Ridiculous cycling products

[Ming the Merciless]

The 6 inch mudguards we all fitted to our bikes in the 70’s

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Internal cable routing.

 

[MichaelW2]

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The Rixen and Kaul map holder.
For those tours when you absolutely, positively need to look like you're a budding cabbie doing the knowledge.

I use the mapholder on my barbag. In places where you have a lot of navigational decisions every few hundred metres, a map up front increases your average speed more than acrobars.

 

[screenman]

Indeed! Years ago I wasted money on one of those. They are almost hilariously awful. Try cleaning your chain with one of those and it turns into a slapstick farce of dirty oil spraying everywhere.

They are so easy to use and work very well, if you know what you are doing of course, mine is brilliant used with a little white spirit.

 

[raleighnut]

The 6 inch mudguards we all fitted to our bikes in the 70’s

I believe the rumour was you had to have mudguards fitted to a bike and these fulfilled the law but I think the truth was they were just to keep crud and water off your brake pivots.

 

[Drago]

Oi !

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I'm pulling your leg, Mr Nut

 

[Venod]

My usual answer, gear indicaters.

 

[rogerzilla]

Antilock brakes.

https://www.outbraker.eu/outbraker/

These appear to be a hydraulic version of the crappy force limiters you sometimes see on cable front brakes.

 

[AndyRM]

Helmet cameras.

 

[classic33]

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Drivers who overtake too close are a menace so the assault rifle is an acceptable deterrent but I reckon that blowing vehicles off the road with the missile launcher is perhaps taking self-defence too far...?

You need

 

[jay clock]

I believe the rumour was you had to have mudguards fitted to a bike and these fulfilled the law but I think the truth was they were just to keep crud and water off your brake pivots.

We called them racing mudguards. Because of course all the pro riders had them. Not!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Lycra, well it looks ridiculous on me

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I use the mapholder on my barbag. In places where you have a lot of navigational decisions every few hundred metres, a map up front increases your average speed more than acrobars.

Of course you use the one on your bar bag, so do I, and I value "aero" about as much as you do I think. But have you seen the size of that one i posted? It's like a bloody barn door! On a breezy day, with the wind in the wrong direction, you stand a good chance of posting a velocity in the minus figures.
With the wind behind you, it's a Strava segment destroyer.

 

[kynikos]

Helmet cameras.

FTFY

 

[JPBoothy]

My usual answer, gear indicaters.

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Yes Yes Yes! I've always thought that but had assumed that some gadget people must have had a secret pole to keep them.