June 2012 BoTM 'Dead End Special' - Nominations Please

[Ductape]

Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

 

[yeti-man]

Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

How can this be a dead end - when klunkers as a concept was the evolutionary beginning of the mountainbike?

Nice bike though!!!!

 

[AirPressure]

How can this be a dead end - when klunkers as a concept was the evolutionary beginning of the mountainbike?

Nice bike though!!!!

For real?
I don't see klunkers flying off the assembly lines in china and taiwan for Trek, Specialized, Giant, etc.

Sure klunkers were a beginning for off roading but they were already at an evolutionary dead-end when they were briefly resurrected for that purpose.

 

[mfh126]

Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

How can this be a dead end - when klunkers as a concept was the evolutionary beginning of the mountainbike?

Nice bike though!!!!

You're totally missing the whole point of this month's BoTM and taking all the fun out of it.

 

[ridevintagemtb]

For me a dead end is a design, component or material that never got beyond version 1 in evolution.

Disagree. You could try to execute a design multiple ways only to ultimately fail no matter what.

Take tension discs for example. 36H, 32H, in the end the design was just poor.

 

[pinguwin]

I'm voting for ductape because of his hot wife...err I mean bike.

 

[Ductape]

Do you use a coaster brake? Drum brake? Truss Rods? Saddle suspension? Not sure which ones of these weren't a dead end?

 

[sinnerman]

Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

Im not so sure on this either to be honest, most of the list is still available, just lower down the food chain.

And when did internal 3 Spd become a dead end....? Sturmey Archer.
Suspension saddles...? Brooks.
etc.

 

[Ductape]

Thanks, This is what it looked like when I got it off of Ebay:

 

[Ductape]

This could be said about about anything posted so far. No?