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+1 Recombodna
And its not like they are exactly 'giving it away'.
The £5.99 bike lock looks no more robust than the Abus cheapos I bought for my son on ebay for half that.
If price is a factor - and it is for most of us - I prefer to buy decent gear in sales.
Agree with Nelly that you can buy decent gear online or in sales at good prices, often better than what Lidl are touting their stuff for. I managed to get 2 pairs of nice Santini mitts from Prendas for a tenner earlier in the year and they've been great. Took me on my tour, on club rides, commuting and time trials and still going strong.
I can't quote on the quality of any of the Lidl stuff, because I've never actually bought any of it... But my experience of stuff that is made to be cheap (rather than reduced from a higher price) is that it is cheap for a reason. Some of the Revolution own-brand stuff suffers from this (conversely, some of it is the opposite and very well made).
The cycling socks are a blatant copy of Icebreaker's merino design.
I've got a NZ Sock Company Merino pair exactly the same look at the lidl ones, suspect they are local market versions of the ones icebreaker sell abroad.
@Nelly Ah yes you've just reminded me I bought a lidl D lock a few years ago and had to cut my bike off a lamp post because the keys just stopped working.
@recombodna
Did you get any odd looks, or did people just let you get on with it !!
Kapps et al - the cost benefit analysis is of course to find something cheap and good. LIDL do excellent almonds £1.89. I am told there meat/fish is good [I veggie]. There socks are good for £2.49. When I was rummaging in their market stall I got into chat with older bargain hunter who insisted I buy some shades. They looked cheap rubbish but I was pulled in by the community bargain hunting vibe. They have been good for about 3 months, I look at the world through tangerine coloured spectacles.
On related matter many of my EBC bargains were out of stock despite me buying them before the sale started. Still got some boottees that were half price in their sale and still cheap in comparison to where you could get them elsewhere.
LIDL have a lot of continental brands and foodstuffs that are impossible or expensive to find elsewhere. For example wonderful Black Forest smoked ham (a bit like Parma or Jamón Iberico but a fraction of the price) and Greek chillies stuffed with feta cheese caught my eye and tickled my palate. Worth taking a discerning eye with you once you've grabbed a few cycling gear deals.
Crowriver - I am on that ham then as doing food for charity wine tasting next week and want to keep costs low to maximise charity donation. There is quite a bit of beauty in the eye of the beholder - remove label and package, put on blue and white china plate with bit of a fig and bingo
happened last time with cheese - agreed by all to be delish, was it Mellis, no it was Scotmid
you can't cycle wearing a piece of cheese
Scotmid's not bad for cheese, but I can heartily recommend Sainsbury's Basics range: the cheapest feta, brie, camembert and mozarella balls you are likely to find (except possibly Asda, but they always seem to be sold out). Nowt wrong with the taste, either.
Oh and LIDL's Black Forest ham is scrumptious: you get a lot in a pack too.
@ Kaputnik Cheesy Helmet?
some bike stuff coming up
£24.99
£3.99 chain cleaner could be good
also jacket,gloves,lights,locks and smaller tool kit
They had the digital callipers in the Dalry branch today, too.
The toolkit's quite useful, and has so far not broken. The crank extractor appears to only suit squarey-tapery things, but that's fine for me at the moment. The pin spanner and BB-lockring-tool thing don't work particularly well on really old things but the chainwhip's perfectly usable.
Cheap tools? Like buying a big bag of AIDS to cure your snoofle.
If any one is replacing their brooks with an air cushion saddle, I'll give them a fiver for it...
the digital calipers are well worth it, had them for a few years now very handy at times
Someone mentioned lidl's being a false economy for bike gear... would say it depends what you get. My pannier bags came from Lidl's 3-4 years ago and still mostly going strong despite the abuse that several years of uni has thrown at them. Only things that have broken were the clips that secure them from underneath - starting to show some signs of wear now and they're not as waterproof as they once were but yeh it does depend what you're after :)
My LIDL cycling sunglasses have seen a lot of use. They're just as good as the old (scratched) ones I got from Wiggle for three times the price. I bought a jacket and padded cycling trousers at the same time, but have hardly used them.
The toolkit looks pretty handy. I already have most of the items, so not for me. I'd say it's pretty good value unless the tools are 'made of cheese'.
The tools look just like the EBC tune-up set, some parts of which are like a soft Brie while others are more Parmesan
I'm very happy with my IceToolz set, no 'cheese' but also no cone spanners, nor headset spanners. Those I picked up on fleaBay for not a lot.
But don't you just open the box humming, duum, duum, duum, diddy dum dum, like a Halifax advert?
Being a fan of all things reflective and permanently on my bike i will be getting a set of bargain spoke reflectors. now if i tape on a playing card etc it really will be stepping back int time ..
@Instography, you mean that Vanilla Ice tune? Oh, I remember that, way back when.
No, to be honest I don't find myself humming it. Probably will now, though!
Yeah, sorry about that. He really did put a permanent stain on the word "ice".
Under pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Slightly cooler than Vanilla Ice.....
"When I see this advert I think of fire, screaming and post-nuclear landscapes. It makes me long for death's icy embrace and an eternity in endless, unknowable limbo. It's an awfulness so deep and broad it's like some abstract notion of evil; the merest hint of which is so fundamentally disturbing it would drive kind, sane men to murderous havoc. It makes me want to kill.
It makes me vomit, spasm uncontrollably and punch myself in the face. If we can survive this, we can survive anything...
beerj1992 7 months ago 8 "
Holy mother of monkeys, it's a YouTube comment I admire...
Finally got there. Well I was looking at the chips.
(In Dalry Road)
Seemed to have most things still - except the big tool kit.
Which is just as well as I might have been tempted to buy something I didn't need...
Popped into the Leith branch this afternoon. No big tool kits in evidence, had most other things though.
Picked up a couple of packs of spokes reflectors: will fit a set to the Ute's front wheel, plus maybe on the single speed back and front. Also two of the locks, for kids' bikes/front wheel retaining duties. Then I started looking about and spotted the windproof jackets: one was out of its packet so I checked it out: not too bad. Got an apple green one, plus a matching set of gloves in my size. Pretty good for the price. There were a couple of black jackets too, which is probably cooler but I'm too old to worry about that. The green one should make a useful supplement to my Altura windproof which is yellow. Picked up a chain cleaner kit too. They had some shorts which I didn't like the look of, bib longs which were too large for me, and other bits and bobs. I was happy with what I had though so that was it.
Then to the chilled foods section for Black Forest ham, feta cheese, chorizo and greek chillies stuffed with feta and marinated in olive oil... Scrumptious and very reasonably priced too.
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