Things you like to see invented

[Regular.Cyclist]

AI in vehicles that can. determine who is at fault in each crash and then produce a large spike in the steering wheel instead of an airbag. This would encourage people to drive more carefully.

 

[matticus]

Spikes on steering wheels.

 

[Conrad_K]

AI in vehicles that can. determine who is at fault in each crash and then produce a large spike in the steering wheel instead of an airbag. This would encourage people to drive more carefully.

Just mount the spike permanently to the wheel as an inventive not to run into things.

 

[StuAff]

Not my idea, but a good one, I've always thought. Back in the 80s there was a splendid performance car magazine called Fast Lane. In one of his columns, the editor Peter Dron (still alive and kicking, I was pleased to discover) posited a solution to those twin urban menaces of pigeons and people with loud stereos. 'Part vacuum cleaner, part gun' it would fire the avian at the human. Would also work for errant riders of e-bikes, etc…

 

[ColinJ]

I would like to be able to buy Chinese shifters with cockroach beards already fitted. I was getting quite excited at some that I saw for sale on eBay until I noticed that this essential feature had been omitted!

 

[grldtnr]

I would like to be able to buy Chinese shifters with cockroach beards already fitted. I was getting quite excited at some that I saw for sale on eBay until I noticed that this essential feature had been omitted!

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Hey ! Cockroach beards! Whatever are they??
I have always said In the realm of cycling hardware there are hardly ever any new developments, but Cockroach beard levers, the mind boggles !

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I would like to be able to buy Chinese shifters with cockroach beards already fitted. I was getting quite excited at some that I saw for sale on eBay until I noticed that this essential feature had been omitted!

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Nuclear war proof shifters. Now we are talking !

 

[matticus]

Hey ! Cockroach beards! Whatever are they??
I have always said In the realm of cycling hardware there are hardly ever any new developments, but Cockroach beard levers, the mind boggles !

In 5 years time you won't be able to buy a bike without them. You and I will be mocked online for claiming our old bikes work just as well without them, and that it's all just marketing/PR to sell more bikes.

 

[grldtnr]

In 5 years time you won't be able to buy a bike without them. You and I will be mocked online for claiming our old bikes work just as well without them, and that it's all just marketing/PR to sell more bikes.

Won't bovver me, I don't INTEND to buy anymore bikes, but that's like an addict when they say I can stop anytime.....

 

[T4tomo]

In 5 years time you won't be able to buy a bike without them. You and I will be mocked online for claiming our old bikes work just as well without them, and that it's all just marketing/PR to sell more bikes.

forget it @matticus they aren't compatible with panniers

 

[Ming the Merciless]

forget it @matticus they aren't compatible with panniers

Not compatible! Cockroach Beards love panniers. If there’s a pannier available they’re having a party 🎉🥳🎊

 

[Dogtrousers]

I would like to be able to buy Chinese shifters with cockroach beards already fitted. I was getting quite excited at some that I saw for sale on eBay until I noticed that this essential feature had been omitted!

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Apparently a "cockroach beard" is a kind of hairstyle where two strips of hair fall either side of the face, like cockroach antennae.
https://daydaynews.cc/en/entertainment/amp/1108242.html

In fact, this kind of "cockroach beard" bangs is very common in costume dramas, especially martial arts dramas and Xianxia dramas, because most of the characters go Chic or immortal route. Remember the style of Xiao Zhan in "Chen Qing Ling"! The same "cockroach beard" is far worse, because Xiao Zhan's "cockroach beard" is paired with flowing long hair, but Di Lieba's "cockroach beard" is paired with a clean bun, leaving only Those two look weird.​

So maybe this is referring to the fact that the cables go under the bar tape rather than sticking out of the lever like ... er ... a cockroach beard.

 

[presta]

Pancake vending machine.

 

[presta]

AI in vehicles that can. determine who is at fault in each crash and then produce a large spike in the steering wheel instead of an airbag. This would encourage people to drive more carefully.

The Milligan's car had a spike at the wheel.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Milligan's car had a spike at the wheel.

On that diversion


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