It's true. You can use bar ends to mount all kinds of things, including other bar ends.

Tubus clamps are a far better solution to rack mounting problems than p-clamps. They hold better and are easier to install. They are less likely to slip as well because they fit tighter to the frame.

Can be used as "bar inners" too...

I just heard the word used that way recently, so maybe that's correct. Or maybe we can use it either way.

No worries... I had that crap beaten into my head with the Clue Mallet when I was in EE school, so I'm a bit twitchy. It's the same when I hear reporters say "positive feedback" like it's a good thing. (It isn't. Nuclear explosions are what positive feedback does.)

Six years of skull sweat, only to find out that I hated being an engineer... story of my life.

--Shannon

I just started my fourth career, this time as a school teacher. I've never been great at anything but I'm kinda good at a lot of things. Sometimes I think "those who can, do, those who can't, teach" applies to me. I studied computer science so that means I took a bunch of math. Am I good at it? Not really. Was I good at programming at IT? Well, I was OK but not amazing. I discovered late in life that I have ADHD which explains a lot.

I have a lot of language pet peeves like yours about positive feedback. It annoys me when people use the word "unique" to mean "unusual," but since it really means one-of-a-kind, at least in mathematics, there are no degrees of uniqueness. Oh well. But sorry about abusing or misusing asymptote.

"...turtles all the way down."

My beloved sister-in-law Liz, who was a French teacher, volleyball coach, and ski instructor, used to say "those who can't do, teach; those who can't teach, teach phys ed."

George Bernard Shaw wrote (in the play Man and Superman) "He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches." Woody Allen riffed on the Shaw quote in the movie Annie Hall: "Those who can't do, teach; and those who can't teach, teach gym."

It seems the thread might be devolving into presumptions about profession paths, and not in a positive way.

Come now C&V friends! Let's keep steering towards the topic at hand, seemingly bad ideas which work.

For instance, who says you can't add Campagnolo to your ancient Schwinn Electro-forged Continental?

I think the folks who sell those extensions get sued and have to start calling these something else. I read bar-end, and I'm looking and not seeing my favorite shifters anywhere.

Considering that “those extensions” have been around since the early 80s when Moots introduced “Road Handles”, I think that ship has sailed. They are so old, in fact, that they are currently only on old geezer’s bikes like mine.

I've seen that quip about gym teachers, and I'm sorry to say I used to believe it. It's unkind, and gym teachers are not dumb at all, and in general, neither are other teachers.

Bonus points for the curb-feeler zip ties in multiple colors.

Slacker. Someone needs to up his game. Seen in Raleigh NC.


Towing this...across the country.

I call them "homeless handles".

Good gosh! I'm married to a retired teacher and have many close friends who were teachers, all of whom I respect deeply. The last thing I meant was to put down the teaching profession in any way. I'm very sorry if I gave that impression.

Rides for days/weeks/who knows how long towing that remarkably big trailer. Gets on seemingly-fast bike on top of trailer. Promptly breaks the speed of light.

... In reverse!

--Shannon

*Looking at this picture, I'm hard pressed to find any Good Ideas... including attempting it in the first place. Which, since he finished the ride, and it's weirdly awesome in a "what the hell was the thought process that led you here?" sort of way, makes it perfect for this thread.

He could have started in the suburbs and ridden that rig only downtown to this shop and I would not have been less amazed.

It's rare that jokes can be traced to their point of origin. In this case, it was Woody Allen's joke.

Yes, I had not known it was Woody Allen--I always thought it was a joke Liz was telling on herself.

It's OK, tolks, no offense taken. Hey, I was the one who brought it up because, as I said, sometimes I feel it applies to me. I think of myself as a jack of many trades and master of none. I hope that makes me useful as a teacher and other things.

As a kid, I thought of my fellow students who liked gym more than the other classes as "dumb," and that was unfair. I wasn't athletically minded at the time. Same goes for gym teachers

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Issac Newton?