Hybrids / bad mountain bikes / insta wagons / bling rigids - please, i beg, no 700c 😩

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Q_IqAyvlv0

My guy just hammered that star nut in, not even with a bolt.
Fake Surly with fake raceface but real brooks, different kind of wanker maybe?

Skylar do a nice range of hand made premium wank

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Faux wanker?

If your bike looks nickable, then that's what counts

I think there’s slightly more to it than that, but to that affect.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdGCKkhWga/

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So good! And really tastefully done with the purple ano! Beartraps look super nice on this more modern styled bike.

That's a big quarterpipe

https://www.instagram.com/p/CODtERVBsK-/

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They don't really do them in large sizes though from my recollection? Shame because i would love one.

My mates new (old) kona, nice and wanky

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I always wanted one of those frames.

Now I don't.

:’(

The frame is still nice. Just take everything else off it hahaha

#dreamcrusher

I’m crushed haha, personally think it’s a lovely build. What’s not selling it? The Rivendell styling?

It's an XC bike cut down in it's retro prime and made into a shopper. It's like owning a classic Ferrari and painting it brown and towing a caravan with it.

:D

Nah, it's not that bad, I'm just pissed up and feeling frisky (and I hate Brooks saddles).

Put straight bars on it and a flat front rack and a Flite and I'd take it.

It's better than this: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/kona-explosif-17%E2%80%9D-for-sale-%C2%A3185.401510/

Your reasons are correct and exactly why it belongs in this thread imo.

This feels more sub-wanker to me

Ti seatpost
Velocity Cliffhanger
Stridsland ring
Nitto v4

But yeah you could be right it would be on the edge of each group if so,I think wanker though but maybe that’s my bias.

Yeah it has the ingredients, but I’d say the overall feel isn’t bling enough - which personally I like!

Brooks on a dropper post

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first true wank in a while

im seeing a few carbon forks up front, need i remind people that under no circumstances are carbon forks allowed, no matter how elaborately painted or loaded with fake mounts