[Closed] What Bikes Dont You Like

ones that are never used and get neglected

Mongoose freedrive bikes
both to look at and ride
I had one for 2 years = idiot

I'll put the kettle on

I've only got Bourbon's though if anyone wanted a biscuit

Kona. I fell in love with the splatter Cinder Cone. The ride? Just not for me. It's been the same wit any Kona I've liked since. Must be a geometry thing.

Looks wise - FS bikes with overly large rockers mounted horizontally on the seat tube ala Ellsworth Epiphany. It probably rides great but looks wrong.

On-one 456 Carbon is a visual crime regardless of how it rides.

Anything by Mountain Cycle...

I love any thread where Grantway posts. Any bike made by Orange, I mean just look at them

this one
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but sometimes life is a ba5tard, and needs must.

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Orange
Canondale
Ellsworth
Kona
Gary Fisher

to name some for starters

those ones with skinny tubes, skinny tyres, drop bars, caliper brakes .......

Singlespeeds..

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Road bikes, to narrow it down further - my road bike a Giant Defy 4, i bought it a few months back to prepare for my JOGLE ride that i'm doing to raise money for CLICsargent. The only thing i like about it is the colour scheme, black, white and red. It's boring and uncomfortable to ride, it's a chore and road riding does nothing for me. Once i get to Lands End (presuming i don't get run over) i'll be selling it and never swinging a leg over one again! Was kind of hoping i'd enjoy riding it so i could use it for winter training but it's just not happened.

Canyon look like fantastic value for money and seem to be doing well in all the mag tests at the moment. That top tube just looks so wrong to me though.

cyclocross bikes
most road bikes
most singlespeeds
29'ers
too many mountain bikes to list......

On Ones and any road bike....because I just do, okay??

Orange 5.

I now everyone thinks they're great. I know they must therefore be great. I know they're probably better than my bike. But sorry - I'm shallow.

They look like a shonky lash up from a mad bloke's shed.

There - I said it. Feel better now...

Can't really think of any. Never really got on with my Scandal but that was just because it didn't like the 130mm fork.

Agree about the Ellsworth - really not interested in how well it rides but you'll not get me near those long rockers - shame on me.

Can I confess an irrational hatred of [b]all[/b] Easton componentry? Never had any of it on any of my bikes, never will.

An Ellsworth bedecked with Easton? <shudder>

Mongoose Freedrive again, they look wrong & the bloody bottom bracket moves???

Then again I've seen Chris Akrig ride one & he obviously does it some justice. 😯

Nicholai, Oramge 5, anything too industrial looking, just not a fan.

Supermarket bikes but to some a bike is a bike and a whole lot faster than walking to work.

ellsworths, mavericks, all 29ers, singlespeeds,sinisters, carvers indy fab, all gary fisher designs, the original trek 69 in fact anything that doesn't conform to my narrow world view as fed to me by lardy gnarcore mtb journos who have to fill magazines with their dribble for buffoons to believe

Not a fan of anything in the Ragley camp. At all.

Apart from the TD-1. That's okay.

just cant get allong with any full sus bikes my riding style is far to bmxie and i just look like im having some form of fit,been on loooads of bikes long and mid term loans to open my options,closest iv come is a spesh camber but i still couldent live with it longterm.

sorry bullheart you can't have the TD-1 it's got silly wheels and stiff frontage 😀

id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five...ok their not everyones cup of tea in looks but i luv mine and it rides well..it works and thats all that matters . 🙄

dont like ::

hybrid
mondraker
saracen
santa cruz

cyclocross bikes + 29ers.

Any GT iDrive bikes

Like lots of people it seems, I don't like bikes with big rockers. I was going to quote the Kona Stinky as the prime example though.

... and the good old Orange 5. Though there is something I admire about their "Land Rover"-ness.

EDIT: Not a fan of Marin full-suss bikes either.

Hmm...the previous generation Spesh Enduro was a disappointment to me. Too spidery and fragile looking, especially after the solid 2005/6 bikes, even though the ones I've ridden felt fantastic.

My own personal disappointment was my Wolf Ridge in a size large. The medium and small are lovely looking bikes IMHO, the large just looks gawky and ungainly. Damn fine ride though.

