I really want to count that thing on the Roubaix as a resurrected Flex-Stem. 🙂

Needs moar saddle!

Although I see these making a comeback on new massive ENDURO bikes, with a double dropper setup

URT’s and other high pivot, stiffens when you stand (fnarr) suspension.

😯

Needs moar saddle!

Although I see these making a comeback on new massive ENDURO bikes, with a double dropper setup

Quite clearly more is more. I wonder if flipping the stem would have given an uber aero ride? Some clip on aero wheel discs would not have gone amiss either

HID lights

Semislick rear tyres with large edge knobs.

You are not enduro enough! 😉

Still happily using Gripshift in its XX1 format.

Oval chainrings are now with the larger “diameter” in a different location. Biopace was all to cock!

Gripshift?

Shut your mouth. I love my Gripshift.

Can’t say I miss bar-ends though.

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Biopace was all to cock!

the reason ‘why’ is reasonably interesting though…

anyway…

this:

Plus sized tyres.

Steel frames

Carbon legged sus forks

A “downtube” made out of wire.

Nobody mentioned…?

(oh yeah, Onzadog did 🙂 )

I really like my sub fork and my softail.

I quite liked my flex stem too and my first gen look spds.

How about 1.5″ rear tyres paired with 2.1″ fronts.

XC

I do like that someone tried to make a real version of this what I designed years ago

One of the chaps I ride with LOVES and still uses flappy paddle shifters…with uber narrow XC bars.

Getting on his bike is, well, odd….

DrP

PRST-1

I don’t know about a “dead end” – I quite fancy trying a HammerSchmidt on my Liteville.

Thread hijack, but has anyone used one and was it worth having?

The problem with a Hammerschmidt on most frames is that it’s a granny ring plus an overdrive, so you end up with more anti-squat and loads more kickback. It’ll be ok on some full-sus bikes but not a lot, especially all the 1x specific designs on the market, as pedalling will totally screw up the suspension action and when riding downhill it’ll keep kicking through the pedals and losing grip due to the chain tension resisting suspension movement.

Lizard Skin (neoprene) fork protectors – and neoprene brake lever ‘grips’

What the hell is that?

Rollamagig!

Avid rollermajig

Cross bikes

I had a PRST-1 and a PRST-4, the forks worked well but the spherical bearing on the bottom link needed changing on a regular basis.
I wouldn’t mind having the PRST-4 back actually.

ABS brakes for a mountain bike

Avid rollermajigs copied the cog hog IIRC. Neither are really a dead end as SRAM have incorporated a roller into their rear mechs.

Avid Rollamajigs are great, they solved a problem which later mech design solved. Not needed any more but certainly not a dead end!

So the internet disagrees over whether it was just a roller to smooth out a tight turn, or actually changed the pull ratio.

Elastomers…

In general.

Moar gears

Smoothed a tight turn. Its just a roller that got rid of the need for a lasso of cable hanging out back.

Lol at that ABS abomination.

Anyway – I really liked dual control.

Racks and panniers

So the internet disagrees over whether it was just a roller to smooth out a tight turn, or actually changed the pull ratio.

the Internet is full of idiots.
The one pictured on this thread is a straight roller, there are also a number of different offset rollers available that change pull ratio so you can mix and match shifters and mechs.
There is also one to enable mix n match between v and canti brake types.

chainstay mounted rim brakes.

Flouro splatter / swirl Lycra.

the Internet is full of idiots.
The one pictured on this thread is a straight roller, there are also a number of different offset rollers available that change pull ratio so you can mix and match shifters and mechs.
There is also one to enable mix n match between v and canti brake types.

It certainly is, I think someone is confusing an Avid Rollermajig/Crud Cog Hog with this.

Shimano even did their own version.