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

uberwolf · 2004-02-02 15:15:06

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. [/B]And of their dream bikes etc. happy viewing. thats my current babe, in white. She's a few years old now though, so I'd love to have the money to replace her. Till…

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#6692 01-04-2014 1:13pm
mossym

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Jude13 wrote: »

Dont think the bars will be cut at the cables go through them.

cables are easily shortened. unless your mate has arms like a gorilla the reach on those bars seems very long. could just be the picture though

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#6693 01-04-2014 2:07pm
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Here is one for Rok On

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#6694 02-04-2014 9:25am
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#6695 03-04-2014 10:07am
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#6696 03-04-2014 10:09am
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AstraMonti wrote: »

Let's get back on topic:

i love the bike, i'm just not so sure about the colour choice for the tires

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#6697 03-04-2014 11:18am
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mossym wrote: »

i love the bike, i'm just not so sure about the colour choice for the tires

Personally I think that the wheel / tyre (Veloflex masters) combination is great. I have the same myself. Black tyres are fine but we could do without them on every bike!

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#6698 03-04-2014 11:41am
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#6699 03-04-2014 11:43am
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Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Wait..... what's that bike leaning against??

they/them/theirs

And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek

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#6700 03-04-2014 11:47am
mossym

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letape wrote: »

Personally I think that the wheel / tyre (Veloflex masters) combination is great. I have the same myself. Black tyres are fine but we could do without them on every bike!

i like those tires, on the bottecchia posted afterwards i think that style works perfectly, just not on the colnago

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#6701 03-04-2014 12:00pm
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Brian? wrote: »

Wait..... what's that bike leaning against??

It's not. You can see hand in top left corner, where a holder has quickly let it go for the photo, only to grab it again before it falls.

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#6702 03-04-2014 12:06pm
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Brian? wrote: »

Wait..... what's that bike leaning against??

I think the mysterious hand at top left of pic was holding it and let go :pac:

Edit: I've to read all the posts before I reply...

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#6703 03-04-2014 12:09pm
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Brian? wrote: »

Wait..... what's that bike leaning against??

You can see the shadow of the hand that is holding it. They forgot to edit that bit...

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#6704 03-04-2014 12:25pm
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@ Astra

Thanks. Some day I will treat myself to a high end bike. The only manufacturer that I would consider is Colnago.
Most likely a Master X Light.
The overwhelming majority of bikes on this thread are far from beauty's. Happily there are people of class that post the occasional picture.
To the Astras and HarryBs of this thread, thank you and keep up the good work.

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#6705 03-04-2014 12:26pm
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cdaly_ wrote: »

You can see the shadow of the hand that is holding it. They forgot to edit that bit...

You can see the hand.

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#6706 03-04-2014 4:56pm
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Harrybelafonte wrote: »

<massive quoted image snipped>

I know re quoting pics and all that but this bike is better than sex...

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#6707 03-04-2014 5:03pm
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RobFowl wrote: »

I know re quoting pics and all that but this bike is better than sex...

Not convinced by its chorus groupset

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#6708 03-04-2014 5:15pm
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letape wrote: »

Not convinced by its chorus groupset

Then you need to find another sport

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#6709 03-04-2014 5:34pm
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letape wrote: »

Not convinced by its chorus groupset

I'm not convinced by its prescence in the thread at all based on its impression visually, but then again I'm not a retro fan in any way at all so it may just be lost on me...

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#6710 03-04-2014 5:47pm
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RobFowl wrote: »

I know re quoting pics and all that but this bike is better than sex...

You may need to find a new partner.

they/them/theirs

And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek

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#6711 03-04-2014 5:48pm
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RobFowl wrote: »

this bike is better than sex...

Maybe your doing it wrong?

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#6712 03-04-2014 7:08pm
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RobFowl wrote: »

I know re quoting pics and all that but this bike is better than sex...

the lines, the colours, the contrast of the darker colours versus the lighter, the obvious painstaking care and love that went into hand building that work of art.

now if someone would just get the bike out of the way so we cna admire the wall more we'd be sorted.

i jest of course, love the bike. not sure i'd rank it quite that high though

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#6713 03-04-2014 8:09pm
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RobFowl wrote: »

I know re quoting pics and all that but this bike is better than sex...

