+1 for any hardtail where the seatstays join the seattube higher than the top tube. It is unforgivable imo, I don't care how good the bike is, I've never owned one that makes this horrible mistake and never will. Baffles me that they even exist, it's just the designer turning the "ugly" slider up to max.
This one's part functional but also aesthetic, literally every dual crown topmount stem with multiple fitting holes ever. Because everyone without exception fits them on the shorter setting and that leaves you with the wee ugly sticky out bit. Also it makes them more annoying to fit.
Shocks with the reservoir at the bottom. I don't know why this is wrong tbh but I do know it's wrong.
However, I'm guilty of one listed above. Gravel bike lowest gear is 51/38. Cassette is noticeably bigger than the chain-ring.
To be fair it's hardly uncommon now, I guess it has a sort of agricultural/ off-road aesthetic to it, but I just prefer the road-bikes-on-dirt look.
My MTB has a 38 tooth big ring but there's a 28 hidden behind it 😂
Hello roadie! Older MTBs look like they were designed without considering we like riding DOWN hills…
That’s because, unless you ride uplift only or possibly an eBike (and probably even then) you spend loads more time going up hill than down.
Saddles like ISM ones, they just look so odd to me it's jarring
Saddles slammed all the way forward, in a bid to steepen a seat tube angle.
Hello roadie! Older MTBs look like they were designed without considering we like riding DOWN hills…
That’s because, unless you ride uplift only or possibly an eBike (and probably even then) you spend loads more time going up hill than down.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/bike-forum/modern-bikes-are-so-good/
Helmets with no peak.
Helmets with massive peaks.
Full kit ****ers.
About 95% of e-MTBs. Just too bulky and clunky, they have no sense of the elegant, durable and timeless look a bike can have imho. All the aesthetic elegance of an MX bike (and I understand why some like that look, it's fine.)
Oddly, a lot of builder show bikes and very specialist personal builds too, but I like them because anything highly personal is something someone cares about and has put creativity* into. I always like that whether I share their tastes or not.
*I mean, something more involved than matched colour ano kit on a bike. That can look ok but it's not really custom/creative.
Ooh can I add more to this?
Neon Jackets. It's not the 70s-90s anymore and if you're riding at night bike lights are 30x better than they used to be and car headlights are now so bright if they get any better you'll be x-rayed. If someone hits you on a bike these days its more than likely driver attention error as opposed to "Oh I didn't see you" which also applies to riding during the day, and if they genuinely didn't see you it's probably because they were distracted.
There is a bunch of what appears to be 70 year old joggers in a club that run past my house on a Tuesday morning, all 15 of them running on the footpaths but fully kitted out in neon green, yellow or pink with matching hats. Like guys, you're already visible, you don't need the neon? I'm pretty sure the one guy wearing the dynarod style orange is their ring leader.... But anyway I'm going slightly off topic there.
- Stubby fidlock waterbottles
- Waterbottles with no cap to prevent mud ingress
- Full face helmets on blue trails
- Skinny tubes on steel frames
- Orange full suspension bikes
- Canyon Torque ON integrated water bottle
- Manufacturers that cheap out on XL bike geometry, I'm looking at you Giant. Rob warners top tube looks like a giraffe neck and it's disgusting
- Gaudy decals like "My other bike is a caravan" or "Ride or die"
Front mechs just look awkward.
Yep because huge cassettes and rear mechs that almost touch the floor are aesthetically pleasing.
ENORMOUS WHEEL / FRAME LOGOS in bold all-caps when viewed from the side, especially those logos scaled up on deep section rims
Unless of course you pay me to advertise your frame/wheels 😉
(Fustle is OK, cos it's not viewable from the side, and can only see the branding if you nick the waterbottle or get ridden over. Cotic spiral logo is OK cos you also need to be in the know to know what it is)
Tan walls
My Pro stem has no logo on top. In any case, I'd cover it up with a GPS mount.
Unno bikes - ugh ... if I wanted to look like a chav borrowing his sister's ladyback..
I might start a photo thread with all the things on my bikes that annoy people
Unno bikes - ugh ... if I wanted to look like a chav borrowing his sister's ladyback..
100% agree - when I see people drooling over them, I'm left wondering what their eyes are actually seeing. They are vile
Baggy shorts.
95% of MTB clothing.
Too many colour coordinated parts.
Ebikes.
Flat bars.
