What bikes do we lust over?

that's a lovely lovely (shiny) bike.

it would probably roll more smoothly without a hand attached to the wheel.

i think that one looks better than the stainless schwinn we discussed a couple of months ago. a little paint wouldn't hurt.

do any pro teams ride (ridiclous) steel frames like that nowadays?

ridiculous

i doubt it

http://ifbikesblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/rapha-build-us221.html

would wine, dine and 69 w/ u shawty

I know they're all k=trick and that, but those wheels don't suit that bike, would like a shallower rim (unless of course you were like gifting it to me of course)

it's not too corny to dig this oldskool bianchi is it?

http://www.bianchiusa.com/09-bicycles/09-classica/09-class-doiomiti.html

the black gruppo/fork/seatpost are yucky

'10 model drops the black fork and seat post, gets the look pretty bang-on

also about $1800 more o_O

uhhh. $5000, imo thats a rip off, even with the chromed lugs. they should chrome the whole frame underneath the paint for that.

it looks much like my buddy's 1982 bianchi columbus sl with nuovo record, but with k-fussy looking graphics.

i think gbx is exactly right about the 09 version tho

also-- brown turbo=brown wrap. white wrap? WHITE turbo, plz. white PERFED turbo if u know.

oh $5k is definitely more than i'll be paying for a bike in the near future!

maybe i should just get an old frame and fit it out with new stuff.

for that kinda money (and speaking as someone who recently threw down that kinda money for a not as cool model bianchi) you can find much, much finer bikes... not that i regret my purchase because i was looking for something super specific but i mean look at ed's moots cross bike in post #1, you can get something like that!

what'd you get, shasta?

nice rapha'd-up enigma: http://www.rapha.cc/enigma-machine

i'll post to wybll

http://cgi.ebay.com/Eddy-Merckx-Strada-OS-Frameset-62cm-NEW-NOS-frame-fork_W0QQitemZ280398003926QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRoad_Bikes?hash=item414905fed6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_527wt_955

I lust over anything lighter, faster, nicer and around £300

are these the bikes that replaced the scr series?
http://glasgow.gumtree.com/glasgow/91/45896691.html

Yup. This model you can get new for £550 so I wouldn't go for this one in particular.

nah, I'm not gonna drop £500 on a bike. my tentative budget is £300. was reading on bikeradar and they said the best beginner road bikes were the decathlon b'twin sport and giant scr4. I'll keep my eye on ebay

I don't understand that lugged Bianchi $5000 thing. If you have $5000 and want a super pretty bike couldn't you just get a custom frame and build it up how you like?

Me either, that gets you a titanium IF with a custom paint job.

also: not ugly

OK so it is only $3,300, which only gets you a steel IF. but $3,300 is a lot to pay for a bike with campag veloce.

incidentally i've been checking out the IF website - i could go me one of those.

http://road.cc/content/image/7824-cinelli-zydeco

http://www.chargebikes.com/products/parts/detail.php?id=238

£1800 for that Charge frame. Nice though - maybe the prettiest titanium bike I've seen lately.

went into a bike shop yesterday for the first time just to check how much lighter these fancy bikes are than my current bike... oh my days! so light

I can pick up my bike with my little finger (and my little finger is a particularly weak example of little fingers).

i can pick up ir8 with block and tackle

takes me and my gf to get mine up the stairs

cozwn's bicycle rennaisance

tht merida 880-16 on ebay is calling me

kinda really want that charge. how to make work financially??

http://images.competitivecyclist.com/images/products/pegoretti/2010/marcelo-zoom1.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I4Snyzw2IMM/Ssd67W-5wiI/AAAAAAAAEEU/dCG-2tbcveg/s1600/GoColnagox.jpg

http://www.colnago.com/contents/collection/master/2.jpg

love pegoretti

that colnago is being done by one of the big bike shop franchises over here (w/ dura ace) for $8,700 in the local currency! sheeeeeeeeeeit.

The crime is not the price but the fact that it is made for Campag (specifically athena)

ive not seen a pegoretti in aaaages. thot they were extinct.

he was sick a while ago - i guess i thought he had died.

Teammate is in Kona for the Ironman and snapped some shots of the world's fastest TT bike:

http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs225.snc1/7232_157100567413_687712413_3203307_1322707_n.jpghttp://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs205.snc1/7232_157100127413_687712413_3203291_950971_n.jpg

aparently it's known as the 'shiv' now. still not on sale until 2011!

wonder if ridley will have to give up the fastestbikeintheworld.com domain name, haha