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Oryx

That festka should be buried in a very deep hole.

Scrappy600

I quite like the ribble frame but not the bars that are on it. The wheels would be much nicer plain black though, against the white spokes

denbatt

3102derek wrote: »

Much nice version.

Any pictures of one with a slightly larger frame, the shallow headtube looks all wrong

Scrappy600

check_six

Scrappy600 wrote: »

Full suspension and a brake? I wonder what type of terrain or speeds the designer of this bike thought it would experience.

Alek

check_six wrote: »

I wonder what type of terrain or speeds the designer of this bike thought it would experience.

niceonetom

Darkglasses

Absolutely love that, it'd look better if it was a size smaller.

denbatt

Darkglasses wrote: »

Absolutely love that, it'd look better if it was a size smaller.

And with the stem flipped.

check_six

Darkglasses wrote: »

Absolutely love that, it'd look better if it was a size smaller.

Yeah, that Merckx looks pretty good. Maybe we're missing something. The seat stays are a little weird, I suppose.

Perhaps niceonetom could set us straight and enlighten us as to the reasons behind his choice.

Lusk_Doyle

check_six wrote: »

Yeah, that Merckx looks pretty good. Maybe we're missing something. The seat stays are a little weird, I suppose.

Perhaps niceonetom could set us straight and enlighten us as to the reasons behind his choice.

Pure unadulterated bike porn is why, I'd say!

Chips Lovell

Huge frame, massive head tube, flipped stem, spacers, saddle slammed forward, ugly tiny compact bars, boring paint job.

At least there's tubs on those wheels. Otherwise it would be a proper Fred chariot.

Lusk_Doyle

Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »

Huge frame, massive head tube, flipped stem, spacers, saddle slammed forward, ugly tiny compact bars, boring paint job.

At least there's tubs on those wheels. Otherwise it would be a proper Fred chariot.

How can you tell that they are tubs?

Chips Lovell

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

How can you tell that they are tubs?

The tyres.

Harrybelafonte

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

How can you tell that they are tubs?

Thin strip of tan between black rubber and wheel?

niceonetom

What Vlad said, but more. The Merckx makes me wince because it's all so wrong. None of it makes sense. As well as the fact that it's simply visually unappealing to me there's a deeper ugliness.

There are pretensions to racing - 525 is supposedly the number of wins in Eddy's career - but it's all just pretensions. That's the bike of a wealthy middle aged man who came to the sport late, never raced and, as if to make up for it, goes a little too heavy on the whole heritage thing while still not actually getting much about what I really love about cycling. He loves Eddy Merckx, he's watched some footage on youtube. He knows all the rules, but doesn't quite understand that they're ironic.

He has to have the deep wheels and the aero frame despite the fact that the years and paunch mean he has to sit bolt upright and, to be honest, even the compact leaves him a bit overgeared. He has to have Campagnolo too (heritage!) though he can't quite stop himself pronouncing the G.

If cycling is "the new golf" then that bike is aimed at the lad with several grand's worth of clubs and a triple-digit handicap.

Add that to the fact that this rider is fictional and that the bike was put actually together, expertly photographed and publicised by a company (and with that name) to appeal to that fictive arriviste... well that just smacks of something deeply ugly: cynicism.

But hey, this is just my opinion.

Lumen

niceonetom wrote: »

He has to have Campagnolo too (heritage!) though he can't quite stop himself pronouncing the G.

Funny foreign accents coming from people who can't fluently speak the language sound pretentious to me.

That's why I pronounce it "Compog".

letape

niceonetom wrote: »

What Vlad said, but more. The Merckx makes me wince because it's all so wrong. None of it makes sense. As well as the fact that it's simply visually unappealing to me there's a deeper ugliness.

There are pretensions to racing - 525 is supposedly the number of wins in Eddy's career - but it's all just pretensions. That's the bike of a wealthy middle aged man who came to the sport late, never raced and, as if to make up for it, goes a little too heavy on the whole heritage thing while still not actually getting much about what I really love about cycling. He loves Eddy Merckx, he's watched some footage on youtube. He knows all the rules, but doesn't quite understand that they're ironic.

He has to have the deep wheels and the aero frame despite the fact that the years and paunch mean he has to sit bolt upright and, to be honest, even the compact leaves him a bit overgeared. He has to have Campagnolo too (heritage!) though he can't quite stop himself pronouncing the G.

If cycling is "the new golf" then that bike is aimed at the lad with several grand's worth of clubs and a triple-digit handicap.

Add that to the fact that this rider is fictional and that the bike was put actually together, expertly photographed and publicised by a company (and with that name) to appeal to that fictive arriviste... well that just smacks of something deeply ugly: cynicism.

But hey, this is just my opinion.

Just flip the stem over and I'm pretty sure everyone on here would love a bike like that!

Chips Lovell

niceonetom wrote: »

...even the compact ....

My god, you're right.

check_six

So, would the verdict be less harsh on the Merckx if it hadn't got a fred-style setup by the marketing people? I can't imagine a fred-type cyclist looking at a picture of a bike and noticing that it had or had not been set up with them in mind. I don't think it would influence their decision either way. Maybe the company should just concentrate on doing set-ups with the purist in mind? Maybe the Merckx company is suffering from an infestation of freds in it's marketing department?

Brian?

niceonetom wrote: »

What Vlad said, but more. The Merckx makes me wince because it's all so wrong. None of it makes sense. As well as the fact that it's simply visually unappealing to me there's a deeper ugliness.

There are pretensions to racing - 525 is supposedly the number of wins in Eddy's career - but it's all just pretensions. That's the bike of a wealthy middle aged man who came to the sport late, never raced and, as if to make up for it, goes a little too heavy on the whole heritage thing while still not actually getting much about what I really love about cycling. He loves Eddy Merckx, he's watched some footage on youtube. He knows all the rules, but doesn't quite understand that they're ironic.

He has to have the deep wheels and the aero frame despite the fact that the years and paunch mean he has to sit bolt upright and, to be honest, even the compact leaves him a bit overgeared. He has to have Campagnolo too (heritage!) though he can't quite stop himself pronouncing the G.

If cycling is "the new golf" then that bike is aimed at the lad with several grand's worth of clubs and a triple-digit handicap.

Add that to the fact that this rider is fictional and that the bike was put actually together, expertly photographed and publicised by a company (and with that name) to appeal to that fictive arriviste... well that just smacks of something deeply ugly: cynicism.

But hey, this is just my opinion.

Or Maybe it's set up for Eddy himself:

Scrappy600

Oryx

That guy with the Aston Martin looks like he is saying wtf??

AstraMonti

What the actual fcuk is this..

Scrappy600

Alek

http://www.diller.ca/images/eek.png

spyderski

I refuse to believe that Pinarello is real! Surely nobody could be that stupid????

AstraMonti

It could be a 75yo dentist with back problems

TheBlaaMan

spyderski wrote: »

I refuse to believe that Pinarello is real! Surely nobody could be that stupid????

Initially I thought the post was to draw attention to the hideous forks, and I'd seen all that before so I was a bit..........meh. Then I looked up..... :eek:

check_six

AstraMonti wrote: »

It could be a 75yo dentist with back problems

Or maybe a giant with about 4 foot of seat post coming out of the frame?
(A giant with short arms judging by the stem length, I suppose)