Made the wrong bike/component choice - effect on your life?

capoz77

You bought the wrong bike/component, you rode it - didn't like it you sold it and changed it, perhaps you kept it.

Perhaps you thought it was great but others didn't. Perhaps other people might have viewed your choice as *cough*under/over-biked *cough*

The wrong choice could have been a HUGE fork with masses of travel, a fork with not enough travel - or a fully rigid singlespeed which wouldn't be right for your needs, or a 10" downhill monster for the canal towpath.

This thread is all about getting to the bottom of how did it effect your life?

supersonic

I had to ring the Samaritans.

But nah, never made a wrong choice as such - maybe could have been a better one, but I wouldn't say bad.

Raymondavalon

It didn't because I have a life that involves owning bikes but my life doesn't revolve around owning a bike.
Pointless Poll IMO with annoying red text in the OP..

nicklouse

too many words.

capoz77

well the real purpose of this thread, is to answer Realmans questions, he's very concerned about the millions of us making the wrong bike choice.

RealMan wrote:

And what if they buy the wrong bike because of some of the reasons stated above, and it doesn't make them happy?

Or what about if they think its making them happy? Sure, it will be fine - until they try out a mates bike and realize its just as fast with less effort. Or when they realize they have to pay for shock/fork/gear services etc. And it won't improve their riding as much - and I bet no one here could say they don't want their riding to improve.

A mate of mine has persuaded tons of people into trying Rigid SS, and once they try it, hardly any of them go back. He hasn't got me yet though..

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopi ... &start=240

asdfhjkl

There are too many choices for this poll; this thread is massively over-choiced. A single choice wouldn't give enough versatility and is a silly decision when you consider the technology that allows us to have multiple choices these days, but at least for this question it'd be a bit more suited. :P Definitely wouldn't be under-choiced.

furby

I never make the wrong component choice, thats what we have supersonic for on here isnt it?

snotty badger

I would go on the Jeremy Kyle show but I fear his rath for over biking would be too much. Could do withe the £££ to buy some longer travel forks though!

bomberesque

In 2003, I bought into long travel trail bikes too early on a whim.

Lesson; just because you can put a front deurallier on a kona stinky, doesn't make it an AM bike

In 2000 I bought a frame that was too big for me

Lesson; a bike that feels the right size on the road outside the bike shop will be too big on the trail

got over both of them, still have the stinky but reserved for uplift/fall down duties.

cat_with_no_tail

I sold my XC bike because it didn't have enough travel for me.

In a moment of madness, and without any real research, I then used the money to buy a Commie MiniDH on a 9x1 setup and realised pretty much straight away that I was "overbiked" and didn't enjoy DH half as much as I remember from my younger days.

Still, fettled it a bit, serviced it, stipped it down and sold the parts, actually made a (very small) profit out of it.

I now have something inbetween the 2, and learned some valuable lessons along the way.

MacAndCheese

I currently thinking that a XC race style 100mm travel hardtail may have been a mistake as my riding has got a lot harder hitting recently, But I still enjoy every second of it and it's so quick to accelerate and so bloomin' light. Seriously looking into building a longer travel 'hardcore hardtail' but then that might overlap too much with FS bike.....so I think the solution is something like a Chameleon with travel adjust forks...o well, won't have the funds for this for at least 6 months so I'll probably have changed my mind by then!

bannedbiker

My Reign with its AM build aint great for the 10mile communte, couple years back I bought a fixed wheel roadie for the commute, had it for nearly a year, used it for less than half of that, sold it and then got my Rockhopper, ideal for commuting, gentler rides with non-biker mates/family and general fecking around...

Lesson learnt:- stay away from the dark side