What piece of cycling kit/gear is not essential but has enhanced your experience enough not to ever go back?

[27motorhead]

GT85 = The smell of Christmas!

Because I got a can in my stocking every year from my parents, sorry Santa whilst I was living at home!

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

GT85 is smelly, simple, coats on

 

[Stressed]

I asked chatgpt


In the workshop's embrace, a scent refined,
GT85 whispers secrets, one of a kind.
Its fragrance, a dance of citrus and steel,
Unfolds like a story only mechanics can feel.
A bouquet of possibility, in every fine mist,
A symphony of lubrication, where metal parts twist.
The tang of adventure, in a single spray's grace,
GT85, the aroma of journeys to chase.
Invisible elixir, from can to machine,
It transforms the mundane into something unseen.
A fragrance that lingers, a reminder of skill,
GT85's aroma, the mechanic's thrill.

Wow! That Chat GPT's some heavy shit

 

[Oldtat]

Chapeau Mr Bot. Humans we are doomed.

 

[Carge]

The wonderful Mr Bontrager's spoke key cum bottle opener......
I give you.......

 

[Rebikecumbria]

+1 without the big drop cos I'm an old fart. I have carbon bottle cages and headset spacers

I have gone as far as carbon spacers and would love a carbon rear triangle but would never trust carbon cranks bars or rims, carbon rims for any sort of proper off road is a silly idea

 

[novocaine]

I have gone as far as carbon spacers and would love a carbon rear triangle but would never trust carbon cranks bars or rims, carbon rims for any sort of proper off road is a silly idea

I have a carbon crank on the fast road bike. it's 10+ years old and it's still perfect. would I run one off road though, god no.

 

[90's Ninja]

Padded shorts. How I rode 30+ km's on a Flite saddle all those years without them baffles me

 

[Imlach]

Do tools count if so a third hand tool

I just hate when she complains

 

[Russell]

After cleaning a couple of chains this afternoon, I have another entry…

The quick link.

Brilliant.