[Closed] What Bikes Dont You Like

Orange ST4
I wanted to love it, but it climbed like a downhill bike, decended like an XC bike? I'd give it a second chance with more time to setup the suspension and a larger size, but first impressions on a lap of Guisbrough weren't good.

Fox RP2 (specificly the one on my pitch)
Deperately needs either a firmer 'open' setting or a more open pro pedal setting. The bikes everything I wanted it to be, but I'm constantly flicking between the settings and not quite happy.

RS Sektors (specificaly the ones on my pitch).
Are taking ages to bed in.

The Carlton Palmer of bikes........ The Klein Palomino

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any post 1995/6 konas - full sus and hardtails
some specialized - the demo is just ugly - and the colours that they now come in make me want to puke, especially some of the mid range stuff (rockhoppers and the like).
That new mountain cycle - because it taints the san andreas
BMC - for that stupid upside down seat tube brace

any of the new giants...its the hideously long headtube i think...just looks a bit off to me. The wet noodle tube profiles don't help much either...

the ugliest bike ever made....period = whyte plus 4

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Mainly my dislikes appear to be due to aesthetics. I don't think I've ridden many bikes that weren't at least OK. That said I demoed a Maverick once whose SC32 forks spiked on every impact - they were horrid and stopped me from forming an opinion on the frame itself.

So, aesthetically I don't like bikes with square rear triangles, such as Ellsworths. That recent thread on downhill bikes also made me realise there's not many of them that I like the looks of, either. Their proportions look all wrong, too low and stretched out and their seat tubes are in funny places and are raked too far back.

Things that look the way they do because of their engineering - the Whyte PRST-1 being the obvious example - don't upset me because I find their engineering interesting. It's the things that nearly look like a normal bike but don't (like Ellsworths) that I dislike - sort of a bikey uncanny valley. 🙂

I think anything with curved tubes looks wrong (especially downtube - looks like it's been crashed and must surely have a much lower strength/weight than a straight tube).

Not too keen on the look of big heavy DH bikes (and designs like the Orange 5 for the same reason). Much too solid-looking and overbuilt. I know they're made for a purpose, but they never look nice IMO. I had a friend at school in the 70s who rode around on a moped with the engine removed - same sort of thing really.

Second "towel rail" top tubes, anything that looks like it was designed for the sake of being weird (Jones, Flying gate etc). Perhaps they work, but the look does nothing for me.

<troll>And I see nobody's mentioned unicycles yet...</troll>

Rob

Damn i own both a Mountain Cycle, and an On One..
I suppose i best just slit my wrists and be done with it then ?

26-ers for people my height* - the proportions are 'wrong' - they look ugly.

(*and i'm only 6'2")

oh, and all yetis.

intense, fugly and welded by apes.
foes, fugly.
whytes, fugly.

the ugliest bike ever made....period = whyte plus 4

You mean one of these ?

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I kinda like mine ....

For absolutely no good reason I have an aversion to all Kona's and I would never buy one.

Don't like Scott's either

My pet hate is that extra little brace between the top tube and the seat tube that seem to be sprouting up on more and more bikes these days.

This I hate, I know it was popular att he time, but when I bought mine (YUK)it just bounced and bobbed and made me hate it even more..(HURL)

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This-
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Looks like a swift visit to causality (yes I meant to spell it that way) to untangle your nadgers from the workings of the shock.
That and it looks like a collage bike made up from magazine cuttings.

oh....i forgot about my general brand distaste for the big red S...I'm sure they are great bikes and all...but you couldn't pay me to ride one

This is one ugly bike Stevehine looks like its been developed from a Pray Mantis

Wunundred!

Is belongeth Mr Nutt:

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Is nasty.

Ah; you need to ride it to appreciate it - I fell in love with it when I saw the prototype hanging up at Bike '99 behind the Downhill Arcade machine ...

Cannondales with lefty forks - they look plain wrong.
Specialised bikes as well. I'm sure they are great but I've a friend who won't buy a bike or any bit of equipment or clothing unless its made by specialized - so I'm sick of the sight of them!
Giants - don't know why but I don't like the name.
Reeboks - seriously wtf

Nicolai and am I the only one who doesn't get the Ibis mojo?

yeh stevehine....the plus 4 just looks......well

anyway i have a nicolai so probably not in position to criticise...too much

any thing with fixed gears, any thing made by orange after the year 2000, any thing that ant got disk brakes, any thing made of steel, on ones, raglies, 🙂

the Puch racer

What badly made cheap 70s tat? . they were awful very cheap but had 12 gears so must have been fast 🙄