Bargain Alerts Megathread 2 - too cheap to pay for a witty title

Macy0161 · 17-12-2021 10:24am

I make "GCN Energy Bars" if you google it (can't find the soft copy of the recipe). I swap the oil for 100g of butter in the recipe. I haven't made them for a while as they're so nice they're too much of willpower test off the bike (I normally make up half the recipe for that reason).

fat bloke · 17-12-2021 12:32pm

Fancy Dans with ye're foreign bars. A boiled egg and a boiled spud, you should have plenty of salt deposits about your person should you require a pinch :D

Seth Brundle · 17-12-2021 12:47pm

Eggs & spuds? is it not akward using a knife and fork whilst holding onto the hoods?

dahat · 17-12-2021 12:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335245#Comment_118335245

Nope, no bake bars

dahat · 17-12-2021 12:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335512#Comment_118335512

250 gms oats

3scopps protein

Plenty raisins

3 tablepsoons good quality nut butter

A good squeeze of honey & spalsh of milk to bind etc.

You will adjust the liquid to taste depending on your preference. I prefer mine slightly mosit to aid chewing on the bike as dry falky bars are awful to eat in motion.

54and56 · 17-12-2021 1:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335541#Comment_118335541

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMJEIiWV3VQ

Macy0161 · 17-12-2021 1:29pm

Anyway, slightly back On Topic - Harvest Morn Granola bars and/ or Go Bakes for the bargain on bike food!

fat bloke · 17-12-2021 7:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118336501#Comment_118336501

I'd pay good money to watch a man ate a boiled egg with a knife and fork! :)

CantGetNoSleep · 01-01-2022 9:28am

Elite Suito T reduced to 399 on the Zwift website, don't think I've seen a full smart trainer that cheap since pre COVID times, if ever. Would be good for anyone considering starting out on Zwift over the winter months

https://www.zwift.com/eu/shop/product/elite-suito-t?utm_medium=button-ecomm&utm_campaign=zwift_eu_suito_promo_jan21&Cassette+Type=10-Speed

68 lost souls · 05-01-2022 11:08am

Just ordered a Bontrager XxX wavecel helmet from Sigma sport. Reduced to €135 at the moment including shipping and taxes etc. been looking at them for a couple of years but couldn’t justify the €250+ they normally are

https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Bontrager/XXX-WaveCel-Helmet/M3UQ

dinneenp · 06-01-2022 1:56pm

Rapha some decent priced sale items (jerseys from €49) rapha.cc/eu/en/sale/category/sale

and still ricky villa · 10-01-2022 12:45pm

I haven't really been following these but if the 25% off is real, this is worthwhile

Kickr V5 for €900, Kickr Core for €600

https://www.bergfreunde.eu/wahoo-kickr-v5-indoor-trainer-turbo-trainer/

https://www.bergfreunde.eu/wahoo-kickr-core-indoor-trainer-turbo-trainer/

positron · 06-02-2022 10:52pm

I guess it's the season (for discounted turbo trainers) - CRC has Elite Direto for €521.

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/elite-direto-smart-turbo-trainer/rp-prod177808

I am slightly tempted but is Elite any good overall..?!

ratracer · 06-02-2022 10:57pm

I think it’s worth it at that price. I bought the Direto XR version ( only difference is it comes with the cassette fitted) last July for €650. It’s a good trainer, haven’t any complaint about it through the winter.

devonp · 23-02-2022 12:16pm

POC have a sale on sunglasses ...not everybody's cup of tea ....not all frames available...but if you like em (I do)

https://www.pocsports.com/collections/sunglasses

beggars_bush · 23-02-2022 12:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118592654#Comment_118592654

coming up as 491 now

buy in £. the exchange rates on those website is ridiculous

fat bloke · 01-03-2022 8:44pm

Specialized have a helmet trade in amnesty up to 50% off. Get an s-works prevail vent 2 for 160 euro. That's 139 euro off, down from 299.

They're running low on sizes in Brown's Barn though.

