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The Cycling UK membership for
The Cycling UK membership for students is £1.83 a month, with NUS card. That gives you ONLY 3rd party insurance, so covers any damages claimed against you if you cause a crash and others are injured or property damaged.
Are you living at home with your parents? If so putting your bike on their home content insurance might be your best bet, otherwise you will need to get a quote from an insurance provider, I get mine throught he lovely liverpudlians at Pedalsure, originally through CUK (or CTC, so long ago).
There was a post on the livebog here on the 21st about a price comparison site for bicycle insurance, here is the link to the site-
https://www.quotezone.co.uk/bicycle-insurance
I expect to pay about 10% of my first bicycles value per year, and then slightly less for others. But it’s your details that will be taken into account. Watch out for odd requirements.
Good luck.
It’s a proper bargain, looks
It’s a proper bargain, looks the part, Gold secure so will be good enough for whatever insurance you might have, key not combination (mostly better) and Kryptonite charge £8-9 just for the cable.
The Anti theft Guarantees are generally worthless, as the limitations and requirements are generally ridiculous. Getting your own insurance is better, there can be issues sometimes with standard household insurance, but good to check, unfortunately specialist bike insurance probably will cost more than the lock, every year.
Watch some videos on how to lock up you bike well too.
And it’s a shame, but the fear of your ride not being there when you get back to it never goes away.
I make it a point of never cleaning my bikes, drivetrain yes and very well maintained, but the frame I leave dirty. You want to try and persuade the scrotes that your bike is less desireable and more difficult to obtain then the ones next to it.
Oh and weirdly a replacement
Oh and weirdly a replacement hub can be cheaper than just the freehub.
And that means you can replace the bearings and cones too, for even less than free.
Please be aware thet the
Please be aware thet the newer shimano rear wheels, those with what I call the Fat Pipe spindle, made of ali rather than the traditional steel uses a 14mm hex key to secure the freehub. Unfortunately, in my experience, this style of freehub is a little more sensitive than the older ones secured with the 10mm ones.
I tend to replace mine when they die, but when I used to rejuvenate stuck ones, I would use Finish Lines cross country lube as a thinnish lubricant.
Oh and 14mm hex keys are not too cheap, shame.
May I say with great
May I say with great certainty that none of us are, or ever will be Haile Gebrselassie.
I am a big fan of Kryptonite,
I am a big fan of Kryptonite, they just look the part.
But for cheaper, very good value OnGuard are meant to be good, they definitely look the part.
When I looked them up Trendz has many Gold SS locks, proper bargains
Cheers NickJP, now I’m never
Cheers NickJP, now I’m never going to get one, but it is marvellous that something this lovely looking exists.
That Clas Ohlson looks a
That Clas Ohlson looks a proper bargain. The reviews are telling mind.
I really liked the Swisstop
I really liked the Swisstop greens, until I couldn’t get them anymore, then tried KoolStop Salmons, wished I had tried them decades ago. Works especially well in the wet and good in the dry. Doesn’t wear the rims too much, sort of. Cantilevers for me, but pads is pads.
It’s been happening a little
It’s been happening a little more to merecently.
Seems to sort itself out after a bit.
I am getting that data thingy popping up a lot less, so that’s good.
I know all of this
I know all of this OldRidgeback, but you know, driving, war on motorists and all that.
Somehow a few kids on bikes being kids is worse.
And “cycle” cafe owners.
I’d rather finish a ride with
I’d rather finish a ride with an untouched extra bottle than any possibility of running out.
I get very thirsty and I do sweat a lot.
I am never so thirsty as when I reach down and discover that I even though I have filled the bottle, I left it on the side and didn’t get it onto the bike. Mostly if I have visited someone.
A softshell jacket is good
A softshell jacket is good enough for most lightish rain, with a hardshell only for the worst, even my Goretex active gets very sweaty. Never got on with waterproof trousers, in heavy rain especially when chilly I put on water resistant knee warmers. Good cycling clothes should dry if hung up for the day.
My hands get wet in my neoprene enduras, but they are toasty warm.
Merino socks make wet feet kind of acceptable, spare ones in the bag and at work are heavenly. Newspaper for stuffing in wet shoes during the day.
60 comments and nothing being
60 comments and nothing being said by BTBS. When will he return?
Cars used to kill their occupants, and especially the drivers, at an astonishing rate. Yet they still drove them like idiots. Admittedly less acceleration, but also worse brakes and traction from the tyres and suspension. And a lot more drunkeness, with no seatbelt and a steering wheel that would decapitate you.
Taxi driver drive like idiots and they refuse to wear seatbelts with great pride.
It’s where the big spike in the steering wheel arguement kind of falls down, yes they’d be extra careful for a while, but hey driving and speed. And they would still text.
The spike would obscure the screen a bit though. So they might have to hold the phone higher.
They hold the phone so low to avoid being caught rather than being able to see where thy are going, what does that tell you?
The NHS will also patch up
The NHS will also patch up idiots who injure themselves whilst drunk driving too.
And those criminal arseholes also put the innocent into A+E, the wards and the morgues too.