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

[john]

1st gen Trek OCLV road bike with super light and thin profile forks. Every time I got over 35 mph it would get a massive speed wobble on. Fearsome. It went quite quickly.

 

[Wold Ranger]

so stiff it was unridable

snigger

I just told my girl friend that one, she said she has the same problem? Is that a compliment? :shock:

 

[novekili]

Well it might be for one's machoness, but if it's really unridable it might get frustrating at a point... At least for whom doesn't get ridden, I mean, also for his significant other, provided she hasn't the habit of experimenting with less unridable people...

 

[jonboy]

My worst bike was an Emmelle Cougar. Probably cost about £150. Plastic brake levers & cantilevers, with a steel frame that weighed the same as an oil rig.

Bought it as a paper round bike after some low life stole my Marin Pine Mountain re-build-hack-about.

Weighed about 35lbs, handled like a tank. Good for training as it made my Roberts feel like a Ferrari !

 

[purplewicked]

trek 8700 composite carbon/ alum inum. so pretty and yet it felt totally uninspiring. i always checking the rear wheel cause the frame was so flexy and imprecise it felt like it had a flat tire. it had the most beautifull paint job, a classy build, a classy fork and yet it rode poorly.
khs montana pro. mine was a 17in w/a 71.5 head angle and a really small wheelbase. meet those numbers w/ anything steep on the singletrack and the bike turned into an instant endo machine.

 

[legrandefromage]

1999 Canondale F3000 Disk - display bike reduced from £2999 down to £1900 - worst thing I'd ever owned.

Bloody headshok

Bloody bloody bloody cack Coda hydrolic disc brakes...

just to show how bad it was, I ran over the Canondale rep's feet in the shop.... :shock:

shite shite shite.

Sold it for a grand about 6 months later....

 

[Pickle]

Never ridden a Cannondale, let alone used Headshock's. Always looked quite nice............. :?

 

[cce]

i hated my zaskar. but i still want to own one. :?

 

[development_cycle]

1989 (I think) Carrera Krakatoa from Halfords. What a piece of crap.

Although if it wasn't for this bike I would not have got into the sport or done any of my own repairs.

Halfords was a drive away from where I lived and my dad got fed up with taking it back every weekend to be fixed so I started to fix/replace bits myself, until I realised I was basically replacing all the parts and just got another bike.

1992 Kona Explosif - that was an eye opener!!

 

[Pickle]

i hated my zaskar. but i still want to own one. :?

I'd love to have a ride on one, just to see what makes them so sought after. And that goes for the Xizang as well.