Bike porn

It's just not porn in any way.

NJS crank and cockpit with old campag discs and an MTB seatpost, not to mention lame faux vintage frame.

If I had a spare $2000

My thoughts exactly

What about this, potential porn?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221565995155?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Quite like the re-issue's of Allan:

pfff

why has it only got a single crankest, wouldn't that badly limit the range?

Quite like the re-issue's of Allan

It's in big letters on the picture you posted, yet you still couldn't get Alan's name right :-)

The fork is killing it for me, if they wanted something OTP to go with their frame a Wound Up would look better, and that's probably the first time I've ever said that.

why has it only got a single crankest

Welcome to 2014 - the year everybody finally realised that we used to be perfectly happy with 10 different gears over a 3:1 range for the vast majority of riding. 1×10 with a 12-36 cassette is actually a better way to arrange them than the old 48/36×14-28. It shifts better, you get all the gears in sequence without double-shifting, and you can bin half the crap which used to break or seize up.

... and it's lighter

...and more beaaaauuuuuuutiful

So the UCI won't allow it?

Damn, that's quite a bad spelling mistake haha.

Don't think such a brand will go for Wound Up's on a OTP bicycle. However they could've chosen something nice I agree.

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Chainset and saddle away from porn IMHO

Front-end looks messy.

Agree with you there, really should have XX1

do you what hubs are those by any chance?

There's something about deep sections on a non oversize tubed frame which doesn't work for me.

1×10 with a 12-36 cassette is actually a better way to arrange them than the old 48/36×14-28.

I don't know, technically it's a better arrangement, but the larger jump on the bigger sprocket made it harder to find the sweet spot.

the larger jump on the bigger sprocket

Which larger jump? If you had a 14-28 5-speed* block, you'd be looking at jumping 24 to 28 as your last shift, which is a 14% drop. On a 12-36 10-speed cassette, the last shift is from 32 to 36, an 11% drop

The whole gear range, taking a TA Cyclotouriste 42/28 to a 14-28 block vs. a 36T single to a SRAM 12-36 cassette goes like this:

Old:
80" 66" 56".. 53".. 47"..44"..40"..37" 31" 27"
.. = double shift
New:
80" 74" 64" 57" 51" 44" 38" 34" 30" 27"

By avoiding the near duplications, the 1×10 provides more even gear spacing over the same range.

*It was the same on 6-speed, but the middle gears were nicer. 14-28 6-speed was a 14-24 5-speed with a 28 tacked on the end.

I was thinking more about the 6 speed freewheel rather than 5 due to the middle.

The range probably make more sense on a lightweight road bike with a 42t chainring instead, 80" seemed rather too low for a fast descent.

The range probably make more sense on a lightweight road bike with a 42t chainring instead, 80" seemed rather too low for a fast descent.

Use whatever ring you like, the proportional jumps between gears stay the same.

Of course, 1×10 won't do for everything, it hits its practical limit at a total gear range of 3:1, beyond that you really do need more gears to avoid annoying gaps. Even road bikes without mountain gears have more a bit more than 3:1 with 53-39/11-26, but 3:1 gearing coupled with a 2:1 usable cadence range gives you a 6:1 speed range, from walking pace to 24mph. Either side of that, either walk or enjoy the freewheel for all non-racing purposes.