What bikes do we lust over?

That braced ANT bike is so so handsum.

Does that have a front hub brake?

YES!

lust: that rapha baskin robbins looking carbon track thing on that other thread.

Hurricane SL for ever:

http://www.challenge-recumbents.com/images/picture.php?filename=images/inhoud/hurricanesl/hurricanesl-groot.jpg&size=640&type=2&quality=87

Which reminds me, I've got to get another demo model in stock!

Yeah, they need extra time to mine to ore that goes into that GIANT EFFING CHAIN.

they should allow recumbent track racing with full fairings for sick nascar action

YEAH THAT THING NEEDS WINGS!!

or do they do that already

i can't get the moots frames out of my heas :/

I SHOWED U THE MOOTS LAST SUMMER DURING TOUR DE FRANCE. U WERE ALL CERVELO...I WAS ALL MOOTS. REMEMBER

i was psyched on the moots then too, the moots was and is still out of my price range

OH SO MY MOOTS POINT IS MOOT. :(

Why do we like the Moots frame?

the clean lines, the minimalism, the color

the fricken mavic cosmic carbones ($3000)

The really neat welds (seriously)

The Moots is a bit brand-happy, mind.

It's just so...tidy. Everything goes the shortest possible distance, the front brake arrangement is particularly nice, minimal use of housing, visual simplicity/efficiency...swoony.

http://tinyurl.com/3dosne

wait did that work?

Not for me :(

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/1832816841_031971ff69.jpg?v=0

check the drivetrain

I'm checking the armwarmers on that cat. The guy in back is bare-legged but Mr Hot Drivetrain needs his arms warmed?

check the drivetrain again! it is BELT-DRIVEN.

why

no idea

EASY TO CLEAN
QUIET
EASY TO MAINTAIN

MOTORCYCLES USE IT

Yeah I've seen belt-driven motorbikes. Doesn't it stretch? Is it some special hi-tensile carbon fibre impregnated kevlar rubber?

Orange did a belt driven P7 this year:

http://www.singletrackworld.com/article.php?sid=2426

I guess dude can use his arm warmers if his belt snaps. Spot frames are pretty nice aren't they?

There's a Dura-ace equipped Focus on Wiggle for under a grand (though it's not the one I'm lusting after obv, it's cheapness makes it terribly non-U dearie)

http://www.juniper-solutions.com/coconinocycles/PicsFeb2007/002.jpg
I LOVE THESE COCONINOS, HAND BUILT BY A WHEELCHAIRED BRO IN AZ. RADICAL!

livewrong? haha

but DUDE there are GOLD bits on em

MATCHING gold bits.

YEAH THE BIKE I REALLY LIKE, THE JPG IS HUGE. SO I POSTED THIS GUY. THE FRAME BROS, I DONT CARE ABT THE BITS!

http://www.juniper-solutions.com/coconinocycles/

Oh crap, that Rivendell shit is awesome. I am totally going to be one of those "steel is real" people with a straight top tube and a little leather-trimmed saddlebag. Pls to pay slightly more attention to bike than you to do head-badge, tho!

My bike is black w matching gold bits hahahahaha

Hope brand gold is really shitty actually, more like mustard.

AH, i wanted to post the spot belt drive. i did some work for gates (maker of the belts used) this summer and kept trying to find a way to find someone who could hook me up with a proto bike. i want a belt drive w/ internal 8 hub it would be bliss.

yall have good taste in bikes that ant(?) is gorgeous.

someone needs to tell moots to ditch toptube fder routing its bogus and adds a part nobody wants-the seattube pully.

how great is that rivendell A. Homer Hilsen???

http://badgercycles.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/tylers-badger.jpg

ANOTHER BEAUTY...ALSO WITH GOLD PARTS....WEIRD!

so clean

so so so so clean. nerd: look at the welds!

I DONT THINK IVE SEEN A CLEANER FRAME.

prettay

I love how Lightweight manage to be the creme de la creme in their field while making a wheel that looks like Hunter age 3 designed it and using a font you find on wedding invitations.

