Overrated bike equipment Brands

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  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    Anyone who puts 'stickers' reflective or not on lycra, looks good on the peg, but after one wash starts coming off...FFS..... Altura are bad for this.......
  • da goose
    da goose Posts: 284
    Most ti framesets....... for sure its a fine material but my big brand name sort of (say it quietly) failed/tear on the downtubes*2 and after research what a suprise thats why in the late 60`s 70`s it was no longer used for off road motorbike frames as it strangely failed on welds etc.... so some of those big name ti rigs are imo vastly overpriced.
  • josborn
    josborn Posts: 13
    Assos clothes are amazing.

    Specialized helmets, shoes, pumps etc are rubbish
  • vision267
    vision267 Posts: 149
    APIII wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    APIII wrote:
    Fizik saddles. Horrendously priced and I've never found one that was comfortable for more than an hour.

    Can you count saddles as being overrated though? All are ars*s are different.

    Y
    eah, maybe. I should have just said overpriced :wink:
    You were right first time fizik are sh*t,and very expensive.At least with selle italia you get a saddle you can use,even though it's very expensive.
  • nickwill
    nickwill Posts: 2,735
    vision267 wrote:
    APIII wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    APIII wrote:
    Fizik saddles. Horrendously priced and I've never found one that was comfortable for more than an hour.

    Can you count saddles as being overrated though? All are ars*s are different.

    Y
    eah, maybe. I should have just said overpriced :wink:
    You were right first time fizik are sh*t,and very expensive.At least with selle italia you get a saddle you can use,even though it's very expensive.

    The Fizik Arione is the only saddle I can use all day and completely forget about. Selle Italia are as expensive and are uncomfortable for me. As has been said, saddles are an individual choice. Interestingly though, most people I know seem to ride Ariones.
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    josborn wrote:
    Assos clothes are amazing.

    Specialized helmets, shoes, pumps etc are rubbish
    I couldn`t disagree more about specialized, particularly the shoes. All their stuff is well thought out and reasonably priced.
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  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    their shoes fit fab.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    CatEye - I don't care how good the lights are if the crappy plastic mounts break and the thing smashes on the tarmac.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Don't think much of either of my Spesh mini-pumps I've bought but have found their clothing and footwear to be very good and their BG gloves to be superb.
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Assos shorts are waaay overpriced and not comfy for me.

    Specialized shoes are great for me - i prefer them to Sidi and they dont put cyclists into crappy adverts.

    My Fizik arione is great.

    Everyones perspectives are different though - just check the reviews of your favourite restaurant - clearly people are stupid ! ;-)
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Endura - agreed.

    Pedals - 105 prdals are mor eor less the same as Dura Ace. More than most components, you just can't tell the difference.

    Expensive carbon bottle cages - why?
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.

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