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eburtthebike wrote:

Wierd.  It looks as if they bought GT85 just to stop it being sold in some markets.

Good lord.  You really think a huge multinational would do something like that??  My faith in humanity is gone...

eburtthebike wrote:

Having just come back from Australia, where my preferred chain lube, GT85, is not available except by extremely expensive import, I did some research, and found out that WD40 bought out GT85.  WD40 do produce something similar to GT85, WD40 with PTFE, but it is three or four times the price of GT85.

Wierd.  It looks as if they bought GT85 just to stop it being sold in some markets.

I'm still using a can of GT85 (not for chain lube though) though I can't remember where I bought it from (not Australia though). You can buy it from EBay for under £5 a can.

Edit: just realised you said that Australia is where you can't buy it

hawkinspeter wrote:

I'm still using a can of GT85 (not for chain lube though) though I can't remember where I bought it from (not Australia though). You can buy it from EBay for under £5 a can.

Aldi regularly sell it for a ridiculous price, less than my wholesaler was charging.

Asking as a non Strava-ist: doesn't that mean your journey would be logged as taking several minutes longer than it actually did?

I just look at the "moving time" rather than "time elapsed" - removes any temptation to risk orange lights or similar for time's sake, also saves any faffing about stopping and restarting it at cafe stops etc.

Yeh, but you can just crop the ride and take that time wasted looking for keys and stuff off.

Sounds like an honest more than sensible cyclist 😂

Yes. And?

Miller wrote:

Yes. And?

And this surprises you how, exactly...? 

That the bike charges are so low !

About time these cyclists started paying for the roads !

Remember that's £107 per space - and there are six spaces per bike hangar. And two hangars can be fitted into one car parking space. So that's a lot.

However, Islington don't profit on the hangars as they cost money to install and to maintain and manage. (I don't work for Islington by the way) 

There are other reasons why the cost is high. In other boroughs where the cost is subsidised residents obtain spaces in a hangar and then don't use the space. The result is half empty hangars which frustrates those who don't have a space and gives ammunition to the antis. 

Lukas wrote:

Islington don't profit on the hangars as they cost money to install and to maintain and manage.

Unlike car parking spaces which don't require any maintenance from having cars continuously driven in and out of them.

WD-40, it's in the name. Water Displacer, not lubricant 

Shake wrote:

WD-40, it's in the name. Water Displacer, not lubricant 

It's a water displacer and a lubricant, it drives out water and lubricates at the same time as well as providing an anti-corrosion layer. It's not ideal for bike chains as it's too light, you'd probably want to give it a new coat every ride, but it's certainly not just a water displacer. They do make a bike-specific range as well but I've yet to try it.

The bike specific range is very good. I prefer to clean and lubricare  chains reguarly as I really don't like wet lube. It's so sticky and attracts so much urban filth onto the chain. 

I tried a Twirl on my bars once - that just ended in some Time Out.

Rendel Harris wrote:

I once attached some hazlenut chocolate bars to my stem, but that's a different Topic...

That's nuts!

I nicked a bike once.

The police put a Bounty on my head. Which was nice.