Bike porn

Co Motion Americano Rohloff with Gates belt drive. They usually build tandems, but this looks like a lot of fun

http://www.co-motion.com/single_bikes/amerohloff.html

http://copenhagenparts.com/products/bike-porter

got a feeling this will be a bit of a love hate thing. I like it though.

Good idea - bad execution.

Bars that neck in really close to the middle look ugly. Likesay, just a nicer, more convetional rise and sweep and it would look cool.

http://copenhagenparts.com/products/bike-porter

got a feeling this will be a bit of a love hate thing. I like it though.

looks very sleek and everything but wouldn't it put a lot less stress on the headtube/fork if there was a support that fixed onto the front axle?

http://copenhagenparts.com/products/bike-porter

Nice, but it needs a flat bed to stop stuff dropping through, and also stays, because without them, your handlebars are going to rotate forwards the first time you hit a bump with a heavy load on board. Even worse, the rack might hit the tyre and turn a bump into an endo opportunity. Oh, and no way to adjust the handlebar angle without affecting the levelling of the rack etc. etc.

In short, too clever by half.

i guess you would have to crank down the stem bolts aswell if you were to put any real weight in the basket.
sorry didnt see the above post.

forget the risks and speculative stress in headtube etc. It weights to much 1638 g! beautifully minimalist though

nice? poorly put together, what's with that gear shifter? something more practical/incorporated should have been designed I think

Co Motion Americano Rohloff with Gates belt drive. They usually build tandems, but this looks like a lot of fun

http://www.co-motion.com/single_bikes/amerohloff.html

It is a cyclocross frame not a track frame.
so if it is a cross bike then why does it have disk brakes? Just looks like a track bike with nobbly tires. Either that or fixie inc have no idea what there doing and have created the frankenstein of bikes.

wtf? Do you understand what cycloX is?

Their are several disc equipped SS Cyclocross bike out there - SS Cyclocross has quite a big following, and while discs arent UCI legal, a lot of people like me like em on an SS Crosser, hence the popularity of similar framesets - e.g the new pompino

nice? poorly put together, what's with that gear shifter? something more practical/incorporated should have been designed I think

Its a Rolhoff - if that doesnt expalain the shifter then you should start googling

Its a Rolhoff - if that doesnt expalain the shifter then you should start googling

But surely enough people are putting Rohloffs on drop bar bikes that Rohloff should get their arse in gear and make an integrated shift/brake lever for road bikes, preferably a cable version and a version with an hydraulic master cylinder so quasi-CX bikes can start using grown up callipers. Having the shifter right at the end of the drop is about the worst place it could be given that off road riding demands accurate steering, braking and shifting all at once.

But surely enough people are putting Rohloffs on drop bar bikes that Rohloff should get their arse in gear and make an integrated shift/brake lever for road bikes, preferably a cable version and a version with an hydraulic master cylinder so quasi-CX bikes can start using grown up callipers. Having the shifter right at the end of the drop is about the worst place it could be given that off road riding demands accurate steering, braking and shifting all at once.

I totally agree! Just given whats out there this seems to be the most common set up. I quite like the set up on this tandem, custom stem mount

Also its more of a touring bike than a crosser - hears the more conventional version

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Also its more of a touring bike than a crosser

Two completely different bikes, albeit from the same manufacturer. That's like saying a Trek TTX is really a downhill bike because Trek also make the Session 88.

Its not remotely the same as the analogy you suggest - they are variations on the same frameset. If you bothered to google you would see they do the frameset in conventional and rohlof versions. Here is the conventional (ableit specced to the max)

http://blog.kgsbikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Co-Motion-Americano-Ortlieb-Tubus.jpg

They are only variations on a theme insofar as both are built from Reynolds 725 tubing. After that, they barely have a braze-on in common, and they have different geometry.

i hate brooks saddles, there for old people who suffer with piles!

Yes, they sadly don't suit unipack frames.

You will learn to appreciate them when you grow up.

This looks so much fun!

That is absolutely vomit inducing... I'm sorry but I wouldn't be seen dead on that...
This looks right up your alley...

In my option bike porn it not 100% about aesthetics and more about practicality, sure a Nagasawa looks real nice but its not really a 'go anywhere' bike is it... Each to their own!

In my option bike porn it not 100% about aesthetics and more about practicality...

That really goes against your last post in Anti-Porn then... ; )

wtf? Do you understand what cycloX is?
hmm. I do believe that the use of disk brakes in cycloX racing is not permitted. Oh...and i nearly forgot...my dad was arkansas cycloX state champion 3 years running...so you know...maybe i know fuck all!

Nice, but it needs a flat bed to stop stuff dropping through, and also stays, because without them, your handlebars are going to rotate forwards the first time you hit a bump with a heavy load on board. Even worse, the rack might hit the tyre and turn a bump into an endo opportunity. Oh, and no way to adjust the handlebar angle without affecting the levelling of the rack etc. etc.

In short, too clever by half.

...and don't forget the price, all £150 of it.