• Yes, I think so from Googlage. The rest of it is fine, as I say, and it's very interesting to see what he's done to the frame he started with.

    However I strongly object to the choice of bars/stem/fork. If you consider that the position of the grips is essentially the same as normal bars, what he's created is a less adjustable system that is surely flexier or heavier if not both. It is anti-functional - it makes the bike worse in several ways and better in no ways.

    I guess, if I was being generous, a person could argue that they need a bike that can do two positions, "normal" and ultra-low-stack pursuit type thing. You ride it to the track with BMX bars and then put bullhorns on when you get there. But that seems absurd.

  • seems absurd

    Erkkila is an absurdist. You can't judge that bike by normal anti-porn standards, because it is a deliberate piss-take of all the people who put risers on lo-pros in an unironic way.

  • Ah, so I have fallen foul of Poe's law. I now unsarcastically love it and if I had the skills, time money and inclination (I score 1 out of 4) it's the sort of pisstake bike I'd build

    Edit: unless you are sarcastically parodying an art critic to justify a silly bike. Dammit Poe

    Edit 2: maybe I was parodying the unaware person who falls for a sarcastic bike

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