Originally Posted by
Rocket-Sauce
I'd add:
6. Stem Shifters
7. Suicide lever/death grip/turkey wing/whatever-you-call-it brake levers
8. Kick stand
9. Built-in chain guard on the chain ring
10. Ashtabula / one piece crank/BB
I can see the Ashtabula crank, but if you cut out the rest of those, you're missing out on a lot of mid-80s bike boom intermediate-level bikes. My 1984 Nsihiki Olympic 12 was a damned fine bike and it had turkey wing levers and a kick stand. I personally prefer stem shifts to, say, downtube shifters. My Oly 12 had downtubes and that was about the only aspect of the bike I never really was comfortable with.