Really crap and useless bike accessories and components.

[HelenD123]

The plastic bracket Cateye supply with their lights. Few years back the were done up with a small screw and worked perfectly. Nowadays you have a little plastic dial thing that you have to turn. It's badly positioned and too small to get any force on, so the light slips as soon as you start cycling. In an effort to get more force on the dial I've tried putting Molegrips onto it, but then it just chews up the notched strap thing. In the end I had to glue the bracket onto my handlebars to make it work.

Mine works fine. Hasn't moved since I fitted it.

 

[hubgearfreak]

front mechs, rear mechs, more than one chainwheel or rear sprocket

 

[4F]

See my post on the subject. I've got two (one on 'bent & one on tourer) have two front lights on each and have done for years *without problems* Don't know what the other heavy-handed clods are doing with theirs!

The metal strip which is made of a material weaker than balsa wood coupled with the pathetic feeble plastic makes tightening it impossible and it moves when you put any weight on it.

Absolute rubbish

 

[4F]

Great, guess what i've just ordered. I might be taking advantage of wiggles return facility.

No might about it, don't even take it out of the box and send it back as soon as you receive it.

 

[wafflycat]

The metal strip which is made of a material weaker than balsa wood coupled with the pathetic feeble plastic makes tightening it impossible and it moves when you put any weight on it.

Absolute rubbish !

Yet mine both work absolutely fine with two large front lights on each!

 

[4F]

Yet mine both work absolutely fine with two large front lights on each!

Ummmmmmmm, not sure how. I am pretty hands on and can adapt to most things however really could not get on with this. I congratulate you on getting yours to work however I would still never buy one again.

PS your other threads regarding Chickens has really got me keen on the idea and I am seriously considering this. As a matter of interest did your other half make the run / coup or did you buy one ?

 

[wafflycat]

Ummmmmmmm, not sure how. I am pretty hands on and can adapt to most things however really could not get on with this. I congratulate you on getting yours to work however I would still never buy one again.

PS your other threads regarding Chickens has really got me keen on the idea and I am seriously considering this. As a matter of interest did your other half make the run / coup or did you buy one ?

I cannot take credit for anything technical & bike related, as I have my own personal bike mechanic that does such stuff, Mr Wafflycat. Obviously he is the best bike mechanic around

Bought the run: it was flat-packed, part assembled. Although it was pre-treated timber, I gave it a couple of extra coats of preservative (pet safe stuff) before final assembly. Got it here It was *many* pounds cheaper here than even online. We could probably have made one cheaper, but not by much and then there would have been even more time taken to build from scratch and we couldn't afford the time out to do that. Got the hens from the Battery Hen Welfare Trust for the princely sum of a 50p per hen minimum donation.

Completed hen house & run

One of the things I found is that when shopping around for a hen house/run combo, buy something that is supposedly specifically designed for hens and the price goes UP. Often it goes up a lot. The other thing I've found is that, IMO, quite often the number of birds a hen house/run is advertised as being suitable for is overestimated. Stuff the size of what I have can be advertised as being suitable for about 6-8 hens. There's no way I'd put that many hens in what I've got. IMO, three *absolute* maximum for the space.

Mr Wafflycat has, however, given himself a summer task, and he's designed a run extension, to at least double the space The Laydeez have. He's looking forward to doing this as he can do it as and when, rather than be rushed about it.

 

[4F]

Thanks, I have seen similiar on e bay and Diss is not a million miles away so may pop up there and have a look. I have considered about making something myself however as you say I am not sure if it would actually work out any cheaper.

I had noticed some of the wild claims about the the number of animals you are supposed to get in these, I think they must work on the same guidelines as the manufacturers of tents !

 

[Rob S]

Latex innertubes.

 

[Milo]

Dont they make condoms out of latex?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

aluminium drinks bottle. rattle, rattle, rattle ad nauseum.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Mini pumps.

And if anyone tells how their super whizz bang model can get their tyres up to 130psi I don't believe them.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Mini pumps.

And if anyone tells how their super whizz bang model can get their tyres up to 130psi I don't believe them.

oh yes, seconded.

 

[Steve Austin]

USE seatposts

look great but possibly the most daft design ever. any component that won't last one adjustment is just silly

 

[alecstilleyedye]

this might be one, or it could be really good.