[Closed] Brand loyalty

Planet X / On One socks - usually bought to push an order into freepost and I have so many that I've started wearing them day-to-day as well as for riding.

Nice and easy to pair-up too. Win-win.

Shimano gears. Tried SRAM but TBH, Shimano is just better.

ODI ruffian Grips

Oh yeah, and Shimano groupsets.

Specialized gloves, Northwave Shoes and Pearl Izumi shorts - all the way.

Bikes from all over the place over the years, but there's been a lot of On One frames in there.

Oh yeah, and Shimano groupsets.

+1. And pedals.

Turners. Been on them since 1997. Had a blip with a Marin and a Specialized but soon went back, had 5 of them now.

Also a fan of shimano groupsets and shoes

Time pedals. Am fairly open about anything else, but clipless pedals are Time.

I seem to have a fair bit of Endura clothing (apart from some sealskinz socks). Another one for Shimano groupsets here.

Orange bikes with Shimano since 1992. Mistakenly got a GT XCR around 1999 but soon went back.

Shimano drivechain and brakes for preference.

Turner, Hope, Miele, Shimano, Fox, Thomson, ODI, Some hand picked Sramness based on 1x11.

I can't imagine a better bike for me than my current Czar. Had a few SC and enjoyed some Salsa stuff too.

Time pedals, Rudy Project prescription cycling glasses, assos, swisstop brake pads, Hope disc brakes, Fi'zik saddles, Campagnolo Chorus, SRAM x0, rapha...

Time pedals, although my current are crank bros as they were on stupid cheap. Not as good as time though

Time pedals, hope brakes, ibis frames, mavic wheels

Anything else is a mix and match of whatever is about.

Clothing: Almost all Endura and Gore (both fit well, are robust and comfortable)
Drivetrain/Brakes: Always Shimano. (it bothers me that fewer manufacturers fit it a standard these days)
Saddles; Specialized BG 143 (although Spoons are a cheaper, if not so long lasting alternative)
Pedals: Cranks Brothers (controversial)
Walking shoes/boots: Salomon (the last just happens to fit my feet well)

Cove, Thomson, ODI, SDG, Maxxis, I like Shimano and SRAM equally but for different reasons, Rockshox.

Shimano brakes and pedals
Met helmets
Spesh BDG gloves and shoes.

And until this year (s/h Canyon Nerve), er a fleet of On-Ones 😳
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Always Shimano. (it bothers me that fewer manufacturers fit it a standard these days)

Big factor when buying my last bike. The Shimano equipped one won.

Gore Bike Wear and Hope.

Both ducati and KTM. I have owned 40 bikes in last 7 years, 14 of them have been one or the other, I never quite feel right unless I have one or the other, happily for me, I currently have both!

Turner frames, Hope hubs and brakes. Easton bars. Everything else is open to consideration.

Alfa cars...

Quad power amps

Turner frames

Middleburn cranks

Hope hubs

Endura Hummvee shorts seem to be the only thing with a reasonable run of consistency in my cycling history (prefer the old style Hummvee with chunky clip). Oh and my collection of On One frames Geared Inbred, Scandal and C456 (current ride)

Endura and Gore for clothing
Shimano for brakes and transmission
Maxxis for tyres
Used to be hope for hubs, BB and headsets but not so much nowadays
RaceFace for bars and stem
Rockshox for droppers and rear shocks

I love Chromag frames and I have one I doubt I will ever sell. Their bars saddles and stems are my favourite by far too. I guess I've owned more Yeti frames than I should of too.

Time pedals, Hope discs, Giro helmets.

ODI Rogues for me on the fleet. Bikes , used to be Konas , many moons ago. Now a variety, although liked something off the mainstream, seem to had gone back to them, with 3 Cannondales, although have 3 On Ones, a pipedream, Dolan road bike. I hated Shimano for being where they were, so bought british while I could, although I have almost emptied the Hope (less) stuff now and stick with Shimano , including pedals, which I used to use Times.
Used to use Sidi shoes , which I still have one pair, but as I get older and my feet get fatter, Italian shoes are getting tighter, so again Shimano win there with their wide ones.

Shimano drive and braking parts, other than that most of my purchasing decisions are driven by budget more than brand...

Turner frames I've had since 2003 tried an Ellsworth for a while but went back to turner had about 5
Usually a VW or 2 in the drive.

