Very nice, I was surprised


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Postby silentbutdeadly » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:38 am
Crowz wrote:Oh my god. That 29er. Speachless.
Postby RonK » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:15 pm
Postby warthog1 » Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:31 pm
Postby RonK » Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:58 pm
warthog1 wrote:Well there you go there's no accounting for tasteI think it looks fantastic.
While I'll have a crack at welding, I don't know much about steel fabrication.I would love to learn more about the processes involved here. I reckon this bloke is a master craftsman![]()
Seems like the judges were impressed too, given it won best in show.
Postby il padrone » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:09 pm
RonK wrote:That TT bike belongs in the ugly bike thread...
Postby warthog1 » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:00 pm
il padrone wrote:I think that the only test for a TT bike is how fast it can be ridden. The 'race of truth' as they sayLooks is entirely secondary - in fact goes fast = looks fast.
Postby ldrcycles » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:09 pm
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Postby TDC » Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:30 pm
il padrone wrote:The other good example in this regard is Graham Obree's washing machine bike.... which of course the UCI declared was "not a bike"
Postby sogood » Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:34 pm
RonK wrote:That TT bike belongs in the ugly bike thread...
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
Postby warthog1 » Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:42 pm
sogood wrote:Hate to think how much of a noodle that TT bike is. With that kind of design, steel just doesn't have it.
Postby Jesmol » Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:49 pm
sogood wrote:RonK wrote:That TT bike belongs in the ugly bike thread...
Hate to think how much of a noodle that TT bike is. With that kind of design, steel just doesn't have it.
Postby Nobody » Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:13 pm
Thanks. Hard to get a better reply than that.warthog1 wrote:sogood wrote:Hate to think how much of a noodle that TT bike is. With that kind of design, steel just doesn't have it.
From the blurb under the first photo of the tt bike;
Rob English's phenomenal TT bike, the latest version of the bike he's used to win multiple Oregon state time trial titles, took NAHBS attendees' collective breath away.
Nobody will be proud of me, I'm becoming a staunch defender of steel
Postby Ken Ho » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:07 pm
Postby Nobody » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:27 pm
Ken Ho wrote:We have his and hers Surly Moonlanders arriving on Wednesday to prove it.
Postby sumgy » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:35 pm
RonK wrote:warthog1 wrote:Well there you go there's no accounting for tasteI think it looks fantastic.
While I'll have a crack at welding, I don't know much about steel fabrication.I would love to learn more about the processes involved here. I reckon this bloke is a master craftsman![]()
Seems like the judges were impressed too, given it won best in show.
The judge's taste is not in question, given that theirs would presumably have been an objective judgment made against set criteria.
But the subjective judgment, where taste would have had a bearing, i.e. the peoples choice, was the Moots/Imba Trail Maintenance Bike.
Postby sumgy » Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:48 pm
sogood wrote:RonK wrote:That TT bike belongs in the ugly bike thread...
Hate to think how much of a noodle that TT bike is.
Postby Mulger bill » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:14 am
sumgy wrote:sogood wrote:RonK wrote:That TT bike belongs in the ugly bike thread...
Hate to think how much of a noodle that TT bike is.
Why? Because it is not made from Carbon Fibre?
Postby Ken Ho » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:47 am
Nobody wrote:Ken Ho wrote:We have his and hers Surly Moonlanders arriving on Wednesday to prove it.
Postby barefoot » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:54 am
Jesmol wrote:sogood wrote:RonK wrote:That TT bike belongs in the ugly bike thread...
Hate to think how much of a noodle that TT bike is. With that kind of design, steel just doesn't have it.
Might use some very high strength steels in that, some of the are ridiculously stiff with the right tube shape.
Postby sumgy » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:58 am
Postby warthog1 » Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:14 am
barefoot wrote:The stiffness of steel is pretty much constant for all steel alloys, Youngs Modulus about 200 GPa.
If you want stiffness, you need fat tubes. But this bike does not have fat tubes.
If you have a strong enough steel, you can have fat tubes with very thin walls, which makes them quite light as well as being stiff.
tim
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