[Closed] Bikes you bought and ended up hating.....

Yep, a tern folder

A specialized tri cross

A yeti cross bike

A specialized camber carbon 29er

A cube xc race bike

If the seat angle was too slack, a layback post was hardly going to help matters

Alpinestars Cro-mega DX (c. 1990)
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(not my bike)

Awful - the first time I realised that steel frames can be heavy lumpen dead things.
Thankfully I worked at a bike shop so I sold at same price and went back to Kona after only 3 months with it.

This piece of shit.

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Snapped in half after about 6 weeks. In a way I was glad though as it was dire. Partly my fault though as I knew it wasn't right for me but got suckered in by the looks.

I didn't put it on there George,

That was standard spec......!

It was off straight away for an inline

On One Fatty

Too heavy, too rotate

Wilder escape.

God awful thing

Orange Five, suckered in by the promise of low maintenance and toughness.

To be fair it was reliable and easy to look after right up to the point it cracked.

Didn't pedal well, didn't ride well, just can't grasp why people bang on about them.

Cotic Roadrat.
Might be fine as a SS but add gears and mudguards with the horizontal dropouts and it's the worlds biggest struggle to get the back wheel out. I nearly threw it in a ditch. I was also between sizes and the medium always get big and tall but a small would have been too small. AND it was flexy too. Add a load on the back and it handled like a trifle.
Bought used and sold on for the same price, I replaced it with a Cararra Subway which was a far better bike.

jimjam - Member
This piece of shit.

Snapped in half after about 6 weeks. In a way I was glad though as it was dire. Partly my fault though as I knew it wasn't right for me but got suckered in by the looks.

Can see how it happened, lovely looking bike. Think we both fell for the Lapierre curse.... 😉

Gary Fisher super cal ! light as but twitch and didnt steer too well genesis geometry anyone !!!

Had a few I've not liked over the years
2008 sworks stumpy fsr just never felt stable on it
Tricross heavy on the road rubbish off it
Salsa spear fish , bit dull to ride but was quick

do you have a hour or two? far too many to list.
2 at the forefront are, a gary fisher fat possum. rode like a jelly. tyre rubbed the stays with any stood up peddaling.
and a orange sub zero hartail, suckered in to buy a too small size, which broke, and orange took months to sort out.
i would never buy from such a shoddy company ever again.

Specialized fsr in 2008 - what a total pile of dull beige uninspiring shite. Really so very very very dull. It also made me hate fox forks which I've never used again and hope brakes which were pure evil.

The Giant tvr advanced sl was also a pile of shite, the integrated seatpost was sooooo unforgiving that I hated riding it.
I sold it for a massive loss in just over 2 months of buying it.

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on and on - Member
Specialized fsr in 2008 - what a total pile of dull beige uninspiring shite. Really so very ver very dull. It also made me hate fox forks which I never used again and hope barkes which were pure evil.

Couldn't agree more on the Hope brakes. Would have more feel strapping a broom handle to your bars.....

Never owned again since, which is a shame as they may feel mega now. Crazy how a bad experience can stay with you.

Whyte 46 £2600 of awfulness got suckered in with reviews it wanted to kill me on the downs!
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A Ribble Aluminium road bike in about 2002 unresponsive dog ,so I reverted to 531

GT Xizang. Chain suck central. Ended up with me giving it the full Basil Fawlty treatment with a handy bush after sucking once too much.

*tannoy*

[b]Hora to the forum please. Hora to the forum please[/b]

On One 456.
Hateful, heavy, slow, nasty piece of scrap gas pipe.

Santa Cruz Heckler.
Always felt 'perched' on top of it, and always felt I was about to go OTB on the downhills.
My friend that bought it off me loves it, so I guess it's just me.

456 best vfm bit of kit ever.......imho 😀

Santa Cruz Heckler.........me too, felt like i was gonna go over the bars going downhill.

