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I'll start . Dropper post and a 32 rear sprocket on the back of a road bike .
Road pedals.
Arm warmers
Chamois cream.
+1 dropper post, thought it was an expensive add-on that I would not use that often, how wrong I was after putting a Thomson dropper on my Sherpa.
Strava
Few years back, road bike and bib shorts...most recently ceramic hope bb. Lovely.
Got to say my dropper post ,when introduced to one I laughed thinking what a waste of money ,now its a game changer I have one on both bikes
My add is my Oakleys the amount of times my eyes have been saved from flying muck ,stones and branches is unture ,never leave home without them now
A road bike. Love it.
Also a water bottle. Much prefer it to a camelback
Dropper post and a 32 rear sprocket on the back of a road bike
Where do you take your road bike to need a dropper?
n+1
I'd feel deprived if I only owned one bike now...
Dropper.
Tubeless.
Suspension.
Singlespeed.
Road hydro discs.
Chamois cream, arm warmers, gilets, knee warmers,cap.
All originally dismissed as roadie affectations, but it seems that they know a thing or two about being comfortable on a bike for long periods.
Dropper
Saddle bags and bottle cages (How did I forget how good they are for shorter rides?)
Road discs and big road tyres on a grrravel bike
Garmin Edge 1000
Brompton
Road bike. Used to think it would be the most pointless waste of 2 wheels, but gets used far more than the mountain bike these days
Cyclocross* bikes.
29ers.
(*gravel, neo-tourer, whatever)
Brompton - opened up more riding than anything else recently.
Dropper
29ers
I'd say dropper but I fitted one knowing I'd love it.
My cx/gravel bike has turned from a flight of fancy to a love it in the space of a few rides.
Dropper post and a 32 rear sprocket on the back of a road bike
Where do you take your road bike to need a dropper?
More to the point why does he hang it and a cassette off the back of his bike?? 😆
Hmm, mine would probably be tubeless. I was a dropper early adopter - sold on that straight away. Spent a long time cursing punctures before seeing the tubeless light though.
And maybe strava. MTB I couldn't care less about but the idea of getting out on the roadie to come back and see if i've beaten my way up some leaderboard and watching the training miles tick up actually gets me out, I reckon I wouldn't do many evening training rides without it.
Clutch mech
Turbo
Garmin 810
Road bike
all time?
wide bars & dropper - from before they were very fashionable
recent?
bib shorts
tubeless
remote lock outs
Dropper here too.
Prescription Oakleys too.
Dropper post
fat bike
combine the two for the perfect local riding machine
650b wheels
Single front ring.
29er, padded shorts, technical clothing, a long bike.
Dropper, tubeless, wide bars, short stem all seemed like no brainers to me, especially come from bmx.
BMX brain said ride a small bike, itll be more nimble, decided one day to try a bike too big for me (well bang on latest trends) and it turned out way better for me, I can move it around better than a smaller bike too.
29er
Turbo
Training programme
Powermeter
It's a long list...in actual order of discovery.
Hydraulic discs
Full suspension
Lockout/compression damping
Tubeless
X9
XT
34T cassette
36T cassette
Bottle cages
Dropper post
29" wheels
26" wheels
Rigid SS
Dropper.
Tubeless.
The neck warmers that come free with the mags from time to time. wouldn't be without one in the winter!
A winter hardtail- I bought a Stooge and set it up SS with a 3.0'' Chronicle. What a bike! It's cost me nothing since being built a year ago despite the worst winter weather and thousands of miles.
2x10
turns out im not fit enough for 1x10 and it makes me push more going down too
Road bike, (and later road pedals) cx bike, armwarmers, 29er mountain bike. I can't believe i just typed that!
However, I haven't really noticed the difference in my local woods with tubeless having just done this: same rims and same tyres just tubelessed them the other day. Perhaps tyre pressures still too high? And i often get home after a nice rattly rooty ride to find the clutch mech is switched off and i never noticed.
Singlespeed
Fat bike
Rigid bikes
Remote lockout*
Basically anything counter-mainstream, I figure anything that's developed for the mass market is already going to be good, marketing is just trying to hype it up past the other good stuff.
*that shot in the Pro-XC bikes thread of the Di2 and Fox remote lockout was a money shot! I'd really like one of those Scott or Cannondale bikes with the combined lockout.
Dropper here too - I was pretty sure they were OTT but bought a heavily discounted Reverb and never looked back. I know have one on both bikes!
650b wheels / Stanton Switchback - I changed by Slackline for a Switchback this year and am really pleased with it. It's quite possible that I prefer it because it actually fits rather than anything else.
SPD's
Van
29er singlespeed
My head tells me I need gears but I keep putting it off and buying other things instead, I can't do without a ss
road bike
bottles instead of camelback
saddle bag with tools in instead of camelback
Dropper, SS, 29+, knee pads (bought them for a race now wear them most steep rides), clipless pedals after toe clips!
Tubeless, 1x gearing
[b]Crank Bros pedals[/b] (thought they'd disintegrate - but love them)
[b]Chain guide[/b] (Bird fitted it without me asking and I was dubious, but it is really nice and also silent)
[b]Big grippy front tyres[/b] (combined with a fastish rear - great fun and still feels fastish pedalling)
v666ern - Member
2x10
turns out im not fit enough for 1x10 and it makes me push more going down too
If you're hsaving to get off and push going downhill then you might even want to go 3x10 🙂
29er
Powermeter
Wider bars (still only 700mm mind!)
Shimano brakes
Windproof/ Waterproof SS jersey (Etxeondo Gabba copy)
Water Bottle
Very good shout! Also a Mt Zoom handy strap 😀 Such a joy to not have a pack and travel light!
Nothing new to add, but a dropper - I was very anti-dropper, the very first clunky heavy ones seemed pointless, when they started to get good I discounted them as pointless and 'anti-social' because prior to droppers we used to stop every time the trail went up or down to move the seats and chat would happen.
When the first of our number got them I REALLY hated them, they do what they're supposed to do, make it possible to ride the whole trail without stopping to move your seat, which if you haven't got one and everyone else has... you're going to get left behind - short climb in the middle of a downhill section, you're going to blown away.
In the end I was forced into getting one, love it - I means you ride a trail, not an uphill bit, then a downhill bit, then a sort of flat bit, then another downhill bit then a uphill bit - I thought it would make it easier and the exorcize element of riding would be lessoned - if anything it makes it harder now without the little breaks.
Most other things I either knew I'd want the second I saw them (Hydraulic discs) or went along with knowing they wouldn't be game changers and they're not for me. (1x drive trains and or narrow wide, carbon, Strava, wide bars.
The one 'new thing' I thought I would like, and hated is tubeless - I rarely get punctures, have no desire to run my tyres at 10psi and turn the simple task of changing tyres into a MASSIVE faf.
Dropper, 29er, kneepads and suspension (that last one was a while ago).