Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

It's a dropbar trekking bike. The wankery of the Gravel industry has just made things confusing for people who aren't already aware of that type of bike.

dropbar trekking bike. The wankery of the Gravel industry has just made things confusing

It would be less confusing if all trekking bikes stuck to the rules and had German lesbian handlebars

This looks awful, but I reckon it’d be a guilty fun ride 😬

It would be less confusing if all trekking bikes stuck to the rules and had German lesbian handlebars

pfffftAHAHAHAHAH!

^ Campagnolo maximum smoothness cables.

The saddle is particularly rancid

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Is it made out of recycled Pale Ale cans or something?

Saw the frame posted by itself and liked it then saw the full build 😢

It looks like it's made out of recycled marzipan.

I find this sort of bike ridiculously goofy, and consider all this elaboration on the theme an improvement. I think it just needs tanwalls.

mega valve extender

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Pretty sure this fits the bill

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Absolutely. That's so rough.

Perfectly gross. The royal flush crankset really ties the room together.

Nasty

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Kind of amazing that someone would take ten photos of that thing

There can’t be much seatpost in the frame.

can’t be much seatpost in the frame

My screen ruler says there could easily be 100mm of a 400mm post inside the frame

No way, there's more than a foot of post sticking out of that surely. Though I have no screen ruler

Just doing the right thing.

[trying to post that Softride but image uploader is rejecting the image]

image uploader is rejecting the image

That can happen when the extension doesn't match the actual file type.

Or the image uploader has sympathy for human eyes.