Best Cyber Monday cycling deals live blog: Vitus ZX-1 with SRAM Rival just £1999.99, Orro carbon road bike for under £1k, LifeLine turbo trainer just 15 QUID, Proviz jackets from £40, 71% off Universal Colours, 30-piece Draper Allen set for £12.49 + more
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47% off BMC 257 UrbanChallenge AL ONE Alfine 8
This BMC urban bike looks like the perfect bike for commuting or just cutting about town, and nearly half off the price (now £1,199), it’s not badly priced for what you get. It’s got internal hub gears (reliable!), mudguards (clean!) and a very simple, pleasing look to it. What’s not to like?
Check out the BMC 257 UrbanChallenge AL ONE Alfine 8 on Tredz now
Universal Colours clothing up to 71% off on Sigma Sports
Universal Colours clothing is reduced quite generously on Sigma Sports – including these Universal Colours Chroma Thermal Merino Plus Bib Shorts (now £63),
Universal Colours’ Spectrum Long Sleeve Jersey (now £40),
Universal Colours Spectrum Lightweight Unisex Gilet (now £40)
and Universal Colours Mono Bio Unisex Tech Tee (now £25).
And there is lots more, too both in terms of casual and more lycra-tight apparel.
35% off everything at Muc-Off
Stock up on your favourite cleaning products or bag some early Christmas gifts with 35% discount on everything on Muc-Off’s website.
The pressure washer bundle is now £84.50 reduced from £130 and includes everything you’ll need to keep your bike running smoothly this winter.
36% off Garmin's Forerunner 55 smartwatch
If you’re after some wearable tech this Black Friday, Amazon has a great deal on Garmin’s Forerunner 55 smartwatch.
It’s ideal for cyclists and runners, offering GPS tracking and wrist-based heart rate monitoring.
Up to 70% off at MyProtein
If you’re looking for one of the best Black Friday sales then MyProtein could take the title. They’ve up to 70% off across their site which includes loads of great nutrition products.
It’s not all protein powders either. There are some great carb drink mixes, energy bars and gels too which would be ideal for fuelling those long winter miles that we’ve got to come. Just use code BLACK
50% off EVERYTHING at Altura
Coming in hot with the discounts is Altura, who has 50% off absolutely everything on its website. That’s right… half price on EVERYTHING…
So whether you’ve had your head turned by the AllRoads Fleece, recently scored 9/10 by road.cc reviewer Bryn, or the Icon Pocket Rocket Waterproof Packable Jacket, jerseys, shorts, or quite literally anything else, you’ll get your 50 per cent off.
More than 40% off Cannondale Synapse and SuperSix Evo at Sigma Sports
The savings keep on coming…
Sigma Sports has some hefty discounts on Cannondale’s Synapse and SuperSix Evo road bikes, both available for under £1,600 for Black Friday. The Synapse 4 (above) with 10-speed Shimano Tiagra is just £1,399, down from £2,400, for this week only.
Get the Cannondale Synapse 4 for just £1,399
For £200 more get the SuperSix EVO with 11-speed Shimano 105, down from £2,800…
Want to join the smart training revolution for less? The Lifeline Xplova Noza S is down to just £249.99
With an RRP of £699.99, this is a pretty stonking deal. The trainer is power-accurate to a claimed +/-2.5%, has a max power ceiling of 2,500 watts and it will connect up with all your fave virtual riding apps. The price is down to what most ‘dumb’ trainers would have cost a couple of years ago, so if you’re in the market for a trainer and don’t want to spend too big, this is a bit of a steal. You can also read our review here.
Get the LifeLine Xplova NOZA S Smart Trainer for £249.99, saving 64%
Illuminating deals from Proviz: cycling jackets for £40 and many items better than half price
Reflective cycling gear specialists Proviz are having a big old sale for Black Friday, and a standout deal for us is the Nightrider jacket, down from £99.99 to £40 for Black Friday… £40 in all colours except for the one above that is, which is £59.99, but that’s still a very good deal!
Get a Proviz Nightrider men’s jacket from just £40
Get the Proviz Nightrider women’s jacket from just £40
Elsewhere Proviz have at least 30% off on all their cycling items in the Black Friday sale, and there’s an extra 10% off flash sale at the time of writing.
