Beautiful Bikes
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby TTar » Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:41 am
A "Bombastic Bikes" thread, yes, but not here.
A "beautiful bike" must (in the eye of the beholder, at least) be beautiful, but also a bike!
I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'm not sure some of the items posted here even qualify as bicycles.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby il padrone » Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:59 am
You mean like this:TTar wrote:Any bike that looks as though it belongs in a sci-fi movie has no place in a "Beautiful Bikes" thread.
Or this:
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby RonK » Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:21 am
Get this one up ya then!TTar wrote:Any bike that looks as though it belongs in a sci-fi movie has no place in a "Beautiful Bikes" thread.
A "Bombastic Bikes" thread, yes, but not here.
A "beautiful bike" must (in the eye of the beholder, at least) be beautiful, but also a bike!
I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'm not sure some of the items posted here even qualify as bicycles.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby The 2nd Womble » Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:27 am
Huge fan of booted RGers who just can't help themselves
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:07 am
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby TTar » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:25 am
Although the concept of the bike below has always intrigued and appealed to me, you'd have to be a sociopath to find it beautiful, don't you think? And why does the front brake cable have to take that circuitous route?
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby familyguy » Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:46 pm
Modern track:
There's loads of others. Fit for purpose makes a bike great, regardless of appearance. Road, track, MTB, race, commute, whatever.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Rhubarb » Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:49 pm
Yes I do like it I'd love to be involved in this as a sport. I'd even love to spend an afternoon over a beer or two chatting all things HPV racing.Duck! wrote:If we're going down that route, here's my contribution.
Yes, it's mine.
I'm in Brisbane though So I guess I'll have to make do with following up via your youtube vids / facebook page etc.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:07 pm
Single speed? SINGLE SPEED??? *indignant splutter*il padrone wrote:single speed bike with drop bars ???
If it aint Fixed it's broken!
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby il padrone » Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:19 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby il padrone » Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:20 pm
You mean to say your fixie has more than one gear ???Mulger bill wrote:Single speed? SINGLE SPEED??? *indignant splutter*il padrone wrote:single speed bike with drop bars ???
If it aint Fixed it's broken!
Well, it's still a SS then.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby RonK » Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:52 pm
Well, since you liked it so much, here's another picture and some history.TTar wrote:IP and RonK; agent-provocateurs. What you guys are doing is tantamount to bullying! Meanies.
"Benjamin Bowden introduced this futuristic "Spacelander" bicycle design in 1946. It wasn't actually manufactured and sold until the 1960s, when it was called the Bowden, and made by Bombard Industries of Grand Haven, Mich. It has a fiberglass body, battery-operated lights, a push-button horn and a chrome-plated rear carrier. It came in five cool-sounding colors: Outer Space Blue, Cliffs of Dover White, Meadow Green, Charcoal Black and Stop Sign Red. The bicycle turned out to be expensive to make and only 522 of them were produced. This one sold at a Wright auction in Chicago for a bone-shaking $43,750."
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby TTar » Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:55 pm
You know, looking at it again... it's not without its charm.RonK wrote:.
This one sold at a Wright auction in Chicago for a bone-shaking $43,750."
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:21 pm
Both my Fixed bikes have 3 speeds (count 'em!)il padrone wrote:You mean to say your fixie has more than one gear ???Mulger bill wrote:Single speed? SINGLE SPEED??? *indignant splutter*il padrone wrote:single speed bike with drop bars ???
If it aint Fixed it's broken!
Well, it's still a SS then.
There's stopped, uphill and downhill
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Ken Ho » Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:58 pm
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:56 pm
I can't crest Yellowgum Boulevard on the Reid (75GI) but I'm close on the Cooper with about 62GI. Streetview heading NW...
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Uncle Just » Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:46 pm
Anything Merckx rode was beautiful. On his Faema at PR 1969.
Merckx was meticulous in his bike setup and presentation. I love the simple red and white of the bike and that iconic jersey. Nothing in carbon can ever approach the beauty of hand made lugged steel machines. These images from his golden era had an enormous influence on young cyclists. One young guy in our club was so smitten with Merckx he had his frame painted exactly as above and imported a hitherto unseen Campagnolo gruppo at great expense for the time. He even had his hair styled like Merckx. Fortunately he could carry it off and later raced very successfully overseas on the track and road, at times against his hero. Merckx considers him still a good friend.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Ken Ho » Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:59 pm
Actually, fixeie do have three speeds, but you just didn't mention the other one, being "crashed".Mulger bill wrote:Depends on the hill...
I can't crest Yellowgum Boulevard on the Reid (75GI) but I'm close on the Cooper with about 62GI. Streetview heading NW...
When I get home, I'll post a pic of mine to show you I'm just yanking yer chain. It is still sporting the evidence of the statement above.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby The 2nd Womble » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:25 pm
Huge fan of booted RGers who just can't help themselves
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:31 pm
Loving the Gen1 Deda Zero stem too, sleek...
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby TTar » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:16 am
Hmm, you could be onto something with that, even if there is one or two carbon bikes that aren't completely nauseating. Maybe ugly bikes are a 21st Century thing? Although the Cannondale below tests my patience a little.The 2nd Womble wrote:From Ride magazine. Bikes of the 1999 TDF. Before Carbon Fibre made me want to vomit.
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Re: Beautiful Bikes
Postby Uncle Just » Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:50 am
Another much admired classic Holdsworth. Gary Crewe 1972.
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