Worst MTB you've owned.

[MingtheMerciless]

Following on from the worst motorbike you've owned thread, how about a worst MTB thread?

To start, my Rocky Mountain Element, in the last years of 26inch wheeled bikes I bought an Element frame, 120mm of full suss carbon goodness. I'd test ridden one and thought it was amazing. So I built the bike up as a custom build, it was everything you could want; fast, light and fun to ride.......until you got up to warp 9 and pedalling at ten tenths, then its evil side would show. It had "fashionably" low BB and it'd blow though its travel on a bump and if pedalling would strike and invite you to leave quite forcibly via the skylight. I had some huge off's before I worked out what was going on. I tried shorter crank arms to no avail so in the end it got pensioned off to the shed when I discovered 29ers.

I've had heavy MTB's (Marin Quake), twitchy MTB's (Trek 8500) but nothing beat the Element for its ability to throw me into the floor without warning.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I've only owned two, a 2nd hand Carrera Vengeance that cost £70 and a brand new Haibike Hardnine 8.0, that cost £2.5K, the Carrera isn't as good as the Haibike

[Ditchfinder]

On One Inbred - one of the later versions. Don't know how they got the thing to weigh so much. Felt dead too - not a springy steel feeling in sight. Would barrel over rough stuff in a straight line but turning circle of tanker.

Also Trek VRX - the suspension on that thing - every pedal stroke seemed to extract maximum travel from the shock regardless of how much preload you wound on. Was also tall and short with a steep head angle so kept trying to kill you by tucking the front. I think I rode it three times before flogging it.

[weeksy]

Commencal Super4. Snapped twice in 4 months.

Replaced by Evans with a Meta55 frame

[Mr Moofo]

Orange Patriot 66. Loved it at the time because I knew no better.
Frame so flexi it changed gear on its own ( I didn’t realise and changed the cranks, derailleur , rear hanger etc).
For a L frame incredibly short.
And very, very noisy - internal routing of cables in a Halifax filing cabinet was not the best choice.
And stick-on decals that scratched off in seconds - on a 2.5 k bike (in 2005)

Pedal induced bobbing was huge - it weighed a tonne, and I stopped riding it when I got a On-One 456 ...

[lostboy]

On One Inbred - one of the later versions. Don't know how they got the thing to weigh so much. Felt dead too - not a springy steel feeling in sight. Would barrel over rough stuff in a straight line but turning circle of tanker.

That. I had a 26 version which built up really well and was a cracking bike. So I bought the 29 frame for my first venture into wagon wheeling - what a bag of shit. As you rightly say, ridiculously heavy and with none of that steel subtlety. It met it's maker in the most bizarre of circumstances as well - out on a ride and just got a branch flicked up between crank and frame, not something that should trouble any frame but oh no, completely bent out of alignment, to the point that I couldn't even singlespeed it up for the rest of the ride as the chain was always trying to ride up the cassette.

Fortunately @Mr Moofo Moofo had the Cotic Solaris frame available that he felt was a little big for him (I'm slightly taller) and that built into a fantastic steely hardtail with all the plus points of that frame material and it's still going strong today.

[v8-powered]

Apollo

Nothing more to say really....