pointless bicycle accessories

[winjim]

Indicators. Gloves with indicators.

Helmets with indicators. Brake lights. Helmets with brake lights. Laser projection lights. Basically any bike light that's not just a bike light.

 

[screenman]

Those mudguards.

 

[Drago]

Just because the owners don't want them, doesn't make them pointless. If that were the case xxxx car manufacturer could dispense with the flashing yellow lights at the corners.

I'm not suggesting they might not have utilitarian value. I'm suggesting that something most cyclists throw in the bin at the first opportunity is pointless.

 

[Dismount]

Oddly I kept on my spoke reflector's and removed the front and rear reflectors. I needed the space for lights and a saddle bag.

 

[steveindenmark]

Those bright plasic bobble things that slide up and down spokes.

Hard to believe that someone rode TCR with loads of them on the wheels. The noise would drive me nuts and it must have made the dogs go barking mad.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Surly still sell their bikes with spoke protectors. Then we all take them off. You rarely see a bike with one. Do they know something I do not?

 

[winjim]

Surly still sell their bikes with spoke protectors. Then we all take them off. You rarely see a bike with one. Do they know something I do not?

They know they're a legal requirement at point of sale.

 

[Drago]

The law makes them sell them that way. Were just sticking two fingers at the establishment by removing by them.

 

[winjim]

The law makes them sell them that way. Were just sticking two fingers at the establishment by removing by them.

Fight the power.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

They know they're a legal requirement at point of sale.

Really? In the States? Or in the UK?

Wait: April the 1st has gone. I'm feeling vulnerable. Two bikes I've bought in the last 2 years didn't have them. I'll sue the baskets.

 

[Drago]

Its unlawful for a shop to sell a bike that doesn't conform to BSEN14764/5/6, or 147682. Oddly, the standard itself doesnt make direct reference to the reflectors, but in turn itself quotes the pointnof sale regs for each specific EU country, which doesn't immediately spring to mind but doubtless someone will be along soon to remedy that.

 

[Alan O]

Are people perhaps confusing spoke reflectors and spoke protectors here? Reflectors are a legal requirement at the point of sale, but protectors are not as far as I know.

 

[Cuchilo]

Wheels

 

[youngoldbloke]

Presta valve lock-rings, and dust-caps once you've fitted the tube. BTW what are 'spoke protectors'?

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Are people perhaps confusing spoke reflectors and spoke protectors here? Reflectors are a legal requirement at the point of sale, but protectors are not as far as I know.

Phew. So The kids can keep their mini frisbees then? And why do they go Yellow like old sellotape?