[Closed] Worst bike item of 2014.

i bought a new bike in 2014! - the bike is great, but it came with Avid elixir brakes.

utter, utter shit.

before i'd even ridden it the calipers had seized, and the levers were leaking.

the bike also came with non-german continental tyres (mountain king?), they were terrifying, and are now land-fill.

@pictonroad

My Lezyne pump did the same, drove me mad BUT - a bit of oil on the thread solved the problem

Cheap Chinese lights. Of the last four night rides I've been out on, three have had other rider's Chinese retina scorchers fail, meaning I have to give up my bar mounted Exposure light so they can carry on the ride. Buy cheap, buy twice!

Buy cheap, buy twice!

SRAM road shifters for me, double tap is a terrible terrible idea, also seems to fail for no reason after less than a year of use!

egb81 - Member

Buy cheap, buy twice!

I did thanks! Bought 2 magicshines, 3 years ago, still going strong.

pictonroad - Member
Lezyne pump. Unscrews the valve core every time.

Complained to the shop, was SOLD another adaptor, metal into plastic thread stripped in one use.

overpriced shiny crap

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Ahh its not just me!!! My mate was pissing himself when i managed to completly deflate both my tyres while attempting to give them a small top up, that is until i reminded him he had sold it to me then he shut up p quick! 😛

Got a pair of Gore bike wear gloves hoping ot would mean dry, warm hands. They are fine for about an hour but after that awful - my fingers feel as if they are swimmng in water and when i take the gloves off if and turn them upside down the water runs out. Cost about £50 but much, much worse than cheap aldi gloves i got about 5 years ago.

Altura Ergofit Race Cape. Taped seams but the liner parted company with the outer and it leaked on its third proper wet ride. Replaced with an inferior Castelli without taped seams.

Thought of another one!

Met Parrabellum. What the actual ****?

Painful, really poor feeling construction, and the visor was completely wonky.

My Met Kaos UL was and is a brilliant XC lid, and have no idea what happend with the parrabellum.