Girvin flex stems
Dropper posts
Biopace cranks
Dual Control Shifter/Brakes
Cable Disc Brakes
Commencal QR Skewers
29 ER wheels
Dropper posts
Shimano external bearings
Dropper Posts
U-Brakes
Green Tyres (foam filled knee-breakers)
PaulD
can't remember the name of it but one of those spring things you hung off the rear dropout to put more tension on the rear mech
can't remember the name of it but one of those spring things you hung off the rear dropout to put more tension on the rear mech
Bullet Bros hypertension you say?
Bottom bracket
Bottom bracket tool
Bottom Bracket spacer
😀
1. Crank Bros xxx
2. Crank Bros xxx
3. Crank Bros xxx
replace xxx with anything they make
Avid Brakes
Dual Control
Scott shocks
Avid Juicy 3 Brakes
Torx bolts
Race Face X bottom bracket (current pet annoyance)
avid juicy 3 brakes
the strange need for every twosser to design a new rear mech hanger
reinventing the wheel, BB,.....
QR15. All the stiffness of a QR, all the weight of a 20mm maxle
Infinite dropout standards
The Big Ring
kingkongsfinger - MemberGirvin flex stems
Oh hells yes. Doesn't really do anything, until the elastomer gets slack, which happens pretty much instantly. Then, still doesn't do anything useful, but does helpfully disconnect the bars from the bike. Oh and all capped off with some nice sharp edges on the back with which to bifurcate your nuts.
I actually quite liked my Girvin Flex stem.
My Hite Rite on the other hand was useless because I was(and still am)too light to compress it.
Hope QR seat clamp
none lockon grips
tiny tiny hex screws...
Crank Brothers cheap pedals
Cleat bolts made of cheese
Anything made by Clarks
erm. maybe non-black chilli conti tyres
pumps that use the cam locking lever arrangement. why not just screw on ala zefal/leyzyne?
'power buldge' rockshox lowers. Once you wear the lower bushes, you have to get new lowers
Quite a lot up there Im questioning
shimano external BB for one, aside from Stainless steel/ceramic vwhat BB standard do you prefer? (square taper for me is flexy and is too easy to round out the squares)
Hollowtech II bottom brackets
Tioga Tyres
Tapered Headtubes
Giant Contact dropper seatpost- either stuck up or stuck down
Isis Bb of any sort
Conti mountain king 1 tyres
26 inch wheels
Crank Bros pedals
Avid brakes
Conti Vapor tyres on the front
Any QR not made by Shimano
GXP BBs
Giant Contact dropper seatpost- either stuck up or stuck down
Slacken the seat clamp. 8nm does the trick.
Crank brothers products
Flippyshifters
Cheap steel suspension forks on entry level bikes
Tioga factory dh tyres
Gripshift
Quill stems
1. Continental Verticals
2. Lezyne leaky bladder
3. DT Swiss rear maxle
Anything with Truvativ written on it.
3wheel size standards
Press fit bottom brackets
British summers
avid disk brakes
anything by crank bros
U brakes
Rear suspension.
High Rollers.
Lock on Grips.
Pressfit bottom brackets
Pressfit bottom brackets
Pressfit bottom brackets
avid brakes
bb30
cr@p bros stuff
farmerjohn... do you mean the avid thingamajig thingy?
!!!Rear suspension.
!!!Cable Disc Brakes
Cheap crap made-of-cheese bolts n screws ( Shimano top o the list).
Cable brakes, disc or rim.
Leaky bite valves.
Most own-brand hubs found on low and middle-range bikes.
(yet they still manage an XT rear mech sigh).
Carbon seatposts
Hope Q/Rs
Non-aheadset Headsets
Anything by Truvativ
Anything by SRAM
Avid brakes
Can you guess what bits I've been having problems with lately!
Coda bike bits fitted to canondale bikes.
No brand suspension forks ( with xfusion and rst nearly as bad)
Hayes el camino brakes: noisy, rough and rusty bolts.
"suspension" forks on cheap bikes
5 tens
Truvativ cranks
Integrated shifters/brakes, especially the "push-push" trash.
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Ooh look! Someone has come up with a new fork steerer standard! Yay!
35lb all mountain bikes
142mm spaced rear axles...why?
sram groupset
avid brakes
nicolai frames
External BB though the Hope one is better
Changing/conflicting standards - forks, seatposts, bars etc WHY just all do the same
Fox service intervals for forks
Avid Juicy 3's
Sram PC7X chains
Rockshox Tora's
Press fit SRAM bb
The need too have many headset standards
Strava
pressfit bottom brackets
avid brakes
Post mount brake mounts (oh, you stripped a bolt, thats £250 for a new set of lowers..)
Avid Jucy 3's seem like a fav, I agree, they where/are w4nktaastic!
Also the "CRUD BUNG" !!!
did I hear someone say superstar brake pads?
DT Swiss (cheese) rims
Race Face BBs
Sun Ringle hubs
ps. Two pages in and no mention of certain purveyors of cheap, but perfectly fine brake pads. This place has changed.
