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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: generallee on December 22, 2008, 06:46 PM
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Ok - what is it - worst bike, worst frame, worst bars etc etc
for me, the worst bike I ever had was a Raleigh Burner. Sorry burner fans!
anyone else?
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worst wheels btd acorn mags got them for free many sets ,busted 100% of them
hub wise peregrine phat jacks stripped many of the threads .
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redline mx11, just didnt feel or look right..... :(
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plastic chain guards that go round the chains.
pro-gard and raleigh did em.
mx1000s
I also had one of the very first raleigh activator mtbs, front forks were early bouncey suspension, rubbish.
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Vincent Airzone & HAF, different reasons, but both shite
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Grab on grips, fantastic idea but blown up within a week :-\
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my azusa looks great but rides really crap
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cobra grips.
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One piece cranks bitd, bent so many it would've been cheaper in the long run to buy a decent three piece... :idiot2:
And the KHE barbados complete i got for my son last xmas... what a pile of poo... :(
I spent more time fixing it than he spent riding it... gone now thank fook!
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1 pc cranks too, bent so many of them :-\
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oakley 3's. you allways got a blister on the outside of your hand. i remeber feeling great joy removing them with a stanley knife to replace with luverly mushies.
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This thing. So sh!te I can't give it away. Was going to weigh it in but the arse has fell out of scrap. >:(
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/u206/b45t4rdtorker/CIMG0326.jpg)
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g sport plegs, used em as instructed ie rotating them every once in a while and they lasted one month grinding mini ramps not 12 months like stated on the packaging :tickedoff: :tickedoff:
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Mine was an Iron Horse bike BITD. Wheels were made from yellow matchsticks I think!! :)
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worst frame= hoffman deebo
worst bars - hoffman lowdrags
weakest frame O/S pk ripper
worst part all round = shitmano N/S DX's
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soory burner faNS BUT I REMEMMBER DOING A ROLLBACK DOWN SOUTHSEA AND THE WHOLE CALIPER MOUNTING PLATE
ripped off the frame as i braked to into a spin
sorry for the shouting halfway through but ive consume half a bottole of grouse (its me birfday)and i cant be fooked to wright it again hic hic b0ll0ks!
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worst frame= hoffman deebo
So you don't want my one then.....
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i had the first ruption sri that came outit was pretty much my first freestyle bike
i snapped it in four months of novice ramp riding.....( headtube )
my freind never rode his and said i could have it the other day....im think it must be the only survivor :knuppel2:
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Piranha.
Got ribbed everyday with the weight of them steel mags. :'(
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cobra grips.
shit yeah blistered wrists ;D
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iron horse alien bmx bike here aswell, i upgraded to a tuff burner :LolLolLolLol: which i snapped the poor flat tube near the BB, but araldited it then flogged it!
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haro two finger levers
Dave
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New DX's pile of poo....bearing fell to bits...... :tickedoff:
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vincent airzone- broke in 6 places in 2 weeks.
1 piece cranks - broke too many bitd
old style seat guts- broke so many i used to go to halfauds & buy an aeroyal a month just for the seat guts and put em on the kashimax ( seat would go in the bin
then- :idiot2: £££ now)
oh, and the original khe clamping forks... spent a fortune on diff stems to fit , making shims etc but gave up on after 6 months- :10_2_12:
ps. forgot the burner- never broke it cos the geometry was so out that you couldn't do owt on em..... :LolLolLolLol:
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mx 1000s - 900s work far better
hatta kongo - how fookin SHITE are they!
dx cable cutters, sorry, levers ::)
oakley 3s - great for taking the skin off your thumbs
non "soft" tuff pads - not as good as the competition
anything hutch - overrated and chromophobic
shimano freewheels - oh how we were brainwashed as children :LolLolLolLol:
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I know my old man loves Redlines but i couldn't fookin stand em, had to ride the pile of shite for the year i was on the team and hated every minute of it :tickedoff:
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skyway ez bars mark 2's
useless.
