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I don't like bikes that are too heavy
That doesn't make me a weight weenie, just realised after years of generally travelling around on overbuilt bikes cos I was scared of breaking stuff, so always used bits I knew I couldn't break.
Lighter bikes are more fun IMO, though a bike that's too light and is therefore fragile is probably even less fun, so it can be a fine balancing act.
Newer Ragleys look weird with their curvy seat stays. If they didn't have those I think they'd look great.
to be honest i cannot dislike any bike.i may not be into some types of bikes myself,but at the end of the day all bikes are great. 😀
All the trendy niche bikes that people jizz over on here. 🙂
Another for not liking Marin & Whyte full sussers, the thought of not being able to get all the dirt out from under the rocker/swing-arm makes me BORRRK!(a touch of OCD coming out I think).
Also, some modern Pace frames look like they have bends in wrong places imo 😕
I always think Giant bikes look cheap - I think it is the paint jobs on most of them.
don't like Cannondales - it seems like a company where fashion and marketing rule.
Anything from the child's section of Halfords that weighs more than a Victorian cast iron radiator. Just the thing to get the kids into cycling....
Specialized Epic, hated it and gave it away before I threw it into the sea...
Each to their own etc etc
Very interesting
that weighs more than a Victorian cast iron radiator. Just the thing to get the kids into cycling...
I forgot to mention Raleigh - the above is what I always thought of Raleigh bikes - worst of breed. It seems that for every 'innovative' bike they did you could find the original design they ripped off, possibly in another country, that was properly functional and weighed a load less.
Witness the Burners, a bastardisation of decent BMX bikes from the states, and likewise for the Chopper.
I might have been an enthusiastic roadie if I had had the Puch racer that my friend's parents bought him rather than the pile-of-junk Raleigh Scorpio I ended up with 🙁 Chrome looks great, just not on a racing bike...
I love all bikes, whats not to like? Although I had an early spesh fsr which for some reason I despised, it was all about how it rode..
overpriced ugly hybrids (especialy with drops) like the roadrat that only sell because those with staunch mtb sensibilities are scared of real road or cross bikes, any american full-suss with a high BB for pedaling over stuff, really slack hardtails ridden on everyday twisty trails, kona, mongoose and turner (mainly because of the drivel tony comes out with about this years suspension being the best thing ever.
id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five.
I could live with the looks; I hated the ride feel.
Cube colour schemes... not unlike a chav's trainer.
I drive and mongoose and other URT-esque designs.
The last few years marins do look a bit chunky.
Towel rails and other unneccessary tubes.
All of these bikes may ride well and I don't normally let aesthetics bother me but the above just look wrong.
I don't like your bike.
Unless it's the same as mine.
road bikes
Those Jones bed frame things, 29'rs and cannondale's
As a Maverick rider I'm not best placed to comment on looks....
Newer Santa Cruz bikes with the sh*ting dog style top tubes.
Jeff Jones
Whyte full sus bikes
Marin full sus frames
I'm sure they ride well but I find Mountain Cycles, Marins and Ventanas really ugly. Ditto the new Lapierre downhill bike with the pendbox suspension.
Jones', Fat bikes, 29ers, Fixies as in my mind they are ridden by niche infatuated bandwagon jumpers who just want to be looked at.
retro mountain bikes
Most full sussers - sure they probably ride great, but they're not pretty.
Fixies painted purple, with green wheels and blue tires ridden by ponces.
cotic soul - granted this may be due to the way it was set up, but it just felt wrong to me, top tube too long, head angle too steep, sat right over back wheel. Horrid.
bikes that look as if they are designed to fit into a niche promoted on internet forums, you know the rigid 29 fixie with the stupid bars and a beard.
you know the rigid 29 fixie with the stupid bars and a beard
Sounds fun, but I can't grow a beard.
I don 't like look of:
Sunn
Orange
or any other Halfords looking mtb.
I like anything where form follows function.
So - "pretty" = Jones, any Orange FS, Ragleys, and most of the other 'ugly bikes' that are they way they are simply because they're well designed.
"ugly" = swoopy hydroformed curvy nonsense, style over substance, 'look at me' shouty graphics and tube shapes. There are a few HF jobs that appear to be done functionally, but (and not mentioning names) there is far to much "here, make us a bike that looks like this artist's impression" in the industry. Wrong way to start designing a bike - right way to style a car maybe.
There are well-designed bikes that still manage to be ugly, it's rare and it takes some doing, but they're out there...
clown bikes
singlespeed
cannondale
I don't like Charge Dusters. They look fab, but ride like they're made of scaffold.
