Press fit SRAM bb
The need too have many headset standards
Strava

pressfit bottom brackets
avid brakes
Post mount brake mounts (oh, you stripped a bolt, thats £250 for a new set of lowers..)

Avid Jucy 3’s seem like a fav, I agree, they where/are w4nktaastic!

Also the “CRUD BUNG” !!!

did I hear someone say superstar brake pads?

DT Swiss (cheese) rims
Race Face BBs
Sun Ringle hubs

ps. Two pages in and no mention of certain purveyors of cheap, but perfectly fine brake pads. This place has changed.

Crank Bros headsets
Race Face BBs
Avid Juicy Brakes

Avid Juicy Brakes
Shimano Chains
Race Face BBs

cheap sram rear mechs
nobby nicks
friction-free shiny bar ends like the ergon ones

Carbon
Avid Brakes
Conti Vapors

Recent shite products:
1. USE seatpost. 1 bolt seatclamp you say?
2. Avid matchmaker. Broke in two after innocuous bike falling-over incident. OK. Replacement sheared in two after 2 rides of changing gear. Come on now.
3. er, struggling here. That pair of Decathlon leg warmers I bought were rubbish. That’s all I got.

Contribution to all time, Hall of Infamously Shite MTB stuff:

Cannondale CODA disk brakes.

Shimano Cheese Chain Rings
Long Cage “Rock Grabbing” Mechs
ISIS BB’s

Can’t believe the hate to HTII and Dropper Posts 🙂

Rockshox Judy
650b wheels
Orange 5

Sram shifters.
Those plastic guards that go behind cassettes.
Old forks that hud elastomers only.

Rockshox reverb
Hope pro2 wheels
Full suss frames.

Dropper posts
Hope brakes
Ghetto Tubeless

Non UST tubeless
Fox Forks
Bottom bracket mounted chain devices

10+ speed. Seems a bit odd when most mountain bikers were happily getting rid of gears. I am not really bothered about having finer and finer gradiations between my gears and that is all having more gears does. The more you have the less difference there is. And the talk is now of 11 Grrr
Any kind of energy gel, fitness food, processed, sweet and vile stuff.
SRAM rear mechs, light but made out of cheese

Clown wheels
That stupid bloody pointless Shimano shifter that went the wrong way
Slime tubes

Solutions to problems that weren’t there:

Shadow mechs
External BB’s
Tapered steerers

DT Swiss (cheese) rims.
DMR V8’s (just don’t last)
Those Green tape things that are supposed to stop punctures.

Truvative GXP Bottom Bracket
Topeak Jo Blow Pump
Rockshox Monarch IFP air adaptor

did I hear someone say superstar brake pads?

Yup, they’re crap.

Put a kevlar set (front & rear) in my bike back in March just before going riding in the Sierra Nevada for a week. Arrived home, did plenty of weekly rides before doing a 10 day Scottish Highlands trip in May, rode the bike regularly since. Did 18 miles in the Trough of Bogland ( Bowland ) on Sunday last, & i’ve had to change both sets of pads as they’re worn out!!

I tell ya, nothing lasts these days… 😉

I must be quite an exception, what I have had is fine.

Wait… no…

Hope Head Doctor is about the only thing I’ve had that I’ve hated with a passion. Solution in search of a problem (for me at least).

IHN – Member

Solutions to problems that weren’t there:

Shadow mechs

What’s the issue with shadow mechs? The mech being tucked away and protected by the chainstay can only be a good thing, IMO

Crank Bros Wheels
Crank Bros Wheels
Crank Bros Wheels

I think I’ve made my point.

1. Anything made by Crank bros.
2. Anything made by Raceface designed to spin around.
3. 29ers

non-rapid-rise stuff 😉
Anything ‘supersonic’
Camelbak bladders (they may be the best shape, but they are the only ones that go mouldy – Source, Platypus = no mould).

Specialized OEM hubs
Specialized OEM stem
Specialized OEM headset
SRAM GXP II bottom bracket (OEM on Spesh)
Speciaized lock on grips
Specialized BG Enduro saddle
Avid Elixir 5 SL brakes (OEM on Specilaized)

There’s a theme there, see if you can spot it…………

What’s the issue with shadow mechs? The mech being tucked away and protected by the chainstay can only be a good thing, IMO

Well, for a start, mechs don’t actually get whacked that often anyway, hence the solution to a problem that wasn’t there comment

Plus, shadow mechs are attached to the hangar by a pretty thin piece of metal which is easily bent, putting the mech out of whack, and the jockey cage is massively long, meaning that it’s now easier to catch it on branches and stuff on the ground, so they’re actually a poor solution to a problem that wasn’t there.

IMHO obviously.

I’ve whacked and broken SRAM short cage mechs several times in the last few years, but had zero problems with shadow ones. Obviously not that scientific, but I think there’s some small benefit to it.

Fair point ont he cages, shimano “short” cages are MASSIVE

Hope HED Doctor
Race face External BBs
The bearing in the lower jockey wheel of X9 rear mechs, I mean, who the hell thought it was a good idea put something that gets affected by grit/mud/trail rubbish right where it’s going to get covered in grit, mud and trail rubbish. especially as the X7 mechs have bushes and work fine.

Truvative Powerspline BB and matching cranks, the OEM fitment on my first mountain bike and even as a gentle rider I trashed spline and word out BB’s on am alarmingly regular basis.

The suspension forks on my Claude Butler Urban 300 hybrid. First bike as an adult, no advise, no biking mates, no clue. Seemed like a good idea and the thought of the weight penalty never occurd to me…

The suspension seatpost on the above… Same reasons (although the USE one I got from Kielder 100 is great).

james – Member

‘power buldge’ rockshox lowers. Once you wear the lower bushes, you have to get new lowers

Is this true?