Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

From slave thread...this one has missed that mark too for me. (I like it though when people decorate their disc wheels but the rest...)

^ that is something else, I will tell you.

I like disc decorations too but not when they are newspaper articles paperglued like here:

http://www.fixedgeartaiwan.com/pictures/

Needs Hypnotoad decoration... :P

Strange combo, disc wheels aren't that cheap on the open market, then put on a not track frame, and yeah newspapers. Tss.

expanding foam is cheap

Could make that death metal low pro into something so rad!

I wish every disc wheel in the world had hypnotoad : )

all funds go to discwheel and nothing left for track frame.

as sven says that bike could be turned into something rad perhaps with thompson stem,risers, trispoke infront and bigger chainring

Taken from slave thread

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I admire the effort on the rim, but yeah dogs dinner :)

What's with the chain being on the NDS?
*edit: As in, why is the entire drivetrain on the wrong side.

What's with the chain being on the NDS?

It's for marginal gains on the track. Because the drag is slightly different between left and right (+ve & -ve) yaw angles of the same magnitude, and because the yaw angle on the track is always from the same side, you can optimise your bike's asymmetry for the track by ensuring that the lower drag yaw sign and the actual yaw sign match.

slow day at jokes factory

Or possibly magnets. I know it's one or the other.

^^^ I have been saying that and no one believes me! It makes such sence for marginally less drag but not in this case.

If its not one thing, its your mother
or something like that

Leader frames are rrrank

owner says he needs to buy 3t carbon seatpost and also carbon seat-clamp.. lol

a steal at only £650 on eBay

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So in this case, the drag caused by the asymmetry of the bike actually results in aerodynamic gains? You learn something new every day. *throws out Fluid Dynamics textbook in frustration*

Sarcasm recognition fail :-)

The true parts are that the drag on a typical TT bike at +5° yaw is not the mirror image of the drag at -5° yaw, e.g.

and that the fact that a bike is almost constantly turning at the track does generate an effective yaw even in still air. Just doing a quick google and it looks like Andrew Coggan had the same idea a long time ago. I think the bike in question could use a lot of other changes to make aero gains before the marginal gain which might be available from left hand drive becomes the first priority.

Oops! :) I assumed the sage tester spoke the truth! Somehow in my once-physicist brain it made logical sense in as much as it would generate a turning force in the same direction as the curves of the track.

Oops! :) I assumed the sage tester spoke the truth!

There was more than enough truth in my comment to make it credible; the joke isn't that left hand drive might be a marginal aero gain on the track (which it might) but that such reasoning was behind the choice on that particular bike.

Postcard found in Blackheath shop. Thought the front was bad, then read the back. Crimes against spelling, capitalisation, punctuation and layout along with the anti bikes themselves.

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Urgh

"Manifesto" here:
http://www.brakebikes.com/manifest/