Post images of beauty (quote pics sparingly) - see Mod warnings in OP

rollingscone

Seriously time to get the post images of horror thread going...

Lusk_Doyle

Mwah hah hah hah haaaaaaaaa!

Darkglasses

Did anybody ever ride this wretched thing?

Zyzz

Darkglasses wrote: »

Did anybody ever ride this wretched thing?

Looks like something Miley Cyrus would ride..

Harrybelafonte

Darkglasses wrote: »

Did anybody ever ride this wretched thing?

Yes.

dave_o_brien

happytramp wrote: »

Except that music actually was better in the old days. 60's-90's vs the ear puke of the last two decades.

I think the fondness for good quality steel frames stems from the fact that many frames today look like a step back down the evolutionary ladder. It's been ingrained into us to believe that small, slim, minimalist, chrome is good while fat, clunky, plasticy looking is bad. Many modern bikes are the visual equivalent of the 1980's giant mobile phone. "Look everybody... we've made our product bigger, added more material, made it more fussy and cluttered"

Many modern bikes look crap. Many older bikes looked crap too.

Most modern music is crap. Most music produced between 1960 and 1999 was also crap.

It is common that as time passes, you forget the crap and only remember the stuff worth remembering.

Harrybelafonte

dave_o_brien wrote: »

Many modern bikes look crap. Many older bikes looked crap too.

Most modern music is crap. Most music produced between 1960 and 1999 was also crap.

It is common that as time passes, you forget the crap and only remember the stuff worth remembering.

Debates like this were always better when I was younger. Around 1989, best year for debates. All debates since have been ego-tripping, void of rationale and vacuous. There's just no feeling in modern debate, no finesse, it's all brutality and force. Foxtrot vs twerking.

dave_o_brien

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Debates like this were always better when I was younger. Around 1989, best year for debates. All debates since have been ego-tripping, void of rationale and vacuous. There's just no feeling in modern debate, no finesse, it's all brutality and force. Foxtrot vs twerking.

Accepting this is how I learned to stop updating my facebook status and embrace the twerk.

Harrybelafonte

FaceBook is the realm of the rationally challenged and logically ignorant (no claims to grammatical correctness are made in this post).

Also:

07Lapierre

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

This is a Ferrari so it must be beautiful, right?

I think i know who owns that bike!

Haldir

07Lapierre wrote: »

I think i know who owns that bike!

I think Dave might also like it!! :cool:

happytramp

RonanCFD wrote: »

Would it be complete heresy to build a frameset like this up with modern components? (Campag of course).

Well here's one I did last Christmas. An old 80's Moser frame with modern Campagnolo parts and a fair helping of Carbon. I'd be interested to see what Lusk, Brian? and the rest anti-steel brigade make of it. Does it cut the mustard or is it still to retro?

Seaneh

happytramp wrote: »

Well here's one I did last Christmas. An old 80's Moser frame with modern Campagnolo parts and a fair helping of Carbon. I'd be interested to see what Lusk, Brian? and the rest anti-steel brigade make of it. Does it cut the mustard or is it still to retro?

She's looking well.

lizzylad84

happytramp, what seat post is that? daft question I know.

Quigs Snr

lizzylad84 wrote: »

happytramp, what seat post is that? daft question I know.

Similar to one of the older Look seatposts.

mondeo

Just sticking up a quick pick of my Hybrid Carrera Subway.
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Idleater

mondeo wrote: »

Just sticking up a quick pick of my Hybrid Carrera Subway.

Are there not mount points for full length mudguards?

mondeo

Idleater wrote: »

Are there not mount points for full length mudguards?

There is but i just fancied those particular mudguards. The front guard is not great to be honest though. The rear seems good enough.

jimbo28

What a beauty...pity bout the price?

ROK ON

Mondeo

Can I ask why?
This is a particular thread. The title comains a clue - beauty.

Your bike is not a beauty. You must know this. If you don't, I am sorry to shatter any illusions that you may have.

