Bike porn

dentists have garages ed. brick walls are for the rest of us plebs

The garage I photo my bike in front of belongs to a neighbour of mine who keeps his black cab in it.

you think a brake lever looks good when it's not attached to a brake? seriously?

utter shit.

dentists have garages ed. brick walls are for the rest of us plebs

I just lol'd .. If you are racing you have the chance of crashing. So it stands to reason that your pride and joy has a good chance of ending up on the ground scratched, or even worse, broken. "If you can’t afford to break it, don’t race it" .. and you have just debuted a race bike loaded with a mix of Campagnolo 11 speed Record and Super Record .. sorry but pot'n'kettle.

Oh not to worry im aware of what happens in races :) I've come off on every bike I own and I dont build wallhangers. I take my training bike with athena to the wet ones. And on the track well, what ever happens happens

First time I actually like Celeste;

^ wash your mouth!

you think a brake lever looks good when it's not attached to a brake? seriously?

Not sure what part of 'riding on the hoods' you don't understand, but... whatever. It's not like a brake lever magically changes its appearance when you route a cable through it anyway.
I look forward to being castigated for running an unconnected drop lever on my next bike.

Omfg ok, useless was a wrong word
i really get it why the bike has two levers, i just think a bike posted in bike porn has to be completely "perfect", i really want to see the reactions on the firsy njs bike without brakes and 2 aero levers...

Post it in functional bikes...

Why not? brake levers look perfectly normal even without brakes.

It's a damn sight better (and ridiculously cheaper) than those monstrous Sphinx from 3T.

Are you all wilfully ignoring Mattias' (correct) view that whilst an unconnected lever may be functional it disbars a bike from this thread? I might add that I can't see anything particularly appealing or well thought out about the build.

So bicycle that doesn't function should go on HHSB then.

who cares

Both of my levers, and Dron's, operate the front brake- I've found it to be quite handy.

DJ's as well I think.

Omfg ok, useless was a wrong word
i really get it why the bike has two levers, i just think a bike posted in bike porn has to be completely "perfect", i really want to see the reactions on the firsy njs bike without brakes and 2 aero levers...

Post it in functional bikes...

this is awesome.

the bridgestone in its current guise:

Readers wives! :)

Wharry - some of the nicest bikes on the forum.

the nicest livingroom

The nicest dentist.

shut up ed

I might add that I can't see anything particularly appealing or well thought out about the build.

Pretty much this.

It's nice and all, but its not porn (regardless of brake levers).

Omfg ok, useless was a wrong word
i really get it why the bike has two levers, i just think a bike posted in bike porn has to be completely "perfect", i really want to see the reactions on the firsy njs bike without brakes and 2 aero levers...

Post it in functional bikes...

Road levers + front brake only is perfect for road fixed though. Not for a road bike, and not for a track bike, but a lot of bikes are fixed road bikes and I don't see how adding a second brake and cabling it up improves that setup. Unless the lever rattles like a bastard (but there are also other ways of fixing that, of course).

... I don't see how adding a second brake and cabling it up improves that setup.

Of course it doesn't. It's a silly point.

The bianchi however is awesome, and probably one of the few times intergrated stem/bars look good.

Omfg ok, useless was a wrong word
i really get it why the bike has two levers, i just think a bike posted in bike porn has to be completely "perfect", i really want to see the reactions on the firsy njs bike without brakes and 2 aero levers...

Post it in functional bikes...

Aside from function, I actually find two brake levers on drop bars a lot more aesthetically pleasing and balanced than only one lever, or one lever plus that abomination called a stoker lever, or even (god forbid) the silly single cross lever.

I don't see how adding a second brake and cabling it up improves that setup.

It improves it by adding a second brake. Try it, you might like it.

A thousand plus one.