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2017 bike kit purchases

(11 posts)
  • Started 7 years ago by crowriver
  • Latest reply from Ed1
  • poll: What limits your purchases of bio it the most?
    Lack of storage space : (7 votes)
    30 %
    Lack of bikes to use kit with : (0 votes)
    Lack of a healthy bank balance : (8 votes)
    35 %
    Lack of desire for bike kit : (5 votes)
    22 %
    Lack of a bike shop nearby : (0 votes)
    Lack of information on what bike kit I'm missing out on : (3 votes)
    13 %
    Lack of internet access : (0 votes)

    18 votes


  1. crowriver
    Member

    Revisiting the "Santa" thread, I boldly stated I had reached "peak bike kit". However, January has barely got off the starter's blocks and I have purchased a bike accessory.....so clearly my prior statement was untrue.

    Today I bought a Thule Internal Hub Hitch Adapter, which allows extra axle length to be achieved, the better to hitch my Carry Freedom trailer to the SRAM P5 equipped Pashley Fold-It.

    Once it arrives in the post, this stainless steel widget should hopefully make my Fold-It into a handy train and long distance coach friendly touring steed.

    Please feel free to share your new bike kit purchases below!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. Greenroofer
    Member

    I think you may have missed out a category in your poll. Surely there should be an option for "inability to persuade significant other of need for this extra kit"

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. neddie
    Member

    The hitch adapter looks useful, but 23 euros for a glorified nut & bolt...?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. crowriver
    Member

    "23 euros for a glorified nut & bolt...?"

    Well there are issues hauling a trailer for any bike with hub gears, as I have discovered. Principally these relate to insufficient axle protruding from the dropouts. You can fit the hitch, but the axle end nut either does not engage due to insufficient thread, or it cannot be tightened sufficiently to hold the axle firmly in place.

    Burley do a similar (slightly cheaper) adapter, but SRAM Spectro hub axles have a proprietary thread of 10.5 x 26tpi, and none of the Burley adapters fit. There are different axle diameters and thread pitches for Shimano, SRAM 9-Motion, and Sturmey Archer hubs.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. urchaidh
    Member

    Is this just about kit or does it include bikes too?

    Access to bike to work scheme plus hitting my commuting target last year plus recent significant birthday could mean an unnecessarily expensive new bike this year.

    On the downside, new bike to work scheme is through Evans so choice is somewhat limited. The intersection of the sets "bikes they have" and "bikes I want" has a cardinality of one.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. crowriver
    Member

    @urchaidh, I believe there is an n+1 thread somewhere for new bikes. I just thought it may be handy to have a bike kit thread separate from that. Maybe k+1?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. amir
    Member

    "The intersection of the sets "bikes they have" and "bikes I want" has a cardinality of one. "

    Certainly better than zero. And arguably better than 100.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. Baldcyclist
    Member

    I maybe bought a new ANT enabled computer and speed sensor today by mistake...

    (All Mrs B needs to know is that I thought I had pressed back instead of proceed. It wasn't until I go the conformation email that I realised my mistake).

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    Bit ott for the indoor bike!(?)

    https://www.thisisant.com/consumer/ant-101/what-is-ant

    Posted 7 years ago #

  10. Baldcyclist
    Member

    Well it's only really the speed sensor that will only be used inside, so £26 not that ott.

    Erm, buying a Brooks saddle for an indoor bike might be considered ott though... ;)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  11. Ed1
    Member

    Brooks saddle would be ideally suited to an inside bike-) the brooks flyer on my hybrid gets saggy every time it rains

    Posted 7 years ago #

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