Columbia store at Cheshire Oaks stocks mountain hardware clothing. Just got some Dry Q softshell pants for the rovaniemi race next year. £36 instead of £375 (that's not a typo). Have plenty of bargains in. Also got a windstopper hat for £3.

With a visit if you're local

For anyone looking for a cheap 29er, Merlin have some BeOne bikes heavily reduced, the specs don't look bad for the price.

http://www.merlincycles.com/beone-mount ... _874953_70

Rutland cycles have a lot of offers on Exposure lights and accessories including 2012 Joysticks for £50 and current model for £80. Boost cable is also only £6.99 at mo

http://www.rutlandcycling.com/advanceds ... m=exposure

Brothersmith wrote:Rutland cycles have a lot of offers on Exposure lights and accessories including 2012 Joysticks for £50 and current model for £80. Boost cable is also only £6.99 at mo

http://www.rutlandcycling.com/advanceds ... m=exposure

Fingers in ears and covering eyes, la la la la la I can't hear you.


Rutland also do Quidco cash back for another 3% off.
http://www.quidco.com/rutland-cycling/

10% off Exped mats via Outdoorsgb.com until the 10 April

Discount code: EX2014

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gelert-Solo-One ... pg__header

£26.68 for a solo tent (inc delivery). Perhaps not for when you really need to rely on your kit but for a newbie wanting to have a go it isn't bad. 1.5kg.

I saw on the same page there was a wisperlite style gas bottle top stove knock off for £4.08. Perhaps not the best idea.

Some Jones bars just listing on ebay..
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jones-Handle- ... 1e89c3ead8

Starting bid is £30... being sold by 'married a tosser'

Dash4it maps (again)

Extra 7% off with code 7TODAY

Yorlin wrote:Some Jones bars just listing on ebay..
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jones-Handle- ... 1e89c3ead8

Starting bid is £30... being sold by 'married a tosser'

I did think they were the worlds smallest Jones bars till I saw the 2nd pic as their listed as a 160mm

The bike I'm building up won't have fork bottle mounts so I was looking for a bumbag, er, fannybag, I mean Lumbar/Waist pack.

Saw these reduced at Blacks, looks pretty good for £20 (+postage but %6 cashback through Quidco)

http://www.blacks.co.uk/equipment/11883 ... -pack.html

Jeff Jones H bars for 75 quid...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jeff-Jones-H- ... 35d4822a02

Not sure why I'm so interested in handle bars this week...

Whoosh, and the Jones bars are gone.... (not me BTW)

johnnystorm wrote:The bike I'm building up won't have fork bottle mounts so I was looking for a bumbag, er, fannybag, I mean Lumbar/Waist pack.

Saw these reduced at Blacks, looks pretty good for £20 (+postage but %6 cashback through Quidco)

http://www.blacks.co.uk/equipment/11883 ... -pack.html

I'm really tempted by one of these but I think I'm really looking to get the water off my back. Maybe 2 small bottles though would be alright and it gives you a small amount of say food storage as well.
Only having a full sized frame bag I'm struggling with how I might carry water any other way when running a suspension fork, not that I have bottle cages for my salsa fargo fork anyway...

I guess they aren't going to be £20 forever either.

bottle cage, jubilee clips and a wrap of old inner tube for paintwork protection around the fork leg has proven robust for me in the past. Ugly though.

composite wrote:

johnnystorm wrote:The bike I'm building up won't have fork bottle mounts so I was looking for a bumbag, er, fannybag, I mean Lumbar/Waist pack.

Saw these reduced at Blacks, looks pretty good for £20 (+postage but %6 cashback through Quidco)

http://www.blacks.co.uk/equipment/11883 ... -pack.html

I'm really tempted by one of these but I think I'm really looking to get the water off my back. Maybe 2 small bottles though would be alright and it gives you a small amount of say food storage as well.
Only having a full sized frame bag I'm struggling with how I might carry water any other way when running a suspension fork, not that I have bottle cages for my salsa fargo fork anyway...

