Things which were made of cheese. The nightmare recalled.

Panaracer GreenLite tubes- made of plastic, very light, very awful.

Hotwheels. said:

Do you mean dinner dear boy, tea is a beverage?

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No I blooming don't. Bleedin suferners and their fancy words, why use 3 letters when you can use 6. Up er in the norf we ain't made of letters you know, we have to graft for em, day and night down the letter mines, man and boy. Telling ya, when I was a lad you'd be up at the crack of Dawn (miss her these days, but she knew how to wake you up), quick pet of the whippet, then you'd be off, fast as you Iike on your bread round before getting your kit on and then down the letter mine with you pick in hand.

We didn't have letters just laying round on the streets like you lot down sarf you know.

Another vote for the USE Alien seatpost. Snapped at head on first ride - to its credit quite a few miles from home. Hopeless.

Not made from cheese, but a lump of cheese would have been more useful, i give you the... Odyssey Aerator. Pump and seatpost combined. Great idea, totally impractical, heavy product. Couldn't get the valve attachment near the valve and invariably got your hands covered in grease, thus ruining my late 80s neon lycra.

AC cranks. Lovely red anodising. Like Edam - underneath the red coating 100% cheese tapers. Hmmmm.

Syncros forged cranks - only crank i ever snapped - halfway along the South Downs Way. Cheers for that.

Kingsbery quick release skewers. You do them up, they come undone. You never know when. Once during a crit for me. Yikes. Awful.

Action Tec alloy crank bolts. Action-what-heck-my-crank's-just-fallen-off more like. Just don't.

I'm sure there are more.

Hotwheels. said:

Re: onZa, I have a couple though never used them.
I would have thought being SS they’d be strong af, obvs not.

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Mine are still going strong. But then it is only ever the granny ring to get that elusive 24T at the time. Never seen any fold.
Or its counterpart the Ninja Ring.

Unless they became shite in the late 90s onwards

Not sure if I posted before, cannot be arsed to check.

So
Syncros seatpost, particularly the 1991 era one.

The top fixing plate bit bent, the rail guides in the top and in the rocker wore down and bent outwards.

The seatpost became lay back with a nice curve even if a light wipper snapper sat on it.
And many cracked at the tube/holder interface.

But they were the dogs bollocks of seatpost back then.

novocaine said:

No I blooming don't. Bleedin suferners and their fancy words, why use 3 letters when you can use 6. Up er in the norf we ain't made of letters you know, we have to graft for em, day and night down the letter mines, man and boy. Telling ya, when I was a lad you'd be up at the crack of Dawn (miss her these days, but she knew how to wake you up), quick pet of the whippet, then you'd be off, fast as you Iike on your bread round before getting your kit on and then down the letter mine with you pick in hand.

We didn't have letters just laying round on the streets like you lot down sarf you know.

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Pop over for supper tonight, nice n informal and I'll supply the cheese board bring Dawn too, she'd get on with Sunrise.

+1 aluminium bolts - seem to remember USE Exposure lights (c.early 2000s) sold with cheese bolts - nooooooo!

novocaine said:

The rockfort cheese sauce I had with steak and potato's for tea tonight.

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Is that what Roquefort is now called post Brexit or is it something else from the Peak District?

novocaine said:

No I blooming don't. Bleedin suferners and their fancy words, why use 3 letters when you can use 6. Up er in the norf we ain't made of letters you know, we have to graft for em, day and night down the letter mines, man and boy. Telling ya, when I was a lad you'd be up at the crack of Dawn (miss her these days, but she knew how to wake you up), quick pet of the whippet, then you'd be off, fast as you Iike on your bread round before getting your kit on and then down the letter mine with you pick in hand.

We didn't have letters just laying round on the streets like you lot down sarf you know.

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…but I ‘am’ norvern.

al-onestare said:

Kona Tracks 2s, with the excellent feature of sliding fork blades to tackle bumps on the trail.

Kona Z-Link forks, with the amazing feature of uncontrollable rebound under braking.

Shimano XTR vbrakes (first gen), with the special extra squealy-flex feature, sadly lacking on later releases.

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I believe they fixed the M950 brakes pretty quickly with the M951 the year after? All of mine that have been M951 no issues, all of the M950 had lots of play

They released a fix mid season for the M950s.