[Closed] Things you'd never put on your bike?

Anything labelled SRAM

*waits for someone to say 'a Mudhugger on a FS bike' but then rides round with a wet/mucky arse*

Drop bars
Jobbie wall tyres
Gaudy bright hope stuff
Frame straps
Rear mudguard
Manitou forks

esselgruntfuttock
Free Member
*waits for someone to say ‘a Mudhugger on a FS bike’ but then rides round with a wet/mucky arse*

I have been guilty of that, as recent as last week, but stopped as i have an issue with a bad hip and when i swing my leg over i keep smacking the mudhugger, last week i knocked it clean off, so just stick it on the hardtail for winter, only due to me having knocked it off the full sus 3 times, and with 10 or 12 zip ties, it's a lot to replace each time!

gears, suspension, mud guards.

Anything labelled SRAM

This.

My Wife.

... because it is MY BIKE.

Cheers!
I.

Anything anodised, it’s just plain nasty

I've been riding with a carbon bar for a few years with no issue but I have a mate who is a bit of a mincer (measures all of his rides in miles rather than radness) and he snapped his carbon bar last month. Riding a mildly rugged bridelway near Ladybower the whole end just snapped off. He had a bit of a tumble but it could have been catastrophic considering some of the descents around there. Expensive bars as well, being a Santa Cruz rider he can't just run a cheap brand.

I'm back on an alloy Fatbar. Partly because I needed the extra rise, partly because I don't want to somersault into a rock garden when my grip floats away from my bike.

anything that doesn't work better than what I already have.

gears, suspension, mud guards.

Coz you iz hardcore, yeah?

montylikesbeer
Full Member

Anything anodised, it’s just plain nasty

Given the number of parts on a bike that are anodised - what surface treatment would you prefer?

For me..... I’ve actually got a pump mounted on my mtb! For the first time ever

Argee, I'm exactly the opposite in that the only carbon on my bikes are the bars. My reasoning is that carbon is very strong in the direction it is designed to be strong in but weak in the direction it isn't. The chance of bars picking up an impact like this (rock strikes etc.) is much lower for bars than frame or rims due to thier position high up and at the front of the bike.

Back to your question, handlebars have to have 9° of backsweep. Anything else just feels wrong.

Over-priced dogs.

Shimano brakes

Id like to be able to go for a ride and not find Ive had a micro leak at the caliper and contaminated the pads

Rainbow streamers

A kick stand

Anything oil slick

Definitely no kick stands ^ Also white tyres or bar ends.

Knowing there's a fatigue life for aluminium I'd trust carbon bars more. In fact I've broken probably a dozen aluminium parts or frames over the years, none were my fault, but only one carbon part, which probably was my fault.

an electric motor.

Wheels larger than 26" 😉

A front basket.

Things I thought I'd never add and now have are:
Flat pedals on my mountain bike
Road pedals on my road bike
Mud guards
A bell
Reflectors
Two bottle cages
Saddle bag
Bar bag
Dynamo lights
Bike rack
Full Lycra on me

Edit:- agree on bigger than 26" wheels

Gaudy bright hope stuff

This

A shorter dropper than the longest I can squeeze in
King hubs
Thomson stems

Spokey dokeys.

One of those turbo spoke things that make motorbike noises from your wheels...well hang on.

A milk crate...pretty sure it falls in same pre-destiny that has a person waking up one day and thinking "I need a flag pole in my garden"

Tanwalls.

“I need a flag pole in my garden”

Whole bunch of great ideas going on here.

An over priced multi tool stuffed into a steerer tube or bar ends.

A bottle cage on an MTB

I don’t want to somersault into a rock garden when my grip floats away from my bike.

So the bar failed where the grip was - presumably - clamped on? That may not be the bars fault.....

Gears
Brakes
Reflectors
Bell (until this year where the walker count went so high during lockdown that I got one for first time ever and it is great, actually get many "Thanks" from walkers from a non offensive bell that I didn't get when shouting at them from a distance)

I know which bike to bring when I go ride with Nobeer down in Ayrshire 🙂

Drop bars
Jobbie wall tyres
Gaudy bright hope stuff
Frame straps
Rear mudguard
Manitou forks

until this year where the walker count went so high during lockdown that I got one for first time ever and it is great, actually get many “Thanks” from walkers from a non offensive bell that I didn’t get when shouting at them from a distance

What is it with older walkers and their obsession with bells rather than an "excuse me".

Funnily enough the title of the next thread down was my exact answer:

Gripshift

I didn't say older walkers because it is not just older walkers. In fact some of the older walkers don't hear it as it is high pitched (the sound range that people lose when older!)

I don't think it matters what I am shouting whether "excuse me" or "**** off out of the way" it is shouting which seems more aggressive than a bell I suppose.

Lol big scot, I don't care what's on my mates bikes! 🤣

I fitted a bell to the Bronson for doing WHW in a day in August, went OTB and broke it before I got a chance to use it!.

I took it as a sign.

I have a kickstand on my computer, common sense if you have panniers.

So the bar failed where the grip was – presumably – clamped on? That may not be the bars fault…..

No but funnily enough no matter where it snaps your grip isn't attached to the bike anymore.

That's a funny typo

Anything "premium" that isn't as good as standard, much cheaper stuff. Hope cranks, Thomson stems, crazily priced hubs

SRAM - Mainly as I’ve never found anything if there’s that Shimano don’t do better.
White grips or bar tape - it just looks nasty very quickly.

Carbon cranks, I have no trust in bonded pedal inserts!

Anything Crank Bros.

Tyres that weigh more than a kilogram each.