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[Warchild]

The forks on there were SE Racing landing gear. Expensive forks, but not anything like the Bombshells (LG are around £100 RRP, Bomshells are £250+). The bike *should have* GT Olympic spec forks on. They are 100% carbon, and the steerer tube is 1-1/8 at the top tapered down to 1.5" at the bottom. It is the only bike to use those forks and was 2012 Olympic spec. As you can imagine though, this brought on a headache.. But Hope was restored because Hope UK do an adaptor for £8.

You can't really rate a set of wheels on the colour, fella. That was unimportant. What was important was getting the killer wheels on there that it deserves, and I've done that (colour be damned).

SRS, riding loose ball hubs actually sucks.

Loved Hope brakes. I remember my hope mono 6Ti pots. 6 pistons on each wheel and came in at a cool £300 each. That didnt even include the rotors.

Be grateful you arent into MTB though. The cost of MTB hobby build is absolutely crazy. I recently spent £290 on SPank Pedals.

 

[Layer Cakes]

Clear your PM's Alien, trying to send you a message about that O ring

 

[tannji]

Clear your PM's Alien, trying to send you a message about that O ring

A possible solution to your missing O-ring could be O-ring cord. cut your own, bond it with essentially super-glue. (whatever that may be called in the UK)


https://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/p83101/1mm-Section-NITRILE-70-O-Ring-Cord/product_info.html

https://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/p...0g-Suitable-for-O-Ring-Cord/product_info.html

My apologies if you had already considered this.

 

[AlienALX]

Loved Hope brakes. I remember my hope mono 6Ti pots. 6 pistons on each wheel and came in at a cool £300 each. That didnt even include the rotors.

Be grateful you arent into MTB though. The cost of MTB hobby build is absolutely crazy. I recently spent £290 on SPank Pedals.

Just looking at Hope pedals. Got a few of their components now. They're expensive though (£120).

I did, however, buy this earlier.

I was a bit wary, but I found numerous reviews that said it's excellent and it only weighs 590 grams. Compared to well over a KG for the 4130 cro mo cranks on there. Needed this of course..

Which was a PITA but at least it will have race cranks on it now

Lucy - cleared. Only allowed 27 here lol.

Vape stuff !

 

[creme_]

I am hesitating whether I should buy a used Nintendo DS from Amazon. I know it is old but I am just nostalgic and want to play it. Before ordering though, I want to ask you is it worth it. The price range is between $40-80, and it comes with charger and everything. The thing that I am most concerned about is whether I can play it with the new games, or they won't work?

 

[AlienALX]

I am hesitating whether I should buy a used Nintendo DS from Amazon. I know it is old but I am just nostalgic and want to play it. Before ordering though, I want to ask you is it worth it. The price range is between $40-80, and it comes with charger and everything. The thing that I am most concerned about is whether I can play it with the new games, or they won't work?

Get a DS2. I got this pack last week for £75, they should run you $80 out there.

I love mine, I use it for relaxing in bed. It runs all original DS games.

Ordered those last night. Made in Lincolnshire

 

[creme_]

Omg Yes, I will!
Where did you buy it from? And where did you ordered the games from?

 

[AlienALX]

Omg Yes, I will!
Where did you buy it from? And where did you ordered the games from?

Amazon UK. £74.99 with Prime shipping. I also bought Super Mario 3D Land (£13.99) and then a used version of Mario Golf World Tour for £12.50.

Apparently there is a way to use an SD card to exploit it too. The tool for it costs mere pounds. I have not done mine yet. A mate said he would do it for me when I am feeling better and back home.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-H...pID=51UNtzH1RhL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

My one is on Amazon too if you prefer platforming to racing.

U.S

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01LZ2MX91/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

And they have the Zelda one out there too, which was my fave in colour but stupid money here in the UK

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0784FNTRV/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

There's an Amazon Warehouse used like new one there for $81

 

[AverageNinja]

Had a rough few weeks, so I decided to treat myself to a new watch, a Seiko SNXS79k. I own a G-shock GA-110, which is actually a pretty good looking watch, but I wanted something a bit more dressy and casual for schooldays. Also, I have really small wrists and G-shocks are massive. So I bought this. Good automatic watch with a good, in-house movement at like £70, and a bit more suitable for my wrist at only 37mm.

