Ugly Bikes
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby jasonc » Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:42 pm
you have to lock that up?Aushiker wrote:
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Re: Ugly Bikes
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby rwibi » Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:52 pm
uncle arthur wrote:I've never seen a frame with that much rake on the seatpost before.....
Its super LoL
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Aushiker » Tue May 01, 2012 2:53 pm
New improved riding position?
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Livetoride » Wed May 02, 2012 8:10 am
I don't mind that one, wouldn't ride it but it's somewhat pleasant on the eyes.notwal wrote:
Another structural abomination.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby il padrone » Wed May 02, 2012 7:01 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Aushiker » Wed May 02, 2012 7:04 pm
It was the cranks that caught my attention ...il padrone wrote:I reckon MTBs are hardly ever designed to be beautiful. They are much more focussed on function rather than form, and hence are always likely to be 'ugly'.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby jasonc » Wed May 02, 2012 8:01 pm
we need a pic of the other side. that's just silly.Aushiker wrote:It was the cranks that caught my attention ...il padrone wrote:I reckon MTBs are hardly ever designed to be beautiful. They are much more focussed on function rather than form, and hence are always likely to be 'ugly'.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Nobody » Wed May 02, 2012 9:22 pm
Funny. I hadn't noticed it until you mentioned it. I was too busy looking at all the other retro style stuff, like dual legged fork (for a Cannondale) with fork boots, solid disks, red sidewalled tyres etc.Aushiker wrote:It was the cranks that caught my attention ...il padrone wrote:I reckon MTBs are hardly ever designed to be beautiful. They are much more focussed on function rather than form, and hence are always likely to be 'ugly'.
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Ugly Bikes
Postby wurtulla wabbit » Wed May 02, 2012 9:25 pm
That cannondal is a cracker ! , love it beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that !
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Re: Ugly Bikes
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Sharkey » Thu May 03, 2012 7:41 am
From http://www.pinkbike.com/news/cannondale ... -2012.htmljasonc wrote:we need a pic of the other side. that's just silly.Aushiker wrote:It was the cranks that caught my attention ...il padrone wrote:I reckon MTBs are hardly ever designed to be beautiful. They are much more focussed on function rather than form, and hence are always likely to be 'ugly'.
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It certainly has some ground clearance. Not ugly to me.There are five rings in all, but it is the ring on the non-drive side crank that drives the system, in the same way that the chainring(s) do on the bike sitting there in your garage. That power is then transferred by the first chain up to the sprocket sitting forwards and above it. A fixed axle transfers that power through to the sprocket on the driveside and a chain connects that to another sprocket sitting behind the larger driveside chainring. There is then a system similar to a freehub engagement to turn the main chainring as it is not directly attached to the crank arm. To adjust the gear ratios the team mechanics could change the size of those four sprockets driving the chainring - although it wasn't too popular with them as it was so complicated.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Ozkaban » Tue May 08, 2012 12:45 pm
How did we, as a society, get to this point?JV911 wrote:not a bike, but definately fugly!
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby trailgumby » Tue May 08, 2012 12:58 pm
Selective breeding is my guess.Ozkaban wrote:How did we, as a society, get to this point?JV911 wrote:not a bike, but definately fugly!
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby find_bruce » Tue May 08, 2012 4:51 pm
No doubt the vehicle is fugly, but while you may not think it is a bicycle and I may not think it is a bicycle, in the peculiar way of defining things in the Road Rules, a bicycle is "a vehicle with 2 or more wheels that is built to be propelled by human power through a belt, chain or gears"JV911 wrote:not a bike, but definately fugly!
OK I will get back in my box now,
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Re: Ugly Bikes
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby minez01 » Thu May 10, 2012 9:42 pm
How did he even manage to get up there? Must have hopped on at a stairwell or somethingfatherofmany wrote:I'll see your 5 and raise you 3
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