Bike porn

1. No aluminium - ever, under any circumstances.
   

Bullshite.

http://velospace.org/files/vision_light.jpg

http://www.light-bikes.com/BikePhotos/Road/principia_rsl.jpg

http://cdn3.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2011/03/28/2/gaulzetti_full_view_600.jpg

http://velospace.org/files/P2240001.JPG

Shite.

Couldn't agree more. These two so-called bikes are only fit to be used as beverage containers.

Very light, stiff, and fast moving beverage holders.

A bike that is actually pretty. If you've read through the thread like a good boy (saves reposts so less flaming) then you might get the gist of what we like

Good god no, don't recommend this, Squabbles (and others) have posted all kinds of shit on this thread!

It's how I learnt, 800 pages of reading later and possibly only one repost from me.

dude wtf

This is actually pretty sick - mixing up blue and purple components though?

Their websites cool: http://www.amp-research.com/company/history/amp-research-mountain-bikes/#

I want that bike.

I want that bike.

Agreed. Sick bike!

It's how I learnt, 800 pages of reading later and possibly only one repost from me.

I've read it all, porn + anti, too, and still posted the Pengy there, unaware. Ignorance is bliss.

Ok you you guys have a quite refined taste in fixed and road bikes but when it comes to MTBs your collective tastes are highly, highly questionable! And/Or at least 20 years out of date.

20 years out of date = ironic
everybody = hipsters

This is actually pretty sick - mixing up blue and purple components though?

Their websites cool: http://www.amp-research.com/company/history/amp-research-mountain-bikes/#

I crap you not I found a merc one covered with dust in the back of the garage on saturday, next to an old raleigh chopper.

I'd like to see a few more pics of that Ciocc

the rear tire logo is not opposite the valve
and the chain is the small chainring

And the rear QR is the wrong way round

People on here would do well to tell anyone who tries to dictate what is and isn't so-called bike porn to fuck right off. It's just for fun after all and we all have our own take on things.

Those hoses could do with being a bit longer.

^ what he said, except 4

Ultegra is probably OK on road bikes if the frame is good enough.

On the right bike, an old Crane or a complete Golden Arrow 105 group could be perfectly acceptable. The suggestion that only 1st tier groupsets are welcome leads some misguided folk to assume that anything with a 1st tier groupset is porn. It's not about being expensive, it's about being technically and aesthetically correct.

People on here would do well to tell anyone who tries to dictate what is and isn't so-called bike porn to fuck right off. It's just for fun after all and we all have our own take on things.

Please, just fuck the right off.

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People on here would do well to tell anyone who tries to dictate what is and isn't so-called bike porn to fuck right off. It's just for fun after all and we all have our own take on things.

I have to disagree. Setting a saddle up wrong just shows you do not understand how to ride a bike efficiently.

The qr thing is less important, it is a detail, but there is a good reason why the qrs should point up towards the saddle, which is that they are less likely to get tangled in fellow riders spokes, tyres in a race.

The tyre label is an even less important detail, but again there is a reason for it, which is that the pressure rating is normally to be found on the label*, so it makes sense to have it by the valve.

Questions of taste is a different. I happen to think that aluminium bikes look ugly. You may think differently, but you probably wear tennis socks.