Showing posts with label Continental Vapor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Continental Vapor. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 May 2013

LONG OVERDUE CONTINENTAL VAPOR TYRES

Well only a coyote if years late and after a little mishap with digital banking and my incessant pain I finally got the second tyre today!

Unlike the saddle which is called a Vader and purchased from TK Maxx and never heard if but looks the part these are the real deal.

In fact these were originally going to be the tyres on my Litespeed Ocoee which was stolen from be after being knocked to the ground and then defrauded out of by a local council.

So yes top tyres but the saddle is God damn awful! Like sitting on a razor blade that had gone blunt and my arse hurts like hell if I am on it too long! In fact I bought a pair of Muddyfox padded tight shorts from Sports Direct due to this pain, lol.

Believe me with well the areas I have been involved in there really us no such thing as economising and I am testament to that.

However you now have an extra pitfall with being sold items they claim are brand new but are refurbished our used and even come from overseas!

Still I finally have the tyres but my rear wheel had a hell if a lot if play in it so I think the bearings are worn?!

I have lost three gears too so I'm using plasters on an axe wound, lol.

Continental and Schwalbe are the only tyres I have used when replacing or building a bike. Good performance combined with lightweight materials. Unlike an old friend who got two punctures in the first week on his brand new Hutchinson, lol. He ended yup with these actually, lol.




Wednesday, 1 May 2013

THE HOBBLED FOOT

Well cor blimey Guvnor?! Its lucky my money came through as not only was I overdue new does, well actually had not had the old ones that long, but walking across done playing fields me right foot felt all flappy and I looked down after hearing the noise and realised my right sure was learning to speak?!

So there I am in Sports Direct and I'm supposed to spend over £100 on the top Asics running shoes, well so physios kept telling me and those are 2005 prices, and I end up spending £35 and felt guilty that I spent that much.

Oddly I saw a pair of trainers for £58, Nike, that I had just seen several pairs of in the TK Maxx in Enfield Town for £60?! Exact same trainers and even nite annoyingly is the ticket on them in TK Maxx stated they were £160 or more?!

Good nothing is sacred and you really can't take any notice of special offers and half prices any longer. Even local Sainsburys had a huge banner stating clothing is half price which on reality was half a dozen school like sweaters and shirts for 7 year olds and that was about it?!

When are they going to realise its this lying and treating people like idiots that caused this mess on the first place?!

Only one faction if people are the true idiots the ones with too much money and power that thought too much of themselves as elk as thinking they were invincible who were three ones that lost all our money, lol.

Keep being idiots, keep thinking the answer is to lie and cheat the people and/or your customer base and we will stay right where we are for done time to come, lol.

Still at least I have new trainers and my cracking old rubber on my Marin Mountain Bike which had annoyingly had a fair few punctures if late also has a pair of get cheaply priced Continental Vapor tyres too. Should have been way over £40 but with postage only £26 for a pair.

More the last pair of tyres I bought were Schwalbe Racing Ralphs and cost £80 pair and not including postage lol.

EDIT: I FAILED TO NOTICE THIS DID NOT GET POSTED AND SINCE THEN DUE TO SCREW UP YET AGAIN BY RBS DIGITAL BANKING I'VE ONLY RECEIVED ON TYRE AND HAD TO ORDER THE OTHER...AGAIN?!

LMAO.


Thursday, 25 April 2013

THE SHOES...THEY SPEAK?!

Well I am thankful that I received some money, though I am asking myself how long before they pull this stunt again after already pulling it TWICE.

This is mainly because I was coming home from Sainsbury when my Regatta shoe on my right foot felt all flappy and I looked down and realised they had started to SPEAK!

Unfortunately the only other pair of shoes I have are these flat soled Karrimor which are not good for walking in but have had them 3 years and use them primarily for cycling and even then I should not use them.

So there I was in Sports Direct looking at the specific running shoes with high arches and I had a pair of Nike Air AVORD 10 in my hands which were £35. Just ast I had done the year before and the year before that...well for quite some years now I think about it I was looking at the gel soles of the Asics at around £100 with envy. I even stated to the sales girl that I would be back to buy them in a few weeks time.

I said that last year too!

I thought maybe this year would be different though and not just for the shoes I should be buying but also so that any purchases I make from the cash I should already well be making from my blogs goes towards things that also ADD CONTENT to my blogs and YouTube account. Spend money to make money seems to mean spend money and work for free to big American companies and no longer limited to sweat shops in Asia either.

Still they cannot manufacture figures forever or it will be grossly obvious even to the most stubbornly naive people. A total 0f 17,000 visitors and a rise of 1,500 per week and rising will soon be 25,000 and a rise of 2,000 per week. A month after that, which is a months time, we could be looking at 40,000 and 3,000 per week rise. Then 60,000 and 5,000 per week...well you get the idea.

My current balance states £4.90 so can I expect my first £60 payment in the Autumn or Winter when there are 250,000 to 500,000 while rising at 10,000 per week or more?! LOL.

Currently and even though physios have often told me to spend over £100 on trainers as if money was confetti, I baulk when I see £40, I have not even received enough money to pay for the laces of the Nike I just purchased.. LMAO.

Really what I should be doing is using the Nike as my cycling trainers and buy the Asics for when I am on foot?! This way it should stop me having to buy trainers or shoes every 5 or 6 months?! Also the PROPER and more expensive trainers bought specifically for the walking problem do not get destroyed by constantly being used for cycling!

As well as this I have now seen and ordered a pair of Continental Vapor Tyres for my bike as the old tyres really ned replacing as the rubber is splitting with age and I have had two punctures in as many weeks. I do not get punctures in as many years previous to this lol.

If there IS another and eventually successful attempt at stopping my benefits then I will need the tyres on my bike to be tip top condition too! Now normally the Vapor tyres I would expect to pay about £40 to £50 for them and indeed the last tyres I bought for a bike were Schwalbe Racing Ralphs and these cost me £80 a pair?! SO the fact that including a charge for postage I saw the Continental Vapor at £26 for the pair and with me racing around trying to get photos and videos for these blogs and my YouTube account I thought I had better do it.

After all fixing punctures is bloody painful and therefore bloody frutrating for me, lol.