June 2012 BoTM 'Dead End Special' - Nominations Please

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Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

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Ductape":2bittirl said:
Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

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How can this be a dead end - when klunkers as a concept was the evolutionary beginning of the mountainbike?

Nice bike though!!!!
 
yeti-man":2guzk51d said:
How can this be a dead end - when klunkers as a concept was the evolutionary beginning of the mountainbike?

Nice bike though!!!!

For real?
I don't see klunkers flying off the assembly lines in china and taiwan for Trek, Specialized, Giant, etc.

Sure klunkers were a beginning for off roading but they were already at an evolutionary dead-end when they were briefly resurrected for that purpose.
 
yeti-man":16xb4okn said:
Ductape":16xb4okn said:
Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....

How can this be a dead end - when klunkers as a concept was the evolutionary beginning of the mountainbike?

Nice bike though!!!!

You're totally missing the whole point of this month's BoTM and taking all the fun out of it.
 
yeti-man":3ues11cg said:
For me a dead end is a design, component or material that never got beyond version 1 in evolution.

Disagree. You could try to execute a design multiple ways only to ultimately fail no matter what.

Take tension discs for example. 36H, 32H, in the end the design was just poor.
 
Do you use a coaster brake? Drum brake? Truss Rods? Saddle suspension? Not sure which ones of these weren't a dead end?
 
Ductape":t6h0tkmf said:
Double top tube
Drum brake
Coaster brake
Saddle suspension
Toe clips
Truss rods
13/16 seatpost
Motorcycle parts
BMX parts
Road bike parts
Internal hub 3 speed
Solid single plane forks
Mild steel
Bag ties (oh wait those are back again)
I suppose I could keep going with the BB/HS etc....


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Im not so sure on this either to be honest, most of the list is still available, just lower down the food chain.

And when did internal 3 Spd become a dead end....? Sturmey Archer.
Suspension saddles...? Brooks.
etc.
 
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