Maybe they went with the aero dynamic look on the head tube and Pascal colours so 80s styleinsightt47 wrote:Jean wrote:A pretty ordinary looking bike made downright awful by a terrible colour. My stomach turns every time they show Radio Shack Leopard Trek rider at this year's TdF - and it's not because it's usually Andy Schelck in one of their see-through jerseys. I'm not sure I could even watch Jens ride
That is the ugliest head tube i have ever seen. What were Trek thinking, the previous Madone had perfect asthetics.
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haha Say Whatrangersac wrote:Useful for gay pride marches and more generally for making onlookers feel queasy
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haha I love it. Is that wrong?rangersac wrote:Useful for gay pride marches and more generally for making onlookers feel queasy
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Somebody, anybody tell me that that's a shoop.Aushiker wrote:
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Ahh, Thanks Rheicel, just spotted it. My eyes were too blurry from the horror to notice before.rheicel wrote:Cropped photo Shaun. Can see that at the bottom chain line.
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Postby mitchy_ » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:04 pm
that, and the front wheel is a super light weight zero spoke design!rheicel wrote:Cropped photo Shaun. Can see that at the bottom chain line.
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I just noticed it now! Possibly using a magnetic field spoke theremitchy_ wrote: that, and the front wheel is a super light weight zero spoke design!
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New Brand of spokes you just cant see them yetrheicel wrote:I just noticed it now! Possibly using a magnetic field spoke theremitchy_ wrote: that, and the front wheel is a super light weight zero spoke design!
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+1, there's a right way to do wavy (ie Avanti from a year or two ago) and then there's the wrong way ^.southeastD wrote:All in the eye of the beholder, but I find all Pinarello literally dog ugly, the wave forks and stays are hideous.
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Postby Duck! » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:23 pm
Well the bike leg of a tri is basically a TT, so the bikes are conceptually similar. The fundamental difference though is that Tri bikes are not bound by UCI rules especially concerning aero tube profiles and seat nose/BB centre offset. Hence "Tri geometry". The rest is just mucketing guff.Dragster1 wrote: I am confused now, Why does the manufacturer say it is a TT with tri geometry
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Thanks for clearing it up a bit, I'm not into my triathlons but I was always under the impression that the tri bike is more relaxed in frame geometry, In that the seat tube angle as it pushes your hips forward so that you don't load up your calf muscles as much as for the tt is a sprint to the end and it dosnt matter if you have spent all your energy and muscles up. I suppose you would ride what ever suits your styleDuck! wrote:Well the bike leg of a tri is basically a TT, so the bikes are conceptually similar. The fundamental difference though is that Tri bikes are not bound by UCI rules especially concerning aero tube profiles and seat nose/BB centre offset. Hence "Tri geometry". The rest is just mucketing guff.Dragster1 wrote: I am confused now, Why does the manufacturer say it is a TT with tri geometry
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Wrong thread. This is gorgeous and if it was my size, it would be mine.jasonc wrote:this turned up in the facebook bicycle market
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I need a link. For $83 I'm buying the family one each.mddawson wrote:They are only $262 with free shipping to Oz!ldrcycles wrote:Good god, rod brakes and westwood rims on a newly manufactured machine . 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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+1HLC wrote:I need a link. For $83 I'm buying the family one each.
for $83 i'll strip it
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Fake dealer unfortunately. Aliexpress refunded my money within a week and shut down that dealer.HLC wrote:I need a link. For $83 I'm buying the family one each.mddawson wrote:They are only $262 with free shipping to Oz!ldrcycles wrote:Good god, rod brakes and westwood rims on a newly manufactured machine . I'd be tempted if the quality wasn't so horrific.
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