I guess they aren't going to be £20 forever either.

I've got a Hydrapak version of that which uses a bladder and bitevalve rather than bottles. Only used it once, maybe I should put it on the Classifieds! (apologises for flagrant hijack)

I like bum bags as you don't usually notice you are wearing them when they are on but then I rarely carry water bottles in mine and two full 700ml bottles which come with this one will weigh quite a bit. Having said that I am tempted by it as mine is starting to show signs of it's age. I usually stow fruit/snacks or inner tubes in the bottle holder bit.

johnnystorm wrote:Whoosh, and the Jones bars are gone.... (not me BTW)

Yeah, that was me actually

Twitchy right fore-finger today...


(a pair of Jones Bend bars may be coming to a classifieds forum near you soon)

vorlich wrote:bottle cage, jubilee clips and a wrap of old inner tube for paintwork protection around the fork leg has proven robust for me in the past. Ugly though.

composite wrote:

johnnystorm wrote:The bike I'm building up won't have fork bottle mounts so I was looking for a bumbag, er, fannybag, I mean Lumbar/Waist pack.

Saw these reduced at Blacks, looks pretty good for £20 (+postage but %6 cashback through Quidco)

http://www.blacks.co.uk/equipment/11883 ... -pack.html

I'm really tempted by one of these but I think I'm really looking to get the water off my back. Maybe 2 small bottles though would be alright and it gives you a small amount of say food storage as well.
Only having a full sized frame bag I'm struggling with how I might carry water any other way when running a suspension fork, not that I have bottle cages for my salsa fargo fork anyway...

I guess they aren't going to be £20 forever either.

I am experimenting with one of these in my frame pack.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/camelbak-perfor ... 5360478656

I have attached a longer camelback hose from an old bladder and run that to my bars which I hold in place with a retractable lift pass reel. Did use a bladder but this takes up less space and doesn't upset the load as the contents diminish.

Brothersmith wrote:
I am experimenting with one of these in my frame pack.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/camelbak-perfor ... 5360478656

I have attached a longer camelback hose from an old bladder and run that to my bars which I hold in place with a retractable lift pass reel. Did use a bladder but this takes up less space and doesn't upset the load as the contents diminish.

Ooh, that's a good idea. I'm keen to avoid bladders as I imagine they'll be easier to puncture, filling them up is a faff and I can't just lob it in the dishwasher on my return.

Monkii cages through Cyclemiles do a mount that you can run on forks with a bit of bodging. Think Stu did it.

Some Jones bars just listing on ebay..
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jones-Handle- ... 1e89c3ead8

Starting bid is £30... being sold by 'married a tosser'

: ) there was some trimmed loop bars FS on here a while back weren't there? Is the buyers wife clearing his garage out?!
I have 5 Jones bars now and a couple of Titecs and still keep an eye out for them SH but my OH is to polite to call me a tssr in public whatever she thinks of the bike distractions in life..

johnnystorm wrote:Saw these reduced at Blacks, looks pretty good for £20 (+postage but %6 cashback through Quidco)

http://www.blacks.co.uk/equipment/11883 ... -pack.html

Ordered, the missus owed me £20 I'd forgotten about until she reminded me earlier .

You're quite sure they are still there?

Ian - thanks for taking temptation out of my way!

Hydration - lots of places have cheapio camelbaks right now (or at least I'm getting lots of emails about them)...

As for Blacks, the physical stores tend to be run by managers/people with little clue, you can find pretty good bargains if you rummage in the corners. I've seen MSR stoves with 50% off and titanium pans and things reduced by quite a lot as well...

Yorlin wrote:Ian - thanks for taking temptation out of my way!

You're welcome - thanks for posting the link

Garmin Dakota/Etrex/etc bar mounts £4
http://r.ebay.com/7qsbny

A smidge less outrageous than rrp for a small bit of plastic.