The road to bicycle hell is paved with good inventions, as well as plenty of bad ones. Ever since the Safety Bicycle did for the penny-farthing, people have been inventing tech to try and make the bicycle better. We're pretty much there with the bicycle design-wise and have been for some time. As such there's a decent amount of wiggle room for trying new things
It's at times hard to differentiate between tech that has been simply superseded by newer and better kit as technology has improved and time has moved on, and things that have genuinely flopped. We've put our heads together and tried to think of ideas that just haven't worked out over the years.
