Poor design thread

[Grebel]

Wait until he gets older. It is very difficult to find left hand spanners and screw drivers and don't get me started on the price of left hand power tools.......

My older lightie is left handed. I've resigned myself to having to buy left handed cricket bats, tennis and squash racquets, bicycles, scooters, cutlery and stationery.

[SwissVan]

I’ve still got a working set of those on my old Specz S Works.

 

I also liked them once getting used to them, inclined to class them as one of those good designs that did not take off

 

Not much different to road bike STI levers which are pretty popular.....

[SwissVan]

The brake levers were also your shift lever.Grabbed a handful of brakes when i was shifting to my granny gear and went flying over the bars.

Hairy was right

Users.....

[Sepia]

I’ve still got a working set of those on my old Specz S Works.

 

I also liked them once getting used to them, inclined to class them as one of those good designs that did not take off

 

Not much different to road bike STI levers which are pretty popular.....

 

Fantastic pieces of kit.

Wish I could find some more in 9sp.  My favorites by far!

[Sepia]

At least they look much better.

At 6K they had better be better.  Wish I could afford this.

[Gnarly]

Not so much a problem now, thank goodness for brake tech evolving, but backpedal brake on one of my childhood bikes. How many times I had to jump off or drive(crash) into something just to stop when flying down a steep tar road when the chain comes off.

 

Hit my old mans work bench at the end of the garage after a long and frighting downhill driveway.

 

Think it caught me head high. 

[SwissVan]

Fantastic pieces of kit.

Wish I could find some more in 9sp. My favorites by far!

And what’s more..... they satisfy the modern riders need for a less cluttered handle bar ( no trigger shifters) while retaining multiple chain rings options

They were way ahead of their times

[Traveler]

Previous generation of Magura MT Brakes.... making the backing plate of the bladder/reservoir for the levers as part of the clamp. The first time you tighten them more than 0.5Nm, the started to leak.  

[Long Wheel Base]

Haha good comeback

However being one of those ex mx / motorsickle laatjies i can assure you the right foot and left hand cooperate 100 % and without hesitation in this regard.

 

For some reason the same cannot be said for the right and left hands, therefore the logical conclusion is that right front is correct.

 

 

My BIL is one of those okes. He is 42 and still has stripped mx stuff at my inlaws place. He rides VERY seldom and has done this swop. My niece is 5 and her little tinkerbell bike has the brakes swopped around. His wife who rides even less says she wont ride because he has dobne the same to her bike and its not what she is used to(but tbh she just uses it as an excuse not to ride). 

[Long Wheel Base]

   Never used to think about the shifting, just shifted and moved along ..... now though I am a big fan of the robust feeling shifts with SRAM

Would have thought your response would have been along the lines of no gears is the way to go.

[Robbie Stewart]

Not so much a problem now, thank goodness for brake tech evolving, but backpedal brake on one of my childhood bikes. How many times I had to jump off or drive(crash) into something just to stop when flying down a steep tar road when the chain comes off.

 

I have also been initiated to the back-pedal school of cycling. How is it that as a rite of passage, one always manages to drop the chain when descending? And only then. I remember once I was coming down a rather steepish hill and had to drift and drop the bike on the pavement (luckily it was grass) because a bus decided to cross the road ahead of me, shortly after me dropping the chain (yet again).

 

Scary at the time, funny now.

[IH8MUD]

Not bike related . . . . . But just one of my pet peeves.  

 

There should be a  building law against building a residential house where the walls end higher than the roof cladding. 

Sooner or later the thing starts leaking there with the  water running down the wall inside the house. 

And the plaster always starts cracking on top  those  exposed walls after a few years as a result of weather exposure. 

Where is it needed between units for fire safety  regulations, the top of that wall should also be covered with  roof cladding.

   

Yes, you can say stuff like doing it properly and doing maintenance and what about individual taste and all those things.  

 

But why in hell build a flaw into your building that someone will have to redo or maintain later?

That is just piss-poor design. 

 

The roof cladding must cover all the building walls if viewed from the above, problem solved. 

[Mada3400]

fork crowns ?

 

yes they're too flexy

[Long Wheel Base]

Definitely not Bike Hub!!!!!!

Anyone see all the polls pop up now in Chinese writing. Just as soon as they came up they were gone. Well done admin.

[Hairy]

Not bike related . . . . . But just one of my pet peeves.  

 

There should be a  building law against building a residential house where the walls end higher than the roof cladding. 

Sooner or later the thing starts leaking there with the  water running down the wall inside the house. 

And the plaster always starts cracking on top  those  exposed walls after a few years as a result of weather exposure. 

Where is it needed between units for fire safety  regulations, the top of that wall should also be covered with  roof cladding.

   

Yes, you can say stuff like doing it properly and doing maintenance and what about individual taste and all those things.  

 

But why in hell build a flaw into your building that someone will have to redo or maintain later?

That is just piss-poor design. 

 

The roof cladding must cover all the building walls if viewed from the above, problem solved. 

just waterproof the bloody thing ... if you take that same mindset into life then we should all be ridding on permatubes or solid rubber tyres so as not to get puncture

[pista]

Not bike related . . . . . But just one of my pet peeves.  

 

There should be a  building law against building a residential house where the walls end higher than the roof cladding. 

Sooner or later the thing starts leaking there with the  water running down the wall inside the house. 

And the plaster always starts cracking on top  those  exposed walls after a few years as a result of weather exposure. 

Where is it needed between units for fire safety  regulations, the top of that wall should also be covered with  roof cladding.

   

Yes, you can say stuff like doing it properly and doing maintenance and what about individual taste and all those things.  

 

But why in hell build a flaw into your building that someone will have to redo or maintain later?

That is just piss-poor design. 

 

The roof cladding must cover all the building walls if viewed from the above, problem solved. 

Usually see that in townhouses and semi-detached houses.I was told that it was to prevent fire spreading through the roof.