Ugly Bikes

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby Mulger bill » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:13 pm

:lol:
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby find_bruce » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:40 pm

Mulger bill wrote::lol:
Glad you got it, was worried I was a bit subtle :wink:

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby g-boaf » Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:07 pm

ldrcycles wrote:
Paul B wrote:
g-boaf wrote:The Falco V is a strange thing:

http://www.tririg.com/galleries.php?id= ... First_Look" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You'd get a lot of attention riding that.
Now that is one cool looking machine 8)
+1, that's sick!
Yeah, I wouldn't knock it back if it were offered to me. 8)

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby The 2nd Womble » Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:50 pm

Edit. This thread isn't worthy of that bike.
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby mddawson » Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:17 pm

Ugly construction:

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby Paul B » Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:30 pm

mddawson wrote:Ugly construction:

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Might buy one for my mother in law. Bought her an electric chair last year and she still hasn't plugged it in :twisted:
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby ldrcycles » Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:50 pm

Holy weld spatter batman! And what the heck is going on with those levers and spring coming off the cranks?

P.S. I'm building up a shopping bike atm which has the ugliest welds i'd ever seen until that blue monstrosity, pics definitely coming for this thread once it's finished :) .
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby mddawson » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:06 pm

ldrcycles wrote:Holy weld spatter batman! And what the heck is going on with those levers and spring coming off the cranks?
The whole nasty thing is here: http://tiny.cc/3wb43w

I have been trying to figure out the lever as well, maybe a handbrake?

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby Mulger bill » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:13 pm

mddawson wrote:I have been trying to figure out the lever as well, maybe a handbrake?
Linky no worky but parking brake would be my guess, is it a trike?
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby mddawson » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:23 pm

Aliexpress is a goldmine of ugly!:

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby mddawson » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:28 pm

Mulger bill wrote:
mddawson wrote:I have been trying to figure out the lever as well, maybe a handbrake?
Linky no worky but parking brake would be my guess, is it a trike?
Yes its a trike with a ute style tray:

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby dalai47 » Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:33 pm

mddawson wrote:
ldrcycles wrote:Holy weld spatter batman! And what the heck is going on with those levers and spring coming off the cranks?
The whole nasty thing is here: http://tiny.cc/3wb43w

I have been trying to figure out the lever as well, maybe a handbrake?
It may have ugly welds, but it is the worlds lightest and possibly smallest bike! According to that page = package details

Unit Type:
piece

Package Weight:
1.000kg (2.20lb.)

Package Size:
22cm x 22cm x 22cm (8.66in x 8.66in x 8.66in)

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby ldrcycles » Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:02 pm

Good god, rod brakes and westwood rims on a newly manufactured machine :shock: . I'd be tempted if the quality wasn't so horrific.

Is something weird going on with the spoke lacing on those wheels, something doesn't look right to me?
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby mddawson » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:01 am

ldrcycles wrote:Good god, rod brakes and westwood rims on a newly manufactured machine :shock: . I'd be tempted if the quality wasn't so horrific.

Is something weird going on with the spoke lacing on those wheels, something doesn't look right to me?
They are only $262 with free shipping to Oz!

I am currently waiting on a fairly ugly $83 folding mountain bike I purchased on aliexpress and will report back on the quality, etc when it arrives:

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby jasonc » Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:07 am

mddawson wrote:I am currently waiting on a fairly ugly $83 folding mountain bike I purchased on aliexpress and will report back on the quality, etc when it arrives:
when or if?

$83 wouldn't cover the shipping

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby Dan » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:23 am

Added to that, you need to pay a forty gazillion dollar fine for posting a picture of teny wheels. Or are they teny rip offs? What has the world come to?

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby Mulger bill » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:12 am

Dan wrote:Added to that, you need to pay a forty gazillion dollar fine for posting a picture of teny wheels. Or are they teny rip offs? What has the world come to?
I like those wheels. Been thinking of blinging up the wheelbarrow... :shock:
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby mddawson » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:08 pm

jasonc wrote:
mddawson wrote:I am currently waiting on a fairly ugly $83 folding mountain bike I purchased on aliexpress and will report back on the quality, etc when it arrives:
when or if?

$83 wouldn't cover the shipping
The low cost could also be a result of Chinese Government subsidies. Also individual sales like mine give people a taste so they might be inclined to make bulk orders of products.

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby London Boy » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:18 pm

ldrcycles wrote:
Paul B wrote:
g-boaf wrote:The Falco V is a strange thing:

http://www.tririg.com/galleries.php?id= ... First_Look" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You'd get a lot of attention riding that.
Now that is one cool looking machine 8)
+1, that's sick!
Naah mate, that is hideous.

It needs cosmetic surgery. Either that or two bags...

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby DoubleSpeeded » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:52 pm

dunno if this has been posted but im not gonna look at 27 pages.

but as much as i love my TT bikes....

this has got to be the EFFINnnnnNNNNNn......... U - G - L - I - E - S - T TT bike, that ever landed on planet earth!!!!!!!!!!


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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby twizzle » Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:04 pm

That's a Tri bike, not a TT bike. The day is saved!


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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby Duck! » Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:06 pm

twizzle wrote:That's a Tri bike, not a TT bike.
Which further validates its existence in this thread.
I had a thought, but it got run over as it crossed my mind.

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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby il padrone » Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:18 pm

Mulger bill wrote:
rangersac wrote:Some bits of this bike are quite nice, but the seat tube-top tube join and the headtube are just awful

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Beyond awful and disappearing into the distance, I just threw up al little in my mouth.

Somebody, anybody tell me how you are supposed to shift gears on this thing...
Their car looks a lot better than their bike.
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby MarkG » Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:37 pm

DoubleSpeeded wrote:dunno if this has been posted but im not gonna look at 27 pages.

but as much as i love my TT bikes....

this has got to be the EFFINnnnnNNNNNn......... U - G - L - I - E - S - T TT bike, that ever landed on planet earth!!!!!!!!!!


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Not only is it a tri-specific bike it's also been replaced by a tri-specific Shiv years ago..
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Re: Ugly Bikes

Postby twizzle » Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:26 am

Duck! wrote:
twizzle wrote:That's a Tri bike, not a TT bike.
Which further validates its existence in this thread.
Awwwww.... There are *some* nice Tri-specific bikes out there. And it's hard to be pretty with Tri geometry - although in the case of this bike they really didn't make an effort.

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