We are regularly surprised by clever gadgets and gear that leave us thinking, “why didn’t I think of that?†KickStarter and other crowdfunding sites have allowed those with an idea to pitch it to market, where previously it would have remained nothing more than a sketch on a napkin. Sometimes these innovations are brilliant and lead to success, other times they simply result in a facepalm.
We've already rounded up the cycling industry's best efforts to pull the wool over our eyes this year. Here are six real products from the past 12 months that could just as easily have been April Fools' jokes.
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Pizza and sweet potato flavoured gel = face palm
Eating on the move means we often fill our stomachs with teeth melting amounts of sugary food, containing about as many natural ingredients as a Twinkie. So when we heard Clif was making organic gels with an ingredients list a child could understand, we were excited – until we saw the flavours. Banana, Mango Coconut, fine; Banana, Beet and Ginger, a little weird but okay; Sweet Potato and Sea salt and Pizza Margherita, hold the phone.
When was the last time you were craving a salty sweet potato, or a margherita pizza at the bottom of a climb? We're fans of exploring options for riding food, because sweet, sweet and more sweet can get pretty tired, but the thought of a mid-ride potato flavoured snack makes us want to barf.
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