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Well, one of them attracts positive comment, but the rest range from so-so to OMG WTF!
Is this a discussion forum, or just a gallery for people to post any old shit and have its failings ignored? If the aim is to have this thread be an exemplar of fine aesthetics, perhaps with a view to guiding the whole world to making all their bikes as nice as possible, then it is important to have criticism. It is implicit in this thread that simply posting a bike constitutes positive criticism, making it all but inevitable that any subsequent comment will be negative, since a simple +1 suffices to register complete agreement with the selection of the original curator.
The deprecation of readers' wives demonstrates that simply being "to them it's obviously porn" is not sufficient qualification to be universally accepted here, since we all think we are at least on the way to perfecting our own rides. Furthermore, since posting a bike here implies a statement of superiority, and since there is no agreement about the ne plus ultra even if such a thing exists, then every bike posted here must necessarily be inferior to some other bike, even if it is only the Platonic ideal bicycle, and the points of inferiority form as important a part of the discussion as the points of superiority.
That some people here object to my critiques not with rational counter-argument but with censorious whining shows a lack of wit on their part; if they had better ideas, they would place them before us and win over the crowd with their superior rhetoric. If they had a clue about their own witlessness, they would simply use the "ignore" facility to spare themselves the mental torment which my voicing an opinion seems to cause them.
In the final analysis, it's pictures of other people's bicycles and my occasional disparaging remarks about the aesthetics thereof; a very long way from something about which any sensible person should give more than a passing thought.