30-piece Draper Allen key set down to just £12.49 at Amazon (and the 7-piece Tx star set is just £5.25)
Don’t get too excited, but there are some great deals on Allen keys over at Amazon! While it might not be the sexiest product category, if you’re after some decent hex keys that will do the job and don’t quite have the budget for a lovely Silca or Unior set, this is a very good deal.
You get 15 metric and 15 imperial keys, and the metric ones cover pretty much every size you’ll find on a modern bike… unless it’s a star-shape bolt you need to loosen or tighten, for which you can pick up Draper’s 7-piece set for just £5.25. You’ll never have to worry about not having the right size hex key again!
Pick up the Draper 20-piece hex key set for just £12.49, saving 18%
Get the Draper 7-piece Tx star hex key set for just £5.25, saving 35%
Le Col Black Friday deals: use code EXTRA35 to save on jackets, base layers, bib tights and more
Le Col have loads of quality kit in their Black Friday, sale, including the Pro Long Sleeve jersey down to just £78 from an RRP of £160.
There are men’s and women’s items for all seasons, don’t miss out!
Shop Le Col’s Black Friday sale and save at least 35% on sale items
The most ridiculous Black Friday offer ever? LifeLine TT-01 Turbo Trainer down to £14.99, that's 85% off!
While it’s now common knowledge that a lot of Black Friday discounts aren’t actually the absolute best offers you can get all year* (a 2021 Which? study shockingly found that 98% of products on Black Friday offers were cheaper or the same price at other times of the year), we’re fairly confident that Wiggle and Chain Reaction haven’t sold a whole turbo trainer for the price of a couple of London pints before. In fact we’ve never seen a turbo this cheap, it’s outrageously cheap.
With the original RRP at £99.99, this trainer still had plenty of satisfied customers and a couple of road.cc staffers have vouched for it on our internal Skype chat. It’s very much analogue with six levels of magnetic resistance – and it won’t do any of that Zwift or disc brake nonsense – but if you do most of your riding outside and just need something to stick your (rim brake) bike in for the odd spin or car park warm-up, this is a ridiculously good deal. You could even do some Zwifting with a Bluetooth sensor; add a fan and a basic mat, and you could start your indoor training journey for under 50 quid.
Yes Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles are in financial hot water, but you’re probably not too concerned about the warranty at this price. If in doubt though, buy on credit card…
Get the LifeLine TT-01 Turbo Trainer at Wiggle for a silly £14.99
Or at Chain Reaction, for the same daft cheap price of £14.99
* We check prices pretty regularly and do our very best not to post deals if we’ve seen it cheaper at another time of the year. If we’re wrong about any of the deals we’ve posted, let us know and we’ll bin it!
More Wiggle bargains: annoy Rules bigots with a Topeak Aero Wedge from just £9
Yes it might put you in breach of Rule #31, but one of these handy aero wedges from Topeakwill free up pocket space for extra snacks without ruining the lines of your bike too much.
While we doubt it’s going to shave you any watts, this seat pack is designed to fit right under your saddle and out of the wind, hence the aero moniker. There’s also a reflective strip and a loop for attaching a rear bike light.
The large is sold out, but road.cc staffers confirm the medium will fit two tubes, a small mini pump and a multi-tool, and the small at least one tube plus a CO2 kit and multi-tool. Grab one from just £9.
Get a Topeak Aero Wedge (micro or small) for £9 or the medium-sized Aero Wedge for a tenner
Annnd even more from Wiggle: Vitus ZX-1 with SRAM Rival electric shifting down to just £1,999.99, Orro Gold Evo 11-speed down to £959.99, Prime carbon wheels from £299.99
The bargains keep on coming at Wiggle, and even though bike prices seem to have been rising and rising in recent years, this huge deal on the Vitus ZX-1 Evo with SRAM Rival 12-speed electronic shifting is a blast from the past, even if the spec isn’t.
We gave the Ultegra Di2 model a 9/10 and a Recommends award in 2021, and that was at the RRP of £3,999.99 – this one has shallower wheels, but at half the price and with an extra cog via the SRAM Rival groupset, it’s an absolute steal at two grand. All sizes are still in stock except for the Large.
