[Closed] What Bikes Dont You Like

ones that are never used and get neglected

Mongoose freedrive bikes
both to look at and ride
I had one for 2 years = idiot

I'll put the kettle on

I've only got Bourbon's though if anyone wanted a biscuit

Kona. I fell in love with the splatter Cinder Cone. The ride? Just not for me. It's been the same wit any Kona I've liked since. Must be a geometry thing.

Looks wise - FS bikes with overly large rockers mounted horizontally on the seat tube ala Ellsworth Epiphany. It probably rides great but looks wrong.

On-one 456 Carbon is a visual crime regardless of how it rides.

Anything by Mountain Cycle...

I love any thread where Grantway posts. Any bike made by Orange, I mean just look at them

this one
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but sometimes life is a ba5tard, and needs must.

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Orange
Canondale
Ellsworth
Kona
Gary Fisher

to name some for starters

those ones with skinny tubes, skinny tyres, drop bars, caliper brakes .......

Singlespeeds..

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Road bikes, to narrow it down further - my road bike a Giant Defy 4, i bought it a few months back to prepare for my JOGLE ride that i'm doing to raise money for CLICsargent. The only thing i like about it is the colour scheme, black, white and red. It's boring and uncomfortable to ride, it's a chore and road riding does nothing for me. Once i get to Lands End (presuming i don't get run over) i'll be selling it and never swinging a leg over one again! Was kind of hoping i'd enjoy riding it so i could use it for winter training but it's just not happened.

Canyon look like fantastic value for money and seem to be doing well in all the mag tests at the moment. That top tube just looks so wrong to me though.

cyclocross bikes
most road bikes
most singlespeeds
29'ers
too many mountain bikes to list......

On Ones and any road bike....because I just do, okay??

Orange 5.

I now everyone thinks they're great. I know they must therefore be great. I know they're probably better than my bike. But sorry - I'm shallow.

They look like a shonky lash up from a mad bloke's shed.

There - I said it. Feel better now...

Can't really think of any. Never really got on with my Scandal but that was just because it didn't like the 130mm fork.

Agree about the Ellsworth - really not interested in how well it rides but you'll not get me near those long rockers - shame on me.

Can I confess an irrational hatred of [b]all[/b] Easton componentry? Never had any of it on any of my bikes, never will.

An Ellsworth bedecked with Easton? <shudder>

Mongoose Freedrive again, they look wrong & the bloody bottom bracket moves???

Then again I've seen Chris Akrig ride one & he obviously does it some justice. 😯

Nicholai, Oramge 5, anything too industrial looking, just not a fan.

Supermarket bikes but to some a bike is a bike and a whole lot faster than walking to work.

ellsworths, mavericks, all 29ers, singlespeeds,sinisters, carvers indy fab, all gary fisher designs, the original trek 69 in fact anything that doesn't conform to my narrow world view as fed to me by lardy gnarcore mtb journos who have to fill magazines with their dribble for buffoons to believe

Not a fan of anything in the Ragley camp. At all.

Apart from the TD-1. That's okay.

just cant get allong with any full sus bikes my riding style is far to bmxie and i just look like im having some form of fit,been on loooads of bikes long and mid term loans to open my options,closest iv come is a spesh camber but i still couldent live with it longterm.

sorry bullheart you can't have the TD-1 it's got silly wheels and stiff frontage 😀

id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five...ok their not everyones cup of tea in looks but i luv mine and it rides well..it works and thats all that matters . 🙄

dont like ::

hybrid
mondraker
saracen
santa cruz

cyclocross bikes + 29ers.

Any GT iDrive bikes

Like lots of people it seems, I don't like bikes with big rockers. I was going to quote the Kona Stinky as the prime example though.

... and the good old Orange 5. Though there is something I admire about their "Land Rover"-ness.

EDIT: Not a fan of Marin full-suss bikes either.

Hmm...the previous generation Spesh Enduro was a disappointment to me. Too spidery and fragile looking, especially after the solid 2005/6 bikes, even though the ones I've ridden felt fantastic.

My own personal disappointment was my Wolf Ridge in a size large. The medium and small are lovely looking bikes IMHO, the large just looks gawky and ungainly. Damn fine ride though.

Aesthetics are a funny thing. Large / XL sizes of the same bike can look dreadfully badly proportioned, not to mention some of the engineering compromises to cater for some of the more exotic suspension layouts out there.

Most improved brand aesthetically? Trek. The old ones looked like the sort of thing Ned Flanders would ride, the post 2007 bikes look very well resolved. I wish Specialized would learn from this and stop painting some of their bikes really gash colours.

in all honesty, I can't think of a single bike that I don't like. Some may not suit my riding style or would be overkill for me to own, but all bikes are good as they make the world seem a better place when you ride them. Even being out on a nail of a rat bike is still better than no riding.

Ride and smile and have a nice cake and beer at the end

peace and love

To be fair Tazzy, one of the Team Bullheart riders at MM had a TD-1. Its the second nicest 29er I've seen... 😉

ahhhh so you had to be nice about it! I bet you like those awful vassago efforts as well don't you 😉

fixies.

don't come here with all that hippy sh*t tazzy this is the singletrack forum.

My Jabber gives me wood. It's the [i]rightest[/i] looking 29er out there, and rides like a training wheeled bike! 😀

@kudos 100-man you can't comment you are letting a FTW frame go, you great limp wristed yogurt knitting tree hugger 😀

Kirks, always hated them, horrible things

Jordan

elaine anne - Member

id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five...

dont like ::
santa cruz

Hang on, how can you like the Five but not Santa Cruzes? The Heckler's exactly what the Five would look like if it was made by a bike company instead of a blacksmith.

Marin full sussers, that swingarm..........GOPPING!

@kudos 100-man you can't comment you are letting a FTW frame go, you great limp wristed yogurt knitting tree hugger

I know, I know. I've had a couple of people interested and am getting cold feet 😆

If/when I sell it, I know full well I will regret it at some point......

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I think they look loverly, still love the horst link design and bling looking rocker, but the reality was a overly high BB that I hated. For me it was a lesson in geometry being everything.