Onza HO clipless pedals that used elastomers to "tune" the release tension and offered 2 different float settings with a 90degree turn of the cleat..
Chainstay mounted U-Brakes.
Suntour XC Pro thumbies are still some of the best shifters I've ever used.
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What's your favourite bit of retro MTB technology?
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Suntour XC Pro thumbies are still some of the best shifters I've ever used.
Nah that's your memory playing tricks with your mind, thumbies were in fact; shit. Fact. I couldn't believe how well rapid fire worked in comparison.
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U brakes, girvin flex stems and Scott AT4 bars. Mine used to have lots of lights strapped to it for night riding in the late 80's early 90's.
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Yay! I had AT4 and then upgraded them to AT4 pro's. AW5UM5
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How about the shark fin?
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yep had one of those as well and biopoace chainrings
I also loved the onza porcupine and ritchey megabite tyre combo as came in a massive 2.1" size for the front ant the porc sounded like a tractor when riding on the roadI also had one of these in black with flouro bits It got nicked and I'm still gutted
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Magura Hydro Brakes
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Toeclips and straps for me. Resisted spds for ages and despite using spds for 5 or 6 years I'm still not as confident on the 'silly steep' downs as I was with Mt. Christophe clips and straps. There's also something fantastically functional and purposeful about them
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Last time I was in Stafford they still had an XT shark fin in Henry Burton's museum of cycling. Like to think it was ironic but not sure...
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Third eye chain watcher(?) was good too. Something to keep your chain from overshooting granny ring if you were too retarded to adjust your mech
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I have a sharkfin and hite-rite fitted to my '92 Breezer storm! And now skinwall tyres.
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Magura Hydro Brakes
Still going strong - have them on both my singlespeeds:
Mid-90s Racelines - polished silver, with trick after-market CNC levers.
25th Anniversary Racelines, with red anodised CNC braces and levers.
In the dry they are the best brakes in the world - but discs are better when it's wet, just not as cool
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Browning Electronic Accushift Shifting Technology (BEAST)
(bought 4 sets when they were selling them off at 10% of original rrp - tried one set and couldn't see how it was supposed to work, mixing close tolerances with bendy plastic bits
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Tangent should be on this retro thread he loves purple.
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The Bullet Brothers chain tensioner.
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ransos, I'm loving your bike! Fantastic effort
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Thanks! If you head over to retrobike, they're having a bit of a Breezer orgy at the moment. Joe Breeze has even posted some pictures!
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I've got a shark fin on my 456.
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Evolution headsets! Just coming nicely back into fashion for my 1990 Aluminium Orange.
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I was still using until about 2 years ago a Hypercracker for removing cassettes, which I must have got back in about '93. It has only been the newer Hope hubs that it has failed to fit.
I now have the proper tools for the job and have to say that they are far easier. It was a right faff getting the wheel back in with the hypercracker in place and managing to get the chain and cranks in a good place to apply the pressure to undo the lockring.The Kona Impact headset was also a great invention as it was an old style headset you could do up with just an allen key.
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Always wanted these
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I've got one of these in my attic - brand new in its box. 16 gears on a single chainring.
Maybe I should combine it with my Rohloff hub to get 16X14 gears = umpteen brassillion. That would make for a spectacular defection from single speed.
Mmmm, I can see another Frankenbike coming up...
BTW also got most of a Browning auto trans.
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Wedge packs that you put in the join of the seat and top tube
I had one of those!
On my pearly white Courier for shouldering it up stupidly steep hills on Lakes epics.
[misty-eyed] Those were the days... [/misty-eyed]
one of these tool kits on my MF courier which i thought was so cool with plastic rear wheel disc!, i had bio pace chainrings too and afyer market wheelset which had suntour large flange hubs... a sought after rariety by the retro brigade nowadays..Posted 1 year ago # -
I have a hite rite, sharks fin and tooth, chainstay U brake and biopace rings all fitted to the same bike
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Nobody has mentioned the Cog Hog yet - turns a non-Shadow rear mech into something that shifts considerably bettetangan it did. Mine has been on three bikes and is sitting in my parts box awaiting its next use.
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I always wanted one of the XTR satellite shifters, although they actually looked awful when fitted, and I'm not sure they were that useful!
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The Ginger one - beat me to it. I use my Hypercracker pretty regularly and find it very easy to use. So, it's officially ace. ;0)
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Oh god, on my old Raleigh I had a Girvin Flexstem and a DCD. Then on my Kona I had the afformentioned Onza elastomer pedals (that were utter, utter junk).
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XTR satellite shifters
I've honestly always thought these were an April Fool. They were real? Scout's honour?
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