Whats the WORST bike you've ever actually owned and ridden??

[RockCoach]

Dude, I loved this thing. Road the *** out of it. Frame eventually broke. If it wasn't for that I'd probably still have it...

I agree it was a really fun bike but being 8 years old it weighed the same as me. So really difficult to ride long distances or uphill. It also prevented me from acquiring a BMX (which were launched the year after). To this day I still haven't owned one...

[jimmycool]

This piece of shyte. Worst of all, I started on the road with it.

Gave it to one of my workers a few years back (it was gathering dust and cobwebs in the garden shed) He is still riding it to this date.

 

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/112/2168112/2168112_131108123043_8Nov2013_066.jpg

That's actually quite a good testament to the quality of the machine if your worker is still riding it all these years later.

[Shebeen]

This piece of shyte. Worst of all, I started on the road with it.   

Gave it to one of my workers a few years back (it was gathering dust and cobwebs in the garden shed) He is still riding it to this date.

 

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/112/2168112/2168112_131108123043_8Nov2013_066.jpg

my favourite Raleigh makro bike was the one with square tubing. Oddly enough, there's quite a bit of heritage in the M-Trax name - used to be their top of the range when Tomac was winning everything on Raleighs - but probike really used it like a piece of bogroll locally.

 

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/mountain-bikes/product/review-raleigh-m-trax-ht-4-0-09-32504/

 

here's a titanium/cromoly mtrax from 1995 http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8247/8662003321_4226755e2f_c.jpg

[Meerkat82]

my  kids' bikes  -

they weigh a ton  and I have to stop the ride the whole time to try and adjust or fix something.

[Eugene Brown]

That exact same yellow bucket of nails is what I was referring to! Looked so cool at the time, until you rode the thing! They lasted forever though! I gave mine to a mate about 8 years ago, and it was stolen out of his shed. Probably still cruising around somewhere. 

[flyluis]

Going through these posts makes me think that most of you used the "she climbs like a beast" or "great bike for beginners" when selling them 

[KarlvN]

A Dun(F)lop dual sussie a-la Game/Makro. It was handed down to me three years ago by my cousin, who said I could have it for free, just so that she never has to sit on a bike again....That bike saw many miles around Koeberg until I took it up Hillcrest once and killed it on the descent from the top ST.

 

That bike was a love/hate relationship, and on the ascent up Hillcrest that fateful day I was cursing my cousin for ever giving me this wretched piece of crap bike, and I vowed to leave it lying beside the trail and walk home, but seeing as by that stage I was almost at the top, I reckoned I might as well carry on and ride down before dumping the bike and ending my cycle-life before it got started.

 

That descent was pure heaven, even on that tank of a bike, and by the time I reached the bottom the crank was bust and the frame was slightly off-centre. But I had the biggest smile on my face a realised that MTB is about the descent for me at least. The very next week I bought my Bergamont HT and have had around 4500km of absolute bliss on the new bike.

I am now on the verge of upgrading to my first proper full-sus, the Spez Camber Comp.

[Tumbleweed]

I think I had that exact one too. POS!!

 

I rode it like I had stolen it though. 

 

I kept on hoping someone would steal mine, but it was so crap, thieves would take the lock and leave the bike... 

[RockCoach]

I kept on hoping someone would steal mine, but it was so crap, thieves would take the lock and leave the bike... 

 

I did more than 10 000kms on mine in a year - on road though. It barely saw any offroad action. The only thing which stuffed out was the BB before I sold it.

 

I actually raced it at the 40km EP Herald road race in '94 and placed in the top 10. Damn that 48 x 12 ratio meant I couldn't keep up in the tailwind sprint along Marine Drive. Those bullhorn bars made the roadies give me tons of space in the bunch.