Bike porn

Don Walker is a pornographer of the highest order!

The guy is one of the worlds best custom framebuilders, and has probably done more than anyone else to promote the revival of the art of framebuilding in the US through NAHBBS.

If some NJS builder came on here you would all be jizzing in your pants to have a chat with him!

Plus a lot of people seem to show vitriol towards him, when the truth is he once remarked Pistanators bike was a little bit dayglo, Pista remarked back that he wasnt really Scottish, and a little bit of banter was had, most of it toungue in cheek, and at that same time he imparted some very usefull info on what goes into making a great frame - DW seems to me to have more of a handle on forum humor than you might think!

Yeh I don't mind somebody posting a bike they've seen but posting bikes from your own business it not cool.

@VV +1 if he took the shit he got from here seriously he wouldn't keep coming back. The forum is a better place for his presence.

I would be embarrassed to even pretend that's good looking. Ugliest thing ever.

Obviously taste is subjective, but in this, you have no taste. Not good or bad, but none.

It is pure pornography. I jizzed it straight up.

Yeh I don't mind somebody posting a bike they've seen but posting bikes from your own business it not cool.

Yeah, because he is trying to shift them down at Bike hut, and really needs the publicity - he originaly came on here because he saw we had linked to a couple of his builds, and came on to explain how he built them and why they were like they were, and what else he was up to

But if you bothered to read through this thread you would know that, and if you bothered to find out who he is, than you would realise DW is a guy that has done more for cycling than most

I'm not calling the bloke out on his right to be on the forum or what he has done for cycling.

I'm just saying this forum isn't his personal advertising space, just like we don't want to see some bloke from evans cycles posting all the bikes they want to sell, as bike porn.

I'm sure he is a decent bloke but if I wanna see what bikes he has I'll check his website (!)

I would be embarrassed to even pretend that's good looking. Ugliest thing ever.

foolish boy

you would realise DW is a guy that has done more for cycling than most

This is strictly true, insofar as that anybody who has manufactured any kind of cycling good has done more for cycling than most. There are 6 billion people in the world, and perhaps fewer than a million of them do anything 'for' cycling. However, a small frame builder who just happens to have started a show for a few other small frame builders and some boutique component makers hasn't really done much for cycling. The NAHBS is very insular, and if you don't buy into its style in a big way, it's pretty irrelevant in terms of global cycling. In fact, it has very little to do with cycling at all; it's really just a circle jerk for people making art objects in the shape of bicycles. I know there are some people here who think that anything which appears at NAHBS is de facto porn, but I'm not buying it. Don Walker and his ilk are about as important to cycling as Bristol are to the motor industry - an interesting side show, possibly pretty, maybe even successful in fulfilling a particular performance brief, but hugely over priced for what they are, and too small to be significant. The people who are* really *doing something for cycling are the far Eastern engineers who have brought a level of performance not even available to professionals 20 years ago to bikes which can be bought with one week's wages today.

foolish boy

I'm in heretical mood today; that 3Rensho is ugly. Not the ugliest thing ever, not even the ugliest thing mistakenly posted on this thread, but still ugly. Anybody who thinks differently should be locked in a room with the 3Rensho, a Cinelli Laser and an axe, and not let out until there is only one bike left.

I'm in heretical mood today; that 3Rensho is ugly. Not the ugliest thing ever, not even the ugliest thing mistakenly posted on this thread, but still ugly. Anybody who thinks diffrently should be locked in a room with the 3Rensho, a Cinelli Laser and an axe, and not let out until there is only one bike left.

Perfectly put. Rep for you sir.

It's not when the answer to all the questions is 2 pages back?

Just lazy...

You don't earn the right to get arsey until you've been a member for a year.

He he agreed

a bit of a crap photos, but netherless lovely, apart from the brake lever thought, look a bit silly with a single brake lever;

I love the grey thought;

Ugly as blood in the doodoo no matter how practical it might be. The fact that this is an a army bike only should be enough to throw shit on it. Plastic wrapped switzernoodle! And a bad boy is this poor peace of cycling "history" definitively not.

Meh, whatever - I like it. Granted the Masi is in a different league.
I like my porn hairy.

not sure who makes this one but i'm liking the toptube / bars line..

Beautifull lines, i wonder when they decide to hire a designer or let him do his job.

love those don walkers..
fonts look lame though (imo of course).

edscoble: Sorry, that bike is not porn..

I'm in heretical mood today; that 3Rensho is ugly. Not the ugliest thing ever, not even the ugliest thing mistakenly posted on this thread, but still ugly. Anybody who thinks differently should be locked in a room with the 3Rensho, a Cinelli Laser and an axe, and not let out until there is only one bike left.

Amen to that bruthaaa!

THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!!
re: Don Walker argument, good entertaining arguments, points well put too!

I <3 Blade Runner

angle my dangle..

get rid of the spok and tape up those bars and it'd be lovely.

yikes. that is a massive third triangle. the white is a shame, that could look awesome.