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  • What have you bought that's a bit shit?
  • CaptainFlashheart
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    Seeing as every other thread contains, “yes, I bought Product X and it’s teh orsumz”, let’s hear about your purchasing errors.

    I bought some Hutchinson Pythons once. Oh my, they were shitter than shit. Fine when it was bone dry, but just sneeze on the trail ahead and there’d be enough moisture to make you crash.

    project
    Free Member

    most cycling magazines, written by kids for people with to much money to waste on stuff they didnt need but are convinced they do now to save nano grames of weight

    B&Q Value spade. Snapped on the very first dig.

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    northernmatt
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    Fosters

    scaredypants
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    nobby nicks

    cock enlar err, that’s pretty much it, really

    jam-bo
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    Superstar chain device. I really should have known better…

    wanmankylung
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    Volkswagen Passat.

    kimbers
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    A raceface headset, discounted at the bike show (NEC) back in the day, lasted 1 trip to Wales and a month of dampish riding in thetford before seizing,new custom bevelled bearings from rf were more than I paid for the headset!

    Schwalbe performance line tyres, f-ing lethal in the wet and sidewalls made of tissue paper

    ton
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    a orange sub zero
    a fisher fat possum
    a fisher pro calibre 29r
    a fisher super caliber 29r
    some lake winter boots
    a edinburgh bike coop tourer
    a spa cycles saddle
    some nukeproof carbon hubed wheels 20 odd years ago

    i could go on for hours

    andysredmini
    Free Member

    4x B&q builders buckets. Split 2 and broke the handles off the other 2 the first time I picked them up after filling with sand.

    harrytoo
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    tonights chinese.

    turned up an hour early…..

    captain-slow
    Free Member

    fake oakleys – utter garbage

    mud tyres – great for ploughing up hill through gloop, but ruin the descent

    proper cycling socks – much prefer normal terry sports socks

    those tyre liners to stop you getting punctures – what a pita…

    TheDTs
    Free Member

    Apple AirPlay. Never worked properly.

    ampthill
    Full Member

    I can’t do cars too painful

    The manitou SX (the base model) forks on my Orange Gringo (the base model). There was no valve to make the rebound damping more than the compression damping!! Just a solid plastic plunger. So much worse than the manitou PRO C (the base model) on the previous bike, which had rebound damping

    But to be fair most of the stuff I’ve bought is fine

    Oh ONZA “BuzzSAW” inner chain ring. It looked so cool in the shop all cut out from steel. It had such a cool name. It chain sucked like mad the whole time it was on (in dry Colorado). The chain suck stopped as soon as it was replaced by a cheap stamped Shimano one

    aa
    Free Member

    LOL at CFH.

    i was recommended pythons too. Dreadful tyre, were just about ok in a straight, flat, line. Dreadful in every other respect. To this day the guy who recommended them (bike shop manager) insists they were a good tyre.

    currently i think my Nokia windows 8 phone is shite.

    wiggles
    Free Member

    A merida

    ton
    Full Member

    oh and some panaracer spike tyres, so squirmy they folded on me and i fell and broke my thumb.
    also any of the 5 or so sets of avid brakes…….utter tripe.

    Yak
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    Spesh fast trak. Bought a month ago for the rear of my quick bike. It’s been mostly underwhelming and not particularly predictable. Anyway it met it’s end today – a flint tore the sidewall. Kinda happy to bin it

    Andy_Sweet
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    Avid brakes – although calling them a bit shit is being generous….

    Plus in my BMX days anything made by Haro, GT or Mongoose….

    Squidlord
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    A Tesco chain tool. Which was apparently made of cheese. I knew it would be made of cheese. I don’t know what I was thinking.

    Northwind
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    New Five Ten Impacts XVI. Feel like shooting your feet with anaesthetic. I almost got used to them then today I wore my old Freeriders and realised what I’d been missing.

    onandon
    Free Member

    Bose noise cancelling headphones
    Specialized fsr
    ESI grips
    Tag Heuer grande date watch
    Abarth 500 esseesse
    Global knives
    Shimano XTR mech and shifters
    G shock watch
    Sony ps2
    Special K
    Charge saddles

    lunge
    Full Member

    Pretty much any Continental tyres I’ve ever bought, special mentions to Gatorskins which are terrible.

    Biemme winter tights from Planet-X. Odd fit, basic design, sent back sharpish

    spud-face
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    ”Bicycle Explosion-proof Glasses”

    Call me a cynic, but I suspect genuine explosion-proof glasses retail for a touch more than £1.43

    If they don’t make me look gnarsome when they arrive, I’ll see about an scientific ill-thought-out test and have my next of kin get back to you all.

    Thrustyjust
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    Panaracer Trailrakers. May as well ridden with the brakes on, they dragged that much
    Northwave Arctic Boots, dire
    I liked Python tyres in the dry, fast and rolled well
    O.O smoothie headsets, absorb water like a teabag
    Hope Pro 2 SS hub………. for me, was the worst Hope product to date. Bring back the XC hubs.
    Avid brakes………mmmmmmmm
    Planet X shower cape for road rides. Lining disintegrated in 6 months. Should have guessed at £20…..

    paulosoxo
    Free Member

    Panaracer Fire XC’s

    big_n_daft
    Free Member

    a fisher super caliber 29r

    I had one (red/yellow), brilliant, just didn’t survive my lardy arse but I had a good few years out of it

    non-black chilli rubber queens awful as was the website that declared them black chilli and the shop that refused to refund

    ampthill
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    Garden Manure

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    Hans damfs. I wanted to like them. I so wanted to like them. Everyone else liked them. They were the draggiest, slowest piece of dung I have ever used.

    neilsonwheels
    Free Member

    Gatorskins…? Really.? They’re Proper winter training/ commuting tyres.

    RickDraper
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    Schwalbe tyres. All utter **** **** and £50 a pop.

    Bregante
    Full Member

    Raceface Aquanot Jacket. Not breathable and not waterproof. Bloody expensive and the zips all fell off.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Nobeerinthefridge – Member

    Hans damfs. I wanted to like them. I so wanted to like them. Everyone else liked them. They were the draggiest, slowest piece of dung I have ever used.

    As far as I can tell, everyone who likes Hans Dampfs either came to them via Nobby Nics, or at the time when there were absolutely no good 650b tyres.

    RickDraper
    Free Member

    Fox 34 FIT, Rock Shox Monarch Debonair, Matchmaker clamps for shimano brakes to sram shifters, titanium XTR pedal axles.

    garage-dweller
    Full Member

    That Specialised bar tape with the gell pads under. It was really really comfy but made the bars so fat I could barely reach the brakes on the drops.

    The roubaix is a much better compromise!

    markrh
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    Easton wheelset, freehub issues 😥

    wilburt
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    An all inclusive holiday to Turkey, I would rather be in Grimsby.

    hot_fiat
    Full Member

    Bought some Maxis Ardents four years ago. Fitted them to my old kona then immediately flew off to molini with them. In the words of Captain Bertorelli: “Whatta mistaka do makka”

    Rich_s
    Full Member

    Tioga Psycho II…

    steve_b77
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    FSA gossamer cranks with the pre-load cap that always comes undone no matter what I do to the **** thing.

    Aztec shimano road brake pads, 2 frikkin rides in the wet and they were done.

    Shimano Goretex winter boots, great in the dry, complete utter turd in the wet when they just turn into mobile ice baths.

    Giro gloves – just fall apart.

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