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Ever Bought Something For You Bike And Found It Shit?


Matt Vandart

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CNC backings. However I trim/cut the pads, they NEVER seem to fit and ALWAYS come out of the backing.

Maxxis flyweight tyre tube, had numerous punctures, which I then found out are IMPOSSIBLE to repair on that tube. Waste of a fiver if you ask me!

EDIT: I R SPAZ

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ENO freewheel, it cost a fortune and never worked well

RB brake lever, it cost a fortune and started leaking after a few rides

Echo brake, it cost a lot and started leaking after a few rides

White stripe Echo tyres, they looked cool but had less grip than it's humanly possible to imagine

There must have been loads more, these are the biggest let downs though.

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Really, ENO fw is a golden fw IMO. Never had any issue.

Echo brake has and always a leaky little son of a gun.

Echo disc hubs...soft aluminum, disc bolts always stripped, ended up with longer bolts on most of them. What a garbage.

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Maxxis flyweight tyre tube, had numerous punctures, which I then found out are IMPOSSIBLE to repair on that tube. Waste of a fiver if you ask me!

EDIT: I R SPAZ

Its been fine for me, held air for over a week now :)

There was one tiny pinhole in there that needed patching, youre just blind :P

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  • 2 weeks later...
Really, ENO fw is a golden fw IMO. Never had any issue.

your not as heavy as us then, i had to replace everything in my eno and it still f**ked up :S

zoo python 2007 long... you pull the wheel back with snail cams so that the chains not slack and then you cant set your brake up as the mounts are too high... what a sh*t design! im curently having to runa tensioner on mod :S

or i could have a super slack chain and good brake

nice and tight chain and no/sh*t brake

and if you take a link out the chains way too short!

or change my gear ratio to something stupid and hope it works!

cant believe how stupidly thick you must be to bring out a frame with such a major design fault!

try-all rims, never had one last more then a month, mod or stock. no matter how amazing the build is or w/e

any tensioner out atm sucks, fact. (74 kings got close appart from the p*ssy springs which snap, and it moves so easily as where the bolt goes through it its really smoot! dumb!)

deng headsets! cheap crap material, they jus snap or become lose or bearings go all crap (mine have all been crushed and dont exist anymore :S)

heatsink cnc backings = broken piston pins

pro2 bolts = round if you dare take your wheel out more then twice or tighten it properly

hope mono trial (the new one)... was spongy, and pretty poor anyway, and then the lever snapped after like 2 months if that. and the tpa adjuster thing cracked when i tried to turn it using the allen key to get the rest of the broken lever off... i gave up on it, now in a box somewhere. (piece of sh*t)

echo urban forks.. last like a month if that.

echo forged cranks, the threads for the sprocket stripped after a few months (just by pedal kicking, the same sprocket was on since new from tarty)

try-all or w/e they were magnesium pedals, pins get ripped out too easily, and then the whole body ripped off the the axel when i failed a sidehop :S (pile of w*nk)

try-all rage bars, mirror finish... the mirror finshed jus fell off :S (talk about crap quality)

kmc chains = snap, quickly. wasted a few bob on these

welgo v8 pedals, all the pins came out so fast it wasnt funny, was rather gashed off lol

honestly i could go on forever... i need sleep now though

x

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DMR loc'd grips, amazingly grippy but the lockring strips so easily, only ever bolt i've cross threaded ever.

Halo spin doctors with horizontal dropouts, was a bad move from me to be honest but no number of tentioners held the damn things...

Snail cams. in general. got wheel nice and tight one side slips have to start over again. get one dent in the cams they no longer go past that point. ARGH!!!

Theres more but it can wait till i'm alive again.

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My current chain is whack.

It's snapped a few times, mostly from just coming apart. Recently, I painted the floor pink with my elbow, when it snapped in a gap. I've got a picture of it, if you want to see :P

sure do, get it up

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How the F**k is a BB7 shit

they are easy to set-up

work the nuts

and extremely easy to maintain

whats your problem?

The f**k!?

How can you be so defensive about a product? JT's obviously had a bad experience with it, and as such found it to be shite, everyone has a different opinion...

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How the F**k is a BB7 shit

they are easy to set-up

work the nuts

and extremely easy to maintain

whats your problem?

People like you that try to make other people feel small.

Another few things.

D521 ceramic rims, only worked well with maggy blacks and even then they howled like a broken camel.

Onza flat bars, far to low far to flexy.

Gears, in general, anything with a mech is BAD in my book.

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Onza FFW Cranks... The inserts just fail

Onza non-sealed bearing hubs

Try-All Rims

Try-All Stems... Crack happy

KMC Chains... My halfords £5 beast has lasted 4 frames and still going! Any KMC has lasted like, a ride

Best invention ever is the water bled magura!

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The f**k!?

How can you be so defensive about a product? JT's obviously had a bad experience with it, and as such found it to be shite, everyone has a different opinion...

Well its not the brakes fault hes had a bad experience its normally the riders fault 99% of the time due to not maintaining it properly or not setting it up properly

and as you said everyone has a different opinion and mine is that they are the nuts and i rekon that a lot of other peoples opinions are as well....

Also btw i didnt mean for that question at the end to be soo patronising (davey) i meant for it to be asking his what his problem is with BB7s, :mellow: probably a bit vague with the question

Oh and half link chain. Just awful.

I agree :P

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echo hifi frame...worst frame I have ever owned.

avid juicy ultimate....snapped the lever doing a hook plus the power was pants

older hope headsets

USE ringostar headlock system....never ever worked

Conti rubber queen....not shit as such, but dissapointing grip and crap on cambers

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