Names and faces to bikes

So would you advertise to sell a track frame as a road frame because you never had the chance to ride it on a track?

Coincidentally relevant to my last post there. When you sell a product the features and capabilities of a product become more important rather than your personal usages. If you have a frame designed for the track, you would bloody sell it as a track frame.

But if you tried to sell a road going bike to a track rider as a "track bike" im sure they would not be too impressed.

Because it is a track frame.

ffs.

There is a degree to which your theory could be applied - take my dirt bike, if I rode street on it I would probably refer to it as a street bike. This is because in interpretation the bike is just as suitable for both purposes. Or a road bke you use especially to race, would be your race bike.

It is nothing to do with me feeling important, it is about not confusing the shit out of people by calling the BMX you ride to the pub on a road bike. Wherever/however you ride it, a bmx is still a bmx.

Sounds like a bit of a hipsterish angle to take' i'm gonna name things different to other people, cos i'm just so totally rad...'

Im guessing max's bike doesnt have a track gear, so it makes it instantly unsuitable as a track bike in the "design/suitability" sense, so it loses the title on both accounts.

Assumption is the mother of all failures.

Sounds like a bit of a hipsterish angle to take' i'm gonna name things different to other people, cos i'm just so totally rad...'

If the bike was fully set up for the track, with high gear and maybe tubs. Then I think it would fit the "track bike" title ok, even if it was ridden purely on the road.

It is exactly compareable to having a MTB fitted with 1" slicks and calling it an offroad bike. It is, but it isnt.

But if you tried to sell a road going bike to a track rider as a "track bike" im sure they would not be too impressed.

It may be a road going bike, but it is also a track going bike.

Isn't this the whole point of the 'fixed gear' thing?! Riding track bikes on the street? Except people who ride fixed gear road bikes/ mountain bikes.

Ill shut up now, just to be clear. I wasnt trying to be snobbish. Just a pedantic troll.

If the bike was fully set up for the track, with high gear and maybe tubs. Then I think it would fit the "track bike" title ok, even if it was ridden purely on the road.

High gear? Too vague.

Tubs? Can be used on road or track. Clincher tyres are used on tracks.

Isn't this the whole point of the 'fixed gear' thing?! Riding track bikes on the street? Except people who ride fixed gear road bikes/ mountain bikes.

So you should call it a fixy then.

But it's a track bike. You and I full well know what a 'fixy' is.

High gear? Too vague.

Tubs? Can be used on road or track. Clincher tyres are used on tracks.

Yeah I know, your beating me at my irritating pedant game now.

Ha.

Why the fuck am I bothering with this?! FAIL.

BRB going to Sainsbury's...

Why are you arguing the toss?
DFP: you are simply wrong.

I've got one. Got it off Freecycle, yours for a pint.

I bet it has a seat-tube of 64cm... so fuck that.

BRB going to Sainsbury's...

So its a shopper then? Lol.

All this naming is actually quite silly.

Heh, bell end.

stumbled upon this and actually watched all the way through and enjoyed it. kind of entertaining, i like the excelerated speed
YouTube- LONDON BIKE COURIER- KILLER MIKE

anyone know/knew him?

Yeah BBQ Mike. Old video.

**BLAH! techno fail.

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I am late to the party on this, but dude, that's sweet. I am usually a bit nonplussed by flat handlebars but those looks awesome. Love it! :D

Headed south through Denmark and into Germany where we picked up the Rhine and followed it to Dresden.

I should imagine that the river which you picked up to Dresden was actually the River Elbe, unless things in Germany have changed more dramatically than I thought since I've been away. ;)

They don't change when you do something else with them (a road bike does not become a mountain bike when it is ridden off-road).
Of course not, it becomes a cyclocross bike!

I was waiting for that ;)

Cyclocross bikes have canti-mounts (and we'll see more and more disc) and bigger clearances.

Of course you can turn an old road bike into a cyclo-cross bike (just like you can ride conversion on the track), but it doesn't change what it is.

My BMX is definitely a road bike, the tucked position is super aero.

This is true. And my road bike is definitely a piece of furniture. It never leaves my flat.

It does leave your house, i saw it out, so it's not a piece of furniture, it's a road bike :)