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Mind these offers are on today.
Nipping down to Dalry to try and get some shorts.
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Yeah I got the padded underwear, raincoat and the twin pannier pack.
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I was mildly concerned by the "38/40" on the trousers and shorts labelled "M" but they fit quite well, with a bit of slack on a 32" waist, roughly equivalent to EBC's M going by their cheapest shorts. They're quite thin to the point of being see-through so probably only useful as a thin underlayer...
limited opacity by wingpig, on FlickrPosted 13 years ago # -
Shorts are also a little in the thin side but they'll do, shame the jersey looks like an England Rugby shirt.
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OOH. Didn't initially notice that both shorts and longs have a little secret pocket on the inside of the waistband, either so you can either be stabbed in the hip with your keys with every pedal stroke or to keep money in in order to like a pervert when paying for things in shops.
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I bought their shorts before - they are underpants
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I got some panniers last time, they appear to have the same ones for sale this year. The set of 2 individual panniers, not the combined one. They were not quite ortleib quality but have stayed waterproof over the year and have survived quite a lot of camping and commuting. The rack clips aren't fantastic but I've not managed to break any yet
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Toolbox looks like quite a good deal. Wonder how it compares to the EBC one?
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Wonder how it compares to the EBC one
I like the Y-wrenches in the EBC one. I use them regularly, apart from the one with the crank puller, which is useless - there's no way to get nearly enough torque to use.
The headset/32/36/15mm spanner is quite good, but you only get one.
The 2 black ("cone?") wrenches (10/15mm) are quite good too, very narrow but that does mean you can't put any torque in them.
The tyre levers are very weak.
The chain whip snapped on first attempt to use
Guide pins in the chain tool snapped
The box itself is far too big for what you get, I put the tools into my regular toolbox and threw it out as being too big and not being able to take any non-supplied tool.
Spoke wrench OK but a bit big - too many options on the one key. Particularly if you've got tightly packed spokes on a rim (e.g. 36)
Socket tool too flexible.Other bits are reasonable. When it's reduced its still a good way to get your hands on a lot of tools. You just need to discard half of them and replace with "proper" ones if you want to get any sort of torque in them.
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My mates got the lidl tool kit and I've got the ebc one. I find the EBC one very useful but the lidl one is much better in my opinion. I don't know why they put a crank puller on a y wrench!!! You'd have more luck getting a crank off with a cheese scone!
The lidl one has a c spanner and a decent chain whip.Posted 13 years ago # -
From 28th July, though billed under 'sports gear' rather than 'cycling essentials' and not featuring p trip panniers.
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Looks good! A workstand for 30 quid!
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Bought the workstand, footpump, tyre sealant, and cycling leggings. Workstand looks identical to this one :
Good for the price, and having tried it on each of the bikes it seems robust enough, if not exactly 'pro' spec. Pump was sturdier than I thought it would be - not convinced the guage will be accurate tho. Leggings...will have to see how durable they prove - not expecting great things but we'll see...
Anyone else get stuff?
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@IMK Not yet, but sorely tempted by workstand and cycle leggings. Are these things in stock in Edinburgh? Which store?
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I was in the Dalry one today and there were no stands
they had jackets,leggings,locks,small tool kitsPosted 13 years ago # -
I went for their £2.49 socks, they are fine. Whilst in the Dalry branch a chap struck up a conversation with me indicating I should buy the sunglasses - £3.49? With three different coloured lenses. They looked a bit rubbish but I didn't want to hurt his feelings. The smoke lenses are quite good, haven't tried the tangerine ones. I had similar from EBC for 5 times the price and the second pair were very poor [changed supplier in China presumably]. Also added tin of almonds and packet of Japanese rice crackers [made in China].
No sign of the stand, the pumps were foot pumps rather than trackside. The leggings were previously modelled on this very forum with picture making them look like tights.
We know like ASDA/Tesco supermarkets that LIDL is not strong on unions for their staff. We know restaurants buy their veg there. My colleague was punting the hypothesis - LIDL is a supermarket but with all the trimmings stripped away to the very basics of the transaction. I think it is more of a traditional east end market without the barrow boys, offering cheap tat to cockneys/mockneys and posh types slumming it. [when they are punting the horse blankets]. But all in German. I only go when the bike tat is on the shelves. But I do find it curious.
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@Crowriver: I went to the Granton store. That was Thursday a.m. though, so some stock may have gone by now.
@Gembo: I *didn't* know about an iffy attitude to unions by Lidl: had I done so I would have thought twice (I avoid ASDA/Wallmart for the same reason).
BTW, it might just be me but the leggings I got looked a bit more substantial than the ones previously pictured on CCE.