Also bought some NATO straps, which are a bit more casual than metal straps, and easily interchangeable, which I like. You can easily mix-and-match these with your outfit.

 

[Excalabur50]

Had a rough few weeks, so I decided to treat myself to a new watch, a Seiko SNXS79k. I own a G-shock GA-110, which is actually a pretty good looking watch, but I wanted something a bit more dressy and casual for schooldays. Also, I have really small wrists and G-shocks are massive. So I bought this. Good automatic watch with a good, in-house movement at like £70, and a bit more suitable for my wrist at only 37mm.

Also bought some NATO straps, which are a bit more casual than metal straps, and easily interchangeable, which I like. You can easily mix-and-match these with your outfit.

Nice Seiko, I own a Citizen Eco Drive myself but I do like Seiko

 

[AverageNinja]

Nice Seiko, I own a Citizen Eco Drive myself but I do like Seiko

Very nice! I do love Citizen, especially their Eco Drive Titanium chronographs, but they were a little out of my budget sadly. It was either gonna be a Seiko 5 or a Timex for me, and I chose the Seiko because it was priced very well. I'd love to own a Citizen as well though (and maybe an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch while I'm at it :lol

 

[AngryGoldfish]

Very classy!

 

[AlienALX]

The diet continues.

 

[RobM]

I put a cheeky offer in on this and it got accepted
£7 delivered from China

 

[AlienALX]

They are great reservoirs. However, note two things. One you need to bottom feed/empty and two mine came with no plugs and no connector for the pump (the three silver bits).

Quality though was ace.

 

[RobM]

will let you know if all there when it arrives in April

 

[AlienALX]

will let you know if all there when it arrives in April

Longest anything has ever taken was three weeks. Hong Kong is usually a week or two. China? yeah that is longer, but patience pays dividends dude. I've just ordered this lot...

£18. I did my homework first, because a bad crank can be dangerous, but even my mate who still races pro at 42 years old is running one and said it's awesome. Closest you will get is the Shimano, and that is £130. I watched a couple of Youtube vids too, it weighs 590 grams. I also got this for £17.

A Cannondale one would cost £150+ I don't care if it isn't as strong,the whole point is to drop it and not use it. Then I got this for £18.

Same thing again, I am not about to sit on a solid carbon seat. But even the rails are carbon, so I am shedding about 600 grams just switching out the seat and post. Would have cost me £300 plus using name branded components.

Thing is dude I wouldn't mind, right, if you got what you paid for. But, given red man's greed has basically had them ship everything from China and get it all made there? you can't even buy that quality any more. Everything and anything, all feckin' made there any way ! to the same bloody standard (see also - Razer).

I bought this desk the other week on Amazon, described as, and I quote "High Quality". It's bloody awful. Laminate like paper, MDF underneath (well at least it wasn't chip board I guess?) and looks a bit tacky. Thankfully with the huge mat I bought and once the monitor and computer go on there you won't really see much of it.

 

[RobM]

Agree there mate even Draper power tools are now made in China and it appears you can get identical stuff from China at a fraction of the cost.
I do think cheap often means cheap as I had a socket set from Asia and the moment I attempted to remove a stubborn nut, cracked a socket open so bought a good Halfrauds one with a life time guarantee and never had an issue again.
Sadly health means I can no longer play about with classic cars or find a job so will start offloading my tools when I can find motivation to do so.

 

[AlienALX]

I usually use half decent tools. As they say, a man is only as good as his tools..

My jigsaws are both Bosch, one of which is a pro model. When I was 18-27 I was absolutely obsessed with 18" woofers. My hobby was box building, and believe me crap tools made for crap boxes. My brother used to loan me his planer and belt sander and ETC but I always had my own jigsaws.

Thing is, you can pretty much tell the quality of a tool just by looking at it. Instead of buying a cheap bottom bracket tool I got a good one. Glad I did, because it shows no wear. Unlike the chain link extractor that fell apart after two uses, FFS.

 

[Dicehunter]

Corsair 570X side panel cover from ColdZero, Nicely hides all the cables ^_^