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If you got the World Pack before February 2025, you should be grandfathered in. Just checked mine and it looks fine, the pop up that comes up seems to be an advert to try and get you to pony up £59.99 a year or £4.99 a week(!). I just clicked on the cross top left to close it (on iOS, might be different on Android) went into my profile, and confirmed I still had the World Pack.
TBH I only use Komoot to occasionally find suggested routes, and export to Garmin Connect, I don’t use any of the on-bike or turn by turn features, so don’t know if that’s missing now.
Panaracer GravelKing SK in
Panaracer GravelKing SK in 38mm? I have these tubeless with Hunt 4 Seasons on a Diverge; it handles forest & gravel trails well yet nips along on tarmac without too much drag.
YMMV, etc. of course…
Very true, and I believe that
Very true, and I believe that the low to mid range market very much depends on the high end existing. For example, the Tiagra of today would be nothing like as good as it is, without the previous iterations of Dura Ace that have preceded it.
The document makes reference to a “manufacturer whose name begins with ‘S'” saying nothing in a particular bike could justify even half the high price. Well, there’s a lot of R&D expense that goes into bringing stuff to market, and in that example, they won’t sell very many with which to recoup the cost. The halo effect of these models will however drive sales of the lower ones. Again, similar to the groupset example above, the entry level Tarmac Comp model of today is as good as it is thanks to the S-Works model of 10 years ago.
Finally, the document seems to think the entire bike industry is driven by greed. If that’s the case, why are we constantly reading that the whole sector, from LBS to distributors to manufacturers, is dying on its arse?
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Have bought quite a few
Have bought quite a few things at good prices from BikeInn in Spain post-Brexit, all duty & VAT inclusive, reasonable delivery charges, nothing to pay on arrival. Does take around 10 days to arrive, but if you’re not in a hurry, all good.
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Or you could design a badge yourself with purpose and intent and not perpetuate the AI shitshow?Yeah but it’s not like M$ have had to take a 20 year lease to fire up and reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to feed Copilot is it?
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Or have you gone where we all hope you have, foam cutouts..?Only one way to go for the travelling toolbox, and that’s shadowfoam.com
errrrm yes, sorry.
errrrm yes, sorry.
Nice, but where is the pic of the carry around tool kit?😁 it’s in front of the middle bike, to the left of the wheel bag.
I will get them added to the drop downs, thank you. 🙂If you let me know a model year that you know fits, I can add them to the database too.
The Caddy models designated “typ2K”, from 2004 – 2019. Life means it’s a van derived car (class M1 not N1 on V5), and Maxi is the LWB version. The latter will take road bikes with the 2nd row seats just folded forwards, on the non-Maxi SWB version, the rear seats have to be taken out (they’re removable in minutes).
An example of a 2017 LWB Caddy with 3x road bikes in the back. OK, the front wheels are removed and there is technically a rack for them to stand on, but in theory one could just chuck them in fully intact and bungie them down, I prefer to have them a little more secure though.
Yeah – I reckon you’re right. Probably there are some van-derived cars that could do this…but I don’t know which ones. 🙂VW Caddy Life and Caddy Maxi Life with the rear seats folded forward. They’re not on your drop-down list unfortunately.
Have you checked the height
Have you checked the height of the front derailleur and distance between it and the big ring? Should be 3mm IIRC. If it’s too close or too far, it can jam when changing at the front. Easiest way to check is by using the flat sides of a 3mm hex key.
I had a similar issue a few years ago on Ultegra R8000 Di2 front derailleur. Fine-tuning the height as above sorted it.
Aside from customs & damage
Aside from customs & damage risk mentioned by others, on top of the budget airline return flight (including bike box fees), bike box rental (if you don’t have one yourself), accommodation (difficult to book there and back same day even if chosen budget airline is flying daily), a bike bought in Portugal will be delivered with the brakes opposite to what we’re used to in the UK. If this is something you couldn’t change yourself, budget £100-£150 for LBS to swap over, bleed fluid, new bar tape, etc. That saving is getting smaller and smaller…
If you’re only looking at 6
If you’re only looking at 6-7kg on a bag mounted to the top of a rack, you might not necessarily need rack mounts. I’ve just ridden the South Downs Way on a hardtail MTB, with (obviously) no rack mounts, I used a Topeak MTX BeamRack II fastened to the seatpost, with a Topeak MTX TrunkBag EX attached using their slider system. Worked well and can be fitted/removed in minutes.
Some like that could widen your options for your other criteria.