Innovations that weren't...

[minor_LEGEND]

I think I've seen a couple of hundred thousand cyclists over 3 decades, and you know those ones who tell you they know more than you? and i can say this for a FACT:

the most useless of all those groups is the solid tyre brigade!

Like, Flat Earthers.

 

[novocaine]

Like, Flat Earthers.

I've seen the evidence, come on sheeple, don't follow the herd.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Pothole?
Get your ar5e off the saddle!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I've seen the evidence, come on sheeple, don't follow the herd.

Flat earthers are everywhere.

Common sense still isn't all that common though

 

[ishaw]

(Id have to disagree on the kirk - a half dozen have passed through my hands, including a time trial set up road bike, but there are great elements to the design)

But ah the crud Claw.
it looks like it works!
(A common theme in the thread imo)
Mine is still in a little box somewhere. Red it was.

Mech protectors, like hub spoke guards, were found on "family cycling" market models, but did reach higher in the market for a year or 2.

Did anyone make a cnc/ purple anodised mech protector, or were they all 1/2 kilo of pig iron?

In the end they were killed by the alloy frame replaceable mech hanger

I think something called a hanger banger existed. Can't remember how it worked out fitted but the idea was to protect your mech and hanger from taking a hit, so I think it may have had something to do with wheel qrs. Available in anno colours iirc.

 

[novocaine]

I think something called a hanger banger existed.

hehe, hanger banger, that's what the RAF do. :O

 

[bikeworkshop]

Let's get the cannondalers excited!

And then this isn't even a lefty - although I bet it did everything you wanted from a suspension fork and more... apart from the price?

 

[retroJIM]

I give you the Electric Cycling Shoe with Auto Adjust Cleat Positioning

https://velo.outsideonline.com/grav...tric-cycling-shoe-auto-adjust-cleat-position/

 

[Frankenorange]

I give you the Electric Cycling Shoe with Auto Adjust Cleat Positioning

https://velo.outsideonline.com/grav...tric-cycling-shoe-auto-adjust-cleat-position/

No.

 

[thom04]

I'm thinking about putting a bike together with components we have recalled in this thread...
Hang it all on a Kirk magnesium frame...
Girvins, spinergys, biopace, rapidrise, self- energising brakes...

I always thought Onza Porcs were rubbish, so i might throw a pair of those on there

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/486433844135761/