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

So much money and looks like a 199€ Einzig Fixie. Impressive.

I'm spotting carbon.

Full disclosure, it's the bike Biden has given to Johnson

https://www.inquirer.com/business/biden-bicycle-gift-boris-johnson-bilenky-philadelphia-20210611.html

Rim brakes is clearly a veiled insult

Edit: Cantis even. Gift? More like assassination attempt

Lmao

This is quite funny.

It's quite a bargain and made by hippies.

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Bilenky got shafted by the US State Dept, $1500 for it. That Eagle AXS derailleur alone costs half that.

Curious synergy between the Mail comments on the bike and here. Auth/right=Lib/left equilibrium.

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Nipple game on point

The Bilenky is the international politicsXbicycle version of "sorry we can't pay you but will look great in your portfolio".

bet we will see a thought piece on how biden administration went to firefly and after hearing their prices swiftly exited. the thought piece will be written by an ex-employee highlighting how general public just doesn’t get how bicycles are price these days.

does this show potential for free trade on bike parts tho? we need to ask the pertinent questions.

a key wanker bike policy is to respect the vote, but angle for the best possible deal with the given conditions, and this includes the free trade of cycling focused cnc between the UK and USA.

while we may have harder access to dynamos, and really ugly trekking bars due to the shipping difficulty with the EU, there is still a possibility for better access to artisanal luggage, american made finishing kits and crust bicycles. in return they can have access to our brooks saddles, hope brakes and ... uhhhhh....... ummm......... alpkit?

u forgot sturmey archer; the british groupset

if this happens i could buy JB’s bikes very easily

you've got your marketing hat on to maximise these newly opened markets, great to see

very global Britain

i will go on record to say if it lead to me being able to buy a crust lightning bolt canti without a large mark-up, duty or retailer gouging, i would, sadly, have to give it to them

More options on anodised Paul stuff would be nice. ;)

klampers could br £400 for a pair instead of £430!

Now that’s the kind of deal I support!

Specialized Rock Hopper

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Hideous, expensively curated aesthetic and tyres that are 1Kg a piece?

Approved!

That heavy!!?? I was slightly tempted by a pink pair maybe I’ll reconsider

suitable place to ask, anyone tried bosco bars or albatross bars on a big tyre bike?

they came in 58cm originally but impossible to find now, 55cm? more than enough for the tarmac but lets say i wanted to bimble some bridal ways, maybe send something for the gram? unridable? definitely going to explode?

seems fine?

maybe heresy for this thread, but i do not see myself importing the wider versions, and while one may hold out for crust orthopedic bars they're going to be like 800mm wide, suitible only for those who drive to the ride

but if anyone has reccs for 600-680mm wide sept back bars with rise, flattish up front to mount rackless bags nicely

stooges too wide
marys too pointy
most nitto options too narrow/ no rise
crust options too wide

huge market (me, the market is me but i buy bars every month it seems) for trendy bike packing shapes in sizes which can fit between cars and in a shed

On one OG?