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Bargain GPS watch headlines latest Aldi cycling offers
Value-for-money supermarket Aldi is to unleash a collection of cycling gear again this Sunday, and this time the selection includes the cheapest GPS/heart rate/altimeter watch we’ve ever seen.
Aldi GPS Unisex Watch
For just £65, the snappily-named GPS Unisex Watch features GPS navigation with waypoints; GPS distance and speed measurement; compass; backlight; altimeter; and heart rate measurement with a chest strap. It’s water-resistant to 3 atmospheres (which should mean it’s rainproof, but you wouldn’t want to go swimming in it) and has a three-year warranty.
If you’ve been toying with the idea of adding route recording to your riding, this looks like a bargain.
Aldi summer jerseys
As usual at this time of year, Aldi will also have a range of summer clothing that includes sleeveless base layers for a fiver, gloves for £3.49, and jerseys and shorts for £8.99.
Aldi shorts
If your bike needs work, you can get a basic home workshop kit for under £60 with a workstand (£30), tool kit (£20) and floor pump (£6). It’s very unlikely the quality is going to keep Park Tool awake at night, but it’ll get you started.
Other items on offer in this round of bike gear include a wireless computer for £6.99 and bike-themed t-shirts for a fiver.
Not everything is the biggest bargain possible, though. Aldi is listing 400ml cans of popular Teflon maintenance spray GT85 for £2.99, but bargain-hunters would be better off popping into their local Halfords, which is doing them for a mere £2.25.
These Aldi bike itens are part of a Special Buys collection that will be available from Sunday June 29. If previous Aldi cycling collections are anything to go buy, they’ll sell out fast, so you might want to go for a later ride this weekend and hit the store smack on 10am.
We've taken a closer look at Aldi's cycling kit before, and you always have plenty to say about it, as a browse through these stories will show. The summary is that some of it is not bad at all considering the bargain-basement prices, but you shouldn't be expecting Assos or Castelli quality.
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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Just an FYI, 3 atmosphere water resistance means it is resistant to about 100 feet so you should be able to swim with it.
Theoretically, that is absolutely correct. (1 bar per 10m, so 3bar = 30m = 100ft. If you include the 1 bar at the surface, probably 20m = 60 ft). However, the water resistance claims on most watches are total rubbish. If you've ever seen dive computers you'll realise they are built totally differently. Somewhere I have seen the spec of what the '50m' resistance actually means and it is basically only surface swimming.
diving into a swimming pool (and even vigorous swimming) can subject your watch to pressures of more than 3ATM fairly easily, so you do need to be a bit careful. generally 3ATM means you can wear it in the rain, or the shower, but it's best to take it off for water pursuits.
Aussie consumer affairs shows views on watch 'water resistance'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HsouCYTu7Rk
Looks great been interested in getting a heart rate monitor, but seem too costly. But to have them all in one device looks awesome. Big Aldi cycling fan, got most of my kit from there, cant fault any of it, especially the work stands, really solid and all the features!
I take it you could upload all the data to strava?
I doubt there is an interface to upload it. You could manually take the data off perhaps...
Product description -
When you're done, simply connect the watch to upload the data, save your route on a map and then track your progress, and even share with friends.
Route illustration with common internet programs
Includes: Chest Strap, Bike Mount, USB Data Transfer Cable, Program for Data Evaluation and Batteries
I don't need one myself, but I'd be very interested in hearing the opinion of anyone who does buy the watch. There's no reason why GPS devices at that price shouldn't hit the market, and whilst they aren't yet eating Garmin's lunch, they're definitely looking to steal a few chips off the plate.
Got some mitts still going strong after about 5 years
Got some mitts still going strong after about 5 years
The workstands are excellent - got one a couple of years ago and it's good enough to have used it to build a bike.
Agreed - I love mine
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