Your worst ever bike!!! Rant here!!!

[Pickle]

Guys

As a follow up to the best bike thread, lets hear about your WORST ever bike, and why you hated it so much!

What was the problem? Why didnt it 'do what it says on the tin'?

For me it was a Scott Unitrack CST, circa '95.

I was supprised, because I had high hopes for the Scott. But springy sus forks that topped out with a 'knock', and a wallowy rear end meant this bike bounced its was to part-ex within a month of it moving into my shed.....absolute poo it was. I dont even class myself as having owned it!

Maybe, once you've all ranted about the worst rigs out there, we can produce a 'What not to ride' list??!!

 

[Agency_Scum]

This was my GT Zaskar...

 

[neilll]

Guys As a follow up to the best bike thread, lets hear about your WORST ever bike, and why you hated it so much!

What was the problem? Why didnt it 'do what it says on the tin'?

Back in about 1989....a flouro yellow Peugeot 'MTB' (yeah right :roll I hammered it and the forks/frame snapped :roll: .

Still, what do you expect for £199 from some club book....

Then I got wise and blew £699 on a Saracen Traverse Comp....Mmmmmmm real Tange

 

[DM]

Cannondale crosser

I had a Cannondale cyclo-crosser with headshok.
In some ways it was amazing - Very fast, very light and very comfortable with the front suspension.

But...
The forks were basically the same as the MTB version. Meaning the fork legs were very far apart. The position of the canti mounts would not allow most brake pads to touch the narrow rims.

So I had to find canti pads with very long posts that could be spaced inwards enough to actually touch the rims when braking. Even then, the brakes were always useless;

The steering was fine in a straight line, but the thing would NOT corner or hold a line on a bend. I'm still scared by the memory of one commute on a 3-lane roundabout - In the rain, when it nearly spat me under the rush-hour traffic;

I managed to cross-thread the front canti cable hanger (having NEVER cross-threaded anything before or since on any steel, alu or Ti bikes);

BOTH rear pannier mounts stripped their threads simultaneously with just a small amount of commuting luggage in the rear panniers (this is the frame that Cannondale subsequently re-badged as a heavyweight world tourer);

The chain stays were far too tight for decent UK mud clearance with the 32C tyres fitted;

The rear dropout design and tight chain clearance interfered with fitting a larger rear cassette;

MAYBE I should have expected this type of thing from such a "specialist" bike. Or maybe it was just a "Friday Afternoon" lemon, compounded by stupid design?

Going back to my Heckler and Konas was a joy in terms of build quality, handling and reliability. More riding - Less hassle.

 

[grahame]

I'm going to get murdered for this one:

I had a 1992 (or was it a '93? Anyway, the year it was solid silver) Kona Kilauea with Marzocchi XC500 forks and Kona's own take on cantilever "brakes". I bought it at staff prices when I worked in John's Bikes in Bath and rode with the Kona rep pretty much every Sunday.

I just never got on with it. It felt slow and clumsy compared to my Breezers. The forks appreared to have been made out of cooked pasta and the "brakes" out of the pasta that had been rejected as too flexible for fork manufacture.

It sat in the house for about 2 years before I finally sold it (for more than I had paid - the only positive thing I can say about it).

 

[Geoff]

Should have bought one with P2s, not XC500s!

 

[Huntso]

Orange Clockwork Circa 92, rotten thing to ride and just felt all wrong

 

[Pickle]

The forks appreared to have been made out of cooked pasta

I borrowed an old Claud Butler with these forks on BITD and they were CR*P.......wallowed and wallowed and wallowed (continue to fade)

 

[Martin]

Hereby I want to nominate my past Profles 754 as worst bike ever!

That thing was allmost bendable.....

 

[Corduroyboy]

I just never got on with it. It felt slow and clumsy compared to my Breezers. The forks appreared to have been made out of cooked pasta and the "brakes" out of the pasta that had been rejected as too flexible for fork manufacture.

Too, too funny!
I remember those brakes as well :roll: . My sis had (and still has on her Parkpre Alu) some XC500s - OK for someone weighing 3/8 of an ounce . Sad thing is, if you would have had a set of decent anchors and some P2s as Geoff suggested, I'm sure you would have loved it!