Forgot riding glasses, open face with goggles.
MTB shoes.
MBR/bike radar elbows out riding shots.
Basically MTB style is tragic.
Cotic spiral logo is OK cos you also need to be in the know to know what it is
Thanks. That did that job well for a good while (in my humble opinion).
In any case, I'd cover it up with a GPS mount.
GPS and/or phone mounted on the stem/bars/toptube still irks me. Also much prefer ebikes with no display. Happy to be the odd one out here.
MBR/bike radar elbows out riding shots.
I'd also add the MBUK "Dutch Tilt" style shots to this.
Not sure if they're as bad for it now, but in the pre-internet days you'd think trees grew at 45° to the ground.
Just gonna leave this here for those that hate coloured ano parts.... 😜
It is mine and I like it, but I do want to change the grips but haven't got round to it yet...
Coloured anodising on bikes is ace (see also Chris King, Hope etc). But mismatched coloured ano, or that clashes with other parts - bleurgh!
Coloured brake or gear outer/hose. Never seen it look good, not once
Yeah I like ano bits too, when it's tastefully done and no over the top. Looks best on a raw or black bike, or at least a plain colour with minimal logos.
Another thing that bothers me is using in house parts from a brand on a different brand of bike. Bontrager parts on a Specialized for example. Not that I care if anyone else does it, I just couldn't do it myself.
Another thing that bothers me is using in house parts from a brand on a different brand of bike.
Nukeproof grips on a Ragley bar held by a DMR stem on a Bird bike, something like that? Will get a picture for you later... nearly forgot, it also features a blue anodised Sick Bicycles top cap on a very bright green frame with gold hope pro 2 hubs, stainless spokes, black rims with bright green graphics 😬
Nukeproof grips on a Ragley bar held by a DMR stem on a Bird bike
Literally everything on my Ragley is Nukeproof 🤣
Stem, bars, grips, headset, BB, seat clamp, saddle, pedals, bash guard, wheels
I am just an amateur at this compared to some of the very extensive lists of hates from other posters on this thread!
- Tan wall tyres. Check.
- ‘Colour-coordinated’ anodised components where they come from different manufacturers and are several different shades and clash rather than coordinate.
- Cycling mitts off-road - in fact cycling mitts full stop. Check.
- In bar, or in stem cable routing on an MTB. Check.
- Handguards. Check.
- The bulk of AXS derailleurs. Check.
- Rubber ducks. Check.
- Higher rise (30mm) bars.
- Huge tubes on steel bikes where the material does not benefit from it.
Not so much bikes - but riders:
- Riding on trails they couldn’t ride without an ebike - because they have never had the skills or fitness. So many of these nowadays…
- Cutting corners on purpose-built trails.
- Not controlling ‘trail dogs’
- Braking on corners creating braking bumps.
- Skidding around bends.
More a dislike than a hate:
- Mismatched tyre brands - more a dislike than a hate.
Some things other people posting on this thread dislike - but I have no problem or like them!
- Flat bars. I have lower rise bars myself.
- Red bikes. Nope. I love them - even though I only have one of them (1986 Kuwahara)
- Silver rims and silver spokes. Again nope. I have them on some of my pre-2000 bikes.
- Dual lens riding glasses. I don’t have them (Yet!) but for some they are the only way they can wear prescription lenses.
- Flourescent jackets - I ride with a riding buddy who used to only have one waterproof jacket for road and off-road.
+1 for any hardtail where the seatstays join the seattube higher than the top tub
Obviously you don’t mean this to apply to classic Rocky Mountain MTB’s - e.g. Altitude, Summit and Blizzard…
Neon Jackets. It's not the 70s-90s anymore and if you're riding at night bike lights are 30x better than they used to be and car headlights are now so bright if they get any better you'll be x-rayed. If someone hits you on a bike these days its more than likely driver attention error as opposed to "Oh I didn't see you" which also applies to riding during the day, and if they genuinely didn't see you it's probably because they were distracted.
I can allow people to wear a yellow jacket on the road, maybe it's because I am colour blind but I can literally spot them from a couple of miles away. Darker colours I have to be much closer before I become aware and I like to think that I take notice.
I might start a photo thread with all the things on my bikes that annoy people
Reckon I could send a few people on this thread in to a rage tbf.
