Bike Products Which Exist, But Which One Wishes Did Not

[Emor_please]

Holy shit we’ve come full circle to trunk bags

[todd_bonzalez]

IT’S A BIKE RACK

[Straws]

All the annoying parts of both bags with none of the positive aspects of either. Neat.

[theKearney]

If my experience in “the bike industry” is any guide, someone who owns a LHT will buy the crabon bike rack because they want to save weight. Then they’ll run effectively solid-rubber marathons on shitty stock wheels and rave about how the all the ultegra they put on their bike saves x grams.

Edit: I forgot to mention they’ll have 80+ mm of spacers and two dozen appliances bolted to their handlebars.

[Master_Stabby]

There’s a geezer out there who has this very bike, with a power meter.

[sparksflyhigh]

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“Hello all, this is my new ultimate tire system. Mr. Tuffy Tire Liners and Schwalbe Marathon Plus HS 440 Tires… I also keep my tires inflated at maximum pressure at all times, this stops the dreaded snake bite.” All rolling on Spinergys, lol

[lawnchairdave]

So much preciousness going on I’m gonna squee.

[BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS]

i’m so into that

[Rent-to-own-Faxmachine]

That puts my Vaya to shame (well, almost).

[tehschkott]

/breathing intensifies

[tehschkott]

@turpentine

The only thing I really don’t like about that is the price.

This. $289~$455 for a fucking trunk bag? PASS. It’s a good idea. It’s not THAT good of an idea.

[Rusty_Piton]

@lawnchairdave

So much preciousness going on I’m gonna squee.

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I see this guy riding around chicago in flipflops from time to time.

[turpentine]

Let’s all be real. Whoever rides that would love tarck in 2010.

[theKearney]

This isn’t an outlandish product, but it is common and I do hate it: Triflow.

That shit sticks dirt on people’s drive trains like nothing else, it becomes the sort of metaphor for viscous black liquid you could imagine Daniel Day Lewis screaming about drinking stealthily with a long straw.

[Rent-to-own-Faxmachine]

@theKearney

This isn’t an outlandish product, but it is common and I do hate it: Triflow.

That shit sticks dirt on people’s drive trains like nothing else, it becomes the sort of metaphor for viscous black liquid you could imagine Daniel Day Lewis screaming about drinking stealthily with a long straw.

Truth. Your chain looks like a churro after 1-2 rides.

[turpentine]

Triflow isn’t for chains. It’s for all the other things. And it smells like bananas

[spaghetti]

@Rusty_Piton

I see this guy riding around chicago in flipflops from time to time.

yep true legend

[Rent-to-own-Faxmachine]

Verdict is still out on these:

http://www.fidlock-bike.com/produkte_en.html#bottle_600

[russ]

I have a buddy who uses one of those for MTB and he seems to like it pretty well

[Rent-to-own-Faxmachine]

@russ

I have a buddy who uses one of those for MTB and he seems to like it pretty well

I’ve got them on my Jones’ truss fork, but want to do some more testing before I commit to them 100%.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmzb698hb6K/?taken-by=gravelbikedotcom