Style of the Tour de France

Discussion of Prettiest, ugliest dopest paintjobs and strips.

Cav, excusable because he is only 22 but still

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2010/07/08/2/cavendish_scott_project_f01_seat_tube_detail_600.jpg

yeah i love when amateur and arm-chair club riders argue that SRAM "is the best gruppo because it enables you to shift in the sprint" and then when you point out that sure Hushovd rides SRAM but Cav, Farrar, Freire all ride Shimano they get all "um uhhh".

does any pro team still ride Campy?

Liquigas and Lampre for sure

lots

http://www.campagnolo.com/jsp/en/racing/index.jsp

Bouygues - Telecom Colnago France Campagnolo

how do i join pls?

IIRC they are looking for a new name sponsor, it could be you.

why didn't SRAM call its ltd edn tdf red group, which has yellow detailing... um, SRAM yellow?

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/11/article-1260520529981-078C4AB5000005DC-137157_636x881.jpg

really like the whole sky kit/bikes tho

Shame they don't get to race in velvet jackets imo.

http://www.rapha.cc/images/gallery/1857-04.jpg

that poor liquigas bastard who's wearing his national champion jersey - white, bit of maroon and dark green - with the liquigas acid green shorts is the most un-PRO lookin dude.

last year lots of campy riders were only ('only') using record as super record + featherweight frame + crabon wheels should put be well under the weight limit!

stoopzpoomz INSTEAD OF WEARING MY NEW FOOTON KIT....IM GONNA GO DO SOME NAKED INTERVALS....AND NOPE THAT'S NOT CHAMOIS CREAM DAWG!!!

Not pretty like an orbea but pretty fucking trick

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2010/07/13/1/1_600.jpg

i <3 bmcs

I <3 mine

I think they have been edging towards this, the customisable carbon frame. Next stop fancy carved lugs

http://www.rivbike.com/images/static/upload/lugs_1.jpg

as long as it isn't that hetchins garbage

http://i26.tinypic.com/w2ku88.jpg

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/07/news/tour-de-france-tech-the-new-orbea-orca_128825

there's a current-model orca SL on the wall at a shop down here. rowrrrrr.

Really liking the Cofidis Look bikes

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2010/07/21/1/cofidis_look_695_full_view_600.jpg

especially liking the trick, it does everything, cranks

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2010/07/21/1/cofidis_look_695_crank_600.jpg

Does anyone sell a crank that can do both 110 and 130 bcd on the same spider?

dunno. surly sells a crank that can do 94/104/110 bcd, but not 130

Does anyone sell a crank that can do both 110 and 130 bcd on the same spider?

I know SRM does.... hahaha haha ha heh huh T____T

Not that it really helps me be I couldn't find it on their site.

My teammate just bought the "standard" one and it cost more than my bike, here's the compact:

https://www.srm.de/store_usa/product_info.php?info=p70_SRM-Wireless-Training-System---FSA-K-Force-Light-Compact.html&XTCsid=2f97a994059168e288eb735feb7fa53e

sorry, my teammate bought the dura-ace standard, not the FSA Standard. Linked above is the FSA dual standard/compact. If you switch rings, you have to reposition and readjust the FD.

http://road.cc/sites/default/files/images/Fuji%20Altimira%202011%20LTD.preview_500.jpg

Fuji continue a tradition of Fugly paintjobs on Pro bikes. Can't wait to see how bad the Geox strip is.

That is just bloody hideous.

blecch

plus extended seat masts are like, over. thats what i heard.

we should do a hierachy of protour bike hotttness/fugliness

I did start doing a poll around TdF time but then my laptop died 90% of the way there and I didn't feel like starting over.

Geox Fuji, Cannodale Liquigas and, Cavendish's blood spattered scott at the bottom, IMO.

That fuji looks quite nice in the non- team colourways. The tapered head tube and thin seat stays make it look very light.

Only ridden once: http://i.imgur.com/kTspa.jpg

ai yai yai

rory 'big baller' sutherland's 58-TOOTH chainring for colorado prologue:

http://velonews.competitor.com/files/2011/08/P1020709.jpg

big unit

Samu's shoe:
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/307305_10150303092307585_90969637584_8064279_286418555_n.jpg

wonder how many pairs he has? you'd nearly cry if you scuffed the gold off the toe!

went and watched victorian CX championship on sunday; local lad turned rapha-condor PRO 'munners' won the day - on borrowed moots psychlo-x with white hoods and pink bar tape, it was magnificent.