Get the Vitus ZX-1 EVO Rival AXS road bike for £1,999.99
If your budget is half of this, then you can’t go wrong with the Orro Gold Evo 7000-FSA R800 road bike, down to £959.99 and the best price we’ve seen this bike so far.
It’s rare you get a full carbon frame and 11-speed for under a grand nowadays, and this bike only really compromises on the chainset and brakes, which are provided by FSA and Tektro respectively. This bike was also nominated for our Sportive and Endurance Bike of the Year award in 2019/20, and would make a fine introduction to carbon road bikes, or even a luxury winter bike.
Get the Orro Gold Evo 7000 for just £959.99
And finally… carbon wheels for under 300 quid? The dependable Prime Doyenne wheels with a 50mm depth are half price at £299.99, and would make a great upgrade for your rim brake road bike. The internal width is 20.3mm, so they should take 28mm tyres if your bike will quite comfortably.
Get the Prime Doyenne rim brake carbon wheels for just £299.99
As we’ve already alluded to, Wiggle had to call in administrators a few weeks back, but as far as we know they’re trading as normal. If in doubt, buy on a credit card or via PayPal.
New bike day? Wilier GTR Team 105 for £1,099 with Merlin, down from £1,999
Black Friday new bike day? Merlin Cycles have an almost half price offer on the Wilier GTR Team 105 road bike, reduced to £1,099 from £1,999. We’ve reviewed a previous model of this one, tech editor Mat finding it a “swift and smooth ride for those who want an endurance bike with a racing slant”.
For just a touch over a grand you’d be getting a full carbon frame and Shimano 105 11-speed throughout. Sure you might eventually want to upgrade the wheels and finishing kit, but for the Black Friday price you’d have few complaints.
Oh and it’s got rim brakes if you’re that way inclined. How retro… check out the 45% off here…
36% off a Topeak Smart D2 Digital Gauge
We were impressed enough to give the Topeak Smart D2 Guage a 9/10 rating a couple of years ago, the price on Amazon now down to £20.99.
As Simon reported back from his review: “It fits both Presta and Schrader valves, gives live readings of changing pressures and will last months, if not years, on a single battery. There’s little not to like – it’s the perfect antidote to analogue track pump readings that are often inaccurate and hard to see.”
Huub goes half price (or less) across the website
Performance-focused triathlon and cycle wear manufacturer Huub has plenty of savings across the website this Black Friday. In short, you can get 50% off just about everything and then, if you’re in luck with the right sizes, even bigger savings on a few select extras such as the Aventus One Arm Warmers and Leg Warmers, and 55% off the Core 4 Bib Shorts.
And with the temperatures dropping into winter, Huub’s Peaks Cycling Thermal Bib Tights are available in all sizes for £64.99, 50% off the usual £129.99 price tag.
Save £14 on the Bryton Gardia R300L Rear Light from Amazon
Amazon is offering 13% off the Bryton Gardia R300l, a rear bike light with a difference.
Rivalling Garmin’s Varia, the R300L also offers users a radar that connects to your head unit and provides real-time information about traffic approaching from behind.
An impressive bit of kit at an even more impressive price. Read our review if you don’t believe us…
Up to 70% off Castelli kit at Wiggle
Get kitted out ready for winter and enjoy up to 70% off Castelli cycling kit from Wiggle.
You can save 45-50% on Castelli’s Perfetto ROS Light Jersey and Gabba ROS Jersey as well as 20% off the Entrata bib shorts, recently reviewed and earning an 8/10.
Save 59% on SRAM RED ETAP AXS 2X Groupset
Who would not want a new groupset at a bargain price… Well this SRAM RED ETAP AXS 2X D1 Electronic HRD FM Groupset is not perhaps cheap for everyone at £999, but it is 59% cheaper than it used to be (2,423) on Tredz. If you’re after converting your road bike to electronic shifting, now is your chance to do it with style.
Shop the SRAM RED ETAP AXS 2X D1 Electronic HRD FM Groupset here
40% off Lake CX403 road shoes
These Lake kicks got a four-star review from us, and are now on a good sale on Sigma Sports, down to £269 from £450 in price. There seem to still be plenty of sizes available too, so if you’re after new road cycling shoes, check them out.
