topeak quickclip saddle bag. total time on the bike was 15 minutes before i landed a drop off a bit heavy and the clip broke. still….at least i only wasted £12 on shit bike things this year (though there is still a couple of weeks to go……)

@pictonroad. had the same problem with lezyyne pump with the hose. so i bought the version that presses on. that version snaps the valve stem off if you get a bit clumsy. grrrrrr

2.75″ x 26 Surley Dirt Wizard tyres

Very hard rubber – even at 25psi the lack of traction was scary

Rubber compound just too hard

Avoid

Easy winner – any of the numerous eBay /Amazon sold chinese night riding lights with their exploding chargers, nil battery life and dodgy connections

Assorted SRAM drivetrain shite.

Fizik Blink rear light – clips into the clip on the back of the saddles.

They break. All of them. I think they can’t stand the vibration of a road bike

CX lefty

XTR M980 pedals. The axles keep snapping – they’re so thin at the end it’s hardly surprising. I would class my self as a fairly light rider but still managed to break 3 of the 4 (2 sets) within 12 months. Both sets were warranty replaced but the second set I replaced with XT.

MET Parachute, poor build quality, never felt comfortable wearing it and then realized I may as well just buy a proper full face which ended up being one of my better buys of 2014, a Giro Cypher.
I’m happier with two helmets, a full face for those downhill days and a IXS Trail for all the other stuff, something that tries to be two things at once will never pull either off successfully*.

*opinions may vary.

SRAM drivetrains. Cheap, poorly mate and massively unreliable.

i bought a new bike in 2014! – the bike is great, but it came with Avid elixir brakes.

utter, utter shit.

before i’d even ridden it the calipers had seized, and the levers were leaking.

the bike also came with non-german continental tyres (mountain king?), they were terrifying, and are now land-fill.

@pictonroad

My Lezyne pump did the same, drove me mad BUT – a bit of oil on the thread solved the problem

Cheap Chinese lights. Of the last four night rides I’ve been out on, three have had other rider’s Chinese retina scorchers fail, meaning I have to give up my bar mounted Exposure light so they can carry on the ride. Buy cheap, buy twice!

Buy cheap, buy twice!

exactly what I did – one on the bars and one on the helmet – perfect 😉

SRAM road shifters for me, double tap is a terrible terrible idea, also seems to fail for no reason after less than a year of use!

egb81 – Member

Buy cheap, buy twice!

I did thanks! Bought 2 magicshines, 3 years ago, still going strong.

pictonroad – Member
Lezyne pump. Unscrews the valve core every time.

Complained to the shop, was SOLD another adaptor, metal into plastic thread stripped in one use.

overpriced shiny crap

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Ahh its not just me!!! My mate was pissing himself when i managed to completly deflate both my tyres while attempting to give them a small top up, that is until i reminded him he had sold it to me then he shut up p quick! 😛

Got a pair of Gore bike wear gloves hoping ot would mean dry, warm hands. They are fine for about an hour but after that awful – my fingers feel as if they are swimmng in water and when i take the gloves off if and turn them upside down the water runs out. Cost about £50 but much, much worse than cheap aldi gloves i got about 5 years ago.

Altura Ergofit Race Cape. Taped seams but the liner parted company with the outer and it leaked on its third proper wet ride. Replaced with an inferior Castelli without taped seams.

Thought of another one!

Met Parrabellum. What the actual ****?

Painful, really poor feeling construction, and the visor was completely wonky.

My Met Kaos UL was and is a brilliant XC lid, and have no idea what happend with the parrabellum.