Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Reynolds 14oz selvedge with Horween steerhide lugwork.
Classic, but flawed.

501 tubing

Rep

Wouldn’t wrapping a frame with leather would hasten rust by retaining moisture?

The flatbar levers are the icing on the cake

Let's hope so

And there’s three of them!

What a dogs dinner, the mudguard mount, the light mount, painted all the things but forgot the fork.

I don't mind it on the whole but am not really into the Stayer wheel graphics. A bit Comic Sans for my tastes.

I think the wheel graphics can look good sometimes, this is not one of those times.

I’d be incredibly surprised if the front light mount is anything like stiff enough to not have the light bouncing all over the place.

I love how much trouble they went to for the photo, yet included those bottles

Wow that's so bad

I know tri bikes are low hanging fruit, but the motivational text alone makes it anti.

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Is cycling with a toaster on the top tube a TT thing? I mean, I love toast, but I not while bicycles

Is cycling with a toaster on the top tube a TT thing?

It's not a toaster, it's a shredder for gel/energy bar wrappers. Triathlon takes a harsh line on litter.

Assumed it was some sort of capture & recycle device for all of the pee

Guess you've gotta eat on an Ironman. Why not have some nice sourdough with Marmite.

Anything isn't possible fyfy

Some will say it's 'shopped

Some will say it's 'shopped

Further improved:

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How could you spend so much and get it so wrong?

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speechless...

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Impressive commitment to the project, but bartape/cables need to be in the yellow>red spectrum and seatpost blue or why bother.

There must be something wrong with me, because I quite like that...

Other than the tan walls, black tyres it needs.

Curious to know how/if that double front derailleur/shifter works with that triple chainset.

Older campag left shifters worked fine with triples, they had a bunch of clicks and not really 'indexed' in the traditional sense.
12s seem a bit different and shift much quicker. They still have a few trim positions, but not as many as the older ones I think.