[Iesu]

i think it's an optical illusion due to the less than familiar angles....

on the looks - fairy snuff!

[BB]

If you lust after function over instead of form then a Halfords £50 job should be fine for the commute. Either way, that brown hacking lump has no place on a bike pron thread.

Let me try and get this back on track.

Behold the super record Bianchi SL in all it's glory.

[Iesu]

If you lust after function over instead of form then a Halfords £50 job should be fine for the commute.

I beg to differ, It wouldn't last more than 3 months on these roads or the conditions i ride in

what about one of these?

[BB]

No.

[Duma]

Iesu - that looks great, but somehow it just doesn't seem to fit the bill, when the bill is "bike p0rn"

[Iesu]

any better?


always fancied a yeti - didn't missy giove ride for them in the days long before the drugs bust?
 

[BB]

BOOM!

I think He's got it! 

[Houdini]

Nice bike, shame about the paint job.

I'd like to ride it, not read it.

[chappers]

nice one houdini, i was just about to write "who makes that bike?", got enough logos on it?? bet it goes like stink though!

and as for the brown salsa, please don't, it just looks confused, what is it trying to be?

that surly big dummy on the other hand, it is a lifetime goal of mine to own one of them! i love my surly long haul trucker, i aim to get a steamroller next when i sell my steel track frame, tell my girlfriend "im only going to have 4 bikes for a bit" sneak it into the garage and secretly build it, boom fleet of 5 bikes back up to full strength!

[Iesu]

nice one houdini, i was just about to write "who makes that bike?", got enough logos on it?? bet it goes like stink though!

and as for the brown salsa, please don't, it just looks confused, what is it trying to be?

that surly big dummy on the other hand, it is a lifetime goal of mine to own one of them! i love my surly long haul trucker, i aim to get a steamroller next when i sell my steel track frame, tell my girlfriend "im only going to have 4 bikes for a bit" sneak it into the garage and secretly build it, boom fleet of 5 bikes back up to full strength!

how's the trucker for riding? I've been tempted by that one on the cycle scheme, but i was tending towards the salsa (or similar) for the disc brake safety blanket - spent too much of my life fiddling with canti set-ups, at least fiddling with disc set-ups is new!

[soapy]

[Falling Down]

I've been building a singlespeed bike over the last six months as a bit of a project and for something to thrash around the local trails and roads.  Being completely clueless about bike construction it's been a process of trial and much error but it got finished this evening.  Not exactly top of the range bike pron but I couldn't find another suitable thread and I am pretty pleased with my baby.



The frame is a DMR Trailstar 2 that I got really cheap from Mark Anthony's in Buxton along with some heavy duty Insane jump rims that had been gathering dust and corrosion that soon scrubbed up nicely with some wire wool.   The bottom bracket, cranks and sprocket are Insane BMX components with DMR pedals, tires, seatpost and seat.

For the conversion I used a Gusset double-six singlespeed converter and picked up a 16 tooth cog from eBay.  The Marzocchi Bomber Forks, bars and brakes were all cannibalised off the Specialised P All-Mountain that I got from eBay a couple of years ago.

Took it out for a spin earlier and it rides great. Like a big BMX.  Needs a bit of tweaking to get the geometry right and there's a rattling washer on the bottom bracket but aside from that it's schweet. 

[clm]

my too small kona has similar geometry. Big bmx feel is fun. Shit up hills mind but i reckon its worth it.

Ps. I think the cofidis red and white liveried look is the shit. I want one. 

[chappers]

nice one houdini, i was just about to write "who makes that bike?", got enough logos on it?? bet it goes like stink though!

and as for the brown salsa, please don't, it just looks confused, what is it trying to be?

that surly big dummy on the other hand, it is a lifetime goal of mine to own one of them! i love my surly long haul trucker, i aim to get a steamroller next when i sell my steel track frame, tell my girlfriend "im only going to have 4 bikes for a bit" sneak it into the garage and secretly build it, boom fleet of 5 bikes back up to full strength!

how's the trucker for riding? I've been tempted by that one on the cycle scheme, but i was tending towards the salsa (or similar) for the disc brake safety blanket - spent too much of my life fiddling with canti set-ups, at least fiddling with disc set-ups is new!

sorry, i didnt see this, its great, love it, will soon be riding it every day to work. but it is heavy as shit and takes time to get up to a good rolling speed!

[clm]

not quite bike pr0n but a i got a rapha merino wool jersey this  morning for my birthday. 

[john horscroft]

I bought myself some pron! 

http://www.yeticycles.com/#/bikes/575/1/

Bought the frame from The Bike Tree and loads of SLX and XT kit to go on it.  Luckily, I've salvaged forks and wheels from my deceased Scott so that's saved me a mint!  Course, I'm now fuckin' potless...............

[cofe]

tell me you got it in white john...

[Norton Sharley]

ooooooooooohhhhh.

Very nice.  I love the way the 575 rides, one of the best trail bikes I've ever ridden.

[john horscroft]

tell me you got it in white john...

Good god man, what kind of a big girls blouse do you take me for!?  It's white and turquoise for me - mucho manly.......

[john horscroft]

ooooooooooohhhhh.

Very nice.  I love the way the 575 rides, one of the best trail bikes I've ever ridden.

Top marks to the boys at Bike Tree for getting me to test it.......it was inevitable I'd put my hand in my pocket after that!

[Norton Sharley]

Went down there at lunch today.  Top bloke(s).  Even had tiny replacement Hope bits which is ace.  Also passed the Norton Sharley industry standard bike shop test of having some gear cable outer in stock (unlike EBC and that bunch of  down the road).

The way I heard it John is that you've been in the shop every day for the last week drooling over the 575.  By the time you rode it wasn't it already a done deal? 

[cofe]

not in white? BACK AROUND JOHN!

[john horscroft]

The way I heard it John is that you've been in the shop every day for the last week drooling over the 575.  By the time you rode it wasn't it already a done deal? 

Don't know where you heard that!  It was nothing like that, not at all, no, ok, a bit, well, quite a lot I suppose!!

Any road up I didn't drool ON it, only next to it..............

[john horscroft]

not in white? BACK AROUND JOHN!

Fair cop.  I'll break out that old tin of white emulsion I've got somewhere...................

[fatdoc]

Went down there at lunch today.  Top bloke(s).  Even had tiny replacement Hope bits which is ace.  Also passed the Norton Sharley industry standard bike shop test of having some gear cable outer in stock (unlike EBC and that bunch of  down the road).

The way I heard it John is that you've been in the shop every day for the last week drooling over the 575.  By the time you rode it wasn't it already a done deal? 

if Norton rates it.. it's good.

I have  a few bike project possibilities in the pipeline.. I'll need someone to face a frame if it comes off.. if so I'll give them a call