Bike porn

BMW's will always be porn to me...from their first cruiser over a decade ago, to the forthcoming goodies :)

Joe has a new site layout now too...see it here... www.brooklynmachineworks.com

Ahhh that site is so much better! their old one look like an ICT GCSE project done on Excel!

agreed, the new site is awesome. lots of good photos. i'd love to own any one of those bikes, beautiful.

I'm just gutted that i can't see the site on my laptop now cos it won't play flash or quicktime :(

download the plugins Scott ?

btw scott they used your brown and gold colour scheme on the SR6, very similar look

Have you been away Dale...everyone got over excited about the steel langster in a whole thread last week.
Still don't see what all the fuss is about myself.

Maybe the surprise factor of Specialized making something worth buying ?

Does that have an s&s coupling on the rear-seatstay? Weirddd.
I like it though, looks nicer than the rusty-melty one that everyone is loving up the thread.

I much prefer it with the Fast Boy Cycles wooden handlebar thought;

Interesting that in 1896, $100 was considered a pricey bike. What was that, about £25? That would still have been a high end price in the immediate post war years, all the good bits on a 531 frame would be about that in 1948 or so.

$100 in 1896 is a lots of money in 2009 mate!

$100 in 1896 is a lots of money in 2009 mate!

About $10,000 which is roughly where high end bicycles are in 2009. My point was really about how there was effectively no price increase in the 50 years following 1896, despite both improvement in quality and a tripling of the CPI in the same period for the mythical 'basket of goods', suggesting a really impressive improvement in productivity (qualitative and quantitative) in the cycle industry during that period. Probably not surprising given what happened in the car business during this time, but interesting nonetheless.

In terms of absolute performance, that $10,000 (inflation adjusted) Butler would sit alongside a $200 Unipack and not do well out of the comparison.

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Only fails to see that the frame is clearly far too small for the rider, other than that, pure good taste.

WRONG

FUCK YEAH!!

or even like this...

download the plugins Scott ?

They're all there...i've removed...downloaded so many times. It needs taking back to factory settings again but i can't be bothered backing up my stuff :)

btw scott they used your brown and gold colour scheme on the SR6, very similar look

That's pretty funny cos it's also the same colour scheme i used on my very first Brooklyn...the Gangsta was my second BMW to use those colours :)

Very nice, although it looks like it doesn't fit whoever owns it with the very short stem and the saddle pushed so far forward.

Anti, those track end are poorly made and weaker due to how it's cut.

Anti, those track end are poorly made and weaker due to how it's cut.

They look poorly attached, but not poorly made.

I doubt that they would break too. There is still a lot of metal there, certainly a lot more than in the drop outs at the front.

btw scott they used your brown and gold colour scheme on the SR6, very similar look

I don't understand why this bike has cable discs.

I don't understand why this bike has cable discs.

The 8" rotor avid cable discs are really powerful brakes...actually better than some of the hydraulics i've used...no fade or pump on long DH runs either.

The 8" rotor avid cable discs are really powerful brakes...actually better than some of the hydraulics i've used...no fade or pump on long DH runs either.

Still, I would have thought that they would have gone for the absolute best discs they could find, which (given the fact that they are better than "some" of the hydraulics you've used) they don't appear to be.

It's not my bike though, so I don't really care that much. At least it's not freewheel with no back brake/brakeless fixed with no foot retention.

Still, I would have thought that they would have gone for the absolute best discs they could find, which (given the fact that they are better than "some" of the hydraulics you've used) they don't appear to be.

It's not my bike though, so I don't really care that much. At least it's not freewheel with no back brake/brakeless fixed with no foot retention.

Well Joe is a personal fan of the avids, so i guess he feels that as it's not a full on DH frame that their performance is plenty good enough.
It's just an idea of a build you can do really...they don't really sell them complete usually, so it's the customers choice.