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Gilmerton branch, Drum Street had at least half a dozen bike stands left on Friday morning. In fact hardly anything had gone, lots of footpumps, computers, and lots of clothes. The pocket inside the shorts etc is great for your phone (old models more slimline) or an iPlayer. I must have bought my shorts at least two years ago and they are still in great nick and definitely look more substantial than those in the photo. Getting the bike stand home on the bike was interesting. Bungied to the back rack, making me a rather wide vehicle, which I have to say was very effective for keeping cars away, they gave me a very wide berth, and was pleased to note did not try to squeeze me at traffic islands. It was also rather heavy so very glad that I had taken four bungies with me, two would not have been enough.
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Its-me-knees - I think I picked up the non-union info from this forum. I may have been trying to suggest LIDL seemed more like a charity shop than a supermarket and had my rosey tinted specs [now also smoke, tangerine and clear £3.49 LIDL price] adjusted.
Royal Bank of Scotland sent me a breakdown of where I used my bank card over the year. Predominantly Co-operative Store of Balerno, well Scotmid to be accurate. I joined for a pound and so far they have sent me £17 to spend in their shop, a five pound voucher for semi-chem I have lost and a free carrier bag. This is better than a poke in the eye. I cannot claim not to have been in the other supermarkets as RBS have the evidence {sainsburys, tesco, asda in that order]. I have never been in either Waitrose or an Aldi store. I have been in Morrisons, Sommerfield, Safeways, Coopers Fine Fare, Presto, Galbraiths, Safeways, etc but getting older and more defunct. The Cooper's Fine Fare on Great Western Road in Glasgow was turned into Chimmy Chungas - still had brass lettering on the pavement indicating Coopers Fine Fare. Do Waitrose let their staff into the John Lewis Employee scheme? If so that would be a reason for shopping there except for the mark-up. Scotmid occasionally flirts with bicycle powered smoothie makers.
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Off to Leith LIDL soon, will report back on what wonders I saw there...
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Do Waitrose let their staff into the John Lewis Employee scheme?
Yes. I like Waitrose's in-store announcements. Very formal and proper. "Mr Humphries to produce please", "Mrs. Sloacombe to the Gin aisle".
We used to go to William Low in Corstorphine where the Blockbuster is now. Then they opened their supermarket at Canonmills it was the biggest in the world. Or Scotland. Or Edinburgh at the very least. We would go there especially to marvel at how big it was. Then Safeway built what is now PC World at Drumbrae, and that was the biggest in the world so we went there as it was just down the road. They closed the Presto store in Corstorphine at the same time, but we didn't go there as my Mum thought it was too downmarket or something! Also Safeway had barcodes, where William Low still typed codes into the till, so it was faster. When the Gyle opened we started going there because they shut Drumbrae. It had the shop-and-go scan your own thing, that broke most of the time and meant you had to get scanned again. My sister and I would argue over who got to use the scanning gun. It was definitely the future, or so it seemed. My mum and dad still have the big green plastic crates that you fitted into the special trolley.
The other now-gone name I can recall is Gateway, which became Somerfield. Sometimes we got Gateway shopping because my Mum taught at Orwell School (now gone) and it was just around the corner.
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No sign of any workstands nor computers in the Leith branch. Doesn't look as though they ever had any, no price cards.
Picked up a gel saddle cover, sunglasses, cycling leggings/trousers and a jacket (last in my size). The leggings seem comfy enough, I'll have to try them on the bike to be sure. Plenty of padding and seem reasonably substantial for the price. Don't know how waterproof the jacket will be, it rather modestly claims 'water resistant', but seams appear to be taped so we'll see. It's light enough so may make a useful half way house between my windproof (which cost more than twice as much) and my 'proper' waterproofs. Good for a bit of summer/autumn misty drizzle, perhaps...
Don't fancy trekking all the way out to Gilmerton on the off chance they have any workstands/computers left so it'll have to be eBay/Amazon for them...
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Kapps - Gateway - excellent [was never in] but WmLow [I say it all as one word] how could I have forgotten the Dundee based giant. Other Dundee chain [more local to Dundee] Morning Noon and Night
In Perth and Kinross there is a war between the local supermarkets for local people - D Evans and Jacopanzi's [I may not have spelt these names correctly]. They do not count as whilst there are many branches inPerth & Kinross, there are no branches outwith Perth and Kinross.
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From Monday -
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Hmmm, I need a new pair of gloves. I wonder if the on-the-cheap versions would do the job...
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Depends whether you need them for absorbing crater impacts or just keeping some of the weather off...
Triple-panniers are back in this time, so I shall be popping in on the way to work in case they're all gone by lunchtime.Posted 13 years ago # -
I've decided Lidl is a false economy. The gloves I bought ripped after a day the cycle computer gave up the ghost after a few months light use and the under saddle tool bag kept on bursting the zip open and dumping my tools all over the road!! ( it's now in a bin on Gilmerton road) as they say in holland Goedkoop is duurkoop.
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Wow, the jersey is a bit, er, stripy. The track mitts are okay for a single season the second pair I had were far, far better than the first, but neither a patch on my Pearl Izumi ones.
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