What old cycling technology don't you ever want to see again?

[TheDoctor]

Steel wheel rims with terrible brakes.
42/52 chainsets with 14/24 blocks. No wonder I struggled up hills...
And those awful lights with Krypton bulbs that chewed through D-cell Duracells and still didn't light the road in any acceptable sense.
And finally - lights that used these.

 

[classic33]

Steel wheel rims with terrible brakes.
42/52 chainsets with 14/24 blocks. No wonder I struggled up hills...
And those awful lights with Krypton bulbs that chewed through D-cell Duracells and still didn't light the road in any acceptable sense.
And finally - lights that used these.
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Petzl head torches.

 

[MichaelW2]

Hook and elastic pannier mounting .
Woods valves
Pumps with screw in connector tubes.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Good for riding uphill though.

Not on that gearing it isn't!

 

[Deleted User]

Little leather belts you hung round the wheel hub axle to keep them shiny

Never knew what they were for.

 

[Tribansman]

Oh yes. I had one...

Rocked from side to side. Had a totally ineffectual mousetrap type spring fo supposedly holding things.

My pannier rack was ok, it was the panniers that were sh1te! They had no buckle or clip or any way to fasten the bottom half of the pannier on to the rack. Bizarre. I had to use a couple of bungee cords, which nearly garotted me several times when they didn't clip on, and meant getting the bloody things off and back on was a real ballache. Definitely not missed!

 

[Tribansman]

Oh, and definitely this:

 

[Lovacott]

Bottle Dynamos.

 

[Blue Hills]

totally shyte pannier racks

slightly mistifying in view of the Brit reputation (of old) for good engineering and if anything over-engineering stuff.
Can only think that it was because they didn't really expect folk to use them much/serious tourists being relatively rare/the tourists there were often being of the BO-ridden grizzeled types that would disappear for a week with just a carradice saddle-bag.

 

[Drago]

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You never want see a moustache again?

 

[Hover Fly]

Screw-on free wheels. Alright until you want to remove it.

 

[guitarpete247]

When I got my 1st bike with square taper cranks, my dad couldn't see why the didn't stick with cotter pins
He never saw the problem with them. Hammering them out and making the threads unusable could be fixed by recutting the thread.

 

[guitarpete247]

Screw-on free wheels. Alright until you want to remove it.
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Just put removal tool in vice and turn wheel. Plenty of leverage and good rubber grip if tyre left on.

 

[C R]

Just put removal tool in vice and turn wheel. Plenty of leverage and good rubber grip if tyre left on.

All well and good, if you have such device.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Mountain bikes with long top tubes like road bikes of old. Made descents of anything moderately steep an exercise in staying alive on suicidal descents.