Bike porn

Damn I'm crazy about those rainbow steel frames, like the one on Gianni Motta.
And that Trek is still one of my all time favorites!

Saddle is an Ideale

smarty pants

=))

love this!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42587323@N08/7833825066/sizes/c/in/photostream/

http://forallmyfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/derosa_super_prestige.jpg

Ah right fair enough, they probably are chinese wheels too then

they all are, arent they?

^^tighter than my 16 yr old daughter.

^^tighter than my 16 yr old daughter.

Most things are

^^tighter than my 16 yr old daughter.

Most things are

Good lord. I did LOL.

Saddle, why would you say that?!

the new madone is pretty cool too. Especially the fork crown

We have the Madone Five Series bike in the shop with the nicest looking seatstay.

The rear brake is mounted a la TT on the underside of the chainstay, not very good for the English road, but still look cool.

But it's still a mass produced Madone, nowhere near porn IMHO (and I see them regularly at work to get bored of them).

The seatpost is E-Bay titanium .. I bought one myself .. so why not the wheels? but I don't know!

...and a fucking shite clamp it is. The weight- if you're counting, is very good (lower than the ti USE Alien) but My saddle still creeps forward depsite locking the bolts down a good amount. Am I dreaming or is it possible to buy third party hardware for this design??

Those rear stays and seatpost binder bolt are fucking gorgeous.

Shame about the bar angle.

looks awesome

Oh Sasha, you have hole alignment fail.
That's gonna leave a mark.

But it's still a mass produced Madone, nowhere near porn IMHO (and I see them regularly at work to get bored of them).

I have to say that this line of thinking really irritates me, and essentially just boils down to what stickers are on the frame. Brand snobbishness.

Good design is good design, whether you make 4 copies or 4 million. I would genuinely rather own a Madone which thousands of hours of R+D, testing and design has gone into than something like a Ritte - (which get posted time and time again in Porn) just Chinese/Pedal Force frames painted nicely and marked up.

Everyone here gushes like schoolgirls about pointless, backward design features like wishbone stays - and then turns their nose up at a stunning piece of engineering and design, purely because it was made by a company that makes a lot of bikes.

I wasn't a massive fan of the last Madone, until I saw a few in the flesh - they are beautifully finished and designed - Trek's attention to detail is stunning. Just because there are a lot of them doesn't mean they aren't porn - the two WW builds on the last page are hot.

Anyone the the link or more info on the Eddy

What tubing?

Thank you Dan, totally right mate.

Just cause something is exotic, does not make it better.

I have to say that this line of thinking really irritates me, and essentially just boils down to what stickers are on the frame. Brand snobbishness.

Good design is good design, whether you make 4 copies or 4 million. I would genuinely rather own a Madone which thousands of hours of R+D, testing and design has gone into than something like a Ritte - (which get posted time and time again in Porn) just Chinese/Pedal Force frames painted nicely and marked up.

Everyone here gushes like schoolgirls about pointless, backward design features like wishbone stays - and then turns their nose up at a stunning piece of engineering and design, purely because it was made by a company that makes a lot of bikes.

I wasn't a massive fan of the last Madone, until I saw a few in the flesh - they are beautifully finished and designed - Trek's attention to detail is stunning. Just because there are a lot of them doesn't mean they aren't porn - the two WW builds on the last page are hot.

this is true. many custom's are just plain gross. I would ride a madone if I could afford one

Oh Sasha, you have hole alignment fail.
That's gonna leave a mark.

Aligning tubular tyres isn't easy... That's why most do it for you!

I have to say that this line of thinking really irritates me, and essentially just boils down to what stickers are on the frame. Brand snobbishness.

Perhaps so, but it's nothing out of the ordinary, they may have decades of design improvement (or fail), but it's still just another Trek Madone with some improvement (like BB30) every couple or so years.

Sure I'm being snobbish, but then I like to see other's manufacturer frame I haven't seen yet rather than the same ol' Madone/Tarmac/TCR/etc.

Mind you I'll go for the Madone if the bike fitter tell me it fit me the best, even thought I dislike Trek as a company.

By edscoble's thinking, an iPhone is no longer a nice piece of design or mobile phone porn, as it's mass-produced and has only had incremental updates to it in the past few years.

I may prefer Android, but even I can see the beauty in the iPhone hardware.

Good design is good design, and if it's very good design you'd hope that no-one would make major changes to it.

Madones are lovely. Though I personally would prefer the brake up on the bridge again. Just from a maintenance perspective.

The only thing more boring than Ed are the boring fuckers who take every opportunity to disagree with and ridicule his views.

oh piss off. I wasn't ridiculing anyone

On a more upbeat note, I love that Gios.