Bike porn

No, somebody would have to actually ride the thing for a good distance for that to happen. Most of these poseur wank bikes will spend their whole lives being trailed around from one wank fest to another in the back of a van, so it's irrelevant that they are not practical bicycles.

They're called show bikes.

And most of them are small because just like shoes all being size 9 in press photographs because they look good, smaller bikes (in the 56cm area) look better than larger bikes... more balanced, better proportioned.

Not all of the bikes that were on display were show bikes though. 2 of the Mathers were for customers, Ted's bike for his mum is ridden by his mum. I didn't ask Rikki, but I'm fairly sure that not all of the frames he brought were just for show, and I'm equally sure that the Brother frames weren't just show bikes.

But yeah, the more extreme bikes to show off a particular thing are just for show and may never be sold to any customer who would ride it.

The NAHBS ratio on this is far worse. You clearly see that so many of those bikes aren't even practical.