Bikes like marmite?

[daj]

I hate all GTs, the triple triangle has no benefit whatsoever and is just a marketing gimmick, in fact I think I saw an article in MBAction BITD that proved that the triple triangle design was three times heavier than a standard frame and half as stiff. It went on to prove that the design causes infertility in its riders.

Konas eat poo, especially the splatter painted ones. I know for a fact that the extra paint involved weight 7 times more than a normal paintjob and the extra lead in the extra paint causes brain tumors.

XTR M900 sucks the fat one, its too light, too pretty and too expensive. All bikes should have Deore at best, in fact all bikes should be singlespeed....

...Bikes with gears are for wimps. Real men ride singlespeeds and if you don't have one, you're probably a purveyor of man love. Its a fact that riding singlespeeds makes you a better lover. Scientists have proven that men with knees that click when they bend over are more sexually attractive to women.

Lightweight bike components are for girls who need lighter bikes because they have no leg muscles. Real bikes are made out of steel. Steel is real. Steel might rust and need a layer of heavy paint over it to stop it falling apart but that doesn't matter because thats what the first bikes were made out of and thats what bikes should continue to be made from... Progress is bad. Fear change.

The Lobo is a great looking bike!!

 

[jez-4-bikes-max]

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[spitoon]

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[Russell]

You want ugly, I'll give you ugly...

Noooooo, I'd love a 'Preston'. They're not ugly, they're 'industrial'.

 

[cchris2lou]

I like all GT .

I think they had the design right .

The LOBO is probabaly one of the best ever DH bikes .

 

[Neil G]

Got to be Klein for me

I think it's easy to see a lot of bikes now with rose tinted specs but you have to cast your mind back to when the bikes first came out etc

With that in mind Kleins were the biggest poseurs bikes I can remember before full sus took over...pure cheese

 

[Pickle]

The LOBO is probabaly one of the best ever DH bikes .

It works, yes, but I dont like the design.

Now, the RTS on the other hand, is a beautiful design

 

[boxxer]

I like all GT .

I think they had the design right .

The LOBO is probabaly one of the best ever DH bikes .

Until you hit annything larger than a small stone and the back end disintegrates into a pile of twisted alu as happened to many members of the "Clan" Race team in the late 90's.

I think 6 back ends in 3 months was the record for those boys - crap design badly put together - Notice how very few of the top DH'ers raced the standard LOBO?

 

[Huntso]

Not over keen on Cove bikes and in particular the sexual innuendo names.

Of the older makes has to be Orange, in my own experience crap to ride and the watercolour paint they are covered in.
Had a Clockwork then tried again with an O2, never seemed to fit me right either

 

[BoyBurning]

Never liked raised-stay frames...

Never liked the series of clone bikes (the full sussers mentioned earlier which all shared the same bits etc)...

And the bikes which 'shared' Trek - ie the SuperCalibre which was an OCLV by another name etc.

Other than that, I've never 'hated' any bikes really (but I like Marmite so maybe there's something in that...)

There's things I wouldn't own - but that's different I guess...

Trek
Giant
Free Spirit
Kirk
Anything bonded (with certain exceptions of course...!)
Low-end stuff - what's the point now when we can all afford the 'top' from yesteryear? (again, with a lot of exceptions...)

I like GTs, and if you don't like the TT but can get past it they're nice to ride too (only have experience of early ones mind).

Never been a massive fan of Gary Fisher bikes, nor the 2nd generation Manitou full susser...

Trimble. Sorry Jeremy...

The Ibis Scho...mobo.. something-or-other - just wrong and nothing seems to fit together.

Orange. Kona. There would usually be something that I'd pick over either, but I'm not against them in any way really...

Right, enough fence-sitting. Come on lads - FIGHT!!