What Were They Thinking? | Biggest Mountain Bike Tech Flops Of All Time
What is the biggest mountain bike tech fail ever? No, it’s not the ever-increasing cost of bikes. But it is one of these five innovations that promised the world and crashed spectacularly.
From linkage forks and suspension stems through to planetary geared front derailleur killers, these flops cover the weird, not so wonderful – and just downright ugly and dangerous in some cases.
What do you think is the biggest mountain bike flop of all time? Let us know in the comments!
#MTB #Flops #WTF
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:22 Shimano Dual Control
01:45 Girvin Flexstem
03:00 URT Suspension Frames
04:49 Truvativ HammerSchmidt
06:43 Linkage Forks
08:22 Outro
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