Garmin Edge 130 Plus £119 at Halfords and Amazon
Finally something I can recommend personally. If you’re in the market for a great value GPS device, you can’t really go wrong with the Garmin Edge 130 Plus, a sentiment Rachael agreed with when she tested it for us. Her exact words were that it “does the necessary with minimal fuss”, and that sounds about right to me.
HGet the Garmin Edge 130 Plus for £119 at Halfords
Or grab it at Amazon, also for £119
And with that I’ll leave you with Jack and Suvi as I grab my own 130 and head out for a quick lunchtime spin…
Save 40% on all SiS products
Science In Sport has 40% off their entire range of tasty energy and recovery products, allowing you to get stocked up for a long winter of cycling for less.
For example, the Rego Rapid Recovery Protein Powder is down to £11.99 and the Go Isotonic Energy Gels are always a popular product with 27 flavours. It’s all kind on the stomach and tasty too.
Up to 50% off Oakleys + extra 5% off at checkout
The deals continue and Oakley is offering up to 50% off plus an extra 5% off at checkout for Cyber Monday.
That makes a pair of Sutro Lite Sweeps around £120 and the Unity Collection Jawbreaker’s are down to £110.50 from £221.
30% off everything at Quad Lock - smartphone mounting kits for all devices
With 30% off everything, there’s a solution here for everyone who is looking to mount a smartphone to their bike.
Featuring a patented dual-stage lock, you can ride with confidence over rough roads and you can easily detach to snap that beautiful view or take an important phone call.
Quad Lock has dedicated kits (a case included with the mount) for iPhones, as well as for all Galaxy, Pixel and Huawei devices.
For other devices Quad Lock also has its Universal Fit kit that works by sticking a strong 3M VHB adhesive onto the rear of a smartphone or case.
25% off everything at Rapha and 35% off selected bundles
Rapha has 25% off sitewide when using the code BF2023 at checkout and you can also save 35% when pairing selected items, using the same code at checkout.
These items, including the Core Winter Jacket and Core Winter Tights, are ideal now that the temperature has dropped.
53% off Kryptonite Evolution Mini 7 Lock & Cable
If you don’t lock up your bike properly, you’re likely not going to have one for long… but the thing with locks is that they cost a lot! This Kryptonite Evolution Mini 7 Lock & 4 Foot Kryptoflex Cable is now retailing for less than half of its usual RRP, which means that you get a Sold Secure Gold D-lock and cable combo for a bargain price of £39.99.
Buy the Kryptonite Evolution Mini 7 Lock & Cable from Tredz here
30% off across Velocio clothing and accessories
Velocio’s kit is very comfortable and good-looking, and they now have a Cyber Monday sale which means 30% off a whole host of clothing and accessories on their site.
60% off Gorewear
Gorewear has some pretty impressive deals on their Black Friday / Cyber Monday pages, including this Torrent Long Sleeve jersey for women, reduced from £120 to £72
and these C5 thermo bib tights which look like they could keep you very warm in the cold and damp weather we’re about to get… and they now retail for £112 instead of £160.
The brand stocks lots of bad-weather kit so if you want to get your winter wardrobe refreshed, now is a good time for that!
Wiggle offers an extra 10% off for Cyber Week
When will it end? Black Friday week became Black Friday proper, which then morphed into Black Friday weekend, followed by Cyber Monday and soon-to-be Cyber Week. If you’ve got any appetite left Wiggle has an extra 10 per cent (when using the code EXTRA10 on selected items) off for the rest of the week, on top of the savings on its dhb range, Castelli clothing, bikes and more.
That means the Castelli Perfetto ROS Long Sleeve Jersey is down to just £99.99 in Military Green or £131.99 in a more conventional orange colour scheme. Either way, well down on the £220 RRP. You know what they say about big hands? Big savings on Castelli Lightness 2 Gloves, right? They’re down to £19.99 from £50 in sizes XL and 2XL. Oh, and you guessed it, there’s an extra 10 per cent off to be had with the code EXTRA10 at checkout.
