What have you bought that has been a total waste of money?

[rugby bloke]

Bought a bike off a mate for £20 to keep in London as my commuter bike. After a brief test ride I knew it was pretty awful so I beat him down from the £50 he was asking for. It was only when I unleashed it on the mean streets of London I realized how many different ways it had of trying to kill me. Took it too a bike shop to see how much it would cost to sort it out .. result it still lingers in St Pancrase station, unloved and certainly unused !

 

[vickster]

Bought a bike off a mate for £20 to keep in London as my commuter bike. After a brief test ride I knew it was pretty awful so I beat him down from the £50 he was asking for. It was only when I unleashed it on the mean streets of London I realized how many different ways it had of trying to kill me. Took it too a bike shop to see how much it would cost to sort it out .. result it still lingers in St Pancrase station, unloved and certainly unused !

Why not give it to a bike coop who can maybe do something with it rather than leaving as litter.

 

[rugby bloke]

Why not give it to a bike coop who can maybe do something with it rather than leaving as litter.

Fair point - I probably could if I gave it some thought and tracked down where the nearest co-op was and then figured out how it get it there .. because I'm certainly not riding it.

 

[vickster]

https://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/londons-bicycle-collectives-from-bike-repairs-to-second-hand-bikes/

 

[Levo-Lon]

Cooking l books...

 

[Low Gear Guy]

One Sunday morning I bought a pair of wire cutters at the car boot sale.

In the afternoon I applied them to bike brake cable and the head sheared straight off.

No more cheap tools for me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Noodle bars. Fitted them and they just flop to the side and go soggy in the rain. Another useless bit of kit.

 

[Brains]

s.

And a Garmin Edge explore 820 - £200 for a non user friendly POS...

You want to buy my one ?
£50 and it's yours

I paid £100 it, second hand
Tried it a number of times on my commute to work (basis i knew where I was going, so it could not send me in the wrong direction)
I never figured out how to get it to do the entire route, it would start off OK and then sooner or later try to turn me around and I had missed one of the way points by 1 meter, after that point it would become useless and each next way point was out of order (or missed by a few meters)

 

[MichaelW2]

Sealskinz gloves, hard to put on, harder to remove, does not keep hands dry.

I may have mis-purchased Nikon D5300. It is potentially a fine camera but DX lenses were never really well supported by Nikon. Also, you cant calibrate the focus of individual lenses like you can higher up the food chain.

 

[PeteXXX]

Fair point - I probably could if I gave it some thought and tracked down where the nearest co-op was and then figured out how it get it there .. because I'm certainly not riding it.

~Umbrella Fair, Racecourse, Northampton ~

 

[PeteXXX]

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I have now exchanged these gloves, with a mate, for coffee and cake

 

[captain nemo1701]

That awful liquid Slime for punctures. Cr*p.

I should add that forget this rubbish, quicker just to fix the puncture.

 

[DaveReading]

I bought a pair of loons in Kensington Market in 1973. Say no more ...

 

[Dave7]

Why not give it to a bike coop who can maybe do something with it rather than leaving as litter.

I have lots of good mates like that.
Edit.
Vickster......that was directed at @rugby blokes original post. Dont know how it turned up on yours. Please ignore

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I bought one of those turbo trainer things. Used it once, hated it, sold it.