Always see lots of posts about the best bang for buck upgrades be it a power meter, aero wheels or a years sub to TrainerRoad. How about the most pointless upgrade you’ve done? I’ll start with I just saved ~6 grams with ti water bottle bolts! They are very cool, very 90s looking oil coloured but I…

Rubber bulb horn for a road bike. I thought there would be more pedestrians on the roads :joy:

Not true! Racing stripes make you faster and add style watts, which are pretty much free speed #science :joy:

Well, they were red stripes, so… :stuck_out_tongue:

I too fell for Zero Gravity brakes. Took perfectly good Campy Record brakes off and replaced them with the Zero (braking) Gravity parts. I finally switched when I got tired of the centering spring popping loose due to brake flex.

Screw the cage, I want that mount.

Swapped out the gripshift on my 90’s hardtail for colorful ones that didn’t match eachother. I think they were red and blue. I no longer remember exactly why I thought it was a good idea, I think one/both of them were from a friend who had done an upgrade. I also kept replacing my bar-ends with diff…

Do you remember when you first upgraded to black sidewalls? Mike

Most pointless upgrade

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bRadD March 5, 2019, 12:41am 40

Tan sidewalls on mtb tires, not guilty of it myself, but I just dont get why it is even a thing?

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