Bike porn

Can't see how you can look at it and not want a go.

I would do nasty things for a bike like that

Is this someone's fucked up idea of a collection or... something else?! What the hell!
Just the Cannondale's would be mad enough and then you see all the GTB's and you're like, DEAL WITH IT.

^^^ Yes, but you can look at an F1 car and want a go it one. Doesn't make it porn. I appreciate it's performance value but it's still ugly as sin

Isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder?

Some like it, some don't.

Can't see how you can look at it and not want a go.

Those of us who already have bikes of similar quality but less fugly find it very resistible.

Those of us who already have bikes of similar quality but less fugly find it very resistible.

Like those of us who remember owning and riding steel (yawn) lugged (yawn) quill stemmed (fucking yawn) downtube shiftered (ffs) bikes when they were current and not some imaginary pornographic jizz stain in the woolly mind of a hipster noob?

It's been years since I rode a bike with that^ combination. Quill stems were annoying for kids as you'd have to remove the bartape every time they grew a bit.

Me too. 21 years I think! can't remember if it was 10 or 12 speed

The upgrade to 7spd STI's was strange.

I was busy not riding when that happened.

Like those of us who remember owning and riding steel (yawn) lugged (yawn) quill stemmed (fucking yawn) downtube shiftered (ffs) bikes when they were current and not some imaginary pornographic jizz stain in the woolly mind of a hipster noob?

You just wrote my profile, 'cept I'm old.
Even the stained wool is dead on.

hipsters don't like it. that's good enough for me.

Like those of us who remember owning and riding steel (yawn) lugged (yawn) quill stemmed (fucking yawn) downtube shiftered (ffs) bikes when they were current and not some imaginary pornographic jizz stain in the woolly mind of a hipster noob?

Well, I had all of those things, but my point wasn't really about whether a modern bike was porn, but that there have always been a mix of ugly and beautiful bikes in every era, even when they were functionally indistinguishable.

Cherubim's speedmaster is designed around the DA DI2 group. It's win.

love that

Isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder?

Some like it, some don't.

FUCK you guys, he's right.

Close the thread! Everything is subjective!

#onlyjoking

i can see many pleasing things about it.

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People keep trying to reinvent the wheel, and they keep failing.

Don't like the sharp edged flanges on those presumably aluminium hub tabs.

Well, I had all of those things, but my point wasn't really about whether a modern bike was porn, but that there have always been a mix of ugly and beautiful bikes in every era, even when they were functionally indistinguishable.

This is true. Two equally functional bits of engineering can be uninspired or beautiful respectively.

Some would argue those alu frame/steel fork Cannondales were cutting edge in their day, and beautiful engineering.

Diamant TT