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Agreed lots of useful nice looking bikes have been posted for sure, but to ascend into true wanker money needs to be thrown at parts you would too scared to use. There’s definitely a certain look a wanker bike takes on.
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This is my point. I’ve got a rockhopper that I’m itching to post here, but as much as it might possibly pass on technicalities (Thomson, 2.2s, wide bars…) it’s just not quite in the spirit of the thread I feel. I happily lock it up in town and it’s been thrown down trails and got all muddy.
Maybe if I whacked some Middleburn cranks with a Stridsland ring on. Pointless Thomson dropper post. A bit of Paul….
AlexD
Maybe it’s the ££ that’s tripping some people up. It’s one thing to have a tricked out 26er, with some newer parts chucked at it, decent tyres etc. But it’s another, wankier thing to drop mad quids on it until it’s dripping with hand-crafted, anodised, high thread-counts and small-batch artisanal, porteur, everyday-carry. A lot of the bikes here I would totally lock up in Bristol and not stress too much about.