Bike parts you hate.

nnnope. enlighten me

Tasty sweeties.

Or things to hold your hydraulic hoses in place.

How many people's objections to that type of post and clamp are functionality based and how many are aesthetic based?

I meant to post a picture of the single railed ones like you get on old cheap bikes, that I've found to function pretty terribly.

http://i.imgur.com/nLkQgDo.jpg
What are these top tube clamp things? I have always wandered.

any steel cages/clips, it hurts. And singlestraps? Mpffftt
Prefer the plastic one, with doublestraps...

controversial, I know

Not posted because of looks (sure,they are beautiful), but because of the shit mavic hubs

Tube clamp things are for kid seats.

controversial, I know

Not posted because of looks (sure,they are beautiful), but because of the shit mavic hubs

This.

shit mavic hubs

You must be doing it wrong, I had my for 7 years and they spun as well the day I sold them as the day I bought them

^I guess mine spin well too, but they are appanrantly made with this 'mavic incompatibility' with weird french measurements, hollow axle, strange dustcaps and what not.

And they are impossible to find, and order, spares for.

I don't like them

Or things to hold your hydraulic hoses in place.

They 'hold' cables in place.

Although they spend more of their time elsewhere after popping off.

Because there's about 5 or 6 on every bike I use at work (21) that means I'm usually faced with a sea of the fucking things, either on the deck or in the back of the van or trailer.

When I've got a spare 5 hours I'll replace them all with zipties!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dropout-Adapters-Fixed-Gear-Fixie-Road-Track-Bike-Adapter-Vertical-to-Horizontal-/151000580960?pt=Cycling_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2328560360#ht_2227wt_923

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dropout-Adapters-Fixed-Gear-Fixie-Road-Track-Bike-Adapter-Vertical-to-Horizontal-/151000580960?pt=Cycling_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2328560360#ht_2227wt_923

These fuckers

Visp

Create

sl42's

these fuckers

agreed!!!

http://brilliantbikes.co.uk/966-large/brompton-pentaclip.jpg

Much better.

On that subject, are there any other manufacturers of high-quality clamps for plain top posts? Apart from Brompton I've only found shitty ones of the sort below, and it's one of those ungooglable things. I ask because on the skinny bamboo frame I'm building by far the easiest option is to have an integrated SP with a short length of 22.2mm plain top BMX post out the top and a separate clamp.

main character in some of the cruelest horror films

http://www.theoldbicycleshowroom.co.uk/ekmps/shops/theoldbicycle/images/brooks-twin-rail-traditional-saddle-clamp.-598-p.bmp

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dropout-Adapters-Fixed-Gear-Fixie-Road-Track-Bike-Adapter-Vertical-to-Horizontal-/151000580960?pt=Cycling_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2328560360#ht_2227wt_923http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=2&pub=5574889051&toolid=10001&campid=5336525415&item=151000580960&mpt=764045

http://www.sellutionmtb.com/images/large/ssadapter1.jpg

I dunno, I think that's actually a pretty good idea, as long as there's some sort of way of stopping it rotating that's not doing it up really really tight.

There isn't and they'll fuck you up.

integrated SP with a short length of 22.2mm plain top BMX post out the top and a separate clamp.

Have you considered a bigger top to your ISP? That would let you use a normal ISP topper. Ritchey is in 3 sizes up to 38.35mm, which is presumably big enough that you could wrap your bamboo with some crabon fribé to build it up to the required diameter and roundness

I hate the stupidity of track bars with droplevers;

Indexed gears- always 'just' out of sync, admit it is probably down to user error

Y U no set them up?

controversial, I know

Not posted because of looks (sure,they are beautiful), but because of the shit mavic hubs

been on this for about 5 years through terrible winters, still rolling smooth. also never needed much truing either.

"controversial" because you're wrong and the masses agree.