Aerospokes in the UK

peejay78 i don't really think it's like an old man laughing at children. and to be fair, he takes the piss out of the bicycles, not riders, and the ones he targets are pretty much already in the realms of parody anyway. it's one thing to be into the design of your bike, it's another altogether to be into the 'idea' of design, have more money that sense, and still manage to cobble together a piece of expensive shit that satisfies no aesthetic criteria whatsoever and rides like a turd, threatening to throw the rider with every revolution. some bikes are plain wrong, and no amount of aerospokery or top tube padding will help. and i think he's right to satirise the hermeutically sealed bubble of velospace/fgg, where builds are photographed with infinite diligence and posted, in a sort of admittanceof mass male autism (me included). and if people don't want the attention, they shouldn't build and ride aggressively attention-seeking bicycles with inapppropriate frames. sometimes i sit at the lights and glance around and it's like some warped, human-powered version of 'the fast and the furious', it scares me. bsnyc on the other hand makes me laugh. and i can't quite get away from the fact using an aerospoke, or tri, to ride around london is teeny bit excessive, even if it might look cool.

PJ u are right about all of that, and some stuff is excessive and deserves to be satirised... I love the fact that it exists.... I just don't like it :-) What I don't like is the fact that I'd like an Aerospoke, and I love the concept and design of those Trackstar bikes, but I'd be scared to ride them because of attitudes like BikeSnobNYC.... and I know it's all kind of insideout.... I bet the guy at BikeSnobNYC looks just like the guys he's taking the piss out of....

I just have a plain white, english built track frame.... like yours, only mine is from a proper frame builders ;-p (Mercian, not Jackson) and I just like it. Maybe I'll try reading it again...