2013 Cube Reaction GTC SL 29, may as well have bought a road bike.

Global Ti that I built to 19lb or so. Xtr/olymlic wheels, reba wc, carbon, 400g IRC Mythos tyres etc. Rode horrifically. Felt dangerous.

postierich - Member
Whyte 46 £2600 of awfulness got suckered in with reviews it wanted to kill me on the downs!

I can't actually believe this but I had that bike also! Was an insurance replacement for my stolen Spesh Enduro in 2005!

And I can attest to it trying to kill me at every opportunity whilst riding in Les Arcs.! 😉 however, you can't argue with the value at £2600. Full XT, Carbon Easton bars, Hope Hubs, Expensive but life threatening Maverick forks....

You would struggle to get most companies base models for that cash now in 2014.....

2013 Cube Reaction? What don't you like about it? ( genuinely curious, as I love mine!)

Bionic B5 mod trials bike, was way too short for me and almost killed my back in an instant (had back trouble ever since).

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Never got on with my Mmmbop. Harsh as hell and didn't ever seem to want to go round things.

Dialled bikes Prince Albert, just no life in it whatsoever, I'd sold a wonderfully lively Saracen Zen which although cheap had been a fun thing to ride in the same mould.

Titus motolite. Never felt confident on it. Postierich - I test rode a Whyte 46 like that one, thankfully - meant any small chance of me buying one was quickly shelved. Death machine indeed.

zippykona - Member
GT Xizang. Chain suck central. Ended up with me giving it the full Basil Fawlty treatment with a handy bush after sucking once too much.

This is timeless......! Having visions of you losing the plot and the missus is sat here wondering what I am laughing about 😉

In my BMX days anything made by Haro, GT or Mongoose.... and I owned a few.

More recently an On One inbred.

Specialized enduro '11, On-one SS456 and Inbred, Giant Reign '09 & Kona Major One. Hated them with a passion.

trek ex9, flexy piece of turd, destroyed my confidence downhills as it was all over the place... I miss my enduro 🙁

cotic soul- felt dead to the world
cotic soda- felt like spaghetti
commencal meta4- how heavy can you make an xc full sus frame

Wanted to get a hardtail so found a nice 456 carbon.
Built it up nicely for a bit of everything, hated the damn thing..

A few..

Original c456 - handled like a dog

Sanderson breath - far far too long and low. Sold after two rides

Cotic x - heavy, heavy, heavy

Merida hard tail thing. Was the bike that got me back into MTB but my god it was terrible nothing worked on it at all I changed most of the parts. Then as soon as I rode another bike I realised what a miserable excuse for a bike it was.

deep down has there been a bike that for whatever reason had you wanting to get it on eBay?

Ha ha, a very regular occurrence for me. Mainly though because I freakin' love bikes - probably complete a couple of new builds per month which are then test-ridden and sold on to fund the next project. There have been many over the years but very few that I really didn't get on with. Amongst those though are a lovely matte black Mountain Cycle Battery - looked a million dollars but the angles felt all wrong - super-short toptube and very steep headtube even with 160mm Lyriks - weird. Probably the one I lost the most money on though was a beautiful Foes Predator hardtail imported from Canada - one run down the FOD downhill track had me chucking it in the bushes after it had bucked me off on every rooty section on the way down 😳

Orange Sub 3. Bob city.

Specialized Stumpjumper FSR (2004 ish)

Boingy crap.

ska-49 - Member

Specialized enduro '11, On-one SS456 and Inbred, Giant Reign '09 & Kona Major One. Hated them with a passion.

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How can you hate an 09 reign? Mine is the most capable allround bike I've ever ridden and I love the thing!

Nomad mk1, my own fault for buying without trying first but was too short and never felt right

09 Meta 6. Just didn't feel right from the first ride, shame as I really wanted to like it and it looked awesome

If I could be arsed it would be interesting to see if you guys were this damning when you sold the bikes on!!!

For me most disappointing was probably the ti456- didn't hate it just didn't get on with it