Bike porn

I'm not offended, sorry you misunderstood.

I like them both, they're elegant. They are akin to my bosses mid-40's girlfriend - hot stuff and good in the kitchen.

rando's suck!
rando's suck!
rando's suck!
rando's suck!
rando's suck!
rando's suck!
rando's suck!
rando's suck!

i use a £8 tire. ftw.

:D

Fuck you, Josh... ;)

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

Corks in cycling vernacular date back at least to the 1920’s 6-Day Bike Races. When a champagne cork is popped, power is released, bubbles escape and the elixir goes flat, no more oomph or energy. So, dropping your cork or having no more cork means you’re out of it, flat, dead, pooped, no more stuff. Ergo, the racers would hang a cork on their bikes so they’d never be “out” of cork .. history leason over!

What. The. Fuck?

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

Agreed!

cut the streerer and i think its perfect

Easton recomend for their forks "A carbon steerer tube must extend 7-8mm above the top of the stem clamp and have a 10mm spacer installed between the stem and the top cap". Anyway .. can someone point me in the direction of more pics of this bike? apart from the fork / headset interface it looks nice

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mdcc_tester - have you changed your login?!

ahhh well my 6th sense for carbon steerers must be off then didnt realise that had one

No, I don't have a monopoly on informed but pedantic trivia.

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

Eh, wouldn't that look really weird/give a nasty riding position?

cut the streerer and i think its perfect

in the ec90 manual it says to keep a 10mm space above the stem. not sure why, but i assume thats why it hasn't been cut

1993 60cm titanium Basso with full Dura-Ace 7400 8 Speed group ..

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Nice!! Now that is my kinda road bike...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityzencecco/4537767233/sizes/o/in/set-72157623182436379/

Losa? I read it like 'loser', dunno if that's what it is, though.

in the ec90 manual it says to keep a 10mm space above the stem. not sure why,

In the olden days of metal steerer tubes, it didn't matter that the stem clamp was slightly above the top of the steerer - in fact, that was the recommended set up. However, this does cause a highly concentrated crushing force on the steerer, because the upper clamp bolt has extra leverage, and carbon steerers are not actually very good at resisting compression. By effectively adding a 5-10mm ring of carbon above the minimum necessary to just fully enter the stem clamp, a substantial reinforcing effect is achieved for a weight penalty of just a couple of grams, much less than would be added by bonding a metal reinforcing tube inside the steerer. As a side benefit, by not having the stem overhanging the end of the steerer, and thus bending round it and forming a conical interface, the propensity of stems to "walk" up the steerer during cyclical loading, and thus loosen the headset preload, is all but eliminated. I've been running a spacer above the stem on all my forks since I sat down and thought about the design for a while, and on my best bike I have a custom top cap which incorporates the spacer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityzencecco/4537767233/sizes/o/in/set-72157623182436379/

Most pretentious. Porn stash. Ever.

1993 60cm titanium Basso with full Dura-Ace 7400 8 Speed group ..

Horrible transition from bars to hoods.

Horrible transition from bars to hoods.

agreed .. the shifters are mounted far to high on the bars .. just felt it had to be posted after the De Rosa!

http://www.auctionflex.com/auctionimages/9768/11890/4294249_2WV0M92V8.jpg

Wrong thread.

Ah come on, it's pretty sweet. Check out the lights...

It's a bicycle, not a car!