Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Currently for sale on FB for £1500

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The Holy Grail of frame building, vertically compliant yet laterally floppy. The biggest question is why it hasn't got a disc, for the nanoseconds before the head tube shears off?

Are the brake levers held on by the handlebar tape?

directly screwed into bar end plugs maybe?

So very weird. V brakes!

Have to admit I'd ride that into town. With a riser cockpit though. And a mouthguard.

I’d want full body armour and health insurance before riding it. Looks like someone has shaped plastic milk bottles and attached them with bostik before rattle can paint job.

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Incredibly harsh! Did you mean to put this in the bike porn thread, not anti...?!

Surly: Put Coke can head tubes on bikes with skinny forks.

Scottish Cycling Commie Games para squad: Hold my beer.

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hella tarck

The mind boggles

Just put the bars at the right angle and that would become instantly less terrible. Still crap, but at least it'd be vaguely the right shape.

saddle.
shit mech.
mech protector.
terrible cabling.
thumbies.
brake hoods.
rear caliper position.
kickstand.

vaguely the right shape.

approaching vague

vaguely the right shape

Would look like a pinarello dogma and therefore still belong in here

Okay, I amend my previous statement.
Change the bars and at least you might be able to ride it.

It's a £112 'Integrated wheel broken wind road bike' off AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004504763646.html

What do you expect?

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"broken wind"

There’s another aesthetically dubious tandem at the track today but this one has a fork with aero shaped blades and crown, is this Max?

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Are the spokes soldered/taped/heatshrunk together?

What’s the advantage to doing this?

Tied and soldered. Analysis shows no material benefit under normal conditions, but it can keep a broken spoke from stabbing you in the leg.

^That.

Done because it is/was thought to create a stiffer wheel but actually doesn't make any difference. Common on (track) tandems.

These tandem training wheels are quite interesting actually, a wide (I'm presuming 130 or 135mm) spaced rear hub, flip flop double fixed. It was unbranded, looked like it could be small batch custom. The rear I looked at last night was 48 spoke and the rim was a Mavic one that looked very much like it was from a wheelset, like it said Aksium, or Ksyrium or something on it. I wondered if was a 24h rim that'd been drilled between each spoke hole to make it into a 48h but all the holes were eyeletted and the eyelets all appeared the same and factory.

Edit: Hadn't realised the front rim was so visible in the shot I posted tonight. Rear rim on the other tandem is also a Ksyrium SL but was definitely 48h.

Looks like a Dedacciai logo on MAX fork?

The D will be for Dolan.