Bike porn

Well i guess it's a bit like trying to make a Lada look like a Mustang... it's just not meant to be.

Eh? So you take a nice frame and it starts looking like a Lada but take a flexy as hell luddite ancient stove piped double triangled frame that happens to have horizontal dropouts and it's automatically porn?

If your going to spend a load of money on building something, then why not start out with a solid platform, or just a frame that is actually worth something.

"solid platform" "a frame that is actually worth something. " <-what does this mean?

I myself have a conversion, but i only use the conversion as a winter beater.. No hate.. but i would never spend as much money on a conversion as i do on my track bikes.

Please tell us you don't nip round to the petrol station on your 'track whip' after a nine hour sesh on GTA for a can of Cherry coke and a pack of 10 Lambert&Butlers do you?

7850SL have no carbon in them, 7850CL are hardly 'fake' since the rims are very light compared with an all aluminium clincher rim, lighter than most all carbon clinchers in fact. Best of both worlds

Am I going mad or aren't shimano using some kind of laminate carbon thing laced onto an alloy rim (like the cosmics), whereas most people would assume a carbon wheel is made entirely of carbon, no (light or not)?

Please tell us you don't nip round to the petrol station on your 'track whip' do you?

edit. just going to ignore that.

as long as you don't take any of it too seriously?

well.. i have no need for petrol, so why ride to the petrol station :)

eh?

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Really not feeling that ^. Nice bits and no doubt does the job well... but it's just not porn.

Thoses shifters look really odd too Allot is prob to do with the angle of the bars from leaning the bike against the wall.

Am I going mad or aren't shimano using some kind of laminate carbon thing laced onto an alloy rim (like the cosmics), whereas most people would assume a carbon wheel is made entirely of carbon, no (light or not)?

^he's is referring to the two diff DA wheels; the SL is a normal scandium extruded rim whilst the CL is a rim that is extruded and then machined/milled down to dangerous levels and then has carbon bonded to it to add back the stiffness. Shimano lists the rim weight as 380g and it's exactly the same rim as the RS80 wheels.
Shimano do the same process on the 50mm clincher CL rims too and the RS80 version of those arrives next month.

carbon thing laced onto an alloy rim (like the cosmics)

They are different from Cosmic Carbons, since the Mavic rim would still work without the bonded on carbon fairing, where the Shimano CL rims depend on the carbon laminations for their strength, including extra layers at the spoke holes. Mavic (and similar Hed) wheels bed the spokes in the aluminium rim, with the carbon fairing contributing nothing to spoke support.

im loving everything about that frame. not madly keen on the stem though

Although I know it may never go in production, but I'm always loving the idea of a White Industries rear derailleur;

Back to frame, feast your eyes on a bilaminated frame;

Ed, why is there a derailleur on a derailleur?

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just beat me to it!

Scorch, back from the ashes.
Merry Xmas dude ;)

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"...This isn't the bike I rode at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, but it was the one that I used to beat the qualifying time to make the team..."

(...photo was taken some time in 1988 in Bucklands Beach North, Manukau City, Auckland, NZ...)

I like this one most. Captures perfectly how these track sprinters are a massive heap of muscle and nothing's gonna stop them. Just WOW, and look at the grin on his face, too!

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"...close up of Chris Hoy's (trainig) wheel. Dura Ace 36h, 3 cross, 14/15 double butted, tied and soldered spokes. The tied and soldered spokes make it really stiff..."