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What is your favorite "Can't find it any more" oddball part.

Avid Tri Dangle. Wish I could get a couple sets.

Gary in VA

What about those little "Sharks Fin" anti-chain suck things?

Farmer John Tires?

I did not like it, but remember when alot of bikes had the brakes mounted under the chainstay?

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What is your favorite "Can't find it any more" oddball part. Something

you

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thought was a good idea, but just faded away, whether from lack of sales

or

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as technology changed.

Mine was the Sugino High Column nut. It replaced your headset nut with an o-ring sealed, one inch
high nut that was supposed to add extra support to

a

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quill style stem. They went away long before threadless headsets were commonplace and despite
having several of these in 1 inch size, I never

got

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any in 1 1/8 (due to the fact I was riding a Bridgestone back then and it had a 1" headset!) I
sure wish I could find one for my Ground Control.

But anyway, what do you miss?

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"Todd Brown" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LhV8b.130838$kP.23402@fed1read03...
| What about those little "Sharks Fin" anti-chain suck things?
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| Farmer John Tires?
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| I did not like it, but remember when alot of bikes had the brakes mounted under the chainstay?

Heheh.

The bike shop I'm working for these days - internationalbicycle.intergalax.cominternationalbicycle.intergalax.comOpen ↗
- actually has a source for the Sharkfins, both the actual Shimano Deore XT and the Taiwan copies
(both in stock) as well as a few of the "Shark Teeth" that worked on the under the stays U-brake.

The place is a treasure trove of oldies. Lots of Suntour XC Pro stuff, old DX thumbshifters (I
cleaned them out of XT before I worked there.)

Hate to sound like a commercial, but hey, it's a living.

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