A few weeks ago I bought some bar ends from Halfords.
Price on the shelf was £5.99, so I was chuffed when the guy on the till charged me £3. I was even more chuffed when I got outside and realised that the end stop inserts were actually a tool kit.
I was in Halfords today to buy a light (don't ask - last minute requirement) and saw the same bar ends for £7.99. Seems to me they make it up as they go along, perhaps this was the bank holiday price?
Anyway, they have come in useful already. Out on a ride last week, the wife's big bear started making a horrible noise, bit like crepitus. Found a very slack spoke on the motor wheel, and another two loose ones. Hey presto I had a spoke key hiding in my bar end. Tightened the spokes, got rid of the noise and prooved myself to be the little treasure she knows I am really ! (No I didn't loosen the spokes before we went out
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The ends have a fitting width of 15mm, just about managed to shufty everthing along just enough.
Price on the shelf was £5.99, so I was chuffed when the guy on the till charged me £3. I was even more chuffed when I got outside and realised that the end stop inserts were actually a tool kit.
I was in Halfords today to buy a light (don't ask - last minute requirement) and saw the same bar ends for £7.99. Seems to me they make it up as they go along, perhaps this was the bank holiday price?
Anyway, they have come in useful already. Out on a ride last week, the wife's big bear started making a horrible noise, bit like crepitus. Found a very slack spoke on the motor wheel, and another two loose ones. Hey presto I had a spoke key hiding in my bar end. Tightened the spokes, got rid of the noise and prooved myself to be the little treasure she knows I am really ! (No I didn't loosen the spokes before we went out
) The ends have a fitting width of 15mm, just about managed to shufty everthing along just enough.
