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

[JustKev]

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.

I had one of those - fine for timetrials but crit's around Eastway were hairy to say the least! Loved it though until it got stolen from my dad's workshop with three other bikes!

 

[scant]

I cant say I've had any bike I've hated. 01 intense tracer was dissapointing.. would probabily feel considerably better with a more modern shock. my mate tinks is still trashing, ahem I mean riding it in vancouver 7yrs later so I guess its holding up okay.
98 klein pulse comp (had a few owners since me on this forum it seems) was uncomfortably stiff on the harsh trails around here (afan & cwmcarn are paper smoooooth in comparison ... but I loved it as the daily commuter :roll:

thinking about it, I've had more hatred for certain components BITD than any frame

 

[IbisMojo]

hi
Exuse my nasty english.
The worst bike ever i had was a 06 ibis mojo carbon.
I bought it to complete my mojo's collection and had to sold it to avoid a big lose. The BB was so high i need a crane to ride it, also it was like a gelly cake. i was always looking the rear end cos seemed to be cracked!
definitely, Nicol might begin to weld titanium and steel again...
And also agree with the guy who had a Klein. In fact, i have a 95 attitude and a 96 adroit and both are only show bikes. Very nice but only to see them. i rode the Attitude once and after 25km i had to go to bed. Too many kms with steel i guess..
There are bikes not to rithe them...
Regards from Spain

 

[legrandefromage]

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.

Zaskars were one of the first jump/ do anything bikes and very expensive for a 15 year old to buy with paper round money...

 

[boy"O"boy]

Worst bikes.

Probably going to get some grief for this.... but my worst bike ever had to be my GT STS1.
It was one of thermoplastic ones and was a great looking bike.
In the rough though it was absolutely rubbish...a really unresponsive wallowy ride.
I had that bike for 3 years and reckon I rode it only about a dozen times.... mainly because I hated riding it and lost motivation to go out on it. Went to trade it in and even the shop weren't interested
Sold it on the bay in the end and put the proceeds towards my Scott Scale. I ride that bike 2-3 times a week and enjoy every minute of my rediscovered my mountain bike mojo!! It was getting back into my riding and taking part that got me back into my retro rides... if it hadn't been for that stand at MM 2007 I wouldn't be justifying owning 3 bikes to the GF!
I'm still put off full suss rigs because of that bike though!

 

[Augustus]

Re: 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);

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


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?

DM, interesting you say this.

I have one.

I have a love/ not so love relationship with it.

I too have managed to strip the front cable hanger threads and have never threaded anything before.

I to find it hard to steer/ keep in line, but i think that's the brilliant idea of a headshock on a cx bike which also has the not so great habit of weighing it down at the front and making the longer stem/ drops set up less stable.

Thing with my forks isn't the width (they are wide, but canti's seem to reach ok, but that the forks are not aligned perfectly, so the wheel sits slightly off centre. At least canti's make for easy brake set up.

Do still love it though. And it's so pretty.

 

[scant]

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.

Zaskars were one of the first jump/ do anything bikes and very expensive for a 15 year old to buy with paper round money...

ditto that. zaskers were jump bikes long before spooky came along & coined the phrase.. & indeed started the jump bike niche

 

[jim-laden]

Marin Eldridge Grade, not a bad bike per se, I just never loved it and it was terribly dull.

Got stolen from college and I got the Clockwork I always wanted. Happy times

 

[BikePimp]

My worst bike: 1993 Cannondale M700 back in the day. The top tube is relatively short compared to other makes. This put me more upright, even w/ 135mm stem so that when I wanted to carve some turns, my high center of gravity would either make me lean way more than needed or I would simply start doing 2 wheel slides. Sold the M700 3 months later. A couple weeks afterwards I saw the guy that bought the bike on a local trail. He had fallen sideways on a rock and put a huge hole on the seat stay. I told him it wasn't safe to ride anymore and he agreed and was going to try to see if someone could fix / weld it. So long for beer can tubing.

The ride is still the stiffest I've been on. Sad thing is I almost bought a used 1999 Cannondale w/ headshock off CL for $100 a couple days ago just to give the headshock a try.

Worst component: Scott Unishock LF, suspension fork w/ carbon lowers. Very light, just didn't work well. Over a short time the fork simply seized. Don't recall getting it wet. I didn't even bother fixing, I actually went to the parking lot and threw it in the trash.

 

[stuey]

Amp B3 - too much of a weight weenie FS frame the shock had a lovely habit of blowing a seals -miles from home- missed too many rides waiting for 'another' rebuild kit.