Bike porn

It's hardly by the by when the discussion point is exactly that.

I challenge anyone to be given £200 and put together a bike that is generally accepted as porn worthy by the great people of this forum.

Do the same with £4000 and you would get many nice bikes (plus some horrid ones!). Agree that you can't buy taste, but you also can't buy very nice bikes or parts cheaply.

Yes I agree that would not be easy, but given the number of classic bikes on this page and the parts that get shown it's not impossible.

Like I quoted before:

.... This thread should be a place for bikes that are either so purely functional that by nature of being so high performance, so good at what they are intended for the aesthetic becomes a secondary outcome of the build or built from components that go so well together to they create a beautiful bike.
Cost should not be a factor.

How much things cost is 'by the by' (as I meant it) because it is not a factor in making something porn-worthy.