What bikes do we lust over?

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.)

My mate has just bought a Dogma 2 (he had a Prince before) and he is head over heels for it. His PBs have shot up and he's deeply in love.

Get yourself one of Jimmy Saville's old bikes.

http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=keyword&keyword=cycle&noperpage=20&orderby=relevance&cat=future

I can't help thinking those guide prices are ridiculously low, the vintage campagnolo alone on some of them is worth more than that.

http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2013-Colnago-World-Cup-disc-brake-cyclocross-bike.jpg

http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2013-caonondale-supersix-evo-black-600x377.jpg

feel like the other evos have CANNONDALE on them a bit much so this works for me. could do with a touch more colour tho, maybe!

This is pretty and at £3200 for titanium, Di2 and Carbon wheels seems like somewhat of a bargain.

http://road.cc/sites/default/files/imagecache/lightbox-large/images/Van%20Nicholas%20Aquilo%202012/Van%20Nicholas%20Aquilo%20-%20full%20bike.jpg

best bro just got a pinarello dogma w/ chorus. i've yet to see it in person, but totally lustworthy afaict.

i have resolved (in my head) to beat him to snowbird by one minute for $1000 extra his bike is worth. /shittalking /classenvy

Spanish guy on the coffee shop ride last week had a movistar replica Dogma last week. I beat him up all the hills including the one I punctured on.

Talkin of Lustworthery bikes Genesis bikes is sponsoring a UK based continental team next yera and they are going to be riding a Reynolds 953 steel frame that promises to flirt with the UCI weight limit and probably be very lustworthy. I can't wait for that to come out.

yes very keen to see that. like the cinelli xcr from waaaaaaay upthread perhaps. wonder what unique touches it'll have; 44mm headtube like their steel MTB frames maybe?

hunt3r you should drop him and then make lots of 'chinarello' remarks.

yeah i sorta picked up on something about that chinarello ish in forum lands, but i don't know what it's really about? was it some sorta knockoff bikes, or just pinarello moving production to asia?

knockoff frames - here's a good primer. lots of them seem like they're made from the mould for the old prince, some with 'dogma' stickers and some unbranded; newer ones look properly like the dogma.

notorious for these scary pix of one that snapped at the fork crown mid-ride... revealing fork legs filled with chi newspaper! i think there's lots out there now, though, and they can't all be failing. sorta curious how they ride tbh. tho i'd tend towards sticking with a well-known brand for warranty claims and the like.

Did we put the scary pics of the fake Specialized up here anywhere, head tube ripped the main tubes

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what details there are are here

http://road.cc/content/news/62492-genesis-bikes-reveal-volant-and-new-953-frame

O/S headtube seems to be go.

some cool stuff at eurobike without being game-changing. lol @ 'road disc' not really getting off the ground for the third year in a row, though, despite the fervent hopes of magazine editors and dudes on the internet. I would rock a salsa warbird, mind.

cinelli laser viva is quite beautiful - hate to think of the cost.

also the giro empire, aka the taylor phinney shoe, very on-trend silver (!) and neon yellow (!) laces (!!).