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  • Entirely useless bits of equipment that somehow still survive…
  • IHN
    Full Member

    You know, stuff that just doesn’t work for its intended purpose, yet refuses to be killed off.

    I’ll kick off with that bit of finishing take that’s supplied with bar tape. Isn’t long enough, isn’t stretchy enough, has the adhesive properties of a PostIt note.

    Posted 8 years ago
    PiknMix
    Free Member

    Any free Allen key with flat pack furniture

    Posted 8 years ago
    egb81
    Free Member

    Cheap can openers

    Posted 8 years ago
    Rubber_Buccaneer
    Full Member

    Reverb enduro collar. It probably works but has anyone ever even fitted one?

    Posted 8 years ago
    WorldClassAccident
    Free Member

    According to MrsWCA – ME

    Posted 8 years ago
    MoreCashThanDash
    Full Member

    Government

    Posted 8 years ago
    trail_rat
    Free Member

    home phone line.

    Posted 8 years ago
    xyeti
    Free Member

    Land Rover

    Posted 8 years ago
    ndthornton
    Free Member

    shifter indicators

    Posted 8 years ago
    ndthornton
    Free Member

    that crappy plastic plate that sits behind the cassette

    Posted 8 years ago
    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    home phone line.

    Realized the other day that our ‘phone’ bill is now >£100! Considering that 12 years ago it would have been line rental, and a £5.99 internet package the fact that every item on there is/was acceptable when I added it is bonkers!

    Posted 8 years ago
    br
    Free Member

    DSG gearboxes, apparently you can’t set off from a standstill with them

    Posted 8 years ago
    ndthornton
    Free Member

    crankbrothers

    Posted 8 years ago
    willard
    Full Member

    WCA, you’re not useless. You serve as a warning to others.

    Posted 8 years ago
    trail_rat
    Free Member

    tinas …. mines was 40quid a month.,…..

    its just been trimmed back to 9.99 a month INCLUDING line rental with plusnet.

    Posted 8 years ago
    faustus
    Full Member

    I think shimano still do those plastic clip-on things for disc caliper bolts, supposed to prevent them undoing? Them.

    And reflectors, first things to be binned.

    Posted 8 years ago
    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    Clothes labels, on which the ink wasn’t waterproof enough.

    But then when I do the washing everything goes in together at 30. Becasue I argued that it should all be 30 but split whites/colours, and the GF split it 30 and 40. The world didn’t end So I stopped bothering to split it at all unless it happens to be a new pair of jeans.

    tinas …. mines was 40quid a month.,…..

    its just been trimmed back to 9.99 a month INCLUDING line rental with plusnet.

    Line rental
    Broadband
    Fiber broadband upgrade
    TV box
    Netflix
    BT Sport
    Sky Sport

    I did point out to her indoors that we could actually go to a game every month for that price. And she rarely watches it anyway, just puts it on in the background!

    Posted 8 years ago
    amedias
    Free Member

    And reflectors, first things to be binned.

    those don’t count as useless. Annoying, rattly, and unfashionable maybe, but they do their job of being reflective very well.

    Posted 8 years ago
    xyeti
    Free Member

    Yep, Reflectors out of room 101.

    Posted 8 years ago
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