Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Looking forward to getting over the tonsilitis that's had me off work all week and exploring on this.

I reckon people building functional bikes will have spent at least some time researching their options and finding out how other people have successfully solved the same problems. Also, people who post their own bikes here will do so either humorously or when they're happy they've done a good job.

In bike porn, overlooking the muppets who don't read the brief and do a "readers' wives" post, a lot of the posts are probably the result of spending time browsing around on sites that all serve the same niche. If that niche is "Megabucks Colnago projects" or "shitty conversions WITH COLORZ LOL", the poster will be emerging from an echochamber in which no one was applying a critical eye.

So true. I have specific requirement from a bicycle as I have an arthritic back and hips. Both my bikes were put together by me to fulfil a purpose, and were built with an eye on cost and functionality. The main criteria being comfort and practicality.

It's also nice because it's generally a positive thread, unlike the porn thread where people seem to believe that through voicing their petty over critical thoughts in the most cuntish way possible, they are in some way asserting themselves impressively on the internets. It's nice to have nice bikes and nice comments, rather than constant saddle angle/nipple colour/spoke lacing/spacer stack/mismatched bar tape/non aligned logos (although that last one is a SIN!)

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functional saddles for sale anyone?
http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/269855/#comment12346616

White saddles aren't functional.

Nice though.

Haha, they're not too bad if you have mud guards though!

Mark Beaumont, “The Man who Cycled the World” and “The Man Who Cycled the Americas“, is now also “The Man Who Cycled Africa“. Braveheart Beaumont cycled in a recordtime from Cairo to Capetown.
10.882 km solo in 41 days, 10 hours and 22 minuten. On an almost stock carbon Koga ..

more here: http://www.sintchristophorus.nl/mark-beaumont-record-cairo-kaapstad/
wheels by Wheel-Tec: https://www.facebook.com/WheelTec

Eric Estlund (Winter Bicycles) keeps making great bikes:

and:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=231592156793&alt=web

Cheap functional frames - 650b with a ton of eyelets, could good starting point for someone.

Now updated slightly. Sprung saddle for my arthritic back. Bars adjusted etc.

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Pretty.

Want!

smp 8-)

this is looking good...

Hmmmm that's just a road bike? How would I get down that bridleway with my picnic on that?

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I love my @somafab Wolverine. It's my 'if I could only have one bike', bike.

A photo posted by Noah Purdy (@njpurdy) on Jun 22, 2015 at 7:06pm PDT

Does anyone one know where I can get a soma portuer rack in black in London?

Might be worth messaging @WilliamJohn

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/268514/#comment12335575

WilliamJohn , up north,
got one.
Almost bought it from him.
Shipping costs got in the way in my case.

2nd one is an infamous PBP one?

Early call here:

OG salsa stems have paved the way for bar ends to be 'in' in 2016.

http://sheldonbrown.com/pbp-emily-obrien.html

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