[Closed] Bike or bike bits that should have been buried at birth

Anything with 'Crank Bros' printed on it? (see also E13 or Evil).

This made me want to vomit.. It came after the sublime Attitude too.. W.T.A.F..

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The downtube - full suspension folding bike.

As an aside, I have one in my garage that I am willing to sell to the highest bidder.

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irvb - Member
The downtube - full suspension folding bike.

As an aside, I have one in my garage that I am willing to sell to the highest bidder.

You'd have to be high...

😆 and 😳 at the visor - I made one pretty much identical to that. So much better than gegs. I've bought a "proper" one now

Trek press fit bb's.

Any GT LTS.

From a company that had a pretty good rep' at making lookers, these should have been given the coat hanger treatment after conception.

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Teethgrinder - it makes the Klein Mantra above it look elegant 🙂

This. Only it wasn't born, it burst out of another bike's chest, xenomorph style...

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Oh dear. I've got a GT LTS in the garage as well (or is it an RTS?).

Again... will sell to the highest bidder.

Both bikes belonged to my dad - a man of style and taste, except when it came to bicycles.

Muddy fox's 1995 attempt at full suspension:
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One shock which the fork and rear suspension were linked too. Didn't work at all and to top it off, was horrendously expensive. I don't think they sold many (if any) as there is very limited info on them now.

I'm doing really well here. I have a Trek with a press fit BB also.

Plastic brake levers.

Ridiculously short seat posts on children's BSO's that mean when you take your son and his mate out for (their first in the case of the friend) proper bike ride the poor friend has zero flipping hope of pedalling up a hill comfortably.

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These tyres aswell, although they seem to be back in fashion now.....

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Yee gods, the stem on that Klein is almost as long as the top tube.

Zyzxx forks. End of thread.
https://dirtmountainbike.com/bike-reviews/handlebars-saddles/the-15-worst-mountain-bike-products-ever.html/5

(FWIW, I have a Mantra. Limited and fugly but actually nothing like as bad as people think. Most of the time - riding off a step is scary as it pogos up and kicks you in the arse)

The Raleigh Activator!

The GT RTS mentioned above was actually a looker and a trail blazer.

There's things in here that I love, though admittedly maybe only because I never used them and never will.

Front mechs

Re Klein Mantra - unbelievably Klein made a rigid version called a Karma Pave - - there is a shop that still has one for sale - reduced from $7999 to only S1699
http://budgetbicyclectr.com/1999-klein-karma-pave-bicycle.html

It's not a looker.

That GT looks awesome.

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Nothing about these were good. I still have scar tissue on my ball-sack having shifted when meaning to brake and smashing them on the stem.

I'll also add this.. Ok, so not quite on the Mantra scale of Vom but I bought one of these with a grin wider than the Cookie Monster upon finding the McVities factory.

I rode the C2C (old Mtb route) with two mates, and I got off it at the end and vowed I'd never ever ride suspension again (and never have) luckily I got my mate drunk (very) and sold it to him whilst sitting in the Delaval Arms in Whitley Bay having finished the ride.

Bloody shite on many levels.

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These...
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I steered right, the front wheel went wherever it fancied at the time.

Slept on it; these aswell

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Nominated because of the pain it dished out to my ar*e for three months until I finally bought a different saddle...

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matt_outandabout - Member
Nominated because of the pain it dished out to my ar*e for three months until I finally bought a different saddle...

I had the red one on my 1999 Clockwork for year! Went onto my P7 after that. It finally wore way about 2010.

Cheers, Steve

Bullet - Member
The Raleigh Activator!

That was my first mtb! A little heavy and not convinced the suspension actually did anything. Got it nicked off me along with my dad's Raleigh Amazon (which my mate borrowed off him) when we got mugged by some bigger boys.

Square taper bottom brackets are the most wretched cycling object ever.

I still have scar tissue on my ball-sack having shifted when meaning to brake and smashing them on the stem

That visor in the OP 😯 . Taking a "header" could make a right mess of your face.

Square taper bottom brackets are the most wretched cycling object ever.

Yeah bloody components that last for ever.

I have a 1973 lambert road frame and death fork. Now there is a bike that probably should have been put in a sack and chucked in the river.

What's wrong with the crud claw, square taper or front mechs?

The square taper crank only exists in 3 different states
1. Seized in place for ever and silent
2. Creaky
3. Works loose once, throw crank in bin.

If we had got rid of front mechs years ago gear tech would have advanced a lot faster.

Specialized Cobble Gobbler seatpost.

If there had been no front mech in 2006, I might've kept my Dual Control... the rear was good.

The square taper crank only exists in 3 different states
1. Seized in place for ever and silent
2. Creaky
3. Works loose once, throw crank in bin.

😆 Not a chance! Square tapers work wonderfully, every 'upgrade' of the bottom bracket since has been worse.

I've never had one seize, external cups more than a few.
I've never had one creaky
I have had one come loose on the taper but I've seen more problems with thru axle.

The square taper crank only exists in 3 different states
1. Seized in place for ever and silent
2. Creaky
3. Works loose once, throw crank in bin.

I assume you have not spent time with cotter pin cranks and cup and lock-ring BB's.
Shirley, you would realise these are just small trifles due to operator error.

40 tooth cassette extensions should get in the sea. Daft things for the vain.

Agree, 40t is pretty pointless, 42 gives better results and costs the same.

And fits better on my xt cranks 4 arm spider 😉