Bike stuff you thought you didn't need but now really like

I’ll start . Dropper post and a 32 rear sprocket on the back of a road bike .

Road pedals.

Arm warmers

Chamois cream.

+1 dropper post, thought it was an expensive add-on that I would not use that often, how wrong I was after putting a Thomson dropper on my Sherpa.

Strava

Few years back, road bike and bib shorts…most recently ceramic hope bb. Lovely.

Got to say my dropper post ,when introduced to one I laughed thinking what a waste of money ,now its a game changer I have one on both bikes

My add is my Oakleys the amount of times my eyes have been saved from flying muck ,stones and branches is unture ,never leave home without them now

A road bike. Love it.

Also a water bottle. Much prefer it to a camelback

Dropper post and a 32 rear sprocket on the back of a road bike

Where do you take your road bike to need a dropper?

n+1
I’d feel deprived if I only owned one bike now…

Dropper.

Tubeless.

Suspension.
Singlespeed.

Road hydro discs.

Chamois cream, arm warmers, gilets, knee warmers,cap.

All originally dismissed as roadie affectations, but it seems that they know a thing or two about being comfortable on a bike for long periods.

Dropper
Saddle bags and bottle cages (How did I forget how good they are for shorter rides?)
Road discs and big road tyres on a grrravel bike
Garmin Edge 1000
Brompton

Road bike. Used to think it would be the most pointless waste of 2 wheels, but gets used far more than the mountain bike these days

Cyclocross* bikes.

29ers.

(*gravel, neo-tourer, whatever)

Brompton – opened up more riding than anything else recently.

Dropper

29ers

I’d say dropper but I fitted one knowing I’d love it.

My cx/gravel bike has turned from a flight of fancy to a love it in the space of a few rides.

Dropper post and a 32 rear sprocket on the back of a road bike

Where do you take your road bike to need a dropper?[/quote]

More to the point why does he hang it and a cassette off the back of his bike?? 😆

Hmm, mine would probably be tubeless. I was a dropper early adopter – sold on that straight away. Spent a long time cursing punctures before seeing the tubeless light though.

And maybe strava. MTB I couldn’t care less about but the idea of getting out on the roadie to come back and see if i’ve beaten my way up some leaderboard and watching the training miles tick up actually gets me out, I reckon I wouldn’t do many evening training rides without it.

Clutch mech

Turbo
Garmin 810
Road bike

all time?
wide bars & dropper – from before they were very fashionable
recent?
bib shorts
tubeless
remote lock outs

Dropper here too.

Prescription Oakleys too.

Dropper post
fat bike
combine the two for the perfect local riding machine

650b wheels

Single front ring.

29er, padded shorts, technical clothing, a long bike.

Dropper, tubeless, wide bars, short stem all seemed like no brainers to me, especially come from bmx.

BMX brain said ride a small bike, itll be more nimble, decided one day to try a bike too big for me (well bang on latest trends) and it turned out way better for me, I can move it around better than a smaller bike too.

29er

Turbo

Training programme

Powermeter

It’s a long list…in actual order of discovery.

Hydraulic discs
Full suspension
Lockout/compression damping
Tubeless
X9
XT
34T cassette
36T cassette
Bottle cages
Dropper post
29″ wheels
26″ wheels

Rigid SS

Dropper.
Tubeless.
The neck warmers that come free with the mags from time to time. wouldn’t be without one in the winter!

A winter hardtail- I bought a Stooge and set it up SS with a 3.0” Chronicle. What a bike! It’s cost me nothing since being built a year ago despite the worst winter weather and thousands of miles.

2×10
turns out im not fit enough for 1×10 and it makes me push more going down too

Road bike, (and later road pedals) cx bike, armwarmers, 29er mountain bike. I can’t believe i just typed that!
However, I haven’t really noticed the difference in my local woods with tubeless having just done this: same rims and same tyres just tubelessed them the other day. Perhaps tyre pressures still too high? And i often get home after a nice rattly rooty ride to find the clutch mech is switched off and i never noticed.

Singlespeed
Fat bike
Rigid bikes
Remote lockout*

Basically anything counter-mainstream, I figure anything that’s developed for the mass market is already going to be good, marketing is just trying to hype it up past the other good stuff.

*that shot in the Pro-XC bikes thread of the Di2 and Fox remote lockout was a money shot! I’d really like one of those Scott or Cannondale bikes with the combined lockout.