Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Open quick release of the front brake caliper for sure.

I don't do rim brakes, but I see people riding like that all the time.. I always assumed it was a rim brake thing or something.

Poor Celeste matching is a bonus.

Grim

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Can’t tell if that’s real or all the bits we find hilarious Photoshopped together! What’s going on with the lighting and not very believable bokeh?

What’s going on with the lighting

Flash. See the shadow of for example the chain.

I Hope all the bits is not referring to the Bars

Awww shit, that’s my old bike!

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Some top anti material out here in Japan...

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Who buys this shit?

I just clicked on the link on ebay as well to see the abomination from up close. Good god it is terrible.

14kg... feel sorry for the kids who get that for xmas.

And most of that is in the grips.

Full Suspension Mountain Bike

But it has lightweight and supple compass tyres

....and magically has 24 speeds from a 3 speed front derailleur and 7 speed rear derailleur. Are they counting 'stopped' and 'thrown over a cliff'?

sort of reminds me of something Dear Susan would build too.

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Suprised this wasn't posted yet. It's so bad. Supreme of the gravel world.

Wow that's spectacularly ugly. I love the article starts like this:

When you think of the mountain bike brand Evil, chances are you think of the three pillars of modern mountain bike design, long, slack, and low.

I tend to think of them as the idiots who completely ignored quality control and almost killed their brand entirely with their first bike and their customer service stupidity when it came to light.

From the 'bay

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poor Miyata :(

This has been fully massacred.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Steel-Fixie-Track-Bike-Reynolds-531-Frame-Phil-Carr/223666138567?hash=item34138a6dc7:g:1l4AAOSwjyZdfnvu

😢
wish they hadn’t included the ‘before’ picture

Da fuck is going on with the track ends?