Bike Products you wish were available...

Racer_Rob

Hi, just wondering if there is any bike-related product that you have ever found you need, but isn't available.
For example I've often thought just having a single brake lever to control both brakes on commuting bikes would be good.
I heard someone made a bike jacket that flashes LEDs along your arm when you hold it out to indicate automatically. sounds niffty, but probably expensive!

So is there any bike stuff you wish was around? (but that isn't too wacky! )

Julian G.

I'd like a $20 powertap(or simply enough $$$ to buy one), really, or is that too wacky?

I think you could do the single brake lever for both brakes with a piece from a "gyro" (I think it's called, it's used for freestyle BMX bikes so they can spin the bars) that splits the cable into two. But really though, that would undermine the bike handeling under hard braking (back wheel would lose traction).

jD_Empath

11-25 Dura Ace 7800 cassettes

Bob Ross

Black patent leather pumps with 6" spike heels, drilled for 2-hole SPD style cleats



...in my wife's size, of course.








Or what the hell, in my size, I know I'd look fierce sporting those!

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dgregory57

They have brake levers that pull two cables. They typically are for tandems etc, but are also sometimes used for people who can only squeeze with one hand (partial paralysis etc),

Here is one on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Dual-Pull-M...0 8221871r2046

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531Aussie

I wish I could adjust my saddle height while I'm riding/racing. True

Maybe hydraulics. Let's all invent one a get rich

alienator

Adapt the hydraulic preload mech. off a sportbike rear shock w/ hydraulic preload adjustment (Ohlins, WP, Extreme Tech......yummy.).

I'd like to see clustered cassettes go away and cassettes made with individual cogs come back in a big way. I'd rather decide what ratios are in my cassette rather than have the manufacturer do it.

That's all I want.

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531Aussie

I can hear the cash registers already

It'd probably be too heavy for all the weight weenies

Racer_Rob

that really is wacky ...if only!

dgregory57, that's very interesting, i thought someone would have come up with one already!

Here's another one, tyres which display their current pressure on the sidewall. Would make pumping up using old-school pumps easier and help to show if you've got a slow puncture...somehow I can't see it happening though.

531Aussie

I had to post these somewhere

benkoostra

I'd like to see a road version of the Girvin Flexstem.

Saddles that can be customized for comfort.

road-specific disc brakes.

More nudity on group rides.

12 lb road bikes that don't cost $12K

Racer_Rob

...2nd that

JTE83

You don't want to see nude men! Maybe nude women and crossdressers!

Julian G.

So, explain to me, how a person with no clothes on could be a crossdresser?