Things you never see any more...

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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    These helmets...

    hairnet.jpg

    Seriously. What protection did they give.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Global Hypercolour t-shirts
  • Porgy wrote:
    XTC playing live.

    Well didn't Andy Partridge have some massive nervous breakdown on stage or something?

    not sure of the details, but he certainly suffers from severe stage fright. don't know how long since they last played.
    tragic, cos they were tremendous live


    clackers

    old jamaica
  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    Greenspot cotton cycling jackets. I've still got one tucked away somewhere - actually they were pretty good. 'Never-ready' unbelievably unreliable bike lamps - thank goodness!

    Geoff
    Old cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster
  • stray dogs & abandoned cars, thankfully.
  • Those massive ever ready bike lights that used to be attached to the front form and rear of my Raleigh Arena :D Once you put the big chunky batteries in the bike would list badly to the left :shock: :roll:
    Pain is only weakness leaving the body
  • iain_j wrote:
    These helmets...

    hairnet.jpg

    Seriously. What protection did they give.

    Actually the lbs where i work has two of those. :P
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Those massive ever ready bike lights that used to be attached to the front form and rear of my Raleigh Arena :D Once you put the big chunky batteries in the bike would list badly to the left :shock: :roll:

    Front & Rear guard ?

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... =WDVW&rd=1
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Those massive ever ready bike lights that used to be attached to the front form and rear of my Raleigh Arena :D Once you put the big chunky batteries in the bike would list badly to the left :shock: :roll:

    In a similar vein...
    The "L" shaped chrome brackets that the front light used to clip on to the bike (as well as fly-off, whenever you hit a pot-hole, that you didn't see 'cos it was so dim). :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Nordic safety flags, and those bristly wrap-around hub cleaners.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I've got friction shifters on my winter bike :D

    Things I don't see? My feet - must lose some weight! :lol:
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Porgy wrote:
    XTC playing live.

    Well didn't Andy Partridge have some massive nervous breakdown on stage or something?

    yup - and Kate Bush had terrible stage fright.
  • will3 wrote:
    Global Hypercolour t-shirts

    Oh yes, these should be brought back... then everyone can see how hard you're workin'

    Kona Cindercone in skiiny steel and lovely project 2 forks. Why did they wreck it?
    Mens agitat molem
  • UFOs seem to have gone out of fashion. Have we stopped looking at the sky or have they lost interest in us?
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Bands I've heard of in the end of year best of lists
  • Friction shifters.
    see them every day, on my bike :)

    Other than white dog poo, I really do miss Cressers' 'we're all doomed' posts on NTW.
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    I'm touched...

    I may well throw in the occasional one here but the trouble is that I get overtaken by events...

    Anyway, back on track, those double brake levers, how many people soiled their shorts when using them on a wet or dry day? And steel rims, how many peopel pledged their soul to Jesus when they used those as braking surface/
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    they were called suicide brakes.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Orange crackly wrapping round glass bottles of lucozade. You only got lucozade if you were "poorly".