The bicycle zenith

[bobzmyunkle]

Mine broke, but this bit will still come in useful, won't it?

 

[matticus]

Mine broke, but this bit will still come in useful, won't it?

Maybe if you need to put a badger out of its misery.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Maybe if you need to put a badger out of its misery.

The mind boggles, as they say.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'd be tempted to shove the broken pointy bit into an Allen socket, to see if it would grip.

 

[Paulus]

Mine broke, but this bit will still come in useful, won't it?
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What about the other bit?

 

[Sharky]

Past few birthdays, people have given me cycle repair gift sets, containing one of these credit card size multi tools ...

Amuses me as there is only one nut on my bikes and that's me.

 

[Drago]

Mine broke, but this bit will still come in useful, won't it?
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It'll still be useful if you have an itchy prostate.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Past few birthdays, people have given me cycle repair gift sets, containing one of these credit card size multi tools ...
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Amuses me as there is only one nut on my bikes and that's me.

Only be useful for mudguard stays on my bike

 

[Sharky]

Only be useful for mudguard stays on my bike

Haven't used mudguards for quite a while. Since retirement, I can be picky and avoid the rain.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

, I can be picky and avoid the rain.

Not this winter, unless only out a few days a week.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Twenty years ago people were proclaiming that the bicycle reached it's development zenith in the sixties. Ten years ago it was the seventies, now apparently it is the eighties.

Sounds to me suspiciously like this movable zenith coincides with the proclaimers youth, when they were fit and enthusiastic about this sport they'd got into and they now sit dreaming of a perfect world that has been spoiled by all this new fangled stuff people are stupid enough to buy into.

 

[Illaveago]

Haven't used mudguards for quite a while. Since retirement, I can be picky and avoid the rain.

They make storage more difficult.

 

[DogmaStu]

And in years to come when the firmware is unsupported and your shiny new computer doesn't run a suitably retrograde version of windows?

Don't scoff, it's already happened to very early systems.

In 5 decades time you'll still be able to tweak and adjust a cable without any problem.

Not every step forward is progress.

Do you think not being able to update to a newer firmware makes a component suddenly stop working?

Do you imagine I'll still be riding my current bikes in 5 decades time? I'll be long buried!

 

[DogmaStu]

My view is that of a software engineer. Your statement is silly, but your imagination is running wild!

What a daft response!

Do you think that telling the internet you are a software engineer makes you an expert on these particular components?

As I wrote, typical attitude and thought-processes from those who have ZERO actual experience with something but feel the need to diminish it anyway. Why is that?

If I can't afford to buy a certain something, or simply don't see a need for the added expense for my own use case, I don't go about trying to justify this by belittling the thing - I'm happy to accept from those who have years of extensive use of said thing that it works and is a positive evolution of the version I may have.

Weird how some folks have to defend their views by making silly comments and casting dispersions about things they have never owned!

 

[Dogtrousers]

In 5 decades time you'll still be able to tweak and adjust a cable without any problem.

Sadly I doubt that that is true as I'll be into my 12th decade. Still, you never know.