Bike components that you hate

[Threevok]

Brake sets with hoses so long - you would need to trim them for a tandem

 

[Tim Hall]

Oh please. Yes pleaaaaaaaaaaaase.

I hung on to my old 1972 aluminium pump with the hose in the handle until it finally croaked a few years ago, and I've never found anything satisfactory to replace it with. (I made a pair of pump pegs to carry it when I bought a bike without them.)

Try either a Zefal HPX or a Topeak Road Masterblaster. Both are full length frame fit pumps that can achieve "proper" pressures.

 

[presta]

Try either a Zefal HPX or a Topeak Road Masterblaster. Both are full length frame fit pumps that can achieve "proper" pressures.

Frame fit are easy to find, the problem with them is that there's no hose. Zefal still sell plastic pumps with a hose in the handle, but they're aimed at the cheap end of the market: the hoses don't last, and the pump melts.

 

[Reynard]

Yksiön means "of the studio" or "studio's" in Finnish if that helps.

In other words, a fancy way of saying "own brand"

 

[Threevok]

A flat for one ?

Poor choice of words for such a product, No ?

 

[Reynard]

Flat for one... Not very uplifting LOL

 

[Chris S]

Derailleurs - I'd rather have 3 hub gears that always work instead of 18 that don't.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yksiön means "of the studio" or "studio's" in Finnish if that helps.

Great name for something that looks good in pictures but not so much on the road.

 

[Drago]

Hope hydraulics.

 

[GuyBoden]

Derailleurs - I'd rather have 3 hub gears that always work instead of 18 that don't.

Derailleurs need to be caressed with lube and a knowledge of how they function best.......................

 

[gibgrth]

Campagnolo overpriced and over engineered! SRAM Rival 22 and the Planet Rt 58 it was bolted to! Funkier clothing that doesn't last!

 

[robjh]

Could be. Yksi means "one". Yksiö means a studio flat (a flat for one), I think, rather than an artist's studio. But I'm not really sure.
It could just be a silly name that they invented.

I was going to say, humorously* that a two-room apartment must be a kaksiö. Then I found this

*and to show off a really very limited knowledge of Finnish

 

[youngoldbloke]

They could be something that came with the bike, or something you bought afterwards. But what have you had on your bike that has made you think 'well, this is crap'.

For me, it's the Yksion Elite tyres that came with my Road Pro Carbon SLR. In terms of 'performance' I can't see how they're any better than the Vittoria Zaffiro ones that came with the old bike.

The main bug bear is the lack of seemingly any puncture protection. The bike they're on is my good one so I'm not riding it that often but I reckon about 1 puncture every 50 miles at least.

What bike part has really wound you up?

I've got Yksion Comp tyres on my winter bike, getting on for 1000 miles so far, no punctures, no complaints.

 

[raleighnut]

Being really, really picky it should be kaksio not kaksiö (Vowel harmony: with or without dots)
And yes, it would appear that there is such a thing as a kolmio but it stops there.

Staying massively off topic, I noticed in another thread I that Orbea make a bike called a katu. Katu means street in Finnish. Finnish is taking over the world.

Perkele.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

White bar tape. It could just be that I'm a grubby little Hector I suppose.