Bike porn

Ed gives cornering advice once more. Full circle.

Epic countersteering FTW.

Bar the urban camo inside the s-works logo, that's awesome.

Nope. No it's not a car.

I would have gone with Lancia for martini paint jobs, but yeah.
Defo gross on that frame.

all that 'design by Porsche' stuff is total wank. I love their cars, but the rest is awful.

Stannard is the sky rider, non?

Yup, the "spectacular" cornering came from stage and race winner and former cyclocross world champion Stybar.

Bar the urban camo inside the s-works logo, that's awesome.

The "urban camo" is actually photos of Martini Porsches

Nothing with those hideous hydraulic levers is or ever will be porn.

get over it, its hot.

not the s works hahha the baum

Aethetically, I always have a bit of a love hate thing with English, but I thought this was really interesting:

From here: http://www.englishcycles.com/custombikes/johns-650b-road/

Aethetically, I always have a bit of a love hate thing with English, but I thought this was really interesting:

From here: http://www.englishcycles.com/custombikes/johns-650b-road/

Not sure why an obviously tall rider needs 650B, the proportions would look better with 700C and there is a much broader choice of wheels and tyres

from the classifieds..

Not sure why an obviously tall rider needs 650B, the proportions would look better with 700C and there is a much broader choice of wheels and tyres

Cause the Grand Bois, especially the Extra Leger one are awesome that make the worse of road feel like butter.

The only negative aspect is simply no longer feeling the road buzz that give you the illusion of going very fast.

You're generally right that a 700c with the same size tyres is more in proportion, but it'll be heavier and not as strong as the 650B counterpart, plus, the rear wheel wouldn't be "slammed" with a 700c of the same tyres size.

Bar the urban camo inside the s-works logo, that's awesome.

It's not camo, it's a photo-mosaic of Porsche pictures.

http://miletichphotography.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v25/p196810545-5.jpg

Better Martini scheme...no pretend car manufacturer tie-in:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/vento95gl/general%20stuff/st_moritz_1_zps9ee497bd.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/vento95gl/general%20stuff/Martinipaint-2_zps96f864d9.jpg

Not sure why an obviously tall rider needs 650B, the proportions would look better with 700C and there is a much broader choice of wheels and tyres

Rob English is a great builder, but his problem seems to be always doing what the client wants. I prefer his bikes that he's built for himself, rather than some overfunded MAMIL.

You're generally right that a 700c with the same size tyres is more in proportion, but it'll be heavier and not as strong as the 650B counterpart, plus, the rear wheel wouldn't be "slammed" with a 700c of the same tyres size.

The chainstays would have to be longer with 700C, which would actually be an unambiguously good thing

700C would be heavier, especially after adding some meat to keep the strength equal, but the lower rolling resistance would completely overwhelm the small weight penalty, making the bike faster, especially over rough terrain.

As in the difference between a 26" and a 29ers MTB? that would make sense off road, but surely the worse road is no more worse than the smoothest singletrack to notice the difference?

700C has lower rolling resistance than 650B even at the velodrome.

the circumference of a 650b 42mm is similar to a 700c with 23mm thought

I assumed we were talking about using the same tyre section on each rim diameter, otherwise all bets are off.

Fair enough, that what usually prompt in my decision to go for similar sized tyres, I can either run 32mm on 700c or 42mm on 650b.