Bike porn

Ha!

The popes bike! For those that never bothered to look at the link I posted yesterday.(I feel mad clever, I ripped this from the source code and everything!)

**EC: **We built this golden bike for the Pope in '79. It was a special day when we went to the Vatican to present it to him. Very emotional for me. I went with my entire family; my brother Paolo and his son Alessandro. We heard that the Pope liked to ride a bike and that he did a ride of 38km two times a week when he was in Krakow and he continued to ride when he was in Castel Gondolfo (the Pope's summer residence outside of Rome). The Pope picked up this bike and told me it was marvelously light and that he wished he had one like it a long time ago!

   I remember that the Pope said to me that "you are in the midst  of all          the cyclists and the sport and I want to bless cycling and all  the riders."          That really touched me deeply when the Pope said that. 
   **CN: **Do you think that Pope John Paul II actually rode  this bike?        
   **EC: **No, I don't believe so.  After          a year or so, the Vatican contacted us to give this bike back  and the          Pope requested a sports type bike with regular flat handlebars  so we built          him one, a white one. That's the bike he rode in Castel  Gondolfo. 

Zooming up behind the boy's choir at top speed

Thats really nice, why didn't you just insert the pic?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_59gUEMCykpA/S8buY1iRaSI/AAAAAAAABKY/jKXyTboq5FQ/s1600/2706748736_0ec66ab229_o.jpg

Ha!ha!

He built the frame himself

cut the streerer and i think its perfect

repost? hopefully not...!

Is that cork dangling from the back to keep the flies out of your arse?

What. The. Fuck?

How can you make such a beautiful frame look so shit?

Whats wrong with C Record ;)

Ha!ha!

oops i'm sure i put the picture in, haha

What stem is that?

Nitto reversible, very rare to find in those length (90mm, 100mm etc.), they're usually 55-80mm.

design to flip the bar round so the racer can cycle home after a race.

my favourite is the earlier one;

Max, this is "Bike Porn", not "Pictures of fairly nice bikes"

I was really really close to get myself a GRANDIS, a few months back... had to stop around 250... it then sold for 252 : (

rear tyre fail on the grandis

Why's it a "fail"? The bike is clearly ridden on the road, and Randonneurs are perfect for the purpose.

because if it was proper bike porn a 13 quid tyre would be replaced by something much nicer

More expensive doesn't = nicer.

i agree but i reckon there could be something nice on that

The Randonneur is nice.

i ride a randonneur i beleive its a perfectly addequate tyre!
but if something is "porn" i want everything to be just the way id want it
maybe its fine for you but for me its off putting!

Loser. Randonneurs rock.

why are you so offended by me saying i dont like the tyres, its all personal opinion in the porn thread