Non-Ebay Deals/Bargains

£300 difference for the RTD80. Is it really £300 to build a bike?

Take off the VAT, £250.

Bike builders earn £7.75-£8.20 per hour, call it £8.00/h, add on the Employer's NI contribution and you get £8.45/h. So you can afford 29.5 person-hours before making a loss, not including consumables and static costs (utilities etc).

Halfords expect bike builders to do 4 bikes per hour regardless of type, which says a lot about their quality expectations.

Cost and price are two very different things. If they build it, they also need to add a bit to pay for dealing with any faults caused by the service rather than the parts or user.

Building a Halfords bike is taking it out of the box and maybe turning the forks the right way round, I imagine PX bikes are actually built up.

It would probably take me a whole evening plus three beers to set up one hydro brake from its constituent parts...(Iamnotabikebuilder)

Speedplay Zero are back to £80 at Wiggle: £107 generally.

#thanksBrexit

51 quid for a pair of xt8000 spd with the cleats posted from mantel.

58cm ex display Fuji Sportif Frame about £90 at Evans. No forks but planet x selling carbon tapered disc forks for around £70.

Thanks, just ordered some pedals

Sigmasport have giro synthes for £99 black with blue accents

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Gets you 20% off on Adidas .com

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10% off first order on Dr Martens .com

Canyon are selling Mavic cosmic elite wheels for £57.95 (front) and £72 (rear) - they're £166 and £203 at wiggle to compare.

https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/accessories/#category=specials&subcat=T108

'Rims ETRTO: 622x15C '

Doesn't this limit the wdith of tyres one can use on these Mavic wheels?

Sounds like a decent deal - RRP is £370 for the wheelset.
They come at £137.89 for the wheelset including delivery on the Canyon website.

I just don't need wheels!

They're not on trend wide rims but they'd be fine for 23-28s. They're road wheels after all.

edit - wrong thread.

Thanks for the reassurance.

also come with a pair of tyres worth at least 40 quid. Not bad.

Enigma have smallish to medium Etape for good price.

Went into condor to buy cheap hoodie and cap, came out as a full kit wanker with the jlt mavic jersey and bibs as well. Cheap and seems like good quality.

Ahh i saw you. Blue brompton? Left just before closing. I got the winter hat and cap for 20 and 5 respectively.

Just seen these. https://www.condorcycles.com/collections/shorts-bib-shorts/products/jlt-condor-replica-bib-shorts?variant=33590013770 worth getting?

I got the shorts and cap and wore them on my sunday ride this weekend. Shorts are really good for the money, didn't think I'd get on with the pad when it arrived but it fits well and was pretty comfy. Definitely worth the money.

Haha, yep! I wondered if I'd spot you in there but didn't recognise you, sorry! :) hope you weren't waiting too long in the queue behind me, sales guy was trying to talk me into buying a cut-price frame and I was trying to find out whether they had any disc forks in the sale...

Ahh great. Shame. I didnt spot them while in there. I were seeing open corsas for 29.99 on the shelf.

Maybe ill have to get it. Thanks

Yeah cut throat sales there .learn to say NO lol.

Yeah i were beside you at the till red gilet with a mate waiting behind. Well, i forgot your name and was not prepared to shout turtlerecall

Haha, yeah probably for the best! You've got to be REALLY sure you've got the right person (and that no-one else can hear you).

Right about the sales, but I can always do with more lycra I guess, and I do like a bargain...