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My Burner.........complete pants but i loved it BITD
Landar copy CW's....they always crushed at the stem and you ended up with bars that used to move half an inch backwards and forwards.
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JMC Darrell Young..... only kididng, but i did snap it.....
nope worst for me was those Vans Brake blocks, i seem to remember them lasting about a day!
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skyway tuff pads, they wear out fast
that's two people have said about the new school DXs, mine are going strong.
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my 92 gt pfst,utter piece of shit :2gunsfiring_v1: . snapped the ht off the frame and broke the steerer tube on the forks at the same time! smashed my full face helmet (which im so glad i was wearing at the time or id probably be dead),sent my teeth through my lip (two of my teeth are still very misaligned from it) im still very pisst at that bike :tickedoff:
not to mention a bunch of other bikes i bent,cracked,broke,sheared dropouts off etc. many one piece (of shit) cranks, axles, wheels, bars,seat posts and on and on :rant:
and dont get me near tuffs, i break every set ive ever come across (20-25 sets that ive had,went threw them like candy bitd). even broke a brand new one doing a curb endo in the late 80s when i was 7-8 years old.
and why doesnt anybody like the deebo? ( i still havent ridden one so i have no idea what they are like)
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those Bob Haro plastic tech 2 levers....
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I rode a Hoffman Lil Deebo when it came out and quite liked it! Was rather like a Taj frame - but very very heavy!
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Theres just so many.
Ammaco Freestyle 18, Steel throughout broke at least one a week the down tube used to fracture in two and the double top tubes would bend
Ammaco had two specially manufactured in chromemoly but the tubing was so thin these broke too.
The very early hollow stem bolts where the hole was only designed to take the inner cable and not the outer.
ACS Rotors and MK1 Skyway Spinmasters.
ACS Freecoasters (Used to lock up when you least expected it)
Areo Zytec Mags.
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Gotta be my Bully. :-[
Awful welds and design, horrid angles, broke in many many places. I only got it cos it was the first bashguard bike to come with a plastic plate (and it helped when the Dirt Bros started riding them).
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skyway ez bars mark 2's
useless.
gotta strongly disagree dude, they may not suit many builds but the rake n ridability of them are up there with the best, fantastic feeling bars IMO, just not fussed on the look of em :(
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skyway ez bars mark 2's
useless.
gotta strongly disagree dude, they may not suit many builds but the rake n ridability of them are up there with the best, fantastic feeling bars IMO, just not fussed on the look of em :(
I agree with you there unlike lots of old school bars they were very rideable, like many others I ran the mini ones and loved them.
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Copy Skyway freestyle platform weighed a ton and rusted in a month.
Copy Oakley F1's blisters a plenty
Haro Tech 2 style Lever looks great works pipe
Crappy Chain coil thing lethal
White Sharp grips perished
Renthal Bars ugly and always looked dull
mks graphite pedals overrated
Any chat from Halfords
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loved renthals. :Great_Britain:
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i had a oddy lean back post on my rider, i just sat talking on my bike in a kind of wheelie position. fooking thing bent like plastic. now they are rubbish.
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Any of those two finger levers they were just unfit for purpose what were they thinking.
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BITD i always wonted a lay back seat post, then one day i came home from school and my dad had got me one :D I then discovered he had put it in his pipe bender and made my strait one into a lay back :( . it was not the posts fault just the tight ass dad that bent it, thinking i would love it perhaps i was ungrateful but i would have preferred a strait one than one that looks like it was bent . I do love him to bits though :smitten:
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not all two finger levers were shite, just the haro ones.
i cant believe im saying that...bob haro is a god
Dave
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not all two finger levers were shite, just the haro ones.
i cant believe im saying that...bob haro is a god
Dave
DC 2 fingers look cool I think,had the haro ones and they are a pile of steaming turd ;) nice on a showbike though :smitten:
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loved renthals. :Great_Britain:
Decent shape just look ugly I hated mine with a passion BITD.