So just to check, we don't like any colours unless they're black, grey or silver (but not spokes or rims), we don't like bars with too much or too little rise, we don't like any frame that doesn't look like every other (black or grey) hydroformed one, we don't like frame storage but also any frame bag that replaces the storage and we don't like individuality in general. That about cover it? 😉
Another thing that bothers me is using in house parts from a brand on a different brand of bike.
Nukeproof grips on a Ragley bar held by a DMR stem on a Bird bike, something like that? Will get a picture for you later... nearly forgot, it also features a blue anodised Sick Bicycles top cap on a very bright green frame with gold hope pro 2 hubs, stainless spokes, black rims with bright green graphics 😬
I can already see it...
...but as long as it makes you happy then it's all good 😊
Another thing that bothers me is using in house parts from a brand on a different brand of bike.
Nukeproof grips on a Ragley bar held by a DMR stem on a Bird bike, something like that? Will get a picture for you later... nearly forgot, it also features a blue anodised Sick Bicycles top cap on a very bright green frame with gold hope pro 2 hubs, stainless spokes, black rims with bright green graphics 😬
So just to check, we don't like any colours unless they're black, grey or silver (but not spokes or rims), we don't like bars with too much or too little rise, we don't like any frame that doesn't look like every other (black or grey) hydroformed one, we don't like frame storage but also any frame bag that replaces the storage and we don't like individuality in general. That about cover it?
I think so! 😀
The Klein Mantra was originally designed to have only rear suspension (Yes, really!) to aid climbing performance - climb performance while seated obviously!
Cannondale lefty forks, the lack of symmetry is horribly displeasing to the extent that I wouldn't buy a bike with a lefty fork. Just looks wrong.
On the same theme, bikes where the seat stays are at significantly different heights.
A couple from me, all covered already:
- Most ebikes
- Orange full sus frames
- Rear mudguards on an MTB
- Seat stays above the top tube
- Full face helmet and glasses
- Half shell helmet and goggles
- Lycra and knee pads
- Short/trainer socks on any bike
- Rubber ducks on handle bar
- To much ano, a bit here or there is ok though
And I'm sure there's more!
I've just mentally gone over my bikes and think I tick a large number of the sins, but all three are mostly lacking in bling, so I guess my biggest crime is the mis-matched tyre brands on the Stumpy. I can live with that.
One thing I don't like though, or at least my eyes find displeasing, is on full sus bikes when there is no continuous line between the top tube and the rear triangle. It's not relevant to all bikes (Scott doesn't do this on some models), but I see this on some bikes at rest and it looks like the whole bike has collapsed in on itself. Yes, I accept that there will be sag when I sit on the bike, BUT I WILL BE ON IT THEN AND WON'T SEE IT. If I am off the bike and looking at it, I'd like it to look nice to me.
Colours? Some suit a bike, some don't. I have a matt black road bike with red sidewall tyres on, a green/gold HT with normal tyres on and a red/white Stumpy with more cables that a Russian shadow fleet tanker's anchor on. And mis-matched tyres. At least I colour matched the mudguard thing that stops clag getting on the shock.
WTF is this rubber duck on handle bars thing? I haven't seen this before but it sounds ****ing rediculous! How do they even stay on there? Can you buy bike specific rubber ducks???....
Edit: just googled it!😱 WTAF, the world is truely dying. More plastic tat from china, great....
Schralp
Eugh. worse than oxbow singletrack
Orange bikes?
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are you mad. Lovely. (the new ones are all gross, thats fair)
I was coming to ask if the rubber duck thing was real, as in the post above. Is this an area-thing? Where are people riding with them?
Full face helmet with glasses (especially when riding around a trail centre), Fox's new podium mudguard, Amflow ebikes, the latest version of the Trek Slash, phones mounted on handlebars (especially if they're way off centre for some reason)
I think my biggest ick with other peoples bikes is horrific cable management out front. Two of my bikes - Levo and Boardman have the cables entering the wrong side of the frame (came that way), but I'll be buggered if I'm taking them out and re-routing them, I just make the best of them as they are.
Anything that I have a hand in putting together myself - the loops have to be even length and held together in some manner - sometimes it only takes a single cable tie to make all the difference.
Sort it out you scruffy oiks
I'll be buggered if I'm taking them out and re-routing them, I just make the best of them as they are.
I think that's the reason many of us scruffy oiks have bad cable management.
I can't stand when a dropper is not slammed. Any post showing looks weird to me. And obviously means that you're missing out on travel.