Be even better if the saddle was white!

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#6714 03-04-2014 8:25pm
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RobFowl wrote: »

Then you need to find another sport

I had that same chorus groupset myself in the early 90s - on my training bike :-)

I just think that a frame like that to make it special deserves a c record groupset.

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#6715 03-04-2014 8:29pm
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We should probably have a thread for bikes more than three years old, for people that have been in the sport for more than three years to admire!

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#6716 03-04-2014 8:39pm
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letape wrote: »

We should probably have a thread for bikes more than three years old, for people that have been in the sport for more than three years to admire!

I definitely fall into that category, not ashamed to admit it. I like what I like and the older bikes just aren't it but let's not segregate older bikes into a separate thread. Just because I or others say it's not beautiful shouldn't make it any less beautiful to you or anyone who thinks it it.

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#6717 03-04-2014 9:00pm
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tonite I was coming back from a beautiful cycle. I saw a guy ahead so I cruised up to his wheel. We swapped a few turns.

His bike was breathtaking.
Red steelframe Cinelli with downtube shifters and chrome forks and chainstays.
Finished off with a modern set of Mavic Ksyrium SLRs with red rims matching the bike.

I don't a a picture, just an image in my head of the most beautiful bike that I have ever seen in the flesh. The dude said it was from 1980.

I dint know if he comes by here at all.
Sir if you do post a picture of your bike.

You win the thread.

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#6718 03-04-2014 9:33pm
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Beasty wrote: »

Last edited by Beasty; Today at 19:38. Reason: Not such a cunning plan now, eh Rob?

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#6719 03-04-2014 9:37pm
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Brian? wrote: »

You may need to find a new partner.

Woo Hoo, PM me your number......

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#6720 03-04-2014 11:09pm
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HarryB's last two photos demonstrate perfectly how bike design has moved from the beautiful to the beastly in a few short decades. The Bottecchia is an absolute classic, a high point in an aesthetic evolution that developed over thirty or more years. The Ridley on the other hand is a souped up frame on steroids with wheels that frankly look gross. Maybe in twenty years carbon bike design will reach the same heights that steel was at in the 80s. It may be lighter, it may be stiffer but it has an awful long way to go.
Just saying!

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#6721 04-04-2014 7:13am
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Mercian Pro wrote: »

HarryB's last two photos demonstrate perfectly how bike design has moved from the beautiful to the beastly in a few short decades. The Bottecchia is an absolute classic, a high point in an aesthetic evolution that developed over thirty or more years. The Ridley on the other hand is a souped up frame on steroids with wheels that frankly look gross. Maybe in twenty years carbon bike design will reach the same heights that steel was at in the 80s. It may be lighter, it may be stiffer but it has an awful long way to go.
Just saying!

But this is the conservative take on it. Design can't plateau. Bike design and car design have gone a similar way ~ the general populace way. Look at our current mainstream selection of cars/bikes for the general public ~ bland, safe and "Do you have it in silver?"

A vast majority of posts that contain reader's wives in this thread are the bicycle version of Ford Mondeos... Or maybe they're Skoda Octavias. I'm not sure, there's only a slight difference.

Boring, boring, boring. And why are they boring? Cos the general populace are boring and they were the ones asked by manufacturers unwilling to take risks about what they liked and had what they liked built for them. Pininfarina, Bertone etc are either going out of business or gone. Design that pushed limits is gone. The public get to vote on what they want cars to look like and that's how we find ourselves at this point.

However, things are changing and Citroen and Alfa and Fiat and a few others are starting to experiment again. The public mindset will change and more options available means the public have to make aesthetic choices and we'll slowly see more exciting designs and a greater public appetite for them.

Bike design IMHO will work the same way. Fine, you don't like the Ridley, I do. Maybe you don't like the Aventador either. I do. But I also like the Lancia Stratos, the Fulvia, the Saab 99 etc. The very things you don't like about the Ridley are what I do like. But what could we both say about a lower end Felt or Giant... Not much, there has to be an element of design there to critique in the first place. We shouldn't built carbon versions of 80s steel, it's of an era of its own, but we need to built exciting carbon bikes. NO to sloping down tubes I say!

I'll post a pic later to compensate for all the text.

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