Giant Reigns - cos I rode the mk1 and it was crap.
Yeti 5Cs, Santa Cruz Blur Carbons, Ibis Mojo SLs etc. cos they are too bloody expensive.
How are some people disregarding whole makes?
Northwind - Memberelaine anne - Member
id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five...
dont like ::
santa cruzHang on, how can you like the Five but not Santa Cruzes? The [b]Heckler's exactly what the Five would look like if it was made by a bike company instead of a blacksmith.[/b]
Can't believe this has got to page two and nobody has mentioned the whyte prst-1. Always reminded me of an overgrown praring mantis.
I'm generally pretty relaxed, but custom titanium Di2-equipped carbon wheeled flatbar commuters really get my goat.
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To dislike a bike does not commute. I took my son's friend around Swinley on a FS Apollo. It coped fine with jumps, pump tracks and sneers. Nobody died.
"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." H.G. Wells ...
I hated my Mongoose Teocali - the geometry felt totally wrong and the suspension action was weird.
We could open a whole chapter on the niche bikes that look plain weird. There's the aforementioned PRST, which looks like Bambi after being hit by a pickup.
Then you've got Mountain Cycles, which haven't made a pretty bike since 1992, the plain odd Christini 2wd contraptions and the Slingshots, which look like a washing line with a wheel at either end.
There are some other gopping creations out there, you only have to look.
Oh, there's lots I don't like and would never even consider buying:
Giant, Nasty.
Scott, Goppin'
Orange, Overpriced
Santa Cruz, American Oranges
Cube, Commencal, etc, all those Euro brands. Chav bikes.
Surly, the American On One but double the price when they get here
Ragley, More over priced On Ones
Cannondale, I have no particular dislike, but I don't think I'd ever buy one
Nicolai, When the decals have the letters the right way round I'll reconsider......
Orange ST4
I wanted to love it, but it climbed like a downhill bike, decended like an XC bike? I'd give it a second chance with more time to setup the suspension and a larger size, but first impressions on a lap of Guisbrough weren't good.
Fox RP2 (specificly the one on my pitch)
Deperately needs either a firmer 'open' setting or a more open pro pedal setting. The bikes everything I wanted it to be, but I'm constantly flicking between the settings and not quite happy.
RS Sektors (specificaly the ones on my pitch).
Are taking ages to bed in.
The Carlton Palmer of bikes........ The Klein Palomino
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any post 1995/6 konas - full sus and hardtails
some specialized - the demo is just ugly - and the colours that they now come in make me want to puke, especially some of the mid range stuff (rockhoppers and the like).
That new mountain cycle - because it taints the san andreas
BMC - for that stupid upside down seat tube brace
any of the new giants...its the hideously long headtube i think...just looks a bit off to me. The wet noodle tube profiles don't help much either...
the ugliest bike ever made....period = whyte plus 4
almost forgot...all of these too...[url=
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Mainly my dislikes appear to be due to aesthetics. I don't think I've ridden many bikes that weren't at least OK. That said I demoed a Maverick once whose SC32 forks spiked on every impact - they were horrid and stopped me from forming an opinion on the frame itself.
So, aesthetically I don't like bikes with square rear triangles, such as Ellsworths. That recent thread on downhill bikes also made me realise there's not many of them that I like the looks of, either. Their proportions look all wrong, too low and stretched out and their seat tubes are in funny places and are raked too far back.
Things that look the way they do because of their engineering - the Whyte PRST-1 being the obvious example - don't upset me because I find their engineering interesting. It's the things that nearly look like a normal bike but don't (like Ellsworths) that I dislike - sort of a bikey uncanny valley. 🙂
I think anything with curved tubes looks wrong (especially downtube - looks like it's been crashed and must surely have a much lower strength/weight than a straight tube).
Not too keen on the look of big heavy DH bikes (and designs like the Orange 5 for the same reason). Much too solid-looking and overbuilt. I know they're made for a purpose, but they never look nice IMO. I had a friend at school in the 70s who rode around on a moped with the engine removed - same sort of thing really.
Second "towel rail" top tubes, anything that looks like it was designed for the sake of being weird (Jones, Flying gate etc). Perhaps they work, but the look does nothing for me.
<troll>And I see nobody's mentioned unicycles yet...</troll>
Rob
Damn i own both a Mountain Cycle, and an On One..
I suppose i best just slit my wrists and be done with it then ?
26-ers for people my height* - the proportions are 'wrong' - they look ugly.
(*and i'm only 6'2")
oh, and all yetis.