Bambaata · 01-03-2022 11:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118715882#Comment_118715882

This info just in store? Cant find anything online for the IE shop?

fat bloke · 01-03-2022 11:32pm

It's not just in Ireland if you Google it. Ends March 7th.

ballyharpat · 03-03-2022 2:51pm

I just bought an sworks Prevail vent from Brownsbarn shop, always a pleasure to deal with those lads. I have the older prevail 2 and a 2020 evade, but there is always a risk of breaking one, and they only last 5 years at best before needing to be replaced, plus, the old prevail can be relegated to dirty MTB spins :) The way I see it is, I pay at least e120 for a helmet anyway, so e30 more for an extremely comfortable top of the line lid is a no brainer.

Weepsie · 03-03-2022 4:11pm

The full list of helmets available. I emailed to ask them if they recycled the old ones or are they just landfill. If the latter, then I don't see the point unless you really want one of their helmets. But I'm forever looking for a way to recycle old helmets. They didn't answer that,, but gave me the list of helmets

Allign MIPS -- €35
Echelon II MIPS -- €50
Propero III -- €70
Chamonix MIPS -- €45
Centro LED -- €45
Ambush Comp -- €56
Ambush -- €100
S-Works Prevail Vent II -- €160

fat bloke · 03-03-2022 10:55pm

Worth going seeing them to try them on. The vent colours white, black, black/maroon, and sand/ chrome look very drab in the pics. In the flesh they're much nicer. Black is quite unremarkable alright. Nicest one is the "sand" which is an off white.

Also the ones on display are all small and they look amazing. Really tidy and neat. But then you ask for a large and it's a big mushroom on your head :D.

Sizing has changed as well from previous prevails. Mine is a large but the new one is larger still. Too big for me. If I was buying now I'd be a medium but they didn't have any mediums left in a colour I liked. I didn't like the black enough to shell out a ton sixty for it.

comete · 04-03-2022 11:24am

I thought this was a bargain tbh: https://www.merlincycles.com/shimano-dura-ace-r9100-11-speed-groupset-97454.html

Ordered one yesterday morning and it was dispatched yesterday afternoon.

fat bloke · 04-03-2022 12:02pm

Nice one. Though I distinctly remember a pre-covid deal down around the 1000 euro. I suppose with inflation, it's the same amount now!

I ordered a langerload of these yesterday for myself and two mates.

https://www.bike24.com/p2464.html

Conti tubes for 3.61 each. Postage is a tenner so a group or bulk buy is worth orchestrating. - max 25mm width tyres (which is all a roadie has ever needed or will ever need!!:)) but it includes 42, 60 and 80mm valve lengths. 80mm valve length tubes are normally in excess of 8 euro, and in a bricks and mortar shop you can pay 12.99 for one. So - knock yerselves out, fill ye're boots!

fat bloke · 04-03-2022 12:05pm

Here's another bargain I availed off yesterday with some other lads:

https://procyclingoutlet.com/product/camelbak-podium-water-bottle-21oz-garmin-sharp/

3 euro per camelbak is a steal and they really really last, much much better and longer and your normal bottle.

Postage is steep at 30 euro, but over 100 quid you get free postage. So, again, go bulk.

magicbastarder · 04-03-2022 12:06pm

analogue ultegra is €1,140; i remember when i was buying my groupset (in a B&M shop) i had the choice of 6800 for €600 or 8000 for about €800. i went with the former. granted, that was i think three and a half years ago.

comete · 04-03-2022 12:17pm

Yeah, I bought r8000 when it was first released back in 2018 and I’m pretty certain I paid about £750 gbp, but on the merlin site the spec I wanted (172.5mm 52/36 and 11-28) was coming in about 1330, so it was a no brainier to cough up the extra 270 for dura ace.

fat bloke · 04-03-2022 12:41pm

God be with the days, I bought r8000 for under 700 euro pre covid, and the mrs got r8000 supplied and fitted in a bike shop for 800 quid just before the proverbial hit the fan as well.

ballyharpat · 04-03-2022 1:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728500#Comment_118728500

I'm a medium in previous models, I'm hoping that the medium will still fit me oops... Yeah, they had only 2 colors left in the medium, the matt black and the maroon and black, I went with the maroon, I'm tired of seeing 'stealth' black everywhere 😖 boring. I'd have loved the green/chameleon one, or the 'speed of light' one.

CramCycle · 04-03-2022 5:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118171715#Comment_118171715

I already got this awhile ago and still have 49 tubes sitting in work for anyone interested.

Bargain Alerts Megathread 2 - too cheap to pay for a witty title

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