Tell me why titanium bikes are rad?

http://i.imgur.com/JB1ue1b.jpg

ha

guys i want to buy a single speed for tooling around on. straight handlebars. two brakes. i want to buy it new not 2nd hand because i don't have time to make changes or go hunting. i want to spend less than $500. options are kind of overwhelming. can anyone say anything to narrow it down?

motorbacon from bikesdirect for $299 if you're stateside is probably as cheap as you can get and not be a giant piece of crap.

http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/motobecane/fixie-cafe-flat-bar-bikes.htm

bringing it back round to the start of this thread, must say i am feelin the vamoots DR

http://moots.com/wp-content/uploads/Vamoots_challenge_90089-copy.jpg

would it kill em to paint the fork tho, jeeeez

Nice stuff and I see quite a bit of moots here in CO, but it doesn't seem special to me. I should really try to ride one sometime. I swear by my old ti bike, insanely comfy.

yeah sorry $300 mail order bikes not v lustful, but that does actually look just the job. thanks slp.

hunt3r am i right in thinking you took all the old paint off your ti bike - love how there's so many different ways to finish one, from the moots matte look to mirror polish to some of those ano'd fireflys. that's before you even bring paint into the equation!

yeah, it's plain matte except for the bright polished couplers. some people actually ask me if it's a moots, as they do coupled frames. i should get some white decals and put "MUTT" on it, it's got no fine pedigree- dean by sandvik modified by bilenky. (it is of good quality tho).

caek, lustful bikes are those that get ridden regularly regardless of cost, appearance, or mark. imo.

lol MUTT. do it!

nice bit of painted ti from salsa

http://salsacycles.com/files/bikes/Warbird_Ti_14_sv_1440x960.jpg

i guess i shoulda wrote "lustworthy" above.

is the warbird a "gravel grinder" bike? looks like an underside cage braze-on there. that's great looking, no matter how cynical i get about micro-discipline bikes (yes, i know, gravel grinder ultras are the next whatever, just huge, put one in your quiver next to your randonee, cx, 24 hr mtb, marathon mtb, freeride trail mtb, enduro, adventure rig, and fat bike).

yeah it's a gravel bike. I want one.

yep 3rd bottle bosses, you can get a frame bag in there too

i've never used a third bottle, have any of you? are they easy to reach? it seems like you would be getting a steady diet of tirespray mud, sand, cowpoop, and giardia. i guess you get that pretty much anyway, just in lower doses from the regular mount.

i do have some behind the saddle dual mount cages that i used on a long hot unsupported ride back in the 90s. functional but weird.

guess third bottle makes sense for touring?

http://i.imgur.com/wlD259f.jpg

did they blur the background in post? that bike looks tiny for some reason

dead fucking handsome:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0220/2502/products/No22_4A_Final.jpg?v=1382550080

oooooooooft

love a bit of ano'd ti

Ooh that is very hot

http://www.bikerumor.com/2014/03/18/nahbs-2014-cielo-adds-road-racer-bike-plus-new-stems-colors/

fuuuuuuck

44mm ht on a std steel frame still looks aaaassssss (til i DIE), but otherwise some nice stuff.

it is a bit inelegant, yes.

dat tartan colourscheme, though!

http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/titanium_road_race_bicycle_suppresio_013_002.jpg

Ooh, nice. Not a fan of seatmast though.

i recognize that this is completely irrational, since they're the best wheels money can buy, but i can't stand lightweight wheels on bikes. not from a functional perspective, but the logo/name just kills the bike aesthetically. it's like if your bike were made by a company called "really fast" and your downtube had a big decal with "really fast" printed in times new roman. couldn't they just make a cool logo and slap that on there instead? (or, since they don't really do much marketing anyway, no log at all?)

suspect there are like 1,000 straight-from-alibaba carbon frames with variations of faux-brand "really fast."

Is that titanium?

100% agree with you, when I first saw the bike the Meilenstein was uppermost and I was wondering who made these wheels with such cool graphics, then I saw the crappy Lightweight decals and they are an instant turnoff.

Titatnium, yes

I really like that it is a seat mast, it makes the top tube/seat tube lug really nice

yeah my objection is not the visual aesthetic, that seattube 'lug' is nice.

i do think the aesthetic of a 1 1/8 stem clamp over a 44mm headtube continues to be bad.

Definitely agree on that one, I'm not sure tapering the tube would make it much better.

I'm also not entirely sure what the whole tapered steerer thing is supposed to achieve, test theres a bigger crown race but I've never hear a complaint about the load bearing capacity or longevity of a 1 1/8th inch crown race

I now have a ti bike with a 1" hs, and a carbon cx with a pretty massive 1.5/1.25 hs, and while the dif is apparent in riding I don't think it's due to control or precision issues on the road. Imo. On dirt I like the os headset though. Longevity? My 97 Chris King 1" is flawless still.