Bike porn

it's like the difference between a normal track bike and normal road bike, you wouldn't be comfortable doing a proper mountain race on a track bike.

Who gives a fuck if you're bike 'fits' or not when you're ridning with a neon yellow Aerospoke FFS!?

Fashion B4 Function FTW!

More so if they are sitting perched high on their seat post and knees knocking elbows.

combined with the 'sideways nod', head rocking side to side. created by the high saddle and locked arms. even if the saddle isn't too high they still do it. maybe they saw an alpha-hipster* riding like that and presumed that was how it was done.

*alpha-hipster: someone who has a cooler job or lifestyle than you and rides an even lower lo-pro with rarer NJS parts than anyone in your immediate circle of friends.

As a very old person, I have a lo-pro which fits perfectly becasue it was built to fit, with the dimensions taken straight off my road bike. The handling is a little bit different; as edscoble's pic shows, the effect is like having a very long stem on a road bike for the same position, which slows down the steering, but then the small front wheel quickens it up again. The weight balance is more on the front wheel than the road bike, due to shortening the front centres without changing the chainstay length. This effect is magnified if you run tribars very low, as I used to when I was younger and more supple, resulting in the back wheel catching air over high speed bumps. In fact, it was tribars which did for the lo-pro, as few people needed the small front wheel to get a low enough position.

my obsession with peugeot is still at large, would give my testes for this Pug track frame;

I had one, last year, too small though... and too cracked.
(not readers wives as it's no longer mine :)

I don't see why reposts even happen...there are so many bikes out there that have never been seen before.
I found this one with no effort at all.

There were one of them on evil-Bay the other day, looked in reasonable condition from what I remember. Can't remember how much it went for exactly, something like £225

I assume you sensed my sarcasm when i posted that? :)

Corima V.I.F.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/367652628_9c0fef85c1_o.jpg

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Corima V.I.F.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/367652628_9c0fef85c1_o.jpg

that dudes new balances wins.

Corima V.I.F.

That's the old style Corima Cougar, not the VIF. The VIF has a semi-integrated seat post

http://www.corima.com/gb/produits/cadre/i_zoom_cadre_vif.html

Probably a repost, but a few bits of shiny component-pr0n for my fellow polishing freaks.

http://miniportfolio.com/pages/campagnolo%20pedals.html

(not readers wives as it's no longer mine :)

Readers ex-wives and absolutely hideous.

This is supposed to be bike porn ffs!

Probably a repost, but a few bits of shiny component-pr0n for my fellow polishing freaks.

http://miniportfolio.com/pages/campagnolo%20pedals.html

Hmmm yum!

and the link.... OH!

Corima V.I.F.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/367652628_9c0fef85c1_o.jpg

finally! someone bring this thread on track again... seriously though
BIKE PORN = a bike worthy of giving you sexy thoughts.

i personally don't have a wank over women i can afford or have any chance of marrying, porn is meant to be pure fantasy, a rarity, something to aspire to, something not available to every tom, dick or harry... not shitty Peugeot, mass produced plugs or bland destickered 'tasteful' conversion things. something you probably cant afford or are unlikely to ever own.
it's like rubbing your thighs over a Renault Clio rather than a Maserati. fools.

/rant over

P.S don't get bikeporn confused with fond nostalgic memories of yesteryear. vintage bikes even in concourse nick are not porn unless they were state of the art the time. i.e raliegh mixte... not porn. just kinda cool or aesthetically pleasing.

/second rant over.

Bollocks, 'porn' is whatever someone percieves to be alluring / beautiful, no one can prescribe anothers taste. For me that yellow thing is minging and this (attached) is porn. One man's ceiling is another man's floor....or something

PS: Charge Plug's are the exception to the rule because I have one between my legs every day

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I think porn is as much about how something is photographed as what is photographed. That Corima Cougar (NOT VIF) isn't porn because it's carelessly shot.

There were one of them on evil-Bay the other day, looked in reasonable condition from what I remember. Can't remember how much it went for exactly, something like £225

Are you yanking my chain fuck fuck fuck fuck............

Perfect illustration of my point; light the money, crop tightly to the sex, don't have some scruffy bloke in the background putting you off your stroke.

...an approach which yields the world's most boring and soulless porn.

and a cropped out industrial/electronics conglomerate logo.
what's porn about a fridge manufacturer making bikes.

...an approach which yields the world's most boring and soulless porn.

And the world's most inspiring erotica. It isn't sufficient to photograph well, but it is necessary

Pompeo Posar and China Hamilton are both technically proficient, but one is an erotic artist and the other was responsible for the most chocolate-boxy period of Playboy centrefolds.

what's porn about a fridge manufacturer making bikes.

Porn for ENG folk...

Have you seen some of the shit Campagnolo have turned out as an engineering subcontractor? Judge the object, not the parent company.

And the world's most inspiring erotica. It isn't sufficient to photograph well, but it is necessary

whatev's, this from the man who started a thread about nob outlines in lycra. inspiring erotica eh? rather subjective..

..which brings us back to square one. I find the panasonic "montage" dull and uninspiring; just because someone's put kashimax and all the right dooberries on their bike and shot it beautifully don't necessarily make it good porn, or even "inspiringly erotic". For me it's all about the bike / components on these pages.. at worst a bad "snap" only hampers full appreciation of true porn, and at best a good "photo" only indulges appreciation of it. At worst though a "good" photo (lit, composed, digitally processed etc.) can actually render its subject bland and cliched.

Perfect illustration of my point; light the money, crop tightly to the sex, don't have some scruffy bloke in the background putting you off your stroke.

those aren't exactly good examples of bike photography, not the worst i have seen but certainly not the best.