What bikes do we lust over?

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?

TITANIUM = LIGHT + STRONG(ISH)

I thought we didn't like slopping top tubes.

I think that's just me. Plus, mountain bikes = totally different.

I meant the "prettay" bike, but yeah.

Yeah I don't even like slopped top tubes. I just thought it was handsome. Also I have never ridden on a ti frame. AND i know i will never ever ride on a pair of lightweights ;__;

http://www.condorcycles.com/paris.html

this is more o_O than <3

Three triangles is like the platonic form of bike frames and I don't appreciate these smart-ass attempts to try and one-up it.

^^^

ha i looked at it and went 'those lugs are IMPOSSIBLE' and sure enough, the frame is not lugged, they are 'decorative laminations.' cant get with that particular feature, but its an interesting frame.

i lust after the Rapha Leggero in the road bikes section of that site.

Get fun shit in the mail: http://www.condorcycles.com/brochure/index.html

hey guys, does this look like an okay bike? or this, for the price?

Those are two really different kinds of bikes. What are you looking for?

i just want a solid bike that i can take for long rides in town/on trails. i've never ridden fixed gear but it appeals to me, i was never much for adjusting my gears anyway. also it can't have those stupid drop handlebars.

I am not sure how they're measured but 19 inches is a LOT less than 60cm. How tall are you? The first bike is for like 6'2" or so.

oh shit, i was wondering about that. i'm 5'9"ish.

what size frame do i want?

Going back to Condors for a sec - what do people in the know really think of them? Are they genuinely great bikes? Or style over substance? Are there any obvious downsides?

It depends on the bike and it depends on your inseam, but maybe 54.

xp

How about this:

http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/windsor/thehour.htm

You'd want to put some brakes on that badboy though.

Oh wait, it's got drops. You could swap those out real easy and for not much money.

That looks like a cool site, thx!

hmm, that seems like a good deal. is that a good deal? i have no idea what makes a good frame or about any of the components

The general consensus about Bikedirect bikes is that the frames are nice and the components are decent. It's definetely a good deal. The Kilo TT is also much beloved, and the Hour is actually the same frame as the Fuji Track (http://fujibikes.com/2008/bikes.asp?id=418) and the Kilo TT apparently has the same frame as a KHS Flite (http://www.khsbicycles.com/05_flite_100_08.htm) and a nice fork. All of these bikes are made at the same factory in Taiwan.

Actually the KHS Flite and the Kilo TT have different geometries, so it must be the same frame as an older model Flite

thanks!

I think Condor is pretty good really. I've test ridden a few and their frames are really well put together. Possibly they are a bit over priced (the style factor and the central london store probably account for some of that). I'm probably not the best judge though.

Thanks Ed. I haven't test ridden any, but since I have SO little to compare them to I wonder if it would make any difference. I guess now that I'm beginning to toy with the idea of actually buying a nice bike, I should work out what discernible difference it would make from my Trek 1200, because a worthwhile upgrade is going to be at least in the £1500 region and I'm not rich enough to spend that much without having a pretty good idea why.

Check out Geoffrey Butler down in croydon to compare with Merckx and DeRosa, On Your Bike in London Bridge to try LeMonds and Mosquito in Islington for Colnago and Pegoretti. There's a new shop on upper richmond rd called prologue, which I know nothing about, but they are selling Litespeed.

Quite frankly, mark, you of all people ought to be riding an italian bike.

(Mosquito also do Moots and Independent Fabrication so you might get something really lustful to ogle at)

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.