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Sorry to derail this, but came across this today while looking for something completely different.
This fills a gap in my life that I never knew I had.
Also, now that I've developed an unhealthy obsession with lighting regs, I should point out that it's missing the required triangular rear reflectors.
I would nominate the various brands of chain joining link such as the Powerlink, Missing Link etc. Gone are the days of fiddling with a chain tool by the side of the road, now if your chain breaks its such a simple job to remove the broken link and replace with a new joining link. Of course it would be better still to return to the days when chains didn't break on a regular basis but that's just me being old fashioned.
That is one highly specc'd 1980s halfords bike. Not dissimilar to my Raleigh Chico, though I did not have the horn or tartan pannier box thing.
I guess the chain on a Pashley with it's golden implants and total chain guard will still last for ever? But the Missing Link is something I need, though I think I have one but it is the wrong size for the various chains I have at the moment.
I had the little clicky front wheel odometer, and those lights, the front mount, which was bolted into your fork, could cause the light to magically rotate in one of two planes - if you were lucky they just went forward and dangled, weakly illuminating your feet, if you were unlucky they rotated into your spokes, with highly amusing consequences.
Multi-tools and alloy bolts or GPS computers.
Weather stations - an outdoor temperature sensor transmitting to an indoor display unit. I have one on my bedside table, it also functions as an alarm clock. It's great knowing before you've got up how many layers you are going to need and if there's the risk of ice.
I have a window I look out, let's me see the street, whether any snow/ice (very little this year) and to the right I have a wee granny on a chimney pot, she is always spinning, very quickly recently so I know how strong the wind is but not its direction. I do have an alarm clock that somehow tells me the weather, this is true, but it is not hooked up to anything outside. It has some kind of sensor, as often when it says it is raining it is raining.
Been some warm windy days and some cold windy days, so hooking my alarm clock up to an outside thermometer could be my task for 2014 :-)
advice from early days - put your clothes on a radiator, your gloves, buff everything, socks too. Then they are warm when you put them on to go outside.
As we are straying from gadgets. As a young man I favoured long overcoats of the echo and the bunnymen variety. My friends dad used to stoke up the fire to inferno type levels. You had to take your coat off. The instant you did so he would remark, You will feel the benefit of that when you go outside. Which was often true as we went outside and walked down to the Golf Inn Prestwick for juvenile drinking purposes.
A tyre pressure gauge, which I'm hopefully getting as a pressie. My pump's gauge is not very precise (+/- 20 psi?) and precision is important in the world of high-performance commuting ;)
The allen keys that came with the cheap revolution tool set are the only things that remain in use. They are great, except in tight spaces.
My cheap Lidl bicycle toolset turned out to have a fair few handy things in it - a crank extractor appropriate for Sora-level cranks, BB-undoer appropriate for a basic square taper BB, cassette lockring remover, chainwhip, flat-bladed screwdriver of a size perfect for tightening spokes, cone wrenches and a pin spanner, though I don't know where that is at the moment.
On the subject of Allen keys, those ones with the round heads are excellent.
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