Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

I doubt if the wheels would have drawn comment if they had been Rigida DP18 on generic hubs, which is about what the Navigators amount to, aside from the cheap vinyl graphics.

They're track wheels with nmsw, he's running a brake on it? :-$

I doubt if the wheels would have drawn comment if they had been Rigida DP18 on generic hubs, which is about what the Navigators amount to, aside from the cheap vinyl graphics.

exactly, but not everybody knows that.

dp18s on on-one hubs cost me about £84 to build a set of for training on, they seem fine with standing starts on 90+ gearing and stable at speeds over 35mph, but they wouldn't pass muster to go on a bike pushed among kingsland road by a 20-something with his first attempt at facial hair and an ego bigger than westminster abbey.

Damn, was just about to post that.

Me to :-/

He's too fast.

Hate stems like this, if you can't use a horizontal one get a smaller frame.

Hate stems like this, if you can't use a horizontal one get a smaller frame.

Or get a horizontal stem and a flat bar, in this case.

They're track wheels with nmsw, he's running a brake on it? :-$

I can assure you, having run Mavic Ellipses on my TT bike for the past few years, that the brake soon machines the sidewall :-)

...and looks shit

In the olden days of British cycle racing, amateur status was taken so seriously that you were not even allowed to have the maker's name on the frame. As a workaround, so that it would be clear that top riders were on their frame, various makers came up with spuriously justified adjustments to frame shapes to make them look distinctive. Hetchins' curley stays are the most well known example, but Bates' Diadrant forks were just as spurious.

1941 Bates Vegrandis

love the steering wheel type wing nuts
hardly anti though

tis an example, for the discussion quoted.

those wheels are like pressure handles in a sub or something, awesome. Das Boot your bike for '09

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What's with the thermos flasks?! :-$

What's with the thermos flasks?! :-$

Arctic warfare camouflage, so he'll be wanting a nice hot cuppa

are people really such poor cyclists that they have to use BMX pedals for the road?

How did they get it utterly wrong by making it rideable? it's only utterly wrong when it doesn't have the correct era component, frankly at least they didn't put riser, velocity deep v, 650c front wheel so it'll be 'barspinnable'.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the Navigator Pista, they're reasonably light, pretty cheap, and defintely better than the Miche Pistards, but then I'd go for a simple Open Pro/System EX wheelbuild over the Navigator.

And hoping that the owner is an American just so you can readily insult them? a rather silly thing to says.

I totally agree with regards to modern components on a vintage frame, unless frame is mega rare maybe. But that build is just fecked up (IMHO).

with matching urban warfare scarf, set for everything fail.

with matching urban warfare scarf, set for everything fail.

Just needs these Deep Vs to finish it
http://www.benscycle.net/images/snow_camo.jpg

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because it's a comfortable set up with modern brakes and levers to make the most out of it?

anti-porn in form, but not in function.

i think that will doesn't loose much with a classic handlebar...
i could understand this if it was from a guy at his 60s,
not from anyone else.

Fuckin Jesus! Why do people do it??! :-$

Dunno what's more cringeworthy, the bike or him thinking "Yes, I'll take the pic in front of my shed cos the wheels match"

Makes baby jesus cry.

Saw one of these outside Sainsbury's in Swindon last night.

Badly wrong.

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Camoflage your bike then have orange reflectors on the pedals?

Arctic stealth fail, and yes he must be using his bike in the Arctic, that's what the thermos flasks are for!

Lightweights = Win
Lightweights + Paint = Fail

http://cdn.mos.bikeradar.com/images/news/2008/05/29/Pippo_Liquigas_1-850-65.jpg

http://cdn.mos.bikeradar.com/images/news/2008/05/29/Team_Sparkasse_2-798-75.jpg

Made me crave for sweets.

Camoflage your bike then have orange reflectors on the pedals?

Arctic stealth fail, and yes he must be using his bike in the Arctic, that's what the thermos flasks are for!

he lives in florida

Lightweights = Win
Lightweights + Paint = Fail

just an add to your collection