Time pedals
Shimano cranks
Giro helmets (they fit)
Fox forks and shocks (I like em, no other reason)
Crossmax wheels (same reason as Fox)
Stans fluid (everything else I've tried has been shit)
Hope and Formula brakes (I can bleed and fix em and make em last an age)

If you ride in the UK, then Endura just seems to be the choice that consistently 'just works'. Never the coolest brand, but after experimenting with others, i keep coming back to Endura stuff 😉

For mtb... (Currently in use)

Santa Cruz frames (x3)
Easton carbon bars (x3, up to about a dozen over the years)
Thomson stems (x3)
Rockshox forks (x4)
SRAM 1x11 (x4)
Shimano brakes (x3 pairs)
Maxxis tyres (x3 pairs)
Reverb stealth (x3)
Hope hubs (x3)
SDG bel air (x2)
Troy lee xc gloves (lost count)

For road, my 2 bikes have 4 brands between them.
Trek frames/bontrager finishing kit/wheels
Shimano gears/wheels/pedals
Continental tyres
Fsa headsets

Clothing wise my cycling wardrobe is like a collaboration collection between Rapha and morvelo, with a few token TLD DH pjs

I knows what I likes and I likes what I knows

Easton bars - road and MTB
Shimano pedals - all bikes
Shimano groupsets - all bikes, including disc brakes on MTBs
Gore waterproofs
SDG saddles - all bikes
Specialized BG gloves

Everything else is a bit mix and (mis)match

Shimano brakes, drivetrain & pedals
Cane Creek headsets
Shimano (PRO) finishing kit

Middleburn cranks, front rings and spiders (3 sets). Shimano pedals and drivetrain and shifters.

Cotic, they make great bikes and they've gone way above and beyond for me, several times in fact.

Mostly though, is it loyalty? Formula brakes, DT hubs, shimano drivetrain, specialized and maxxis tyres, rockshox forks but I buy them because they work, not because I have any affection.

Hope Hubs.

It occurred to me this month while ordering a Vaude backpack that in 20+ years I've never used a hydration pack other than a Camelbak. That's probably as loyal as I've ever been to any brand, bike or not.

Endura has been mentioned a few times - I've never had a huge amount of luck with them. Local shops stock it and so I've had quite a few bits over the years but I don't like it much. (Poppers don't work, seams come apart, holes develop in the merino tops in random places..)

3x ENVE Bars
3x ENVE Seatposts
2x ENVE Stems
1x ENVE MTB Wheelset
1x ENVE Road Wheelset

1x Empty Wallet

Endura clothing
Dialledbikes,
(which turns out to be a bit difficult for the future..)
orange

Rock Shox forks
Hope parts
Shimano drivetrain
Dt Swiss hubs(silent)

Clothing: Endura or Rapha
Helmets: Specialized
Shoes: I think its only in the last couple of years I've bought anything other than Specialized shoes.

Bikes: pretty much always Specialized although in the early days I was a big Saracen fan before they went all shit with their supermarket full sus.

My Bikes and stuff involving them are the only things I really spend on.

Tools - Park
Clothing - Gore / Rapha
Shoes - 5:10 ( including my everyday footwear......)
Hope stuff
Bikes - Orange

I don't care what I drive, but my bike stuff has to have certain label.

Shimano gears (although on my new bike teamed with sram cranks and cassette).

I think that is pretty much all I am nearly guaranteed to stick to as I just don't like the action of sram shifters. I am currently using shimano brakes and continental tyres on all my bikes, and would need some serious persuasion that they would be bettered, but I could be persuaded.

Easton are the only company I would no longer touch with a shitty bargepole due to their appalling non existent customer service.

Have 2 Morewoods (Makulu & 4x Prototype) and a Giant currently, they share quite a lot of common parts

Hope Hubs
Stans Rims
Maxxis Tyres
Sram Drivetrains
Renthal Bars
Hope Brakes
Rockshox Forks

Hope hubs, brakes, headsets & BB's.
Spesh gloves
Endura or Altura clothing.
Shimano drivetrain.

My next bike will probably be another Orange.

Shimano gears off road and I like their brakes too
Specialised gloves and shoes
Anything else I have no real brand loyalty
My local bike shops too.

Yeah, Shimano rarely let me down, but I'm not a fan of loose bearing hubs - brakes, gears and cranks though have all been great so I stick to them. I've always had great performance and after-sales from Fox and after sales from Mojo so equally I use them a lot - I had a beautiful set of Marz 888 WC RC3 Ti but I never got them working well and they got a grand in 2008!

I like Cove too, they don't make much sense 'on paper' they're rarely revolutionary in terms of geometry, they're usually heavier than average and cost as much as most other boutique brands, but they don't hold their money very well and they're hard to sell on when you fancy a change - but they're so much fun to ride, maybe not ruthlessly fast, but lots of fun (and I like juvenile names)

Oh, and Maxxis tyres, not found anything that works as well or as reliable over the years

Shimano gears, I have an irrational hatred of SRAM. And the Surly Karate Monkey, I'll never be without mine now, its perfect!
Having ripped the a*se out of 2 pairs of endura shorts now, I'm not buying them again!

Plus 1 for park and camelbak, never owned another brand of hydration pack, it's so engrained I don't even think about it!

