[erm, sam]

I was at the ISPO Sports/Sportswear show yesterday, and amongst all the polyester I did see this rather fresh bike.
Check it.




Chappie says you can jump on the "tubing" and it is untouched, so tough is it.

[soapy]

..so that's where my pedals got to

[erm, sam]

now you mention it the pedals do look a little below par..

[Duma]

meh. The gruppo on the other hand, now that is a sweeeeeet bit of kit - sub 2kg...

[Yossarian]

i love the look of the sram stuff.

i think if i bought a brand new bike i would be tempted.

can we have a vote on the tastiest wheels, both past and present?

i have an old pair of rolf wheels kicking around.  they do look awesome. along the same lines as these -

i also have a thing for the original shamal, but i think they're quite fragile.



i've always liked zipp, but i prefer the all carbon ones to the clinchers with the metal braking surface.

if i were going to get some new ones i'm not sure what i'd chose.  maybe fulcrum zeros?

[chappers]

[soapy]

[Yossarian]

these moon discs were quite cool...

[Zods Beard]

This was the schizzle when I was a lad, crushing Delamere forest on my Kona Fire Mountain

[Yossarian]

that is awesome...

i am still looking for a great retro bike.

current fave is either a nicely tricked pace r200 or a fat chance.

early gt zaskars are nice too, as are kona explosifs...

[Houdini]

i am still looking for a great retro bike.

[joel]

many will now it already but in case you don't then check out www.retrobike.co.uk

bike of the month is a must.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49992

[joel]

  sorry about pic not working I am off to 

[clm]

I was at the ISPO Sports/Sportswear show yesterday, and amongst all the polyester I did see this rather fresh bike.
Check it.




Chappie says you can jump on the "tubing" and it is untouched, so tough is it.

I dont get it.  Aerodynamically a fucking nightmare.  Why bother?

[erm, sam]

Yeah, I don't know... I just loved the kevlar lattice outlook. I guess they are going for super light and super tough. Suppose normal thin light tubing gets dinged up easily. But you are right, it is stuupid.
Thats the thing with ISPO, every year they have to have x or y amount of stupid transport ideas that never make it because the world just doesn't need another thing thats quite like a skateboard but less cool, or quite like a normal bike, but more stupid etc etc.

[Houdini]

I dont get it.  Aerodynamically a fucking nightmare.  Why bother?

It's called "re-inventing the wheel", it's standard business practice in the manufacturing industry and worth billions per annum.   

[Bubba]

I've posted a pic of an mtb with the same style of tubing on here before but I can't find it. The bike was uber expensive but unfortunately it was also shit.