Bike porn

this bike is not porn purly for how shit it rides, a mate used to have one (have no idea why) and it rode like utter shite, the linkage is such a poor design too as when you get near full compression on the rear the bar that curves around the back wheel actually rubs on the tyre!

my commencal supreme has adjustable head tube :)

Also....can you class a design that was created on cad technology that allows you to test the pivot and linkage positions to find out if the bike will even work without making a prototype as 'ridiculously clever' ?

Luddite...

;)

Teenage dreams...

No...it's 'Bike porn'....and as has been said many times....it's a personal thing...what one person considers a stunning bike, someone else might hate.
If you're not happy, post some porn that YOU like.

But it's "London Fixed-Gear & Single-Speed", not "London Mountain Bike & 10-Speed"
It kind of says it in the name.

But it's "London Fixed-Gear & Single-Speed", not "London Mountain Bike & 10-Speed"
It kind of says it in the name.

The topic said "Bike porn", not "the london fixed gear and single speed bike porn".

nobody complains about the beautiful road bikes that are put up though..

the MTBs aren't to my taste but I'm not complaining

nobody complains about the beautiful road bikes that are put up though..

the MTBs aren't to my taste but I'm not complaining

Precisely.

Less talk, more porn...

what the hell, ill join in.
i love these:

yuk!

If you want MTB porn....then Ibis always delivered in the old days :)
Brake cable guides were never better looking than the 'hand job'

Hah! Excellent. But has the frame got a crack in it??

I'm personally finding this a truly intriguing education in a genre of cycling i have little experience! Keep em coming!

Scott mountain bikes were using adjustable head tubes back in the '90's'...as were mongoose.
BMW have been using linkage driven shocks for years too.

Still....better than moaning eh? :)

you are missing it. there's an "idea" and then there "execution of the idea". The 90s were full of ideas. the execution was piss. Absolute piss. Not a single product from the 90s would ever be used anymore with any kind of seriousness. (minus a very simple rigid bike from Spooky or somethign)

Linkage driven shocks are one thing man. I mean they are everywhere. Not just BMW. This Evil this is a bike with all the simplicity of a single pivot, but with with perfect rising rate. You see that the shock is compressed from both ends, but at the chamber end, the rate of compression accelerates as the shock in compressed? Look at the motion of the linkages. It's beautiful.

And that head tube design is genius.

a downhill beauty.

what the hell, ill join in.
i love these:

complete porn. first truly valid "big" bike.

The Evil I posted kind of steals it's thunder now though.

Knolly V-Tack

http://www.bike-community.net/gallery/files/1/vtach_gal1_big.jpg

In case some of you aren't familiar with how small these bikes are.... Flickable fun. When you're sitting on them, you feet hit the ground with your knees bent. These aren't big cumbersome bikes.
http://triridedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/knollyberrecloth24.png

Looks like a kid's bike!

haha no kids bike man. Anyway i've been riding MTB since the 1989, so i've seen a lot of things come and go. Technology used to stop at the stupid Yeti once-piece seatstays/chainstays. I won't screw up this thread much more with videos of these bikes/riders in action, but it's pretty far from skids, wheelies, and riding backwards. some sick things take place.

here's some dudes bike over at NSMB. Full suspension, small, single speed, one brake (gasp). thats a dialed fun bike.
http://freeridesouth.com/pics/pictures/8465.jpg

you are missing it. there's an "idea" and then there "execution of the idea". The 90s were full of ideas. the execution was piss. Absolute piss. Not a single product from the 90s would ever be used anymore with any kind of seriousness. (minus a very simple rigid bike from Spooky or somethign)

I doubt many road bikes or track bikes from 90s are used in serious events neither, bike tech moves on. I can't really see Lance riding a 10+ year old trek up mount ventoux.

As far as XC goes ...The late 90s mountain bikes were bloody good. If you picked up a £400-£500 quid bike you got a pretty decent machine for XC riding (I am still using mine). Most of the stuff that you take for granted now was introduced in the late 90s and past 2001 pretty much buggar all has changed with the XC kit on mountain bikes, stuff is a lighter and cheaper and the geometry is more upright.

anyways.....back to business...

I almost bought the blue frame. They were being advertised for sale on njsblogspot.com about 10 months ago...

You need to check your history man...
The scott headtubes were almost exactly the same as the evil..but pre dated it by at least a decade...so evil haven't executed any differently.

show me this. i've never seen anything like it.

Tom Kellogg Spectrum Lo Pro
http://static.londonfgss.com/memberpics3166-albums201-picture3777.jpg

i've seen those older ones, but I didn't think those were adjustable man. I'll believe you.

yea just saw the mongoose one. color me learned.

yes that is the design.

anyway thats interesting no doubt. i had no idea.

my god stop posting this crap. there a prettier MTBs than these, and it's rare that an MTB can be porn to begin with. too complex. Plus back in the 90's they really sucked. People had no idea what they were trying to build. This isn't supposed to be a historical thread. it's supposed to show the perfect combination of form and function, and no MTB in the 90's had that.

oh do shut up, you're getting on my wick.