[Closed] Components you don't see mentioned anymore?

ChunkyMTB - Member
Genesis geometry ... Ok not a component...

Does G2 geometry count? If so, my one and only MTB - a 26" Fisher - means I mention it all the time. 🙂

Rapid rise was the best idea that didn't take hold IMHO. It just worked so much better smooth changes as things got steeper and you were putting effort in, why did they give it up...

Can you imagine 11 or 12 speed Rapid Rise? *wibble*

*edit* - It was given up as it was tied to the mad 'dual control' brake lever shifting idea they had for a while
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V- Brake boosters

i had a pair of the shimano xtr carbon ones...i ended up selling them back to my LBS for more than i actually paid for them because they had a customer who was depserate for a pair and was willing to pay silly money for them...

Massive DH saddles.

Like this one. Only on DH Bikes.
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Break-away rear mech bolts - lovely anodised trick looking things to save your mech and hanger.

Friction thumbies. Before dx thumbies changed the world.

It was given up as it was tied to the mad 'dual control' brake lever shifting idea they had for a while

It was nice, but I think it solved a problem for clunky 8s drivechains that the smaller gaps in 10s don't have, if you forced a 8 or 9s chain it would snap, I can't remember the last 10s chain I snapped and it shifts down much quicker even under pressure.

Shimano Alfine was the last bastion of Rapid Rise. The new one is now Top Normal 🙁

Shock boots

Got some Judy XC forks in the shed that still have the boots on. Springs are completely gone on them, as soon as you sit on the bike they sag almost the full 63mm of travel.

Not been able to bring myself to chuck them out yet.

Can you still get headsets with grease ports? Had a WTB Greaseguard that ran for years.

gripshift

Oi! Still happily running Gripshift on the posh bike here. The cheapo BSO ones are rubbish, yep, but then so are cheapo BSO triggers. The XX1 gripshift are smashing, I was glad of mine at the Dyfi, they're especially good in really crap conditions. 9-speed X0 gripshift was indestructible, still got a set somewhere. Light too.

Love Rapid rise - have 2x XT ones in the shed (and RR alfine)

Missus also loves them as she just has to remember to use her thumb to go up gears on both sides of the handlebars.

Speaking of massive seats

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I've recently fitted barends onto my Cotic for a long distance ride I'm doing in a few weeks, and just about to (as soon as the shim arrives) install my Thudbuster on it as well.

The Reverb is usually fine on it but I'm going to be be sitting down a lot more on this journey so thought I'd go for something my back will approve of.

anyone still using magura rim brakes?

It was given up as it was tied to the mad 'dual control' brake lever shifting idea

It was nice, but I think it solved a problem for clunky 8s drivechains that the smaller gaps in 10s don't have

middleburn RS7 cranks. wwwhhhoooo!!

Zzyzx forks were all the rage with the club I used to ride with. Until they discovered the sealing was non existant.

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Bombers.

Square taper cranks.

Another vote for grippies. No idea why I changed from them.

All four of my bikes have rapid rise mechs *, yet another reason to run them into the ground

Apart from the tandem, which causes no end of gear change errors

also using rapid rise here! bought a bike with rapid rise and got used to it. do like it 🙂

is dual control what my xtr shifters have? they allow the thumb to push the trigger usually reserved for the index to change up AND down?

Square taper cranks.

Good to see so many Rapid Rise fans.

For me it went directly from XT 3x9 rapid rise (without silly flappy paddle brake levers) to 1x11 SRAM.

All the ones in-between didn't really add anything imo. Never saw much advantage to 2x or 10sp.

Tioga Farmer Johns.

Chunkier the better

jamesg55 - Member
middleburn RS7 cranks. wwwhhhoooo!!

I still use them, same bike I have just fitted the ThudBuster to...

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I have a set of those Shimano LX RR levers that mat outandabout posted a pic of up there ^^ I think i have the rear mech and maybe the front too. I remember them being very well suited to the Titec j bars.

sachs wavey shifters...inherently shite

anyone remember the club roost go fast riser bars? or any other riser bar that also needed a brace across it to stop it flexing?

i used to love using nokian tyres...

is dual control what my xtr shifters have? they allow the thumb to push the trigger usually reserved for the index to change up AND down?

My understanding is the dual control was a single lever you pulled to brake and you could push down or up THE SAME LEVER to change gears.

I had a go at ~2004 SSMM on a S-works epic with it on...

Cable donuts

Anti chain suck plate

My understanding is the dual control was a single lever you pulled to brake and you could push down or up THE SAME LEVER to change gears.

mines the "XTR M970 9 Speed Rapidfire".. looks like what i was trying to describe is what they call "two way shifting"

i used to have the DMR chain guides of old...
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i had all 3 different ones....and they were all rubbish

sachs wavey shifters...inherently shite

Bear trap pedals *shudders*

Bear trap pedals *shudders*

Still got some on one bike

Bear trap pedals *shudders*
Still got some on one bike

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Derailleur guard 8)

Sharks fins, the only piece of XT on my old Raleigh.

Hite Rite. Now there was a thing. Utterly useless unless your seatpost was a size too small.

I had one but was (and still am) too light to make it work.

I miss rapid rise rear mechs. But all the bikes are gripshift now.
The summer hardtail still has a taper bb too

Tioga disc drive.

Their dirt derraileurs were pretty good too, AFAIK the first to use front cable entry.

And that's where SRAM acquired it - when they bought Sachs.

You'll want some bullmoose bars to go with your beartrap pedals. And a bashbar under your bottom bracket to protect the chainrings.

And maybe a u-brake to slow you down gradually. If it will fit round your Farmer Johns.

IRC Mythos tyres.

How long until a thread similar to this includes 26" wheels in all their stiffer, lighter, faster accelerating glory?

In the meantime, you don't see much mention of 24" wheels these days.

Or STI (Shimano Total Integration) where the shifter and brake lever was all one unit, like a matchmaker or I spec, but without any means of seperating them.

Pretty sure Campagnolo made a brief foray into MTB transmissions, along with rims (I had some Sthenos built onto parallax hubs by Merlin), but then scarpered when they realized Lycra was losing ground in the fashion stakes.

I miss rapid rise rear mechs. But all the bikes are gripshift now.

Rapid rise is a characteristic of the mech - the spring is set up on the other diagonal of the parallelogram - gripshifters should work just as well. Also, what?

I liked dual control. Didn't like rapid rise though (which predated DC by a good number of years - XTR M950 was definitely available in RR).

Or STI (Shimano Total Integration) where the shifter and brake lever was all one unit, like a matchmaker or I spec, but without any means of seperating them.

I've got them on my pub/station bike. Just the brake bit, though. My hacksaw did a wonderful job of separating the (knackered) shifters. Total Disintegration.

Still got Dual Control on my MTB.
The same MTB that has 26" wheels, ISIS BB and a triple chainset...

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