What's Your Most Interesting Bike Attachment?

I ask because for decades now my bicycling has been fairly vanilla. Adding a basic bicycle light has been as far as I've gone.

But I recently kicked in for a bike-crate system at Kickstarter (the Fietsklik system; it would seem to meet my needs, plus I was amused that the inspiration behind it was to solve the problem of transporting a case of beer), and I was wondering what other cool and unusual things were out there that people put on their bicycles. A camera system maybe? An elaborate LED display?

What's out there on bicycles that you don't normally see in the wild?

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Permalink Reply by John LaVere on April 23, 2014 at 6:10pm

I velcro pepper spray to my top tube.

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Permalink Reply by John Gamble on April 24, 2014 at 8:40am

Yikes. I hope you've never had to use it.

John LaVere said:

I velcro pepper spray to my top tube.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on April 24, 2014 at 9:15am

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on April 24, 2014 at 9:16am

I've seen people put coffee holders on their handlebars. Always thought that was neat so I bought one at Let's Roast a few weeks ago. Now I need to install it.

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on April 24, 2014 at 9:45am

I don't wear earphones any longer so I rigged up the iPod to the handlebars and got one of those iHome

portable speakers; I put the speaker in my Banjo Brothers handlebar mounted bag and it actually sounds like a nice speaker. Just have to remember to keep both charged .... <note to self>

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Permalink Reply by Tricolor on April 24, 2014 at 10:56am

I'd keep something like that behind me, in case of accidental discharge. I bought a thingy that attached a bottle cage to my handlebars, which is kind of nice but I don't really like to drink and bike. It is a fourth bottle attachment for trips, though.

John LaVere said:

I velcro pepper spray to my top tube.

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Permalink Reply by Gopher Biker on April 24, 2014 at 11:33am

Nothing too exciting, but probably my K-Edge Garmin computer mount - nice to have it more forward, easier to glance down at.

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Permalink Reply by Josh.E on April 24, 2014 at 3:31pm

I just put on a set of RevoLights and boy oh boy does Harley Quinn get a lot of looks cause of them.

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Permalink Reply by John Gamble on April 24, 2014 at 4:49pm

Nice. I looked at them for a long time, but ultimately decided on a different set of lights. How long have you been using them?

Josh.E said:

I just put on a set of RevoLights and boy oh boy does Harley Quinn get a lot of looks cause of them.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Long on April 24, 2014 at 8:41pm

A sweet lady gave me a Lego pirate flag when I was bike touring through Utah. With some electrical tape I stuck that baby to a spoke and it's been there ever since.