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For me...Muc Off, had a set as a gift and after it ran out i've just used the bottle filled with water. Cant say the muc off did anything that the water didnt...utter waste of money...
There are quite a few I think! One I've been considering lately is the long-travel rip off. I have a decent 120mm travel bike, I've recently been thinking about 160mm bikes- it seems that the manufacturers expect me to pay almost twice as much to gain 40mm travel. I appreciate the bigger dia forks are more expensive and pivots are possibly burlier along with thicker tubing. There is no way those changes can be the reason for the price hike, it's just manufacturers being greedy.
There are quite a few I think! One I've been considering lately is the long-travel rip off. I have a decent 120mm travel bike, I've recently been thinking about 160mm bikes- it seems that the manufacturers expect me to pay almost twice as much to gain 40mm travel. I appreciate the bigger dia forks are more expensive and pivots are possibly burlier along with thicker tubing. There is no way those changes can be the reason for the price hike, it's just manufacturers being greedy.
Camelbak bite valves.
tyres.
Carbon...
Ooo no looks sexy n' everytink.
Yeah but aluminium is just as light..
Yeah but...
Carbon looks sexy n' everytink.
Mech hangers. £22 for a small piece of machined aluminium, silly money.
Orange frames
SPD cleats. Now with an RRP of £18.
When you can get a pair of pedals (including cleats) for £20.
Headsets are a bloody rip off.
Spares parts for forks/brakes/frames etc seem massively overinflated too.
"Heavy duty" shock mount kits.
£22 for a piece of steel tube.
Orange frames
Wash your mouth out, boy!
Modern suspension forks. The disappointment was like being told santa didn't exist again when I took my fox apart and found they weren't made meythril coated unicorn bones.
Give me a Bomber Z4 any day.
Dropper seat posts, they are good and I love using mine, but not sure it's worth over £200. If I could have tried one for a few months then decided I would probably pass.
Chain Lube (easy at the back) total and utter rip off , that and DOT fluid sold in tiny bottles.
For me chain lube is lift hydraulic oil and DOT oil from the car parts shop
Anything sold by Fox
Pedros Allen Keys.
Poop.
+1 muc off
Muc Off used to be great,but it was f3cking up paint,brake pads & all sorts on the bike.So it was diluted down(think they only kept the colour tbh)& now it's 5hite !
petrol to get to somewhere decent to ride
parking at bedgebury (not connected with above)
anything with downhill written on
replacement maxles
Brake disc pads.
Just got pads for my car that were cheaper! 😕
Muc off had a change of Manafacture an had been rubbish since.
Have to agree with dot fluid that and mineral for brakes when lhm will do
Just fine.
Oh and SRAM stuff that lasts weeks and try refuse to replace
hora - Member
Orange frames
+1
anything with downhill written on
Anything with Evo written on it...
Baggy shorts.
£80 for a pair! nuts!
My last pair were £15 🙂
Ultegra cassette - lasted 3 months.
Swiss Stop yellow pads - 36 quid nearly gone in 2 weeks
Road Inner Tubes
Gels
Muc Off
Reverb spare parts!
+1 for replacement Maxles - outrageous 👿
MTB event entrance charges
there are lots of expensive things out there, but i'm struggling to think of one that you can't happily ignore...
according to me: it's only a rip-off if you buy it.
Nexus servicing oil. £90 a litre.
Anything with yumeya written on it. Yet I yearn to own it all...
Ultegra cassette - lasted 3 months.
Swiss Stop yellow pads - 36 quid nearly gone in 2 weeks
😯
How did you manage that?
Camelbak resovoivours , insane prices.
And
Mtb socks , seriously wtf how much? For socks?
Riding my carbon wheels in this rain done the pads
Cassette is probably due to riding about 200m a week and me hating overly lubed chains.
External bottom brackets. Shite.
Tyres, ok, not shite but HOW MUCH?
Non of it.....Just use the classifieds 😉
OEM brake pads
Shimano cleats
Suspension spares
Chainrings
Most cycle clothing
Fox forks
Garmins (compare to something like a car Tom Tom/Smart phone)
The price of tyres does my head in especially when the markup from the shops is 40-50%!
Camelback bladders £25 for 3 litres or £30 for a pack that comes with a 3 litre bladder.
Riding my carbon wheels in this rain done the pads
Cassette is probably due to riding about 200m a week and me hating overly lubed chains.
Good work you manteneince shy machine!
😀
Anything made by avid or SRAM, avid because the kit is terrible and SRAM because it's horrendously priced.
Santa cruz carbon frames, the price discrepancy between here and the us is disgusting.
Stans latex
£7 for access to Dalby
Wow, 2 pages in and not a mention of Crank Bros products! Oh and inner tubes, they tend to be a rip off unless you buy them in a supermarket.
Tyres are also a rip off but the performance gains of a decent tyre soften the blow somewhat.
Kevlar beaded tyres, I mean the steel beaded are just the same and probly two thirds of the price, maybe a little heavier but seat better