It is a mass produced commuter bike. There is nothing particularly wrong with the bike, it may well be a fine bike to commute on.

But it is just that. A utilitarian form of transport.

His thread is reserved exclusively for beautiful bikes. That they may be utilitarian is actually a hindrance. That they may be modes of transport is ancillary.
They are beautiful.

Yours is not - please post it in Boards user fleets.

happytramp

lizzylad84 wrote: »

happytramp, what seat post is that? daft question I know.

One of these chaps. China's finest.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Newest-3k-Full-carbon-Road-MTB-Bike-Bicycle-Seatpost-27-2-mm-350mm-180g/964691316.html

Interesting site. Your money isn't released until you receive your goods. Quite a good idea if you ask me when dealing with these random Chinese carbon sellers.

Raam

Can... can we just ban TT bikes? Forever. From everything. Forever.

cyclic

^^^^Bike Snob

copacetic

ROK ON wrote: »

Mondeo

Can I ask why?
This is a particular thread. The title comains a clue - beauty.

Your bike is not a beauty. You must know this. If you don't, I am sorry to shatter any illusions that you may have.

It is a mass produced commuter bike. There is nothing particularly wrong with the bike, it may well be a fine bike to commute on.

But it is just that. A utilitarian form of transport.

His thread is reserved exclusively for beautiful bikes. That they may be utilitarian is actually a hindrance. That they may be modes of transport is ancillary.
They are beautiful.

Yours is not - please post it in Boards user fleets.

It was pointed out only very recently that that is not at all what the thread was setup for, the thread isn't reserved exclusively or otherwise for what you or any of us think is beautiful. See post 1.

There are 100s of pictures of run of the mill users bikes throughout the thread. It doesn't reflect well to be trying to boss other people around. Especially after a bike post with little comment on pages and pages of chat.

jimbo28

Raam wrote: »

Can... can we just ban TT bikes? Forever. From everything. Forever.

Down with that sort of thing boy!............what is it you like? soft aul talk and chaaep women ?;)

jimbo28

What a beauty...........shame about the price:)

Idleater

ROK ON wrote: »

His thread is reserved exclusively for beautiful bikes. That they may be utilitarian is actually a hindrance. That they may be modes of transport is ancillary.
They are beautiful.

Yours is not - please post it in Boards user fleets.

uberwolf wrote: »

Seeing as the after hours lads have been drooling over their own concepts of beauty thought occured that the cyclists could post images of their equipment. And of their dream bikes etc. happy viewing.

If mondeo considers the bike a beauty, it fits in this thread. Lord knows, I've posted my commuter with panniers in here. And I have a frankenbike in progress, that I had been considering not posting here, but there are some.

ROK ON

I disagree. There is a threat where we can post our own bikes.
The title of this thread specifies beauty. It is not unreasonable to expect that.

Utilitarian committee bikes are not beautiful. They are peefectl ordinary.
I am not anti them - but there is a thread for them.

This ain't it.

Darkglasses

This is just as much a thread for dream bikes as it is for people to put up pics of their own, regardless of what anyone else thinks of them. Everyone is going to see bikes here that aren't beautiful to them, but are beautiful to others.

mondeo

Personaly I find it aesthetically pleasing, I posted it here in good faith so others can have a little glimpse. Couldn't care less if some choose to dislike it :rolleyes:. Its my bike and I like it so thats all that matters. I must have some pride in it if I went to the trouble to upload it here.

ROK ON wrote: »

Mondeo

Can I ask why?
This is a particular thread. The title comains a clue - beauty.

Your bike is not a beauty. You must know this. If you don't, I am sorry to shatter any illusions that you may have.

It is a mass produced commuter bike. There is nothing particularly wrong with the bike, it may well be a fine bike to commute on.

But it is just that. A utilitarian form of transport.

His thread is reserved exclusively for beautiful bikes. That they may be utilitarian is actually a hindrance. That they may be modes of transport is ancillary.
They are beautiful.

Yours is not - please post it in Boards user fleets.