I also hated my Tachyon even though I really wanted to love it.
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Pretty soon everyone is going to say that they all actually hated their basket bikes, minivelos, and/or fixies.
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Hold on there. For fixies we prefer to say:
âno longer physically able to enjoy as much as I once did.â
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Wanted to like, but did not. Too big, and early Ironman frames did not have the cool splatter paint.
When I first got into bikes I was really into Peugeot. This came into the shop as a donation and I jumped on it despite being two sizes too small. Averaged 20mph for an hour for the first time on this but it never really rode that well.
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I enjoy mine quite a bit. But itâs only for very chill rides with family members. The one day I chose it to commute, it revealed its utter mediocrity.
Definitely not going to sell it though. As a basket bike, it is loved.
Worst bike:
The TWO Cannondale tracks I have owned. One too small. One the right size. Both zero fun to ride as a tarck bike.
Other notably sucky bikes:
Zeus Pista. Surprisingly whippy. Probably out of alignment.
Cannondale Scalpel 29 (v1). Somehow way worse than the Scalpel it replaced. Heavy. Uninspiring.
Specialized Allez from 2001. My first âniceâ bike. It was not nice.
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God you noobs are forcing me to post actually terrible bikes.
This was a 2012 29er, so the geometry was atrocious - nearly vertical head tube that made me freak out on steep terrain, spongy suspension, and heavy as a boat anchor. The XL frame was too big for me, but it was better than the size L because of the wonky sizing.
Also, those MTX rims were super-wide for the time, but could only be made tubeless by stuffing huge amounts of stiff foam inside the arch and THEN doing ghetto tubeless with a split tube. Just awful. And imagine the noise of that external dropper cable flapping against the top tube!
My first fixie, the Giant Bowery! I told myself this was my cheap âtrial fixieâ to see if I liked fixed, and I did, so I flipped it relatively quickly. But, the ridiculously stiff aluminum frame, heavy wheels, and gatorskin tires (as was the fashion, at the time) beat the hell out of me until I did.
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I donât think this bike is giving me all of it. Always feels very slow. Thatâs fine when loaded, but unloaded it isnât fun to ride. But I got a custom bag for it and it does a good job at bike camping, so Iâll keep it for a while.
I keep wondering if getting new wheels would help.
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I rode one of these aluminum Schwinns for a couple summers while I was working on a farm instead of bringing out my steel Gary Fisher. The original owner put an Indy Rock Shox on it but it was still the worst riding bike Iâve ever experienced.
Bianchi touring bike I got complete for $30 at a goodwill and turned into this POS, could not get the cantis to do the 27 â 700c conversion and it just never rode, stopped, or felt good. Entirely on my lack of knowledge with a wrench and need for a suite fixie over something much more utilitarian. Regretted selling it a year later when fat tire racks and sacks was all the tarck rage.
I got this dogshit gaspipe schwinn on craigslist from a guy who swore it was lightweight aluminum, and somehow I both knew and didnât quite believe it wasnât true. I put a ton of miles on this bike in a few set ups, it fit 700x35s and once I put cruisers on it wasnât half bad. Still mostly bad.
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Can I enter our new shop bike? Someone retiring gave us the bike so I got some new bars and grips for it to replace the too low newsie bars for something equally terrible but way more fun. Itâd have yellow pedals except I forgot 1pc cranks take 1/2â pedal threads.
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Doesnât count if youâre doing it on purpose
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^^ the @BicyclePears rule ^^
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heâd just win by default if we let him play
Also had a Bowery!
I sold it to a guy from CL and we ended up meeting again a few years later. Heâs staying at my house later this week. Bowerys are for friends.
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I think a work-mate here had an issue like that on his one.
I think it was Toast that rode from Seattle to Portland on mustache bars and was like âIâm taking these bars off the moment I get home, that suckedâ
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I feel like they only made maybe 1,000 mustache bars and theyâre just forever rotating in and out of the nearest co-op donation bin.
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Mustache bars are a rite of passage.
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I brought a set in to the world direct from nitto
something something elementary kids in Japan racing their bikes something something drops but up to circumvent regulation at elementary school bike parking lot blah blah blah mustache bars