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I have a bike that's permanently fitted to a turbo trainer. Its pedals have titanium axles.
New stickers for my pikes...
Old bike, Specialized Hard Rock, would have to have been the original hope mini brake up front. Cost almost 1/3 of the original bike price!
Edit: Oh and the SSG Bel-Air saddle in cow print with titanium rails. Did get it cheap at a bike show TBF.
I used to have an anodised purple chain tensioner on my GT Timberline (it was the mid-90s and that kind of shenanigans was acceptable)
Current one is a copper Knog Oi bell. It's shit but is pretty
Both my MTBs are really rather nice but both are completely lacking in bling. The closest are the (black) Hope floating rotors on one but as they’re old and from different eras so they don’t even match, I don’t think they count anymore!
My new Moxie gets noticed because it is pinker than a very pink thing and looks awesome but everything on it was chosen for function over bling, sorry. Lyrik Ultimate has shiny decals though.
I have to admit I'm struggling with this one. Where to start really.
I have a bike that’s permanently fitted to a turbo trainer. Its pedals have titanium axles.
I bought a road bike just to use on a wheel-off turbo trainer. It has never been on a road, in fact it hasn’t ever left my garage. I have no desire to ever ride a bike on the road. Yet I’ve bought better, more expensive tyres for it. Twice. Idiot.
After reading the replies I dont feel bad about spending £30 on two Ti shock bolts now
Dropper seatpost. Use it maybe once a ride.
I suppose it can come in handy when trying to fit the bike in the car though.
The fake dirt.
Anodised cable ferrules
I bought a carbon sram shifter clamp once, BK Composites, saved 12 grams
I bought XTR when it very first came out and realised to change chain,rings and cassette was over a weeks wages (didn't last great either). After that I just ran the bike as they came (only changing kit that annoyed/ wasn't up to job) which was not much really. Do buy droppers if the bike didn't come with one though.
Don't do bling really. Matching Thomson stem and seatpost on my ti tripster is about as far as it goes for me.
I tend to order Wolftooth bits when I've had a few beers. Some nice and functional (dropper trigger, bar tape, cog), some just because they have the logo (stem cap, seatpost clamp, bottle cage)
Also, unnecessary anodised bolts on forks
That fork looks like a spotty teenager
I think braided brake hoses are definitely in the useless bling category. nice looking, adds nothing at all to the functionality and for extra bling points are actually harder to fit properly than the boggo black plastic hoses. If it actually makes your life harder for no real benefits other than it looks nice...that's dedication to the cause
I don't do bling says the poster with the frou -frou - hyper expensive for no real benefit - matchy matchy seat post and stem...
I think there are some folks in denial about their spending decisions.
Stopped to help some kids in Delamere today who looked like they were struggling with a stem bolt. Turns out they'd rounded it out while trying to remove it to change the black spacers for gold ones just purchased from the bike shop.
As the other one was still tight and the stem was secure on the steerer, suggested they'd probably be better doing it at home and not risk making worse in the middle of the woods.
Awesome teenager logic. 🤣🤣
Embarrassingly a full bike.
Bought a Lynskey built PX road bike, plumped for full Dura Ace pedals the lot. Zip carbon bar and stem, titanium and carbon wheel skewers, cut out seat clamp with titanium bolt etc. Got carried away with saving weight, unfortunately did all this before I realised road bikes weren't my thing, so if I round up its probably done 50 miles, so currently an expensive albeit shiny ornament and a reminder not to get too carried away.
Ti caliper bolts. PURPLE ti caliper bolts
£35 spent on ti saddle clamp bolts for my Magura Vyron seat post. Although the Ti top cap bolt might be more pointless ever so slightly, along with the carbon top cap it holds on. Replacing the rear cage plate on my AXS mech with a carbon one saved a whole 6g and cans really be seen let alone felt either.
Van Nicholas ti stem, Thomson ti flat bars, Torus TIF36 ti forks, ti layback seatpost - well it is on a Cotic Soda. I might have a bit of a ti fetish!
I've got one one of the titanium Chris King headsets on the DH bike I rarely use, a 2008 Stinky.
Because a normal CK one isn't blongy enough🙈
TBF I used it for the first time since before the plague last month by coming not quite last at the MacAvalanche. Maybe it would have been last if I had had to use just a normal headset
Probably the XTR rear mech on my YT. But it was bought second hand so I don't feel quite as bad.
Carbon Rocky Mountain bars on my Rocky Mountain. It came with perfectly good Race Face bars, but I was looking for some bars on ebay for another bike, saw these and had to have them. Really rather unnecessary, as is all the best bling.
Pointless - Fidlock bottle.
Bought purely for looks (although with the proviso that any bottle for that bike needs a usable cap over the mouthpiece)
Oil slick valve caps which cost a fiver.
That's it.
I never win anything.
I never win anything
You never know. You've spent money on something that performs worse than the part it replaced, heavier and likely to seize on. That's up there in the pointless stakes.
Dropper seatpost. Use it maybe once a ride.
Where/what are you riding? I use mine all the time, even at traffic lights!
Probably the XTR rear mech
My 2x10 29er came fitted with an XTR rear-mech. previous 2x10 29er had a mid-range Deore rear-mech. I find that the XTR one shifts faster and with more ease. It just feels smooth and sharp by comparison. I may be imagining it.
#eatmagicbeans
Dropper seatpost. Use it maybe once a ride.
Ditto. I'm more the urban cyclist tbh, so the dropper isn't really something i've used other than to make it easier to throw a leg over when mounting.
So off it comes to be replaced with the carbon USE post i got in their outlet sale.
Syncros 2.5 170mm dropper - 650 grams(inc remote)
USE Sumo carbon post - 240 grams.
14 1/2 ounce difference.
literally use my dropper every stop/start and every time the trail changes from down to up again...
Id even put one on my grave/road bike thing if it didnt mean sacrificing my ninja pump in the seatpost.. 😀
As for the tyres on the turbo trainer bike ^^^^ 😀
Reynolds blacklabel carbons. Noisey as hell freehub and feel no different to my Hunt XCs. Bought the reynolds for racing just as I was packing up racing.🙄