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

[MichaelW2]

Wooden wheel rims.

With disk brakes this is now a much more viable technology.

 

[MichaelW2]

But, they excelled in wearing out tyre sidewalls.

My Swiss made Nordlicht model has a rubber roller. I only use occasionally on the tourer my everyday dynamo is a superior hub style.
My bottle dynamo tech to forget is clamp on style mounts. They always rotate out. I use a braze on mount

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

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

You must have been posh. We used a bit of knotted rope.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You must have been posh. We used a bit of knotted rope.

Rope you were lucky…

 

[GuyBoden]

You must have been posh. We used a bit of knotted rope.

knotted Rope, that's posh, we used the string from our emergency rations Red Cross parcels.

 

[Tribansman]

You never want see a moustache again?

Not a feeble effort like that, no!

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

knotted Rope, that's posh, we used the string from our emergency rations Red Cross parcels.

You got Red Cross parcels? Now that is posh.

 

[simongt]

short mudguards

The advantage of short mudguards is that they kept the dust and similar debris off the brake pivots. But try getting hold of them now - !

 

[Deleted member 1258]

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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I remember those, door bell battery, used on Wonder Light Lights, I'd have been better off with a candle.

 

[fossyant]

Nowt wrong the a penny farthing. I had great fun on my day riding one - a splendid birthday treat from Mrs PP

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My mate still rides his round Knutsford, and is on strava !

 

[fossyant]

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.

Still riding my old one, agree. Terrified myself at Gwydir forest, couldn't stop, roots, steep descent, walked some. Same descent, new MTB, whoosh straight down. The old one does muddy local rides now, with full mud guards.

 

[FrankCrank]

Ouch

 

[Andy in Germany]

My mate still rides his round Knutsford, and is on strava !

If you're going to persist in riding a penny farthing, Knutsford is definitely the place to do it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If you're going to persist in riding a penny farthing, Knutsford is definitely the place to do it.

Knutsford is the place to get off a hobby horse

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Still riding my old one, agree. Terrified myself at Gwydir forest, couldn't stop, roots, steep descent, walked some. Same descent, new MTB, whoosh straight down. The old one does muddy local rides now, with full mud guards.

Old ones are great for what gravel bikes now do. But for full on traditional mountain biking, you definitely want the new geometries and suspension setups.