Bike porn

Shit ye bed of olde... what a corker. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Goods!

[FONT=Times New Roman]IMHO these dh bikes are fugly, over-engineered, over-priced wastes of space. IMO it was a total waste of time digging the bizarre mixture of metal ores out of the ground and using all that energy and resource to forge these said bikes from such daft, contorted components. I don’t think I’m right…it’s just what I think, and I hope no one posts another of those ridiculous, springloaded hunks of wackness again…the backs of my eyes are burning.

These are the ramblings of a mad man. Does it occur to you that such 'hunks of wackness' (an early nineties male stripper group if I'm not mistaken...?) were designed to be the pinnacle of function and durability, and not mere trinkets for your wanton eyes? If you'd ever ridden mountain bikes (properly) you'd know just how good they can be to ride. The last DH bike I rode was the original Kona Stab deelux and things have come on a long way since then... thinking about how awesome these latest bikes would be to ride gets me really excited about cycling. Plus, in my opinion, they look AWESOME. As do vintage Italian track bikes, Raleigh Shoppers, penny farthings and top drawers road racing bikes. Basically, bikes are great, and great bikes are FUCKING GREAT, whatever purpose they serve!

I had you down as cool. What a shame. ;)

You're forgetting one thing though...not everyone cares about or follows 'phases'...some people simply ride certain set ups because they find them fun.

Also...most people never bought huge full suspension frames simply to use for urban riding, dropping flights of steps etc...they had them for downhill use, but that didn't stop them having fun playing around in the streets too.

Small wheels for off road served a purpose too.
At the time that Brooklyn released the original supertrucker it was pretty much the only bike using 24x3" Gazzaloddi's and monster T forks...they started using them because the 26" wheels around at the time weren't really up to the kind of riding the bmw boys and their friends were doing. They were destroying wheels at places like platekill and dropping stairs in central park...they were going bigger and needed equipment that allowed them to without needing replacing so often.
Some people were using 24" wheels for years...hardly a passing phase...Mark Weightman even won the european champs on 24" wheels and a 57lb bike.
As most 26" tyres at the time only came out about the same diameter as a 24x3" Gazza too it meant they got stronger and stiffer wheels without suffering too badly from the poorer rolling.

It was all just about having fun basically.
A bike isn't useless simply because it uses equipment that people now see as outdated...or from a phase long since passed.
Bikes like the early BMW's for example were never meant to be flat out race machines...they were all about fun and going big, without breaking.

I couldn't care less about 'phases' personally...if i'm having fun on a bike, ANY bike...that's all that matters to me.

Ever spent any time on a bike like that? Just curious. And you're forgetting a lot of bikes running 3" tires. Banshee was doing it, is the main maker I'm thinking of. So was Clifcat. They are ALL dumb. People talk about them as jokes nowadays. I've put significant time on 24" wheels with 3" tires and it's a complete joke.

what about this guy?

MTB became Freeride and overshot the curve with bikes like that. A couple of years of riding around on those tanks brought things back to where they are now. People are still going huge, but riding with much more style.

anyway somoene else can have last word. I'm dropping it after this.

;-)

Now the Mini-LInk on the other hand looks like a fun toy.

Only porn when put in context. It´s from the 2010 Fixie Inc. Black Jack. Does any one know who makes it or where it can be bought?

Mosquito Bikes, in Exess Rd sell them

i've never ridden a proper high spec full suspension DH bike, i would love to compare them to say a rigid front suspension MTB bike on a section of rough offroad, to just to see the difference. I'm intrigued.

These are the ramblings of a mad man. Does it occur to you that such 'hunks of wackness' (an early nineties male stripper group if I'm not mistaken...?) were designed to be the pinnacle of function and durability, and not mere trinkets for your wanton eyes? If you'd ever ridden mountain bikes (properly) you'd know just how good they can be to ride. The last DH bike I rode was the original Kona Stab deelux and things have come on a long way since then... thinking about how awesome these latest bikes would be to ride gets me really excited about cycling. Plus, in my opinion, they look AWESOME. As do vintage Italian track bikes, Raleigh Shoppers, penny farthings and top drawers road racing bikes. Basically, bikes are great, and great bikes are FUCKING GREAT, whatever purpose they serve!

I had you down as cool. What a shame. ;)

ridden plenty of mtb's, thanks. just found the images overwhelmingly boring after a while...thats all...don't think i'm alone in that. impressive knowledge of 90's strip groups, so you're still definitely cool in my book. function...durability...not exactly words associated with porn.

it doesn't make all the fun i had on them any less valid...does it?

the most sense you have made all day...couldn't agree more

new D.A.M.P. Earbeard frame, fillet brazed Columbus Zona tubes
for me it ticks a lot of boxes of porn, triple triangle, bendy seat tube, wishbon, TT geometry.....

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nice one rik, i love his builds.

if only I have the money :(

the first one

the second one

the third one

and the last one is up there

I'd say i put in more time on a bike like that than anyone else on here...I owned it!

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If people see bikes like that as a joke then so fucking what...it doesn't make all the fun i had on them any less valid...does it?

I know they were fun.. no doubt. Phase or not, i just think it was a really silly evolution of bikes.

but wait that was your bike? that particular one? just curious.

I dunno what you're saying about phases and my posts before.

if only I have the money :(

If this frameset was available for sale I would have one tomorrow. It is the perfect frameset for me.

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If this frameset was available for sale I would have one tomorrow. It is the perfect frameset for me.

it is for sale, PM Bubblan here in the forum, DAMP is his company, nice fella from Sweden

for god's sake, you complete cocks, put only nice track bikes up and never mountain bikes and these ridiculous half mountain, half bmx monstrosities. like it used to be.

The whole mtb thing over the last few pages has been hugely informative for me. My only experience of mtbs was my gary fisher marlin (similar to below but a bit later '98 perhaps?, still rigid)

Tandem porn next?

If this frameset was available for sale I would have one tomorrow. It is the perfect frameset for me.

I´ve been thinking the same ever since it has been posted for the 1st time...*sigh of po[strike]o[/strike]rness *

Is scraggie borsha Pistanator?

is defo scott not scott..

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Had a look at the galleries on their site - don't they make some great frames?

for god's sake, you complete cocks, put only nice track bikes up and never mountain bikes and these ridiculous half mountain, half bmx monstrosities. like it used to be.

Now now, don't be a silly cucumber.

@object....noice

em, that top one, has got you written all over it.

Some lovely bikes up there... Murts is right, that's totally Em...