Check ’em out…
Triban RC500 for under £500
Decathlon’s in the WorldTour, haven’t you heard?
> Decathlon set to become new co-title sponsor of AG2R La Mondiale, French team confirms
And while Felix Gall, Ben O’Connor, and this morning’s headline signing Sam Bennett, will all be aboard something a bit fancier than the Triban RC500, Van Rysel’s entry-level disc brake road bike sold at Decathlon surely can’t be beaten for value for money.
The price has been slashed from £649.99 to £499.99, and with space for up to 36mm tyres, this could be a cracking winter bike or first ride.
Welcome to the Cyber Monday live blog!
Oh gawd, it’s Cyber Monday! Yep, after a not exactly hectic but deal-laden Black Friday (or should that be Black November? It’s seemed that way this year) we’re now getting to the stage where the final reductions are made on sale stuff before 2024 bikes and cycling gear hit the shelves proper. Before the Christmas sales that is, and Boxing Day ones, and the January sales etc etc…
There is of course no need to spend. The world won’t stop spinning and your bank balance will surely thank you. However, at the same time we can’t deny there are more than a few bargains to be had if you’re in the market for something new, or want a head start on buying Christmas presents for your cycling-mad friends or relatives.
Despite our reservations about going too Black Friday/Cyber Monday crazy, we wouldn’t be doing our job as a cycling website if we weren’t telling you about the best places to buy kit, tech, bikes and more cycling stuff worth having at great prices. If the deals we’ve posted aren’t genuinely the best around and cheaper than they are at other times of the year, we won’t run them. If you find anything we’ve posted for less, let us know and we’ll edit or remove the post.
We’ve had a quick scan of the deals we posted on this blog on Friday, and pretty much all of them are still live with the exception of a few sizes of the reduced bikes now out of stock. We’ll find a few more Cyber Monday deals for you today as well, enjoy…
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27 November 2023, 06:45
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@Backladder Oh I think I can guess - the nearest indoor velodrome to road.cc HQ looks to be some distance away in Wales, whereas Odd Down Cycle Track (where this test was conducted) is just 2 miles away.
There are a number of causes of "the divide between motorists and cyclists". Only one is to do with the technology (of bicycles and cars) and that's the nature of the car, which is designed to induce the sort of dangerous and careless behaviours that providing humans with a lot of power and glamour fetches out of us. Other causes are much more insidious - A culture of hyper-individualism bordering on solipsism, with violently ultra-selfish and aggressive anti-heroes being promoted in every mass media channel as the ideal. A "news" media that overwhelmingly seeks, creates and offers pariahs and scapegoats to the rabid individualists, which pariahs and scapegoats includes all kinds of those perceived as less powerful and therefore easy victims, including cyclists. The near complete lack of any curb upon the dangerous antics of vast numbers of media-maddened motorists by the forces of law and order, many of whom are actually members themselves of the mass media maddened motorist ilk. ******** No amount of a more rational discourse about active travel or the means of making it safer will change these root causes of the vast numbers of deaths and maiming due to inept, incompetent and deliberately violent antics of vast numbers of motorists allowed their dangerous "weapons of choice". Yet many other highly damaging aspects of modern societies would be solved by a much more effective curbing of mass media mob-building and goading along with a serious attempt to prevent motorists and a whole range of other damagers from behaving as badly as so many do. It'll not happen, of course. Large and powerful elements of the modern world obtain far too much ultra-riches and power from current conditions for them to allow any significant change. And vast numbers of the population have long had their minds, attitudes and behaviours captured and directed by various oligarchical monsters and their mass media propaganda horns. About the only chance of safe active travel becoming extant is for the population at large to become mostly too poor to afford a car, ironically one other likely outcome of the machinations of those same power and money-mad monsters that have created the car-issue in the first place. Their need for zero-sum socio-economic arrangements degrades everything, including the wallet-contents of the masses.
@Astralstroll The hierarchy of road users does not mean priority of road users except in certain circumstances, e.g. stopping to let pedestrians cross junctions before turning. It doesn't mean that cyclists have priority over motor vehicles at all times any more than the pedestrians have priority over cyclists at all times. It certainly doesn't mean that you have priority in the circumstances you describe; personally, unless the driver is being a complete dick, on a narrow country lane I accept that it is easier for me to turn around and go back to the nearest passing place, which is never that far if you're on a bike, than for a tractor or other large vehicle to reverse back down the road for my benefit.
