What bikes do we lust over?

DRIVE SHAFT

what is going on with that front hub?

disc

jesus actual fkn christ

gibbby, i mean the super high spidery red hub flange, not the brake!

http://www.vivabikes.com/popup1001.html

love this lugs + dual tubing look. bet it's pricey!

That is beautiful, apart from the fat stem!

are those toplines? they must be a lookalike, im sure topline is extinct since the 90s.

http://www.kraftstoff-bikes.com/images/r1evo2010.jpg
http://www.kraftstoff-bikes.com/images/sissy2010.jpg

http://road.cc/sites/default/files/images/Colnago%20Master%20X%20Light%20Track.preview_500.jpg

Love that kraftstoff thing, and the angle it's taken from.

http://www.trakcycles.com.au/sitebuilder/gallery/29/custombmc-m.jpg

pro-est machine. i thought dura-ace carbon cranks were a myth!

sexual

http://ifbikesblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/nahbs-preview-bike-1.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kFFsK9uidAo/S3lyIQ671KI/AAAAAAAABsA/jtEQWcLdRGc/s1600/Belt_Drive_Corvid_900px_10.jpg

honestly don't know what this thing is for but ~~boi-yoi-yoing~~

hotttttt

reminds me of trek district carbon - basically madone frame + belt-drive stuff

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/340649.jpg

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/north-american-handmade-bicycle-show-2010-part-two/108148

ew.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/north-american-handmade-bicycle-show-2010-part-two/108127

not my style, but now yr talkin

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-20th-Eddy-Merckx-Millenium-3-Litespeed-Titanium_W0QQitemZ120538416255QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRoad_Bikes?hash=item1c10a6447f#ht_500wt_924

So tempted because it is my london frame in Ti.

looks insanely gorgeously mint but doesn't the seat tube look cocked back a bit? what is the advantage of that?

i know someone with one of those, he loves it.

that seems like a really great buy it now price

I should go to bed before I do, in fact, buy it now.

i didnt wanna encourage you any more than i had, but now that buying it now is no longer an option... imo that was a v. v. v. good deal. better even than the merlin extralight thingy the other day (tho the merlin is i think a better frame).

more moots love

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37220746@N06/4385221818/sizes/l/

think once i wear the CAAD out i would like one of these - better start saving then!

a coworker of mine just got a moots ybb 29er - he went all out on the build kit and asked me for help putting it together. it's a really fun bike to work on, since it's just so goddamned beautiful. on any other frame, i would be mad about the pain in the ass factor of having to disconnect the rear brake hose and feed it through the closed hose guides (and then having to bleed the brake afterward), but the thought of putting zip ties anywhere on that bike just seems like you're defacing it.

ummmmmmmm phil wood 40th anniversary Ti extravaganza:

http://www.thebikebiz.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BK-TRK-PHI01

pix: http://www.thebikebiz.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=BK-TRK-PHI01

only $15,500US

tbh i had no idea phil wood had passed away, RIP phil:

http://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/newsDetail/3856.html

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs373.snc3/23955_366526209497_366522479497_4963675_3501571_n.jpg

would ride

but what about the bike

http://to55er.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/bernard_manning.jpg

I'm here all week.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1232/4594088086_c5234a525b_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4590281876_9f163256af_b.jpg

huh, that middle-of-the-road chainring on such a cutting edge bike is like a fart in the room.

dur? sugino zen rings are (i thought) among the best you can get. they're like $140 a pop!

super zen imo, NJS KEIRIN LQQK (also about 3x the price iirc)

holy balls those are expensive

well yeah, but as if the owner of a $5k frame would be griping about a $200 upgrade on a chainring!

The rear tyre touching the seat tube can't be great for smooth rolling efficiency.

The bikes I lust after all tend to be stupidly-hip ultra-thin-tubed spare fixed wheel types, which I then hate myself for lusting after.

but the wheel isn't touching the seat tube!

It's probably just an optical effect, I agree, but there are bits where the (tiny) gap ebtween the two becomes invisible.

Sigh. No-one's getting my funniez today.

amazing baum frame in the style of the rothmans-sponsored porsches of the 1980s

flickr set

http://www.rouesartisanales.com/album-19544.html

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/4619203067_aaa00f0dd2_b.jpg

not really. but wouldn't be surprised to see one of these resurrected by a hipster.

durp?

Sat next to a bunch of Ritte team guys at the ToC time trial on Saturday, Ritte bikes kind of boner-inducing:

http://www.ritteracing.com/ritte-bicycles/

That is super pretty.

that is shit hot and the l geometry is identical to my treasured dean. *want*

that is nice

that moots psychlo-x up top is still ultimate boner time to me

belgian natl strip is great, but i don't know if i could do that. also, i remember seeing a cf track frame somewhere that had the "inside the stays and fork" paint accents, which are also on the ritte. i like that look.

that ritte is just fucking wow...

the paul smith/rapha road bike from condor uk had those accents you describe.