What. A. Difference. wow

noshaver · #13 05-30-2015, 11:59 AM

Selle SMP saddle. Took a couple of rides to get used to but what a difference. Don't even know it's there.

vav · #14 05-30-2015, 12:44 PM

Got me some ferrules.

Avincent52 · #15 05-31-2015, 07:49 AM

Slightly strange cyber purchase on Tuesday.
I found a great deal on a previous year Giro Aeon Helmet--$149 minus $30= $119--from Nashbar--on Monday.

I got sidetracked, left it in my cart, tried to order on Tuesday and the price had gone up. I call Nashbar and an it turns out the extra thirty bucks off was part of a Memorial Day sale.
I tell her, truthfully, that I've been a Nashbar customer since they were hand writing labels, so she honors the 20 percent discoutn and I got this fine helmet cheap.
And something else.

The next morning Nashbar sends me another 20 percent off coupon in my email, good for 18 hours only.

I poke around their thin selection of tubular tires and find a nice deal on Continental Gatorskin Sprinters. $60 minus $12 = $48.
Not bad.
I poke around a little elsewhere and this price is hard to beat.
Except it's for the 23 mm version and I'd prefer the 25 mms.

I stumble onto a site called wiggle.com and find the 25mms for $46 each. No tax collected. Free shipping.

What I didn't realize initially is that I'm ordering these tires from England.
They'll take a few days longer to arrive, I guess, than if I got them from Ohio, but the price and selection of tubulars seemed to reflect the fact that it was purchased from a cycling crazed part of the world, a lot closer to Germany where they're made.

First time I've mail-ordered something otherwise available in the US from a European source strictly on price, but I don't think it'll be the last.

Nashbar did get me to buy tires. But not from them. One more source of disruption.

FWIW, Wiggle has also got Continental Comps for a mere $69 with free shipping. That's just a little more than half the US MSRP of $124, which would have been tempting if my local roads didn't resemble Cambodia.

http://www.wiggle.com/continental-co...r-tire/http://