Thanks Aushiker, but you need to be a member of Bike Forums to view according to the message I got.Aushiker wrote:Just one part of the bike here. This just does not work for me ...
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby dfc. » Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:15 pm
Nice Mechano set!Livetoride wrote:
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Postby notwal » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:17 am
There are some gems among that lot. Some people are true artists at heart, and then there's the rest of them that seem to suffer some sort of religious affliction.khendar wrote:Some beauties here: http://weburbanist.com/2012/01/17/ridin ... bike-mods/
I was watching Monster Garage the other night. Its interesting seeing how those guys approach a project. It starts out as some sort of rough concept that gets a few rough sketches based on an available donor vehicle. Then they are right into it in the workshop designing as they go. They are guaranteed to generate lots of conflicts, design issues, and programming difficulties. That seems to be the core of the program. Anyway last night they had a monster desert dragster challenge. After a bunch of difficulties they finished the car at midnight and took it down to the local beach for a test run. The cops put an end to it before they could properly evaluate it.
Jesse James drove it in the drag comp the next day and lost handsomely. He doesn't take losing very well. He kicked the car and drove off on his motorbike and came back in a humvee with a minigun mounted on it. That's one of those machine guns with revolving barrels. It was evening and as the sun sank below the horizon the desert air air was rent with roar of sustained fire and the flash of tracer arcing through the twilight at 3,000 rounds a minute as he absolutely shredded that failure of a car. As the fire died down they gathered around what was left of that still burning perforated and much diminished wreck like a desert camp fire and rolled the credits. What a showman.
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Postby RobM » Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:06 pm
I never really liked that guy. Seems like abit of a douche with the arrogance and cheating.khendar wrote:Jesse James...
That shows pretty cool tho, how they manage to hack things together. They get a rediculous amount of freebie parts tho - their 'budgets' for each project are always out.
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Postby drubie » Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:41 pm
I kinda like it! Looks very clean to me - all the cables hidden and the paintjob is startling but it has some neat touches i.e. where the red strip jumps the gap between the frame and the fork.duds2u wrote:It's the blue bits and the yellow side walls that throw the symmetry out.
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby jasonc » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:02 pm
and the gold cassette?drubie wrote:I kinda like it! Looks very clean to me - all the cables hidden and the paintjob is startling but it has some neat touches i.e. where the red strip jumps the gap between the frame and the fork.duds2u wrote:It's the blue bits and the yellow side walls that throw the symmetry out.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby London Boy » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:24 pm
Yeah, a bit like Colin MacRae's alloy wheels. Cool, once you know he's the fastest on the planet...jasonc wrote:and the gold cassette?drubie wrote:I kinda like it! Looks very clean to me - all the cables hidden and the paintjob is startling but it has some neat touches i.e. where the red strip jumps the gap between the frame and the fork.duds2u wrote:It's the blue bits and the yellow side walls that throw the symmetry out.
Well, not any more obviously. But at the time...
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Postby Aushiker » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:28 am
Am I being a bit harsh here? Maybe more a matter of functionality over style?
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Postby Aushiker » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:39 am
nayfen wrote:^ Not a good bike for bushfire season.
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Postby jasonc » Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:56 am
he's bothered locking that up?Aushiker wrote:nayfen wrote:^ Not a good bike for bushfire season.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby find_bruce » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:06 pm
While the forks look like they are made from, ahem, "solid" timber, the rest of the bike looks like "decorative" box section around an otherwise ordinary bike.
And David_G that is only the second worst joke I have heard this week.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby jasonc » Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:27 pm
that makes you sound like a chip off the old blockDavid_G wrote:I'd roll on it, wooden you?
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby David_G » Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:13 pm
Thanks, and yes it is a carbon frame.jasonc wrote:that makes you sound like a chip off the old blockDavid_G wrote:I'd roll on it, wooden you?
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby ZepinAtor » Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:31 am
bbwwwaaaahhhMulger bill wrote:What is it about the chipster thing with stupid narow straight bars?...
I've been pining over a bike like that for years.
The bike needs a decal though.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby David_G » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:38 am
The rider obviously belongs to the latest splinter group of chipster chic cyclists....Mulger bill wrote:What is it about the chipster thing with stupid narow straight bars?...
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