Crank Bros headsets
Race Face BBs
Avid Juicy Brakes
Avid Juicy Brakes
Shimano Chains
Race Face BBs
cheap sram rear mechs
nobby nicks
friction-free shiny bar ends like the ergon ones
Carbon
Avid Brakes
Conti Vapors
Recent shite products:
1. USE seatpost. 1 bolt seatclamp you say?
2. Avid matchmaker. Broke in two after innocuous bike falling-over incident. OK. Replacement sheared in two after 2 rides of changing gear. Come on now.
3. er, struggling here. That pair of Decathlon leg warmers I bought were rubbish. That's all I got.
Contribution to all time, Hall of Infamously Shite MTB stuff:
Cannondale CODA disk brakes.
Shimano Cheese Chain Rings
Long Cage "Rock Grabbing" Mechs
ISIS BB's
Can't believe the hate to HTII and Dropper Posts 🙂
Rockshox Judy
650b wheels
Orange 5
Sram shifters.
Those plastic guards that go behind cassettes.
Old forks that hud elastomers only.
Rockshox reverb
Hope pro2 wheels
Full suss frames.
Dropper posts
Hope brakes
Ghetto Tubeless
Non UST tubeless
Fox Forks
Bottom bracket mounted chain devices
10+ speed. Seems a bit odd when most mountain bikers were happily getting rid of gears. I am not really bothered about having finer and finer gradiations between my gears and that is all having more gears does. The more you have the less difference there is. And the talk is now of 11 Grrr
Any kind of energy gel, fitness food, processed, sweet and vile stuff.
SRAM rear mechs, light but made out of cheese
Clown wheels
That stupid bloody pointless Shimano shifter that went the wrong way
Slime tubes
Solutions to problems that weren't there:
Shadow mechs
External BB's
Tapered steerers
DT Swiss (cheese) rims.
DMR V8's (just don't last)
Those Green tape things that are supposed to stop punctures.
Truvative GXP Bottom Bracket
Topeak Jo Blow Pump
Rockshox Monarch IFP air adaptor
did I hear someone say superstar brake pads?
Yup, they're crap.
Put a kevlar set (front & rear) in my bike back in March just before going riding in the Sierra Nevada for a week. Arrived home, did plenty of weekly rides before doing a 10 day Scottish Highlands trip in May, rode the bike regularly since. Did 18 miles in the Trough of Bogland ( Bowland ) on Sunday last, & i've had to change both sets of pads as they're worn out!!
I tell ya, nothing lasts these days... 😉
I must be quite an exception, what I have had is fine.
Wait... no...
Hope Head Doctor is about the only thing I've had that I've hated with a passion. Solution in search of a problem (for me at least).
IHN - MemberSolutions to problems that weren't there:
Shadow mechs
What's the issue with shadow mechs? The mech being tucked away and protected by the chainstay can only be a good thing, IMO
Crank Bros Wheels
Crank Bros Wheels
Crank Bros Wheels
I think I've made my point.
1. Anything made by Crank bros.
2. Anything made by Raceface designed to spin around.
3. 29ers
non-rapid-rise stuff 😉
Anything 'supersonic'
Camelbak bladders (they may be the best shape, but they are the only ones that go mouldy - Source, Platypus = no mould).
Specialized OEM hubs
Specialized OEM stem
Specialized OEM headset
SRAM GXP II bottom bracket (OEM on Spesh)
Speciaized lock on grips
Specialized BG Enduro saddle
Avid Elixir 5 SL brakes (OEM on Specilaized)
There's a theme there, see if you can spot it............
[i]What's the issue with shadow mechs? The mech being tucked away and protected by the chainstay can only be a good thing, IMO [/i]
Well, for a start, mechs don't actually get whacked that often anyway, hence the solution to a problem that wasn't there comment
Plus, shadow mechs are attached to the hangar by a pretty thin piece of metal which is easily bent, putting the mech out of whack, and the jockey cage is massively long, meaning that it's now easier to catch it on branches and stuff on the ground, so they're actually a poor solution to a problem that wasn't there.
IMHO obviously.
I've whacked and broken SRAM short cage mechs several times in the last few years, but had zero problems with shadow ones. Obviously not that scientific, but I think there's some small benefit to it.
Fair point ont he cages, shimano "short" cages are MASSIVE
Hope HED Doctor
Race face External BBs
The bearing in the lower jockey wheel of X9 rear mechs, I mean, who the hell thought it was a good idea put something that gets affected by grit/mud/trail rubbish right where it's going to get covered in grit, mud and trail rubbish. especially as the X7 mechs have bushes and work fine.
Truvative Powerspline BB and matching cranks, the OEM fitment on my first mountain bike and even as a gentle rider I trashed spline and word out BB's on am alarmingly regular basis.
The suspension forks on my Claude Butler Urban 300 hybrid. First bike as an adult, no advise, no biking mates, no clue. Seemed like a good idea and the thought of the weight penalty never occurd to me...
The suspension seatpost on the above... Same reasons (although the USE one I got from Kielder 100 is great).
james - Member'power buldge' rockshox lowers. Once you wear the lower bushes, you have to get new lowers
Is this true?