The Ugliest Mountainbikes of all time

stoundingly, this is for sale, new, right now, at Evans. What was the orders department thinking?

At least they were wise enough to name it the “Recoil (in horror!)” 😛
Muddy Fox have made some real beauties. Didn’t realise they still had the same design department! 😲

Dowotnow?

I keep misreading this thread and think it is The Ugliest Mountainbikers of all time – rather glad it isn’t.

This deserves a showing even though it doesn’t meet the brief.

Very much does…that is ugly!

Another UMF from MF
how high?

Holy dropper post limitations batman! 😀

Sat on a virtual meeting reading this thread. Burst out laughing. Wasn’t on mute. Thanks

Astoundingly, this is for sale, new, right now, at Evans. What was the orders department thinking?

Evans have long had a history of trying to cash in on various cheap bike offers.

My guess is they were offered them at £20 a pop or something and snapped up the last 400 in the country. They did that occasionally with all manner of appalling bikes when I worked there. And amazingly, they sold!

Mostly to students who wanted a heap of shit to leave outside uni. Occasionally to people who’d been caught up in a tube strike or similar and wanted something to get home on. And sometimes just to parents buying their kid a “mountain bike”.

They always had shit names too. Recoil, Raw, Havoc, Xtreme, Shooter (which we renamed Shitter). All along that sort of theme. Must be thousands of them at the bottom of every canal and river in the country.

Four pages, 120 posts and no-one has mentioned the Maverick ML7?

I used to have one of those I didn’t get on with it. It just didn’t work,plus the forks pissed all the oil over the front brake. The various elements of rear suspension failed in turn.
Not one of my better purchased. 🙂

I used to have a 24seven Dark Angel dh.
Didn’t think it was ugly at the time, but the years haven’t been kind. Although, there’s definitely worse, as evidenced in the above.

Not mine below

I also used to have an Intense M1
Looks proper like a BSO now.
(not mine below. I mean, yellow cranks? 🤮)

And I had A Trek Diesel.
Used to think that was pretty good looking.
Funny how your perception changes.
Looks gopping now.
Not mine below

Evans have long had a history of trying to cash in on various cheap bike offers.

My guess is they were offered them at £20 a pop or something and snapped up the last 400 in the country. They did that occasionally with all manner of appalling bikes when I worked there. And amazingly, they sold!

Evans are owned by Sports Direct, SD own Muddy Fox.. so Evans sell them.

Very few brands managed to make good looking URT frames, Orange clearly didn’t

However this one does tickle my fancy

If anyone has a Cannondale Raven and doesn’t like it, I’ll happily re-home it for you.

Amazing all the abominations that time has cleansed from my memory…

was that still on the roof when someone drove into the garage?

The new stuff for sure.

Slack forks with steep seat angle, very few look good.

Then offenders like Marin add some crazy suspension layout.

M1 Sportechnik

🤮🤮🤮

Id like to enter a candidate for the greatest uglification between model years award

Unno Dash….why!!!

Holy carp! 😳☝️😳

Unno Dash….why!!!

One is a nice-enough looking but very generic MTB, could be any brand. The other is a brand making a statement and doing something genuinely different. If they don’t need to sell that many then it’s better to be different and polarise opinion than be generic. I like it tbh..

Generic! Thats harsh, I prefer ‘classic’. Its a stunning example of a classic design that I would definitely buy if I was a millionaire. The new one on the other hand is hideous; on account of trying to be different for the sake of it. Looks like a Picasso gone wrong.

on account of trying to be different for the sake of it.

Obviously not a veteran of the ‘Standover Height Wars’ from 1996 – 1999.

This is just a very late entry.

Obviously not a veteran of the ‘Standover Height Wars’ from 1996 – 1999.

This is just a very late entry.

That’s true
On Wednesdays when I like to wear a skirt this would be ideal!

Nice to see a bike based on what we used to call a ‘ladyback’. Certainly not enough serious MTBs with that look 😁

Have we done a 99 Kona Stab yet?

unique I suppose

That Kona is kinda reminiscent of the old Scott Octane DH bike with the saddle so huge it was bolted on twice.

Is that Kona Stab the one Fabien Barel chopped the headube off and welded it back on* in the name of LLS before it was a thing?

*possibly voiding his warranty

Generic! Thats harsh, I prefer ‘classic’. Its a stunning example of a classic design

Classic, maybe – quite conventional layout and very well styled.

Thankfully I’d forgotten those Konas. Oof :/

Removing the viel on The Veli 🤢

I’m genuinely not sure which one of those Unnos is supposed to be the ugly one.

But I also think the ML7 and Stab on this page still look good, so what the hell do I know…

The stab never looked good…

I admire what he is trying to achieve, and would love a go, but from a distance & in the dark.

That’s…. different 🤔

Thread closed! No idea what he is trying to do.

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