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Uni Seats and anything made by Universal, Saxon or Raleigh (no Raleigh did not MAKE the Aero Pro, Tange did) :daumenhoch:
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skyway ez bars mark 2's
useless.
gotta strongly disagree dude, they may not suit many builds but the rake n ridability of them are up there with the best, fantastic feeling bars IMO, just not fussed on the look of em :(
I agree with you there unlike lots of old school bars they were very rideable, like many others I ran the mini ones and loved them.
Just too small. Didnt like them for that reason. Not the best looking either. ???
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the 2 finger plastic haro brake levers no good, they feel like they are goin to snap... i took them off before they had a chance.
hutch grips.. i never had them BITD... got a set recently... ABSOLOUTE RUBBISH!
followed by HUTCH PRO RAIDER and WINDSTYLER! heavy cheaply made taiwan crap!
... thats about it..
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Skyway tuffs. They looked great but rode like crap! The grafite tuffs were better for riding but I couldn't afford those. :10_2_12:
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one peice cranks, waste of time jumping at crowhurst.
my curtis freestyler, hunk o junk, the down tube snapped but forks didnt bend, t 45 my arse, i was only 12 >:(
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uni seats, snapped 2 and tried superglueing them back to the post, never worked, mushroom copies just mashed up your hands :2gunsfiring_v1:
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Mushroom copies yup they totally sucked. ;)
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I know my old man loves Redlines but i couldn't fookin stand em, had to ride the pile of shite for the year i was on the team and hated every minute of it :tickedoff:
I am with you on this Nik, had a Redline... hated it.
This is also going to upset some, but when I rode for GT I thought the GT 24" was a complete pile of ****. Couldn't ride it, everything felt wrong. Easily one of the worst bikes I ever rode. Fortunately GT let me use my Curtis cruiser and re-sticker it.
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odyssey pitbull=just didnt work
s+m prince albert cranks=lasted 2 weeks
2nd gen taiwan hutch stem=top came away from shaft
db harry leary cranks=bent under the frame after a crash
shimano dx pedals=severly overrated
taiwan made hutch pro frame+forks=worst product of all time!
brake plate snapped off, seat tube snapped off above the tt, headtube + bb flared, back end bent, forks bent severly and expanded inside the steerer tube from tightening my stem, all in the space of 3 months!
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So true about the Pitbull. Stick a pitbull and gyro on your bike and you had no chance.....
I fcuked around wih mine for weeks and weeks to get some sort of decent brake ::)
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Old skool bmx
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Old skool bmx
::)
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I had a torker back in the late 80's/early 90's..now nothing wrong with the bike at all until i snapped the frame but it had a gold araya on the front and a black skyway on the rear. The skyway on the rear used to shat its bearings regular and i was forever buying axle repair kits for it. i must have constantly done it wrong when repairing it but you could guarantee id be 10 miles from home when the crunching started! That said skyways are still my fave round thing!! :smitten: i just hated that particular ally hubbed pain in the :Aresehole:
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Tech 2's-
Nearly killed me sen once going down some stairs which came out on to a main road-
Me arse was over the back tyre going down the steep steps, & I couldn't reach the brake levers, so at the bottom of the stairs I just went straight across the main road, luckly it was 1982 & there wernt much traffic back then.
Tange Lock Nuts-
Took a 4 inch strip of shin flesh off on the sharp bits, attempting a fancy knee on stem endo.
Claims Direct would have done good business in the early 80's.
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acorn mags ( the really thin ones ) that flexed by just sitting on ya bike, im 36 now n 11 stone, so at 14 , they were wonk!!
retro sealed hub conversion for metal hubbed skyways, utter twonk, bolts freed themselves every half mile!!
my brand new gt performer ff,( made in taiwan i think) arrived all twisted as tho no jig was used , brake bridge welded bout 2 inches to high, gt stamp upside down on the end of the tt, no paint in areas, took 6 weeks for 'mud machine' to replace it after me dad threatened to drive down there and do nasty things to him and his shop :LolLolLolLol: