Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

fuck me that post was ages ago

Clue: Fork crown.

An old beat up colnago road frame in not rare nor particularly valuable.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/one-kind-fixie-track-bicycle-NICEST-fixed-gear-YOU-EVER-SEE-alum-white-/130604819031?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e68a76257

uff, my ratbike wankbank clearout.

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Lobster is not anti! I'm sure Mr Munch could do some wonderful things with these pics on his animal thread.

I'll admit that the lobster isn't meant to be here, I was too lazy to delete it from the post.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/one-kind-fixie-track-bicycle-NICEST-fixed-gear-YOU-EVER-SEE-alum-white-/130604819031?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e68a76257

Someone trying to flog a stolen ghostbike?

Tosh.

Nice one. I did mistake the tyres for tubs TBH – which makes some difference.

That is really nice, tyres don't make much sense on a brakless skidda but maybe they just ride sensible?

By this logic does my Argos belong in here?

Doesn't your Argos wear a Rando on the back, and have sorted pedals and gearing? It also didn't cost upwards of a k to put together. Those small but crucial differences make your bike good to ride, own and maintain and this one not so.

I'm impressed I didn't realise it was possible to be this far up yourself without 24hr support from a surgical team.

I know it's the net and all that but you're starting to border on a god complex, you may find help here:-

http://www.davidicke.com/

I am David Icke crazy me. I have this nutjob idea that if your building an expensive bicycle then it should be ridable and ridden rather than to sit in the window of a boutique, or the corner of an agency studio.

Those aren't the words of a god... you're just reading them in the internet. I'm not making a film about it and if I did there would be almost zero presence of either lizards or jews.

:)

could have missed this - but haven't seen these yet?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fixie-frame-and-fork-700CX50-53-56CM-white-powder-black-track-frame-and-fork-/300606633133?pt=AU_Sport_Cycling_Frames&hash=item45fd8d34ad#ht_1736wt_1165

... holy toledo.

the lobster is pure win, should have divided it somehow because it just deservesa separate post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bN55nfoFw&feature=related

I look forward to the day where jonathan's disc wheel debonds from the hub

nm not a real disc wheel

also look at the clearance on the forks, 650 wheel?

@oz. lololol looking at your quote up there I was thinking, wow, 1000archangels finally get's it, this is anti and not rat... then half way down got the sinking suspicion that you'd quoted cross thread.....

Yeah, removing the lobster would have completed it. There is a clear difference between anti and rat to moi

Tape bars and lose hideous tt pad and that would be a nice ride.

and blue tyres...

Knog + brooks = Anachronistic both ways

Tape bars and lose hideous tt pad and that would be a nice ride.
and blue tyres...

This, plus

• correct seat angle
  
• tighten slightly slack chain
  
  

Would look lovely

Can we seriously post bikes like this in anti?

yes we can. chain looks fine, just personal preference aint it. saddle angle as well, some people run brooks at mad angles, if his epididdymis are happy then I'm guessing he is too...

TT pad though...

I wouldn't normally post a customers bike but this made me really really sad. Tommasini Prestige with no foot retention, and a sora/tiagra mix. Oh and rear record hub with campy Omega rim. the rear pad was down to the metal but he wouldn't let me change it. I tried to explain about the rim and how it was really worth looking after... Nope.

and blue tyres

• leave correctly tensioned chain at correct tension.
  
  

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I wouldn't normally post a customers bike but this made me really really sad. Tommasini Prestige with no foot retention, and a sora/tiagra mix. Oh and rear record hub with campy Omega rim. the rear pad was down to the metal but he wouldn't let me change it. I tried to explain about the rim and how it was really worth looking after... Nope.

Did this really make you sad, did you weep a bit, feel down for a few days, try to off yourself?

I understand the brake pad should be replaced but the rest of it? Does the bike work as the owner wants it to? Coz last time I checked if I pay a bike mechanic it's to work on my bike not to give me fashion tips.

no, but pointing out the rim damage caused by the lack of brake block, and that pedaling could be improved with clips and straps all sound like genuinely helpful suggestions

also is the cassette compatible with the rest of the drive train?

no, but pointing out the rim damage caused by the lack of brake block, and that pedaling could be improved with clips and straps all sound like genuinely helpful suggestions

also is the cassette compatible with the rest of the drive train?

yep, I acknowledged the brake block rim bit and would expect to be told if the drivetrain wasn't working together...that's what you pay a mechanic for...doing the mechanics, not his fault if some idiot wants to risk a rim by being a cheapskate.

But I don't pay a mechanic to give me Gok Wan style fashion advice, admittedly I wouldn't hire Gok Wan either, or to get all sad if I build my bikes in a style he doesn't like, including my choice of pedals.

where were the fashion comments?