What bikes do we lust over?

get the professor to make you a coconut helmet

there's a local shop here that has a few bikes w/ wooden/bamboo accessories like so:

http://www.woodysfenders.com/images/HomePage_images/Deluxe%207%20Cruiser.jpg

makes me think of wood paneling on a 70s station wagon

a guy i met down here thru a friend built a bamboo CX bike and raced it over the winter. good times.

Got a lot of time for am0n's wood there.

Though I say all this when the truth is I love bombing through town on the lightest bike possible and would be sad and unsatisfied to give it up.

sportin' a woody

dudes
http://www.sixelevenbicycleco.com/journal/filter/uncategorized/san-fransisco-bound-road-classic/

i sorta-know the builder, and can't wait to get one of these Someday

that is so beautiful

maybe after anarchosynicalist revolution you can haz #owsthreadref

anarchocynical thats me /typo

That bike is a thing of beauty.

I have been looking at bikes this evening with potential to buy. I have been looking at kaffenbacks, casserolls, cross checks, pacers and long haul truckers.

love it gbx. sorta like the old raleigh i'm upgrading atm

the brass plate is so cool. curious to see who rips it off first.

esp since someone ripped his other signature thing---badge on the seat tube

That bike is a thing of beauty.

I have been looking at bikes this evening with potential to buy. I have been looking at kaffenbacks, casserolls, cross checks, pacers and long haul truckers.

Check out the all city mr pink

the frameset (v complete) looks esp nice

something ~off~ about bb30s on steel bikes. cool bike tho

That mr pink is a really nice looking bike, yes. Fear it may be out of the price range though. Really want an ex demo kaffenback with ultegra that I've seen, but it's getting the cash together before it gets snaffled that's the issue. Pay rise yesterday has helped this a bit.

congrats!

thanks! see wdybll thread :)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/6021078608_ed78d53fbd.jpg

so. much. want.

srsly think that will be the replacement to iro. someday.

actually, the carbon fork could be a problem wrt bike racking, as i just throw the front wheel over the bar and hang it.

steel bike pr0n: http://forums.roadbikereview.com/bikes-frames-forks/show-your-steel-frame-bikes-here-243122.html

My own steel bike build is coming on nicely. Dude in Pittsburgh has some age appropriate Roval wheels hitch should set it of nicely. I thought I'd put mainly campy on it but ok school dura-ace is an order of magnitude cheaper.

black-on-black dogma w/ black-label boras and EPS super record thay i saw at a shop just now, bonkers

http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/03/shimano-alfine-di2/

p sure I made a crazy post about how rad an IG hub plus electro shifting would be but nooooo you jerks shot me down

who's crazy now?????

I don't remember putting u down, but I really want an ig hub that's quick release. That wld be way more useful to me.

http://cdn0.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2012/03/07/2/colnagonmain_600.jpg

please god, no.

no discs on road bikes for one. Another - colnagos should be graceful and elegant - that head tube is neither. Paint job is not great either.

And one I'm probably very much on my own on - Dura ace cranks really are fugly.

haha i had a really sour response to this bike that i deleted w/o posting earlier cause positive is where i live.

ask me about my upcoming 77mm headtube standard tho- so precise.

i for one welcome our new disc brake overlords

this is what I want from a Colnago:
http://www.colnago.com/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_b17182dc58dcf8dd966aafee6c70605f_1310408119_magicfields_bk-main_1_1.jpg

gotta say since i've been riding what is my first bike with caliper brakes (weird), i've been impressed with how much stronger they feel than everything else? like, more powerful in a vague sense, discs are sort of on-and-off, you're either coming to a halt very rapidly or not. these feel smoother AND like there's plenty to spare if it really comes to it

think i posted bititan awesomeness somewhere in iltrmb once

yeah, I have canti's on my kaffenback and they're my least favourite thing about it - I just can't adjust them properly. Putting some proper blocks on helped a lot, mind.

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i have a hard time with the crap juicys on my mtb, i figured it was cause they were crap and i needed elixirs

fwiw my mtb dudes bag on juicys all the time (which is what i have)

i think we need new brakes, bad modulation on the front esp at v. low speeds is my problem

How about loosing some weight lol.

p.grasswich aka "the queequeg"

i'm afraid if i go below 5.7% based on my last dunk test that i'll "loose" consciousness

can we do +/- on road discs pls

+ consistent stopping in the wet
+ more consistent (and less effort needed if hydro) to stop in general
+ can now run carbon clinchers with impunity

- learn better braking technique and you won't 'run out' of brakes, lol. like has anyone else actually run out of brake? i haven't, and i'm no lightweight
- no more radial lacing; spoke counts go up
- increased complexity
- having a rotor on one side can't be good for aero balance surely? + the calipers haning off one side of the frame too
- frame, fork weight will go up in general due to reinforcement (don't really care about this, high-grade frames are crazy light as is)
- slower wheel changes if racing
- crash in a pack, get sliced up??
- i struggle to see how the small rotors that the weight weenie and poser crowds will push for will be able to deal with the heat build-up after a few hard stops, which kinda negates the whole 'more consistent' argument surely. that or make massive rotors.

maybe new dura-ace will be like XTR, but rather than 'race' and 'trail' we'll see 'pro' and 'MANIL' variants

+ keep riding on a dinged rim a bit easier

+moves weight to hub
+no more radial spokes (looks better)
+glue doesn't melt on tubulars
+hydraulic means more convoluted cable routings possible (does't have to be disc really)

~yeah its asymmetric but so is everything else these days

-I've never ridden with anyone with discs who didn't have noisy brakes
-is a bent rotor better than an bent rim? I can flip the callipers open on a bent rim and get home
-As Pash says there is annoying number of different pad types
-doesn't look proper

for racing, how consistent are wheel swaps? i always hated digging in neutral wi/wo truck to make sure i was getting the right number/spacing of cogs. so now you would also have to make sure you get the right rotor standard?

FYI Ed - in Evans on Mortimer Street there is a yellow-with-black-details BMC roadie on special. Handily I didn't see the make but it's down to £1299.

Fancy one of last year's Team sky Pinarello?

http://www.goinggoingbike.com/auction/store/Team_Sky_2011_Race_Bikes

http://cdn.cannondale.com/catalog/product/cache/3/small_image/725x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/_/c_12_2rse0d_liq.png

Nibali is making me fall for the Cannodale Super Six Evo

it's probably the orange details but I saw this ridden by a continental team on the 4 days of Dunkirk and quite like it:

http://www.leftfieldbikes.com/wp-content/uploads/ktm_revelator_prime_carbonmatt_og-1024x644.jpg

that is A+

sidi should make a pair of dayglo orange ergos to match!

teh strip is great, but otherwise looks straight chicarb. it is...the REVELATOR!

next time they should take some of the design language (lol) from this:

http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/images/ktm-x-bow-2-big.jpg

Peter Sagan is not making not buying a Supersix evo any easier. I'm fairly satisfied its the prettiest bike you can buy right now.

a guy i ride with has the liquigas one - it is a looker for sure. weirdly, he's had it like three months and he's talking about a dogma 2 now - clearly more disposable income than i have to play with. (i'm trying to steer him towards a cx bike, heh.)