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Didn't really gel with my Foxy Carbon, it rattled itself to pieces far too often, the pressfit BB creaking like hell and it while insanely fast it seemed to take a lot of effort to ride it how it was meant to be ridden, frame and fork felt insanely stiff, almost felt like it needed a bit of flex to help it gel rather than skip across the trail. It was also so quick downhill it scared me quite frankly! Very much against the trend but if it wasn't quite as long, stiff and crazy slack and a bit more reliable, it would've been one hell of a bike, because it climbed like a billy goat on crack and my god it looked good!
The less said about my On One 456c the better. what a pile of steaming turd that was! Like riding a plank of wood!
Specialized 2008 SX Trail with Totems on the front, was a nasty, understeery, nervous, tall, piece of shit.
Don't hold back now, let it out 😆
I don't even get how it was possible for it to understeer and push out in corners and be nervous at the same time?
I hated it.
It weighed about 40lbs as well.
The 2010 Nukeoroof Mega I got to replace it blew it away, in perhaps every way but its ability to absorb bumps at the back.
Pretty much anything too long.
I'd honestly rather ride a 24" wheel Apollo than any mtb with a reach over 450mm.
Funny isn't it ... One person's turd is another person's sparkly delight! Couple of people on this page have downers on the OO 456, whereas I thought my 45650b was a great bike. Partly because it replaced a Boardman HT and was so much more capable and brought my riding confidence and ability on significantly. Ultimately it was out of its depth on techy Lakeland descents but for pretty much everything else I rode for 4 years, it was bob-on.
I sold it to part fund my Pickenflick, which I don't regret in the slightest. But would have it again like a shot over the Prophet ...
I assume Ton is still writing his 12 page reply to this thread.
i am stopping commenting on threads like this, as everything i say is deemed as negative. and when i diss certain brands of bike, which i have owned, the people who still own them get their knickers is a twist, and seem to think i am making a personal attack on them.
My Jeff Jones. It was so comfortable and the best bimbler I've ever ridden but when the riding got rough and fast it was terrible.
If I was going on a world tour it may be the one I'd choose but for anything else I'd choose something else.
and what modern mountainbike can't run a proper dropper-post? 27.2 choices are limited and mostly crap.
i am stopping commenting on threads like this, as everything i say is deemed as negative. and when i diss certain brands of bike, which i have owned, the people who still own them get their knickers is a twist, and seem to think i am making a personal attack
My Orange was shyte too. 🙂
One of the original Clockworks - different length cranks on each side, spec changed for the worse between order and delivery, geometry totally unsuited to any kind of fun.
And fobbed off by dealers who thought I should have been grateful to have been sold one in the first place.
That said, if anyone wants to sell me a small, worthless 26 inch 5 I'd be happy to be proved wrong. 🙂
Pretty much anything too long.
I’d honestly rather ride a 24″ wheel Apollo than any mtb with a reach over 450mm.
Whoa there! Are you saying the emperor has no clothes on?
Santa Cruz Hightower, not a bad bike as such, just never really loved it, and I tried for over two years!
Whyte G160, a sisyphean task to climb anywhere on it and unbalanced garbage on descents.
C456, fairly sure it's the reason my knees are shot now.
Think my problems stem from trying to have one bike for everything.
I can't put into words how much I love my RocketMAX longshot, need an XC bike now though 🙂
Ragley Bluepig - steel is flexible, much like wet pasta. I hated the flex when cornering, i know some people love steel bikes but it put me right off.
Canyone Strive - actually a great bike but i have the race model and while the forward geometry is defiantly fast it was less playful than i would have liked. It also had a RockShox Monarch DebonAir which i did not get on with.
All my bikes I have made work with one notable exception.
A V2 Bronson. My god, I changed everything on that damn bike to try and make it work but I just could not get on with it. New baras, Stem, shock, shock tune, saddle, brakes... the lot.
Gave up after 12 months of it trying to kill me.
