Bike porn

I want a Mudfoot bike.
And kit
and socks.

:'(

You and me both.

Hell, I'd settle for a kit, socks and a sticker.

Bishop?

Bashing the Bishop?

Yes, it's definitely wank. Clamp design is the exact opposite of correct.

What's wrong with it? Looks clean!

An ideal band clamp has no bending stiffness, the aim is to create uniform circumferential tension and therefore uniform radial compression.

Why would it not work? My basso has seat clamp bolt through the seatstays (though a little higher up) and it works fine.

Personally I think the above looks very elegant, but if it doesn't work then clearly it is shit. But why would they build it like that if it doesn't work?

edit- so do those ugly alu clamps that sit on top make uniform circumferential tension with no bending stiffness?

It looks nice but is not very elegant in engineering terms. Why load up the top of the seatstays to get clamping pressure on seatube?

^Beaten. No reason it won't work, tester's being picky.

Clamp design is the exact opposite of correct.

What's wrong with it? Looks clean!

You actually thought he was reffering to the aesthetics?

How cute.

Lots of things on bicycles are badly designed but manage to work well enough. Nobody would design j-bend spokes if they were starting from scratch.

what's wrong with an inexpensive readily available spoke?

do those ugly alu clamps that sit on top make uniform circumferential tension with no bending stiffness?

You can't actually have no bending stiffness in the band, because that would require it to be infinitesimally thin radially. Some are better than others, though. If you made this from steel tape rather than crabon fribé, it would be about as close to ideal as is practical.

what's wrong with an inexpensive readily available spoke?

It has a bend in it, when the load should be pure tension from end to end. I can see the cost-engineering argument, especially in the olden days when you had to join hubs and rims from separate manufacturers with lacing pattern decided on a more or less arbitrary basis by wheelbuilders bound by prejudice and superstition rather than solid engineering principles, but the bend not only makes the spoke weaker but also imposes loads on the flange which mean the hub has to be overbuilt compared with a straight pull design.

this woud be ideal.
probably lightish too.

While we're bashing the Bishop (if that's what it is), the point on top of the seat lug is contributing absolutely nothing, apart from being a handy moisture trap to ensure that the seat post suffers from galvanic corrosion.

the one which is 'the exact opposite of correct' is prettier. I'd rather have that. But then I'm probably a nidiot.

is prettier. I'd rather have that

Don Walker and the entire NAHBS movement thanks you.

It's actually Feather.

I didn't liked it because the seat stay is narrower limiting tyres choice and clearance.

How Privileged.. soo good

me likey seat stay clamp

"I didn't liked it because the seat stay is narrower limiting tyres choice and clearance."

Think 20c - 23c would all fit, so we're good to go.

Skrtluv likes that seat cluster; I rest my case......

http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MJHPMF90E-A/T0ZZTBqb2FI/AAAAAAAAGQE/MrLIFbjI97M/s0/IMG_2234.jpg

http://www.eroicacicli.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_2328-690x458.jpg

IMG_0076 by ichicoblog, on Flickr

And here's some more photos of the muddy bike.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14858597@N04/sets/72157625681506016/with/5296080836/

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes! Dat ass!!