Rockshox forks have always served me well as have dt hubs. Much prefer Shimano groupsets to sram and steer clear of endura as all the shorts I've had have collapsed at the seams after 6 months or so. Haglofs do great gore tex jackets and shorts so tend to look for these in the sale!

I've got a certain amount of loyalty to Mavic when it comes to wheelsets.

The Ksyrium Elite and Crossmax SX wheels are just the perfect mix of weight, strength and stiffness (for me) - and they seem to last really well.

Can't afford them for every bike, but I would if I could.

Charge/Fabric saddles.
Maxxis tyres.
Spank stuff but only because it's nice.

Maldon Salt and Burton bindings

edit oh and DT hubs

Hope hubs and brakes, Shimano Gears.
Lamy for pens, Moleskine for notebooks.
Volvo for cars.

The loyalty for Specialized gloves and shoes is new to me...I have to say I agree, but had never really thought about how good they are until the loyalists posted.

I like my Spesh shoes too. When the time comes I'll get more. Shimano hack me off with their small sizing.

Cotic, hope hubs, Thomson stem/post, charge/fabric, schwalbe,cking headset, magura brakes, sombrio, raceface, sidi - that mostly covers it!

Whole Earth Crunchy peanut butter, Shimano bike shoes & eggbeater pedals

Spesh for bikes, just fit and feel right.
SRAM for mechs and shifters, love XO.
Endura for clothing,gloves and glasses; good fit for me and good quality.
Maxxis or Spesh for tyres, tubeless on mtb and blackbelt2 for road.
Mavic wheels,best UST system going.
Lezyne pumps/multi tools, feel nice to use.
Osprey for packs, quality.
Shimano for cranks, mtb shoes,spds.
Spesh for road shoes.
Exposure for lights, expensive but quality.
Zipplex sea rods, Sage fly rods, Shimano/Daiwa reels.
Size 8 blondes.

Shimano groupsets & pedals (road / cross / mtb)
Genesis bikes (currently have 4 of them)
Kask helmets - pretty much the only ones that fit me
Tifosi eyewear - 8 or 9 pairs at last count (I may have a problem)

Shimano drivetrain,shoes&pedals.
Hope hubs, hsets,brakes&bb's &a stem.
Thomson seat posts &stems.
Camelbaks .
Gore bike wear,especially bibs,Endura & giro helmets.

Shimano Pedals.

Thomson Stems (and non reverb) seat posts.

Think thats pretty much it.

Shimano gears and shifters (etc.)
Sram chains
Sram cassettes

Conti tubes. won't use anything else.

Endura shorts. any time I try something else they don't feel right.

Falke Ski socks (that's one place it's justified to stick with what feels perfect), Falke Hiking socks, and have some Falke biking socks too.

Bike Verbier. No mater where else I try I always go back for more.

Shimano - brakes, group set, pedals
Camelbak - bags
Charge soon seat

The rest is up for grabs...

Orange bikes. Land Rover for cars and NVA for hifi.

Whole Earth Crunchy peanut butter

Well said that man.

Brown sauce - HP.

I always seem to go for Raceface stuff. Have Raceface seatposts, bars, stems, NW ring, clothing etc. Really like their stuff.

Shimano drivetrain and brakes (except chains)
Sram chains
Rockshox forks
Camelbak
Charge Spoon saddles
661 gloves (and now shorts)

Always go for the best price/sale/last years model/what i can afford though.

Always Shimano, whatever they make (bar those dual shifters that they made).

Used to be santa cruz but Im not paying Santa Cruz secondhand prices. Theres a used SC frame-----> for 1700 not a chance he'll get that when there are new/other alternatives out there.

Shimano drive chain, brakes and pedals.
Oakley glasses.
Specialized shoes.
Decathlon 700 shorts.
Planet-X gloves. This has happened by accident but I noticed it yesterday.

Shimano for gears and brake it just works and works
Endura and morvelo clothing wise
Bike wise I have NO brand loyalty at all
Slot car wise has to be slot it cars
Everything else whatever is cheap at that point in time 😀

Shimano drivetrains, brakes, pedals and shoes.
Charge spoon saddles
Rockshox forks
Giro helmets
Planet x clothing
Giro gloves
Skoda cars

SRAM Drivetrain, works better.
Carbon frames
Not so much with frames but avoid anyone with stupid proprietary crap parts

Let's see.

Orange frame.
Renthal Bars
Hope hubs, brakes, BB, headset, stem and bash guard

There is a Cotic hardtail as well with hope hubs, brakes and headset

Probably more a national loyalty than a brand loyalty, to be honest, though.

Giant bikes
Giro helmets
Schwalbe tyres
Cateye lights (rear)
Exposure lights (front)
Fizik saddles and tape
Ergon grips