Bike porn

Just saw this little mention

should have got a picture of Digger's Bonavia frame

in adoubletap's post with the track bike with a split seatube.

I am intrigued ... Digs? Show us!

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and hell yeah about the hutch!

Bit of vintage pedal porn, well it was when I was 13 anyway. Seem to remember them costing around £200 in the early 80's !

Makino Frame Porn

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Bit of vintage pedal porn, well it was when I was 13 anyway. Seem to remember them costing around £200 in the early 80's !

I had a chain snap once using a pair of Odyssey Shark Bites, chewed right through the neoprene strapping on my shin guards and still managed to bite my calf! God knows what those beartraps would do to a unguarded shin.

Apart from the tacky flame paintjob, that Makino is one of the most beautiful frames I've ever seen.

My brother has just got back from cycling 370K through the italian alps. Except he hasn't really cycled much before, and did it on a whim. He borrowed his friend's late father's bike to do this, and apparently it was 'old and steel' and rusty in places, and someone at bike shop laughed at him when he told them what he was doing on the bike. The 3 lowest gears didn't engage, and they didn't bother to repair it.

Anyway, he did it. With a 13kg bag on his back. And it turns out it was an old Bianchi he borrowed. The back brake was really weird apparently, and hard to adjust. Turns out they were deltas.

I'm going to try and rescue this bike.

Makino Frame Porn

phew! way too small for me!.. anyway it would end way in thousands, so doesn't matter

Makino Frame Porn

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Oooh, nice.

Fizz is looking for a geared bike at the moment and has a geared frame, so really I should buy this for her and swap the parts around and put gears on her existing frame.

Yup, I struggle to try and buy things I really shouldn't buy. But it's GORGEOUS.

very nice makino ... thankfully its too small and going to be too expensive anyway

^ in my own words, basically :))

Makino Frame Porn

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thank god it's tiny - amaaazing.

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc155/andystelvio/21062009079.jpg

thats one of the andy's

gorgeous

yeah man, it's genuinely stunning,
understated like

the makino is a rocket!

I met the guy who makes these at the White Bike ride in Glasgow at few weeks ago. I saw the bike in the flesh and it's even better than in the photographs.

There's more about the bike here.

looks nice and simple but pretty darn pricy no?

definitelty needs a change of cranks and le back wheel...

What's wrong with the back wheel?

I don't really like either of them, the white hubs look proper naff.

shit, i thought it was a different rim from the front.
agreed on the hubs... bleurrgh

The rims look slightly different. Front one looks deeper and anodized and the rear looks polished.

The rims look slightly different. Front one looks deeper and anodized and the rear looks polished.

thinking on the same line :]
tbf I just like the frame, seat/post, stem n bars...and front wheel.

I just like the way the saddle and tyres match all the silver. :0)

I like how the saddle matches the door.

I like how the saddle matches the door.

beat me to it

I met the guy who makes these at the White Bike ride in Glasgow at few weeks ago. I saw the bike in the flesh and it's even better than in the photographs.

There's more about the bike here.

I like that bike, it seemed like a hipsterised version of a dutch bike.

The price is a bit off putting, especially considering that a Retrovelo with additional rack can be brought for the same money.

Even more off putting is that the chain panel is optional extra, at £50.

Really like the red one mind;