Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

As soon as you release the the lock...fork angle goes back in line with head tube ;)

Asian builds are just too easy, but this is too good not to share.
Sorry for the IG link, but you do need to see the details

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Not a fan of the gold/bronze accents but it's pretty inoffensive compared to a lot of this thread.

this is haunting my ebay watch list

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Good Lord. I know we’ve done Pengy but this is more Pingu!

I actually like this one. It's like something they thought future bikes would look like in the 50's
Almost a bit SWH

It's great. Like an old Asimov Sci-Fi book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kczl5ibwO5M

Hhsb

The washers between the spider and chainring, WTAF. The flappy front brake cable. White spokes. And that's just from the skim watch.

I also like the dropper post cable routing which will no doubt hit the tyre as soon as the bike is sat on

What's with the wank music? You're building a bike not fucking nursing your dying gran back to health.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mango-Custom-Single-Speed-Medium-27-wheel-/164977458446?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

pengy mkII?

also noteworthy is the ebay description where the text is all in blackout like an official secrets document that's been redacted.

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Lime sherbet with red bits is a lol, particularly the one blue cable and one orange cable.

That last one, well, I figure if you're gonna buy a dumb heavy single speed with boat anchor wheels, that one looks pretty cool next to most of em

Edit: whoops, wrong thread

this is haunting my ebay watch list

Someone on Retrobike is trying to identify one of these: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/can-somebody-tell-me-what-brant-it-is.432832/

Can you remember what it is?

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This isn't any help but the one of these I saw in person was at a market in Lithuania.

I really want one, kinda reminds me of some Japanese bikes.

it's a Sprick Active Comfort bike,
most do have even the plastic rims too

Designed from Odo (or Otto) Klose in 1982 and pretty innovative.
E.g. it had tubeless tires and the bar was designed in a way that no shift lever or anything else can hit the biker when having an accident.

I personally found and still find it awful. I friend of mine had one, it was also a shitty ride.

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Front profile makes you realise what a mess drivetrains are aerodynamically.

It looks like something from a BDSM themed nursing home.

Surely for the front shot you'd try to make it look symmetrical. 2/10

Wasnt the track version asymmetrical? You just gotta turn left... This being a prototype, it might be built on the same base.