Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

I was going to quip something about a budget midlife crisis, but it's going for 5k on retrobike

Doesn't have the engine behind the rear axle -> not a real porsche. Unless you get a saddle with a lot of setback...

I think it's spelled wrapped...

It appears to be the rare FC-7800-C carbon crank, but with the rings from the aluminum version:

That's interesting, did not know that. Now that you said it, the shape seems to be a little bulkier on the carbon ones.

No it exists, there's a photo of a guy doing a skid on it. The seat post and take really set it off too

What about Load by Metallica?

Not familiar.

Aero.

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May I?

https://www.velonews.com/gallery/the-bikes-of-the-2020-giro-ditalia/

each one looks like a bike a clubmate might get for their big birthday that you have to be polite about

Fiorelli’s Giro bike,

£150 off Aliexpress,

Ha ha, I thought the same thing.

Isn't it amazing what aesthetically challenged bikes people will ride, when being paid large amounts of money to do so. The complete lack of job security might also be a contributing factor.

Ha.. I thought it was a photoshop collage...

It's the racing version of the Gen2 Borisbike 🙂

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This year bikes are so ugly I'm starting to like Pinarellos

Wash your mouth and eyes out with hydrochloric acid.....

Spotted on fb, yours for only £950

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1. Mudguards
   
2. Discs
   
3. front rack
   
4. Rear rack(?)🥴
   
5. leather saddle
   
6. Motor Assisted
   
7. Dyno(?)
   
   

That belongs in the functional thread/ @amey ‘s shed

Remember when you were a kid and you’d look at the Guinness world record book and there’d always be a guy with fingernails longer than legs, that’s what this bike looks like.

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Mono-spok front is brave.

I can smell that photo

Seatpost isn't carbon neutral.