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Only time I’ve ever seen coloured tyres and thought they looked good. Bar tape is absolutely 10/10.
Give yourself a gold star.
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Thanks, the red tyres are deliberately challenging, and they were on sale, but I've played around with so many colours with this bike, it just encourages it. In other configurations in the past its had classic green walled Open Pave's, Yellow accented tyres on yellow Shamals, blue tyres on black Shamals and just plain gumwalls on normal rims. And I've got a few saddle options for playing around.
And a couple of jerseys for the full clown get up.
It's not like a show dog being dressed up every week, its actually had a hard life. I think I've done over 15,000 miles on it since I bought the frame and built it up in 2015, I've been doored by uninsured taxi drivers on it, left hooked by a van on the Aldwych, and its just back on the road after having a bent rear derailleur hanger, from an actual nodder on first day with clippy pedals falling into me while I was completely stationary waiting to join traffic at a T-junction. But like Steve Austin we can rebuild him, and it keeps on rolling. Considering I got the frame for £93 its's been one my best value cycling buys ever.
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With tankers full of bike parts stranded in the Suez canal, and a year of Covid seeing bike prices skyrocket with bikes and parts in short supply, it seems inevitable that 2021 will see all our bikes slowly become more anti, as people scrabble for any bits they can just to keep on the road.
By the end of the year I predict the only rims available will be multi-coloured Deep V's and the only remaining tyres will be 20-23mm in red, green, yellow and blue. With the forum approaching its 15th birthday (?) I find it a wonderful quirk of fate that our bikes could all end up looking like they did back then :) It will be like the next Mad Max film when petrol has finally run out and the worlds population abandons cars and the only means of transportation is to cobble together Frankenbikes.
I have decided not to fight the inevitable, and have a multi-coloured bike that has seen me dabble with anti in the past, with various coloured saddles and bar tape, so that seemed ripe to be first up for 'the change'. I'm a jump straight in the pool not get in slowly kind of guy, so I've gone all in straight off the bat, full Timmy Mallett, not flirting with anti, more ramraiding the front door of Anti HQ and declaring we have arrived.
It may cause your eyes to bleed but it makes me laugh before I've even climbed aboard, and despite the challenging colours, the SLX frame with a Max fork, 20 speed Campagnolo drivetrain with 25mm tyres, it's a great riding bike, and there can be no excuse for any SMIDSY's. Laugh all you like, this is our future.
