Your latest bike purchase?

[dplasters]

@ctankcycles 109894 wrote:

Try to contain yourselves, orange cable end caps arrived…

Funny, my black ones just arrived.

I have some dexshell waterproof socks coming today as well.

Somewhere between here and Ipswich are new dhb tights, a Castelli Therm Neck Thingy and some socks…. and then somewhere between Fairfax and Garden City, NY are some new WellGo pedals which appear to be taking as long to get from Taiwan to NYC as from NYC to Fairfax.

whoa… new random questions.

[vvill]

I ordered some stuff on wiggle.co.uk for the first ever time back in January – it arrived today, having apparently gone through the Netherlands from the postmarks. The Morvelo cap I got seems nice so far.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@vvill 110032 wrote:

I ordered some stuff on wiggle.co.uk for the first ever time back in January – it arrived today, having apparently gone through the Netherlands from the postmarks. The Morvelo cap I got seems nice so far.

I can sorta sympathize. I ordered some new riding jeans on Sunday…just got this notification:

03/03/2015 3:00 A.M. A train derailment has delayed delivery. We’re adjusting plans to deliver your package as quickly as possible. / Delivery will be rescheduled.

[dplasters]

@vvill 110032 wrote:

I ordered some stuff on wiggle.co.uk for the first ever time back in January – it arrived today, having apparently gone through the Netherlands from the postmarks. The Morvelo cap I got seems nice so far.

not encouraging. mine said normally 8 business days???

[mstone]

@dplasters 110072 wrote:

not encouraging. mine said normally 8 business days???

I’ve never had that kind of delay in a wiggle delivery. Sometimes you just lose the shipping roulette game, or it’s possible the logistics meltdown caused by the port closure in CA had an impact. Once your package enters the logistics system, there’s not a whole lot any retailer can do to make it come out again.

The worst delays I ever had shipping something was entirely domestic, because UPS drove the package somewhere and left (lost?) it. A friend had a package stuck for a week repeatedly going back and forth between the same two UPS locations, each a reasonably quick drive from his house.

[vvill]

@mstone 110076 wrote:

I’ve never had that kind of delay in a wiggle delivery. Sometimes you just lose the shipping roulette game, or it’s possible the logistics meltdown caused by the port closure in CA had an impact. Once your package enters the logistics system, there’s not a whole lot any retailer can do to make it come out again.

I’m assuming it was just bad luck. I’ve had stuff shipped from the UK before (from PBK and ChainReaction) without the ridiculous delay. That said, it does often take quite some time (up to 4-6 weeks is normal I’d say). I usually only order stuff like spares or some clothing that I don’t need urgently.

[Phatboing]

@vvill 110032 wrote:

I ordered some stuff on wiggle.co.uk for the first ever time back in January – it arrived today, having apparently gone through the Netherlands from the postmarks. The Morvelo cap I got seems nice so far.

This happened to me too, except without the Netherlands. At 20 working days, you can contact them for a “lost in mail” complaint. The daft thing then is that they re-ship the order, but by the same non-tracked post.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Wrong thread for this, as it’s a planned purchase, but I can’t figure out how to start a new thread in tapatalk.

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

[mstone]

@ShawnoftheDread 110112 wrote:

Wrong thread for this, as it’s a planned purchase, but I can’t figure out how to start a new thread in tapatalk.

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

Buy the right gearing for you, not what other people like.

[dcv]

@ShawnoftheDread 110112 wrote:

Wrong thread for this, as it’s a planned purchase, but I can’t figure out how to start a new thread in tapatalk.

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

I went compact for rides like Mountains of Misery, otherwise standard is fine for tooling around town (in my opinion).

[Harry Meatmotor]

@ShawnoftheDread 110112 wrote:

Wrong thread for this, as it’s a planned purchase, but I can’t figure out how to start a new thread in tapatalk.

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

you mean normal vs pansy?

[jabberwocky]

@mstone 110076 wrote:

The worst delays I ever had shipping something was entirely domestic, because UPS drove the package somewhere and left (lost?) it. A friend had a package stuck for a week repeatedly going back and forth between the same two UPS locations, each a reasonably quick drive from his house.

I remember reading a thread on another forum a while back about someone who had ordered something from a place reasonably close by (like 50 miles away or so). It was Fedex so he could track where it was going. It ended up taking weeks, and by the end the package had traveled several thousand miles. The major carriers have pretty impressive systems in place, but like any big complex system, sometimes things fall through the cracks and weirdness happens.

@ShawnoftheDread 110112 wrote:

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

I prefer compact, but as mstone said, buy the right gearing for you. I rode a standard for a few years before switching to compact and can definitely say it works better for me.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@ShawnoftheDread 110112 wrote:

Wrong thread for this, as it’s a planned purchase, but I can’t figure out how to start a new thread in tapatalk.

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

If I ever swap out the crankset on my Cervelo, I’ll probably put in a standard. Not that I need a standard, since I don’t think I’ve ever spun out on 50/11, but I kinda like the idea of forcing myself to adapt and grow into the “harder” gearing on the low end. There really isn’t anything in this area that I need lower than a 34/25, and 39/28 is pretty close to the same gearing. With the exception of the last climb of Mountains of Misery (which I didn’t train well for), my current 34/28 low end is mostly overkill and never really need it.

[jabberwocky]

I my 34/28 combo. I don’t need it often, but when I need it, I need it. :p

[vvill]

@ShawnoftheDread 110112 wrote:

Wrong thread for this, as it’s a planned purchase, but I can’t figure out how to start a new thread in tapatalk.

What are your opinions on standard vs compact cranks for road bikes?

If you’ll be riding at sustained faster speeds (so, most likely in a peloton/group), standard is probably the best. I’ve only ever ridden compact though, so my experience is more limited than my opinions.

I would also consider a “mid compact” (52-36). 52 is almost a 53. 36 is almost almost-a-34.

Forgot to mention: one consideration for why I would go maybe a little bigger on the chainring is not because I will actually spin out a 53-11 or whatever, but a) larger chainrings and cogs are supposedly more efficient and b) at high speeds, your chain line will be better for equivalent gearing with a larger chainring, as the chain’ll be closer to the middle of the cassette instead of around the 11-13T. I don’t know if these would actually make that much of a difference but they’re things I’ve read.

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