Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

and how does that make them unqualified to be proper racing bicycles?

They're racing bikes.

I just don't think they deserve to be called proper.

In this context for me proper means about the same as dull, average looking, a tool instead of something to be passionate about, and all those things can be said about dolans.

What he said.

My last track bike was a Scotish 2002 Commonwealth Games issue 853 ProTeam Corrado. I wouldn't swap that for any Dolan.

Please take this twitter somewhere else, maybe to the functional bike thread, this thread is about ugly bikes, that Dolan is not ugly, just boring....

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, and again I say NO. please for the love of all the gods, never, build any thing like that again.

goes to shed to comfort the colnago

I you're citing victories as the measure of a frame's calibre, then holey bike yank is a genius.

I'm citing World Championship victories as an indication that the bike is fit and proper to be raced at the highest level. That drillium abomination fails that test, and so many others.

Dolans are still nothing special. They're ok designs produced cheaply in quantity.

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that Dolan is not ugly, just boring....

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dull, average looking, a tool instead of something to be passionate about, and all those things can be said about dolans.

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60% of bikes at my local track league are Dolans, everyone has a sticker with their name on the bike to stop any confusion.

^ Is that the Joey Deacon Track League??!

Surely you'd have to have minces like Olive from On The Buses to not recognise your own bike??

No accounting for taste

Would

I cannot understand how you go to the trouble of getting a custom angry birds paint job, but put an Ultegra groupset on. It's not as if money is no object.

^ Is that the Joey Deacon Track League??!

Surely you'd have to have minces like Olive from On The Buses to not recognise your own bike??

Ha, not when the lbs has a deal with Dolan for Black Track Champions with Navigator Pista Wheels.

I bought a Vigorelli purely not to add to the confusion

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check out the bone seat post???

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It's a cross trainer bike.

That needs to be taken round the back and shot

love the taped up lever... simple, however not elegant.

BLB are doing crabon rims. Clinchers with too many spokes

BLB are doing crabon rims. Clinchers with too many spokes

Oh, God...

Also, this:

blb have got anti down to a fine art

That deep rim is vile

Is that rim a painted-up oriental special?

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check out the bone seat post???

The post is behind it.
Looks more like an auto infraction reminder.

they got 50mm 550g carbon clincher for 185pounds, doesnt sound that bad if you get them in matt carbon, although I assume you can get just the same ones from ebay