Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Timmy Mallets?

Yours for CAD$900 (525 quid)

Matchy matchy rims
Saddle angle
Lever angle
Rear brake cable routing

Hold onto your lunch..
Diamondback Andean

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Looks odd with those wheels when it's normal posted here it has these

Function over form. If it's actually really fast who cares what it looks like?

who cares what it looks like?

You know you're in anti, right?

Yeah. But that's my point. Ugliness can be forgiven if it's necessary. One could argue gears, brakes, bottle cages, etc. are ugly but they serve a necessary purpose so we put up with them.

If you need a bike that is faster than anything else and that shape of frame is the fastest possible, then that's what your bike has to look like. Get me?

There should be a functional bike thread, where nobody cares what the bikes look like.

Haha, that bike would go down like a lead balloon in that thread. It's not really for any old functional bike, it's a specific category of porteur/romanceur/commuter/tourer/whatever bikes

I'd probably choose to ride nearly any other bike before I jumped on that thing

Well anyway that's my worthless opinion of the day, thanks for being a part of it guys

Long before Canyon was making ridiculous handlebars.

And there's the flag/brand name juxtaposition.

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Whats the point of those aero fairing bits poking down from the bars?

I think they are like the drops on dropbars..

rank

They are pretty nasty. Also not sure I understand why they went with EBB and vertical drops.

I think @Vince has been getting high on his own supply

The sweet fixie baby blue chain, turquoise Rolls saddle, fluoro pink tape, leftover cables, Michelin tyres with a blue strip - all in the parts box for years and hard to get rid of...

This is the beautiful result, available to purchase.

Check out the chinese branding on the levers...

@Scilly.Suffolk would approve of this colour scheme.

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not really for any old functional bike, it's a specific category of porteur/romanceur/commuter/tourer/whatev­er bikes

Yes there's some really ugly, overdesigned shit in there, a rich seam of anti in functional.

Barf

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Yours for a mere £2,211.17 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kemper-Pedersen-Shimano-Nexus-Anthracite-Busch-and-Muller/123006423829?hash=item1ca3c11315:g:wE0AAOSw401Z9v3n

£2,211.17

Sounds about right. Pedersens are always going to be pricey compared with diamond frames, but some people like them.