Laugh... I nearly cried!

[jiggerypokery]

....and my opening bid is http://www.stemie.com

In over 30 years of riding I have never wedged my fortune cookies on my stem and I don't know of any of my mates either as children or adults that have managed to do so either.

I have to praise the ingenuity of this company in creating a 'non' safety devide to protect me from something just because I might....well...never smack my bollocks on the stem...but you never know do ya

 

[fossyant]

Hah...........Top tube maybe...................

 

[battered]

Never done ir either. Mind you, a female friend of mine did once and didn't much like it. "I fell off my bike, curled up and cried" was her description of events. Ouch. She doesn't even have any man vegetables to worry about.

My vote for most useless gadget is yet another chain lube. A few weeks ago I saw one such tube, about 100ml, for £12. I kid you not. Is anyone really that stupid? (They must be.)

 

[mr_cellophane]

Wouldn't this be cheaper and minimise those embarrassing Lycra moments

 

[courtenay]

what a load of bolox lol

 

[gaz]

oooooh i could have done with one of those in the past. It's something which you do quite often when doing dirt jumps.
Very painful!

 

[slowmotion]

what a load of bolox lol

Damn you Courtenay, you beat me to that post!

 

[Ste T.]

"In over 30 years of riding I have never wedged my fortune cookies on my stem and I don't know of any of my mates either as children or adults that have managed to do so either."

I have. Summer1972, 12 years old, I was fast approaching a high kerb on my Olympic racer when I tried to bunny hop it and messed the timing up completly. The front wheel hitting the edge of the kerb at just the right angle to stop me dead. I flew forward at 20 mph into the stem and my newly aquired gonnads were sent from whence they came. I had to hobble half a mile home with a worrying red patch on my shorts . Result 1 torn foreskin and 2 lumps in my throat.

 

[2Loose]

Wouldn't this be cheaper and minimise maximise those embarrassing proud Lycra moments

FTFY.

 

[jiggerypokery]

And now I bring you... http://www.breezeblockers.com/

Inspired I tell you, INSPIRED!

 

[e-rider]

And now I bring you... http://www.breezeblockers.com/

Inspired I tell you, INSPIRED!

a little like what motorbikes have. If you live in a very cold climate such as canada, norway, russia they could be quite useful; but then so would snow tyres!

 

[jiggerypokery]

Oh I dunno... just a thought but...gloves and shoe covers, bit new and fangled I know but they do it for me every time

 

[Firestorm]

"In over 30 years of riding I have never wedged my fortune cookies on my stem and I don't know of any of my mates either as children or adults that have managed to do so either."

I have. Summer1972, 12 years old, I was fast approaching a high kerb on my Olympic racer when I tried to bunny hop it and messed the timing up completly. The front wheel hitting the edge of the kerb at just the right angle to stop me dead. I flew forward at 20 mph into the stem and my newly aquired gonnads were sent from whence they came. I had to hobble half a mile home with a worrying red patch on my shorts . Result 1 torn foreskin and 2 lumps in my throat.

Must have been something in the air in 72

hammering down hill at the age of 14 a stared at the rather attractive young lady on the footpath a tad too long and ploughed into a parked car, The heavy Chrome bumpers did not even scratch but the bike just folded , the only thing which stopped me going through the windscreen was the stem, in my 'nads. result....lots of blood , a few stitches in the old scote and several weeks of John Wayne impersonations

 

[ufkacbln]

Its a helmet!

 

[Crepello]

I always thought the Banana Gaurd was one of those pointless products that I could do without (what if me 'nana is too big or what if I have two small nana's?). I use one of the many Jiffy bags that they would use to deliver the Banana Gaurd in the post.