Bike porn

Here's my two pennys worth on this thread - it's less bike porn and more photography porn.

Does anyone ride half these bike? or do they just keep them in showrooms, museums, sheds and polish them every second of the day. I can't take any bike seriously as porn unless it looks like its being ridden, like someone is getting the enjoyment out of it, like its being lived. Isn't that what its all about bike = man+machine in symbiotic relationship?

You can't appreciate a bike unless it's been ridden, I can't appreciate a bike unless the valves are aligned properly. It's the variety of life that gives it its flavour, non?