Bike porn

This could remove a considerable amount of bikes out of this thread

So that you could tape the bars and fit some pedals?

Unfinished bikes>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

poor man's venge?

blind man's too

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Old man's Venge - judging by the set up

Also - Di2 with Bora's? GTFO

http://www.condorcycles.com/latest-blog/

Partially trolling. Kind of interesting bike though.

Old man's Venge

Correct. Still fast though. Just not as fast as Brave.

It has been built for Dominque Gabellini to race. He is one of the reasons that Rapha and Condor came together to form the Rapha Condor team in 2006. Dominque is a keen racing cyclist but recently had an operation on his back requiring him to be slightly more upright on the bike, for now.

hm. Okay.

Nice to see one actually getting used properly.

I've done that to a derailleur too but had absolutely no idea how it happened. What causes it?

awesome power

What causes it?

Judging from the amount of vegetation hanging off the bike, I'd say an unintended interface with the scenery. You can break dérailleurs off by smacking them on a tree, or you can let the spokes rip them off due to poor set up or flexy wheels, but that usually leaves its mark on the wheel too.

I've heard of a rear mech going through the rear wheel at the rolling start of a race, trashing the rear wheel and frame!

Yes, wrecked frames are not unheard of, especially the more expensive carbon fibre ones which really don't take kindly to the out of axis load on the seatstay.

I think the chain slipped on mine and then got jammed so as I pedalled it just pulled the mech off. Looks like that could've happened with the IF.

Do rim brakes even work in those kind of conditions?

When conditions are like that you don't need to slow down, the struggle is keeping moving.

Also once the mech starts to fill up with grass it can lock up and is snapped of quite easily. Hence no spoke devastation...

Old man's Venge - judging by the set up

This.

Aeroframe. Sportive setup.
Stupid bike.

Aeroframe. Sportive setup.
Stupid bike.

Ugly, but not necessarily stupid. Fit always trumps aesthetics, aero helps slow riders just as much as fast ones. Doesn't belong in this thread, but it could still be the right bike for the rider.

I'd like to see a photo of the rider on it.
I think someone on here posted about it before, his mate being the owner.
It's clearly a crit bike given the single ring and bottle.

aero helps slow riders.

Love the assumptions in this thread. Someone should tell him to hand back his cat 2 license.

Whether you like it or not it has interesting talking points. Certainly more to discuss than most of the tosh posted here.

Love the assumptions in this thread. Someone should tell him to hand back his cat 2 license.

I was talking more generally, but Cat 2 is still slow.

Everything is relative, and relative to 95 % plus of the posters on here Cat 2 is fast.

My cat is slow because it has three legs :(

well there you go, cat 3.