Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

I hate Felt man it's seriously one of the lamest brands

Ehhh:

the guy clearly has back issues you horrible person and so forth...

wait, wrong thread.

36h isn't anti

on anything remotely modern it is

or when it's 2x the front wheel spoke count

The seat clusters on some of the new 'dale bieks are fucking atrocious. Something about chunky carbon and 27.2mm posts that just blows.

1 Attachment

Agreed, needs 25.0

My 2015 'dale's post is smaller than 27.2.

Really? I just guessed 27.2. To me those clusters look as if like they're built to take an aero post, then filled in to put a round one in. Just looks ugly to my eye...

It looks like someone just stabbed a seat post into the top tube.

I know it's been done to death, but hot damn:

That's exactly what it looks like.

Dude, that's way HHSRB!

Madfiber are always anti

Nice1 Marin

anti on ebay

'

The one with the 6-spoke front wheel is a piece of shit. Even says so right there on the downtube.

It's 25.4, not 27.2.

The whole reason is that they're slightly more comfortable than a 27.2 seatpost, instead of having a little rubber block on the seat tube like Trek, they opt for a more traditional way of reducing vibration going up to your backside.

It's one of the many reason why I told @dancing james to get the Synapse.

a lot of this shit is making its way from china to the streets of london, people actually buy them.

Amsterdam yeah? Saw a guy riding this the other day. Had a Deliveroo backpack on as well. Made me laugh - the food will have been shaken to pieces by the time it arrives!

Does it work then? It just looks... cheap.

Noticeably so, can be further improved by having a decent carbon seatpost.

The new 2016 Cannondale SuperSix now come with a 25.4mm seatpost, the previous Supersix have 27.2, further back to 2013, it used to have a whopping 31.6mm.

Oversized = stiffness usually, useful for frame, bar, stem etc. but with seatpost, you don't want to feel every small vibration travelling up your backside.