If you were spending that much money on the device the obvious thing to do is to book a couple of hours in a velodrome for testing in a stable environment, I can't understand why Road.cc tried to do it outdoors.
@chrisonabike 'Minimisation' please!
@Astralstroll The Hierarchy of Road Users, announced with great fanfares in 2022, has been rendered into complete fiction by the attitude of the police: there is this hierarchy/ priority list but we don't take it seriously and if drivers ignore it we don't care! The same applies to the ludicrous notice of close-passing - No KSI'd cyclist = No Offence ttps://upride.cc/incident/lwa190_minicooper_hierarchy/
Hope Barcelona keep the transport improvements (they've been making for a while) coming! Better streets, more infra to help active travel where necessary. And while it's a major investment (though can be lower operating cost than busses) maybe more trams where they can. That may be more effective in making places active travel friendly and replacing taxis than mass public bike hire. They've a good start with 6 lines already.
I think this is a positive story. They're not getting rid of public hire bikes - they're expanding their in-house one. They're merely kicking out cowboys who've shown they've a lack of interest in the game they claim to be playing. It seems logical that companies whose business model is to extract (venture capital) money by invading public space are even less likely to make the efforts to keep things in order than a local "in house" scheme. (After all the "bikes and riding" part of these schemes always *costs* money, they don't generate it.) So not surprising their experience shows those firms are not particularly motivated to follow the rules - especially when scrapping for "market share". It's nice the European Cyclists’ Federation is thinking about tourists also (i hesitate to say "follow the money...") - as they note, where it's safe to cycle locals will largely get their own bikes. Tourists aren't going to stop coming because lack of public bike share - I think this is mostly a "nice to have" ("hey - why don't we go on one of those bikes there? ").
Harm minimization - at least they're not driving...
I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
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Anyone know anything about
Anyone know anything about the xplova noza V? Whilst there are a handful of media and customer reviews of the noza S, can’t find anything at all on the noza V.
Externally it looks completely different to the noza S although unclear how different the internals are. I think the V is newer than the S although it’s unclear if the V is a replacement (making the S obsolete) or if the V is supposed to fit a different niche. On paper, the V has marginally better accuracy (2% rather than 2.5%) although a lighter flywheel (3.4kg rather than 5.9kg) and lower maximum power rating (2,200 W rather than 2,500W).
But I don’t really care about the stats (no chance of bothering the maximum power!) – just want something that works easily and reliably. I like the look of the folding legs on the V for storage, and the adjustable feet (the floor of my garage isn’t quite level), and if it also improves on some of the minor quibbles reviewers have had with the S, then that can only be a good thing.
(and yes, I know there is a risk of buying from Wiggle right now – hopefully mitigated to some extent by the fact that firmware support seems to be offered directly by Xplova and not dependent on Wiggle’s continued existence).
Annoyingly, that Draper allen
Annoyingly, that Draper allen key set doesn’t include the elusive 3.5mm used on Campag delta brakes. Still, it does have the 7mm for some Mavic stems and C-Record crank extractors; plus the 5.5mm for some old seat clamp bolts. This is why my toolkit needs so many otherwise-obselete tools and trinkets.
Re Wiggle / “If in doubt, buy
Re Wiggle / “If in doubt, buy on a credit card or via PayPal.”
Paying with a credit card only helps for items costing >£100 (as that is when the additional legal protection from S75 kicks in); for items below that you may still have some protection via “chargeback” whether you pay with a credit or a debit card. So for the £14.99 turbo trainer, there’s no benefit in using a credit card.
Paying with PayPal complicates the matter. On the one hand, PayPal themselves offer their own “Buyer Protection”. On the other hand, paying with PayPal can be seen to break the direct link between your purchase and the trader (i.e. Wiggle) and may therefore prevent you from using the protection offered by your bank/credit card provider itself.
MSE is a good source of further info:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/visa-mastercard-chargeback/
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/section75-protect-your-purchases/
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/refunds-and-protection/
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/PayPal-Section75/