What bikes do we lust over?

you suddenly become the envy of all.

http://micahmcmillan.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/its-full-of-stars.jpg

still don't understand why trek takes shit for a bike like that, but everyone seems to love specialized's urban bikes.

sweet:
http://fireflybicycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Firefly-001-side-630px.jpg

what happened with IF? seems like there's been a bust-up between management and some of the builders (three of which have set up that firefly company), nobody's really laid it out for public consumption tho.

ti factory lightweight still looks pretty bangin, must say.

dont know the deets, but apparently they've moved operations to NH? probably as a tax dodge, tbh.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vYcDtip1lhI/TTg4LS4nl5I/AAAAAAAABdA/DoG_crT94cc/s1600/independent-fabrication-factory-light-weight-if-top-600x387.jpg

less dodging tax, more launching attacks pls

i do lol @ the madfiber wheels tho. i know saying 'something more subtle!' is kinda ridic when the bike itself is painted like a dodge GTO... but still!

yeah normally i lol @ those too, but they seem to make sense in that build.

put em on a mid-90s italian job and i will smdh @ u

madfiber are just cheapo/generic Lightweights right?

as in rebranded? or knockoffs?

hot
http://www.cyclowired.jp/sites/default/files/images/2011/03/02/_DSC1971.jpg

madfiber look like the same general concept as LWs with flat carbon spokes bonded into the rim, execution a bit different tho - paired spokes, white industries (i think?) hubs. they're a good bit cheaper too.

cav's new toy looks p. hot if you likes the aero road sub-genre: http://venge.specialized.com/

also wilier are showing off some 750g frame w/ yet another new proprietary BB

not really sure how i feel baout that one, looks like it's melting a bit

http://cdn2.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2011/03/17/1/velodramatic_specialized_mclaren_venge_4893_600.jpg

Not sure how lustworthy anything called a 'Venge' is.

not feeling any of the ubiquitous humpbacked bikes.

I want a tourer.

Which UK-er wants to let me use their address / ship this frame to me:

http://www.canyon.com/_uk/outlet/article.html?o=A1012107

(only sort of kidding...)

Scott's entry into the Aero-Road category: http://www.bikeradar.com/gallery/article/scott-foil-aero-road-bike-launched-29884?img=1&pn=scott-foil-aero-road-bike-launched&mlc=news%2Farticle#1

It's based on their Plasma TT bike or something, which was one of the few TT bikes that really caught my eye in shops recently. Wonder if this will put price pressure on Cervelo etc.

the all-black one is classy. very stealth bomber (= appropriate).

I'm thinking to myself "sure aero makes sense, I'm usually riding without the benefit of a draft" but then I could also just lose a headset spacer. Or two.

the true aero advances will be made when we evolve to the same shape as dolphins!

but then I could also just lose a headset spacer. Or two.

...and then you risk losing power, or v02max.

aero is not everything, check out Indurain's set-up when he set the hour record.

http://slamthatstem.com/

yes!!

have been making eyes at the giant defy advanced at the shop lately - worked out from geo charts that i could slam stem on one, yet actually have bars in higher position than i do on caad9 currently w/ spacers, heh heh.

i didn't know "slam that stem" was a thing, but i like that. yknow, w/in reason. aesthetically im not really w/ neg rise flip because of the fugly.

and tall headtubes are just another grim reminder of how old people's bodies betray them, too dire. just quit, ok? i saw

http://s98594.gridserver.com/site/wp-content/uploads/Bike_Vamoots.jpg

;_;

this said, i have a 2mm spacer under my f99 because it is ~delicate~

also, it's possible that my standard headset makes "slamming the stem" definitionally impossible as the headset = a sort of spacer, right?

NO EXCUSES, SLAM THAT SHIT

http://www.gainesvillecycling.com/download/file.php?id=5&mode=view
hahahahahaaha

just noticed nokons, perfect

loool, "PRO" all right

and also:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li9e95QKLi1qaythmo1_500.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljo77qN8hB1qaythmo1_500.jpg

not sure what's worse here, spacers + uppy stem or GREEN HOODS

http://www.grabthehudz.com/

ok, you're in the business of really bright colorful unusual hoods. so for your splash page... you desaturate the images until you can barely see colors? like why didn't you go b/w lol. design fail.

http://images.gizmag.com/inline/zeroed.jpg

http://www.gizmag.com/zeroed-g1-mountain-bike/18570/

whoah

am holding out for the "less hefty trail bike [...] presently in the prototype stage" obv.

btw what do you guys think of this scheme: http://www.speedhoundbikes.com/

^^seems a good idea if you are good with a spanner, imo. tho i guess a lot of people would be better off with two separate bikes, you wouldn't want to be changing it around all the time.

i'll be taking donations for this: http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/road/elite-road/supersix-evo/2012-supersix-evo-di2-19255

This year's Orbea Orca has to be about the prettiest bike in the the pro peleton:

http://velonews.competitor.com/files/2011/05/IMG_5333-325x201.jpg

at least from the side.

really? i'd take the 2010 over this year's model.

nice but not wild about seat cluster

I've been loving the wilier in black and neon yellow. Am posting from phone so can't link it but is ver ver nice.

right now I'm lusting after the 70's Condor that I'm bidding on on fleabay, have a horrible feeling I'll end up outbid, especially as I'll be riding home when the auction ends.

totally scored this beauty - Condor Chancery - getting it Sunday, am thinking brown leather saddle, same bar tape, do I put a more interesting bar on? Or leave the nice curvy one?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=330567764141

that link totally doesn't work, sorry

(how do you link pics from ebay?)

I found the listing. Yeah brown leather saddle and bar tape should make it nice. I like the bar, maybe loose the suiciders, though.

I hadn't noticed those top levers, they'll go quickly for sure. Can't make out what gruppo it is, a bit of research says that OG condors used only campag. Do friction shifters need specific mechs or are they interchangeable?