Bike porn

just about as much as riding a brooklyn gangsta and then switching to a dosnoventa

A lot of unsexy chitchat going on here...

There is something about wood and copper on bikes that is always porn for some people and for others is always horrible looking.

I understand that there are loads of people in the first category. I find myself in the second, however.

That English has been laminated over the copper. I think that frame would be porn either way though tbh

There is something about wood and copper on bikes that is always porn for some people and for others is always horrible looking.

I understand that there are loads of people in the first category. I find myself in the second, however.

It's an acquired taste certainly; not mine either.

I love shit like this.

That English has been laminated over the copper. I think that frame would be porn either way though tbh

well yeah, but then again, it would come from English so I am not quite sure.

I'm just reposting this because the page needs it.

awaits usual whinge up about thomson seatpost, generally from those who still don't fucking understand that it puts the saddle in the same position as most set back seatposts

Do you have any other info on this? Specifically the frame? Cheers!

awaits usual whinge up about thomson seatpost, generally from those who still don't fucking understand that it puts the saddle in the same position as most set back seatposts

I don't think people are whinging because they don't understand it is a setback seatpost. I believe it is because it is really ugly.

Do you have any other info on this? Specifically the frame? Cheers!

http://www.44bikes.com/44bikes_huntsman.html

awaits usual whinge up about thomson seatpost, generally from those who still don't fucking understand that it puts the saddle in the same position as most set back seatposts

The irony

Oh yeah baby, give it to me!

No, seriously give it to me.

^ Levers can piss off.

Don't usually like those levers but think they look alright on that imo.

^^^Looks like such a fun bike?

I don't think people are whinging because they don't understand it is a setback seatpost. I believe it is because it is really ugly.

This

Perhaps, but the number of people who make posts along the lines of "why do they have a layback seatpost on a custom bike" indicates that there are quite a few people who do not understand the function of the post. Instead they are just trying to blend in with the apparent orthodox view on here that Thomson layback is anti porn but with no understanding of why some consider it so (that it may be subjectively ugly). Instead they demonstrate their sheep like stupidity.

"sheep like stupidity" is people getting custom bikes but not fixing the over-short seatstays and corresponding steep seat angles which are fashionable but mostly pointless on OTP frames.

I like the Thomson setback posts and think it is a good solution where setback is required and maintains the great Thomson clamping system.

But then I did ride BMX a lot in the 80s when really serious lay back posts were abound which may have skewed my thinking.

maybe people do custom frames with a steeper seat angle (than they should) and still using a lay-back seat post because IF they want (or think they will) to move the saddle more forward then they will install easily a zero offset seat post.

BUT, if from the start they build the frame with a slacker seat angle for a zero offset seat post, later they will have no choice for moving the saddle forward. or they can do it with a seat post that has the offset towards the front, but that will look really ugly for most people.

within this picture i can see the Cervelo bikes. R5 Project California bike was build for a zero offset seat post, the geometry is basically the same like the others but with a slacker seat angle of about 71 degree and a longer top tube. some pro riders have this bikes. but i do not think that Dave Zabriskie would like this bike, as long as he's using a zero offset seat post on a "normal" 73 degree seat angle bike.