Aesthetics are a funny thing. Large / XL sizes of the same bike can look dreadfully badly proportioned, not to mention some of the engineering compromises to cater for some of the more exotic suspension layouts out there.

Most improved brand aesthetically? Trek. The old ones looked like the sort of thing Ned Flanders would ride, the post 2007 bikes look very well resolved. I wish Specialized would learn from this and stop painting some of their bikes really gash colours.

in all honesty, I can't think of a single bike that I don't like. Some may not suit my riding style or would be overkill for me to own, but all bikes are good as they make the world seem a better place when you ride them. Even being out on a nail of a rat bike is still better than no riding.

Ride and smile and have a nice cake and beer at the end

peace and love

To be fair Tazzy, one of the Team Bullheart riders at MM had a TD-1. Its the second nicest 29er I've seen... 😉

ahhhh so you had to be nice about it! I bet you like those awful vassago efforts as well don't you 😉

fixies.

don't come here with all that hippy sh*t tazzy this is the singletrack forum.

My Jabber gives me wood. It's the [i]rightest[/i] looking 29er out there, and rides like a training wheeled bike! 😀

@kudos 100-man you can't comment you are letting a FTW frame go, you great limp wristed yogurt knitting tree hugger 😀

Kirks, always hated them, horrible things

Jordan

elaine anne - Member

id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five...

dont like ::
santa cruz

Hang on, how can you like the Five but not Santa Cruzes? The Heckler's exactly what the Five would look like if it was made by a bike company instead of a blacksmith.

Marin full sussers, that swingarm..........GOPPING!

@kudos 100-man you can't comment you are letting a FTW frame go, you great limp wristed yogurt knitting tree hugger

I know, I know. I've had a couple of people interested and am getting cold feet 😆

If/when I sell it, I know full well I will regret it at some point......

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I think they look loverly, still love the horst link design and bling looking rocker, but the reality was a overly high BB that I hated. For me it was a lesson in geometry being everything.

I don't like bikes that are too heavy

That doesn't make me a weight weenie, just realised after years of generally travelling around on overbuilt bikes cos I was scared of breaking stuff, so always used bits I knew I couldn't break.

Lighter bikes are more fun IMO, though a bike that's too light and is therefore fragile is probably even less fun, so it can be a fine balancing act.

Newer Ragleys look weird with their curvy seat stays. If they didn't have those I think they'd look great.

to be honest i cannot dislike any bike.i may not be into some types of bikes myself,but at the end of the day all bikes are great. 😀

All the trendy niche bikes that people jizz over on here. 🙂

Another for not liking Marin & Whyte full sussers, the thought of not being able to get all the dirt out from under the rocker/swing-arm makes me BORRRK!(a touch of OCD coming out I think).
Also, some modern Pace frames look like they have bends in wrong places imo 😕

I always think Giant bikes look cheap - I think it is the paint jobs on most of them.

don't like Cannondales - it seems like a company where fashion and marketing rule.

Anything from the child's section of Halfords that weighs more than a Victorian cast iron radiator. Just the thing to get the kids into cycling....

Specialized Epic, hated it and gave it away before I threw it into the sea...

Each to their own etc etc

Very interesting

that weighs more than a Victorian cast iron radiator. Just the thing to get the kids into cycling...

I forgot to mention Raleigh - the above is what I always thought of Raleigh bikes - worst of breed. It seems that for every 'innovative' bike they did you could find the original design they ripped off, possibly in another country, that was properly functional and weighed a load less.

Witness the Burners, a bastardisation of decent BMX bikes from the states, and likewise for the Chopper.

I might have been an enthusiastic roadie if I had had the Puch racer that my friend's parents bought him rather than the pile-of-junk Raleigh Scorpio I ended up with 🙁 Chrome looks great, just not on a racing bike...

I love all bikes, whats not to like? Although I had an early spesh fsr which for some reason I despised, it was all about how it rode..

overpriced ugly hybrids (especialy with drops) like the roadrat that only sell because those with staunch mtb sensibilities are scared of real road or cross bikes, any american full-suss with a high BB for pedaling over stuff, really slack hardtails ridden on everyday twisty trails, kona, mongoose and turner (mainly because of the drivel tony comes out with about this years suspension being the best thing ever.

id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five.

