Ugly Bikes

Daz555
Daz555 Posts: 3,976
edited June 2009 in MTB general
Lets have em. Post up your favourite (or least favourie) ugly bikes.

Here's my opener. The wonderful Cannondale Super V - a design that is still being aped in the sub £80 bike market today:

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You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    There was a guy on here who used to post - he had a singlespeed full sus Kona - that was pretty :shock:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    this is heralded as a good bike but lord almighty, it is so ugly it could trick or treat down the phone and its very proximity would turn milk fizzy and remove the shine off my teeth

    infact, the only way it could be worse would be to fit a saddle pouch, some mud guards and a frame mounted pump:

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    Awful
    Scott Ransom 10

    Stumpy FSR Comp

    Wilier Izoard

    1994 Shogun Prairie Breaker Expert...ahhh yesssss

    'I didnt need those front teeth anyway..'
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    Worse and with spinners :shock:
    Scott Ransom 10

    Stumpy FSR Comp

    Wilier Izoard

    1994 Shogun Prairie Breaker Expert...ahhh yesssss

    'I didnt need those front teeth anyway..'
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    lets not forget this veritable eyesore:

    Five_s-000110.jpg
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    download-77859-480.jpg

    Worse and with spinners :shock:
    What is/was that?
    You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
    If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
    If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    looks like a photo shopped gt summat or other IIRC
  • another

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    Scott Ransom 10

    Stumpy FSR Comp

    Wilier Izoard

    1994 Shogun Prairie Breaker Expert...ahhh yesssss

    'I didnt need those front teeth anyway..'
  • zero303
    zero303 Posts: 1,162
    lets not forget this veritable eyesore:

    Five_s-000110.jpg

    Boom tish!
  • ExeterSimon
    ExeterSimon Posts: 830
    Any bike that's brown. No matter how good the machine that is one awful colour.

    Unless it's brown through being muddy.
    Whyte 905 (2009)
    Trek 1.5 (2009)
    Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp (2007)
  • They keep coming!

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    Scott Ransom 10

    Stumpy FSR Comp

    Wilier Izoard

    1994 Shogun Prairie Breaker Expert...ahhh yesssss

    'I didnt need those front teeth anyway..'
  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Daz555 wrote:
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    Worse and with spinners :shock:
    What is/was that?

    It's a GT DH/FR from back in '06 I think, one of the first bikes with a gearbox but not widely liked (even thou it was MBUK Superbike back-in-the-day). One of the guys in my LBS bought one, used it twice I think and it was put back on sale in the shop at a massive discount, still didn't move for months and months.
  • Almost forgotten about this!

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    Scott Ransom 10

    Stumpy FSR Comp

    Wilier Izoard

    1994 Shogun Prairie Breaker Expert...ahhh yesssss

    'I didnt need those front teeth anyway..'
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    zero303 wrote:
    lets not forget this veritable eyesore:

    Five_s-000110.jpg

    Boom tish!

    c'mon, i avoided the last orange related thread and i couldnt resist. it is a bit of a minger in my opinion, no matter what it goes like.
  • ExeterSimon
    ExeterSimon Posts: 830
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    Whyte 905 (2009)
    Trek 1.5 (2009)
    Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp (2007)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    thats definately ugly enough to show 3 times.
  • ExeterSimon
    ExeterSimon Posts: 830
    cannondale_raven.jpg

    A Cannondale. What a surprise.
    Whyte 905 (2009)
    Trek 1.5 (2009)
    Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp (2007)
  • .blitz
    .blitz Posts: 6,197
    Pace were responsible for some monstrosities back in the day. That Super V is ace.
  • ExeterSimon
    ExeterSimon Posts: 830
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    Available from your local Wal-Mart.

    Google Images really does have some scorchers.
    Whyte 905 (2009)
    Trek 1.5 (2009)
    Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp (2007)
  • If anyone on here can find a picture of the 'Avanti Tuatara' I reckon it could challenge for the lead! Is proving very hard to dig up a pic of. It was the bike to have when I was back at school but my god it was ugly.
    Scott Ransom 10

    Stumpy FSR Comp

    Wilier Izoard

    1994 Shogun Prairie Breaker Expert...ahhh yesssss

    'I didnt need those front teeth anyway..'
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    phd.jpg
  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    0068067400819_500X500.jpg

    Available from your local Wal-Mart.

    Google Images really does have some scorchers.

    they don't name the bike "Shocker" for nothing. :shock: :wink:
    "It is not impossible, its just improbable"

    Specialized Rockhopper Pro Disc 08
  • papasmurf.
    papasmurf. Posts: 2,382
    here we go...from someone clearly more mental then supersonic..unless its supersonics collection :P

    Zaskar_Sammlung_4-2007.jpg
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    papasmurf. wrote:
    here we go...from someone clearly more mental then supersonic..unless its supersonics collection :P

    Zaskar_Sammlung_4-2007.jpg


    how many bikes from one manufacturer does anyone need!!
  • Nik_B
    Nik_B Posts: 270
    this is heralded as a good bike but lord almighty, it is so ugly it could trick or treat down the phone and its very proximity would turn milk fizzy and remove the shine off my teeth

    infact, the only way it could be worse would be to fit a saddle pouch, some mud guards and a frame mounted pump:

    113800729_5edd690161.jpg

    This is amazing! I was going to make a post about that bike as on sunday I was out for a ride and I saw a guy on one of those. Its the first time I've ever seen one but it's an absolutely hideous creation. I felt like I should have washed my eyes after looking at it.
  • ShaggyRS6
    ShaggyRS6 Posts: 247
    Says this :)

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    11 Scott CR1 Comp
  • ExeterSimon
    ExeterSimon Posts: 830
    [/quote]here we go...from someone clearly more mental then supersonic[/quote]

    Doesn't Supersonic own all the Zaskars ever produced? May these are his favourites.

    Or the offspring of some Zaskar breeding program he ran in the late 90s.
    Whyte 905 (2009)
    Trek 1.5 (2009)
    Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp (2007)
  • zero303
    zero303 Posts: 1,162
    Any bike that's brown. No matter how good the machine that is one awful colour.

    Unless it's brown through being muddy.

    Ouch that smarts - I have that colour and all!

    Although, it doesn't look anything like that picture in the flesh - here's mine - it's way more silvery and lighter:

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  • zero303
    zero303 Posts: 1,162
    And for the record, it's a stunner dontchaknow!