A Klein Mantra! Or the "Ejector" as it became known, probably more me than the bike!
As much as it scared the crap out of me I still have fond memories of it - never ridden a plusher bike over flatish stuff, pointed down over lumpy stuff and we rarely made the bottom together...
'16 Transition Patrol Carbon. I had a Reign Team Advanced which was a brilliant bike. Fancied something a bit different after a few years on the Reign, The Patrol ticked all the boxes. Rode it, fought with it, tried to race it, crashed a lot on it & consistently went about 10% slower, whilst feeling like I was going 50% faster.
It was awful. God only knows why I couldn't make it work, but I couldn't.
Whoa there! Are you saying the emperor has no clothes on?
Swinging his hips with a semi it would seem from the way so many are falling over themselves to blindly follow his taste in fashion 😉
I feel the same about folk who wear size 10+ shoes. Sheeple, the lot of em.
What a delightful image you conjure up Geex, so poetic 😆
Sick! Wulfbarron. Modern geometry (sorry about the windmill Geex) titanium hardtail with a gearbox. I should love it nearly as much as my Ion GPI but I don't. There is nothing really wrong with it, it's fine, OK, alright. But I was hoping for more from my first ever titanium so it's kind of disappointing. I blame the silly long chain stays but I don't really know if that is the problem I just know that I'm a bit meh about it 🙁
Funny isn’t it … One person’s turd is another person’s sparkly delight!
Very much this. Somebody didn't like their FlareMax 😮 Somebody else doesn't like long bikes. I think my longshot FlareMax is the bees knees. Each to their own.
I always find that folk on here, don't like to admit that they have spent their hard earned cash on a bike, that turns out to be a bit pony.
Sick! Wulfbarron. Modern geometry (sorry about the windmill Geex) titanium hardtail with a gearbox. I should love it nearly as much as my Ion GPI but I don’t. There is nothing really wrong with it, it’s fine, OK, alright. But I was hoping for more from my first ever titanium so it’s kind of disappointing. I blame the silly long chain stays but I don’t really know if that is the problem I just know that I’m a bit meh about it
Too similar to your FS?
the way so many are falling over themselves to blindly follow his taste in fashion
I've got two MTBs with 70.5 degree head angles.
Too similar to your FS?
I'd be happier if it was
All the mates' Oranges I've ridden felt pretty bad to me.
Sick! Wulfbarron. Modern geometry (sorry about the windmill Geex) titanium hardtail with a gearbox. I should love it nearly as much as my Ion GPI but I don’t. There is nothing really wrong with it, it’s fine, OK, alright. But I was hoping for more from my first ever titanium so it’s kind of disappointing. I blame the silly long chain stays but I don’t really know if that is the problem I just know that I’m a bit meh about it
H8er. Expect a full media rinsing in due course.
All the mates’ Oranges I’ve ridden felt pretty bad to me.
oh no, you have done it now.......... ;o)
I'm terrible. I think I actively seek out the bad bits on any bike I buy to make an excuse for a new one!
Maybe I should try an Orange haha.
On the plus side, I'm propping the second hand market up nicely 🙂
I could say my Cannondale Trigger. Bought blind off the back of the thread on here and we've not managed to click. It feels inert, it's slow, it's uninspiring. My old PRST4 was miles quicker, my old Trek Liquid felt more of a hooligan. But, I'm nowhere near as fit as I used to be and it's more that it's not the bike that's not cutting it, but me. See the trigger thread for proof that this is the case, plenty of happy owners there.
I’ve got two MTBs with 70.5 degree head angles.
to be fair flat pedals and a dropper post had somehow not registered on your radar until the last 6 months molly. I sort of admire your head in the sand outlook.
what can I say Kayla? It's a gift.
Rude not to share. init? 😉
Raleigh Scorpio - heavy, lots of chrome to rust, wheels built like cheese so they kept going out of true.
Mate had a Puch that was about the same money but far better.