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.

Black suede Concor Supercorsa
Cinelli LA84 (tbh RB-021s would look good, even if they are Japanese) Black cloth tape
Campagnolo Shamals polished.
Black suede double straps.

Would be a dream bike...

Fixed

Taking the 650 into account^

Thats how i'd build it, to ride, obviously not to use it for its intended purpose...

ah, wonderful day! one single pic sparkled (at least) two pages worth of debates! well done!

looks reealy fun

^ what rims?

^track drops on a pursuit bike, would be as equally anti -

That Merckx looks thoroughly shit.

Probably would have been equipped with Cinelli LA84 Bars and Double Campagnolo Ghibli discs when it was originally used for it's intended purpose.

^ moving on
all agreed: great frame thats been the wrong hands.
(headset has to go)

Velocity B43

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.

I challenge you to duplicate that carbon bike for £200. I'll buy for £250 if you succeed.

Stuff not being expensive enough to be porn is just pretentious rubbish, a bike doesn't need to be out of reach for me to appreciate it.

http://veloptimal.com/forum/images/uploads/vincetriumph/projet_klein_013_646.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4928668045_261e289034_b.jpg

2 dream bikes (albeit with some minor changes) on one page....

pass the tissues!

good taste

Okay I'm sold.

where's this narrow gauge railway is at?

I challenge you to duplicate that carbon bike for £200. I'll buy for £250 if you succeed.

Stuff not being expensive enough to be porn is just pretentious rubbish, a bike doesn't need to be out of reach for me to appreciate it.

The carbon bike is not porn and it couldn't be duplicated for £200, not sure I get your point there?

I guess it is down to what people appreciate. I simply cannot appreciate cheap, poorly made parts or bikes and they are certainly nowhere near porn.

Still challenge anyone to come up with a cheap bike that is generally accepted as porn worthy...

Japanese with Italian?.. Porn..?
Fail.

Not always...

NJS build with super rare Campagnolo NJS approved parts? Yes please:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dubteka/sets/72157600174931232/

The GT is quite nice. I'd be proud if I was the owner but I don't class it as porn

2 dream bikes** (albeit with some minor changes) **on one page....

The Klein looks awesome, the GT looks stealth. My taste precisely.

^ what rims?

Velocity b43's

...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...

I built this for £100 after some wheelin' & dealin'.

A few people liked it.

http://velospace.org/files/DSC_0673.JPG

I built this for £100 after some wheelin' & dealin'.

A few people liked it.

How on earth did you manage that?
Was it pre fixie boom?

2008

Buy a full bike cheaply, keep what you need, sell what you don't.

Repeat if necessary.

Sometimes you get lucky.

Nice,

Really tasteful build man, definitely got lucky with that one to build it for that price...

Lol, first thing I noticed was that everything had been lined up carefully. Nice bike

Hardly counts if wheelin' and dealin' and does it now!

So someone could now buy that off you for £100 or would you value it at more?

'So someone could now buy that off you for £100 or would you value it at more?'

Well that's hardly a valid point, if you bought a house in 1996, did it up and sold it in 2006 you would hardly sell it what it cost you in '96?

What DMC's bike conforms to your challenge. I do think it's hard to do, but Ed bought a cheap track frame the other day, that I would imagine he could turn into a 'porn' worthy build for less than £200.

^ second line in a post above is a massive, massive sarcasm recognition fail