I could live with the looks; I hated the ride feel.

Cube colour schemes... not unlike a chav's trainer.

I drive and mongoose and other URT-esque designs.
The last few years marins do look a bit chunky.
Towel rails and other unneccessary tubes.

All of these bikes may ride well and I don't normally let aesthetics bother me but the above just look wrong.

I don't like your bike.

Unless it's the same as mine.

road bikes

Those Jones bed frame things, 29'rs and cannondale's

As a Maverick rider I'm not best placed to comment on looks....

Newer Santa Cruz bikes with the sh*ting dog style top tubes.
Jeff Jones
Whyte full sus bikes
Marin full sus frames

I'm sure they ride well but I find Mountain Cycles, Marins and Ventanas really ugly. Ditto the new Lapierre downhill bike with the pendbox suspension.

Jones', Fat bikes, 29ers, Fixies as in my mind they are ridden by niche infatuated bandwagon jumpers who just want to be looked at.

retro mountain bikes

Most full sussers - sure they probably ride great, but they're not pretty.

Fixies painted purple, with green wheels and blue tires ridden by ponces.

cotic soul - granted this may be due to the way it was set up, but it just felt wrong to me, top tube too long, head angle too steep, sat right over back wheel. Horrid.

bikes that look as if they are designed to fit into a niche promoted on internet forums, you know the rigid 29 fixie with the stupid bars and a beard.

you know the rigid 29 fixie with the stupid bars and a beard

Sounds fun, but I can't grow a beard.

I don 't like look of:
Sunn
Orange
or any other Halfords looking mtb.

I like anything where form follows function.

So - "pretty" = Jones, any Orange FS, Ragleys, and most of the other 'ugly bikes' that are they way they are simply because they're well designed.

"ugly" = swoopy hydroformed curvy nonsense, style over substance, 'look at me' shouty graphics and tube shapes. There are a few HF jobs that appear to be done functionally, but (and not mentioning names) there is far to much "here, make us a bike that looks like this artist's impression" in the industry. Wrong way to start designing a bike - right way to style a car maybe.

There are well-designed bikes that still manage to be ugly, it's rare and it takes some doing, but they're out there...

clown bikes
singlespeed
cannondale

I don't like Charge Dusters. They look fab, but ride like they're made of scaffold.
Giant Reigns - cos I rode the mk1 and it was crap.
Yeti 5Cs, Santa Cruz Blur Carbons, Ibis Mojo SLs etc. cos they are too bloody expensive.

How are some people disregarding whole makes?

Northwind - Member

elaine anne - Member

id like to know why most people dont like the look of the orange five...

dont like ::
santa cruz

Hang on, how can you like the Five but not Santa Cruzes? The [b]Heckler's exactly what the Five would look like if it was made by a bike company instead of a blacksmith.[/b]

Can't believe this has got to page two and nobody has mentioned the whyte prst-1. Always reminded me of an overgrown praring mantis.

I'm generally pretty relaxed, but custom titanium Di2-equipped carbon wheeled flatbar commuters really get my goat.

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To dislike a bike does not commute. I took my son's friend around Swinley on a FS Apollo. It coped fine with jumps, pump tracks and sneers. Nobody died.

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." H.G. Wells ...

I hated my Mongoose Teocali - the geometry felt totally wrong and the suspension action was weird.

We could open a whole chapter on the niche bikes that look plain weird. There's the aforementioned PRST, which looks like Bambi after being hit by a pickup.

Then you've got Mountain Cycles, which haven't made a pretty bike since 1992, the plain odd Christini 2wd contraptions and the Slingshots, which look like a washing line with a wheel at either end.

There are some other gopping creations out there, you only have to look.

Oh, there's lots I don't like and would never even consider buying:

Giant, Nasty.
Scott, Goppin'
Orange, Overpriced
Santa Cruz, American Oranges
Cube, Commencal, etc, all those Euro brands. Chav bikes.
Surly, the American On One but double the price when they get here
Ragley, More over priced On Ones
Cannondale, I have no particular dislike, but I don't think I'd ever buy one
Nicolai, When the decals have the letters the right way round I'll reconsider......