Evil – a few reasons, they’re expensive of course, not as much as some, but with an eye on VFM, they’re too boutique for me, but at the risk of going over old ground – their quality control on some of their original FS bikes wasn’t good enough and I know they poured their guts out on PB about how it wasn’t their fault and all that, but more than that the way they treat their customers – buy a very expensive frame, have either quality failure or even an accident and try to buy parts “sorry, we don’t make that 12 month old bike any more, can’t get you a replacement swing arm” make some fancy bikes into wall-hangers.
Orange, simple bikes made complex due to the way they’re made an again expensive, also I can’t escape the feeling they’re trapped in that British “if it ain’t broke” mindset that lead to a lot of UK manufacturers going to the wall in face of better products from other countries to spend more on R&D.
Cove, I’ve had two, I adored both of them, but they’re just too small an outfit to keep up with the rest of the world – their first (and maybe only) 650b FS bike was a re-branded generic frame. If they released a 650b G-Spot I might be interested.
Their are others, I have issues with vertically mounted shocks, they just look ugly to me.
Type-wise, no form of road bike, ever. I’ve spent the last 10 years in a ‘banter’ competition with my road riding mates and I’d never live it down, plus I find riding on the road terrifying and only do it when I have to.
Trials bike, not at my age.
DH – I ‘officially’ gave up DH in 2011, but never say never – back then I decided I never wanted to race again so there wasn’t many places to ride one and I was too old and too injured to ride one properly, now we’ve got BPW, FOD, AS and more – and I’m stronger and fitter than I was then, it wasn’t age. The only thing stopping me now is finding the money.
