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May I refer you to the noble BikeSnobNYC
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007/09/black-monday-aerospoke-crisis.html
What's with the whole aerospoke thing?
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F**k BikeSnobNYC, it's horrible, not worth reading.... I've heard AeroSpoke wheels are supposed to really nice to ride.... I think it was Dale (DogsBalls) that told me that.... I've never ridden on one. They're supposed to be super stiff and fast acceleration. Andy has a White one on his Nagasawa doesn't he???
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If they were in stock a pair would cost £800 approx from Trackstar
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jonaent (Jon) If they were in stock a pair would cost £800 approx from Trackstar
Trackstar were selling single front 700c clinchers in black for $265... My flatmate's off to NYC tomorrow, was hoping he'd score one for me...
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aerospokes are heavy as fuck
spinergy's have the tendency to spontaneously combust (read: shatter out of nowhere)
hed trispokes are light and stiff, but extremely expesnive.personally i couldn't ever imagine riding one of those on the street.
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When I read it it reminds me of a witty dad or uncle taking the piss out of young people. Because it does take the piss out of a lot of people I know and like, people who think that Aerospokes look cool, and ride with them, and people who are into the design side of the bikes and like and enjoy the sharing of pictures of their builds online....like the 3000+ other people that check Velospace and FGG everyday.... it's like Old men laughing at 'young-uns' with long hair (gasp)
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I want a hed3...oooohweee
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Bikesnob is spot on, I *LOVE * the look of Aerospokes but can't get one for love or money...
Funny as f*ck...winston [quote]slowly building these frames according to rigorous style guidelines in order to post them to internet photo galleries, and in some cases even ride them
LO f**kin L[/quote]
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I would have a pair, think they look lush... Can't afford them mind?
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glow [quote]jonaent (Jon) If they were in stock a pair would cost £800 approx from Trackstar
£800?! where did you get that figure from?? from aerospoke themselves it would be $574 for a pair, about £290...[/quote]
I was looking at HED3.... a bit of a difference, sorry, my mistake.... just looked at the first set of expensive looking wheels on Trackstar
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US ebay usually has a lot of these foolish carbon fiber wheels in 650cc for cheap.
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i don't really think it's like an old man laughing at children. and to be fair, he takes the piss out of the bicycles, not riders, and the ones he targets are pretty much already in the realms of parody anyway. it's one thing to be into the design of your bike, it's another altogether to be into the 'idea' of design, have more money that sense, and still manage to cobble together a piece of expensive shit that satisfies no aesthetic criteria whatsoever and rides like a turd, threatening to throw the rider with every revolution. some bikes are plain wrong, and no amount of aerospokery or top tube padding will help. and i think he's right to satirise the hermeutically sealed bubble of velospace/fgg, where builds are photographed with infinite diligence and posted, in a sort of admittanceof mass male autism (me included). and if people don't want the attention, they shouldn't build and ride aggressively attention-seeking bicycles with inapppropriate frames or wheels. sometimes i sit at the lights and glance around and it's like some warped, human-powered version of 'the fast and the furious', it scares me. bsnyc on the other hand makes me laugh. and i can't quite get away from the fact using an aerospoke, or tri, to ride around london is more than a teeny bit excessive, even if it might look cool.
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peejay78 i don't really think it's like an old man laughing at children. and to be fair, he takes the piss out of the bicycles, not riders, and the ones he targets are pretty much already in the realms of parody anyway. it's one thing to be into the design of your bike, it's another altogether to be into the 'idea' of design, have more money that sense, and still manage to cobble together a piece of expensive shit that satisfies no aesthetic criteria whatsoever and rides like a turd, threatening to throw the rider with every revolution. some bikes are plain wrong, and no amount of aerospokery or top tube padding will help. and i think he's right to satirise the hermeutically sealed bubble of velospace/fgg, where builds are photographed with infinite diligence and posted, in a sort of admittanceof mass male autism (me included). and if people don't want the attention, they shouldn't build and ride aggressively attention-seeking bicycles with inapppropriate frames. sometimes i sit at the lights and glance around and it's like some warped, human-powered version of 'the fast and the furious', it scares me. bsnyc on the other hand makes me laugh. and i can't quite get away from the fact using an aerospoke, or tri, to ride around london is teeny bit excessive, even if it might look cool.
PJ u are right about all of that, and some stuff is excessive and deserves to be satirised... I love the fact that it exists.... I just don't like it :-) What I don't like is the fact that I'd like an Aerospoke, and I love the concept and design of those Trackstar bikes, but I'd be scared to ride them because of attitudes like BikeSnobNYC.... and I know it's all kind of insideout.... I bet the guy at BikeSnobNYC looks just like the guys he's taking the piss out of....
I just have a plain white, english built track frame.... like yours, only mine is from a proper frame builders ;-p (Mercian, not Jackson) and I just like it. Maybe I'll try reading it again...
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"mine is from a proper frame builders" this made me laugh, for the right reasons. :P I haven't seen a mercian that hasn't made me drool longingly.
secretly i think the increasing ubiquity of the aerospoke is nothing to with ride quality, but further evidence that ex-bmx devotees are decamping to the world of fixed en masse. in this respect, aerospokes are not much more than mag wheels. the use of fixed for trickery and stuff is further evidence. at the polo court someone bought a skateboard and everyone was doing kickflips and shove-its like it was 1992, and the 3rensho FGL boys were doing all sorts of gnarly shit on their aero-steeds. similarly, the hoxton boy who once might have ridden a bmx round the mean streets of shoreditch can now do the same on fixed, maintain their hipster status and actually get somewhere five times quicker.
if you get a chance, or can be bothered have a look at some of bikesnob's responses to criticism on the comments page, he's very level headed and reasonable.
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it only looks cool to other people who think it looks cool, a bit like wearing a Status Quo tee shirt, other Quo fans think you're the man...but people who know music think you look like a dick...and most people don't care / notice.
I think Aerospokes are ugly...whether they're cool in NYC doesn't interest me at all.
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Aerospokes in the UK
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Does anyone know where abouts you could get an Aerospoke in the UK. I know that they might be on Backorder because even the official site has them sold out but I'm just wanting to know if anyone is importing them or if it'd have to be a personal import or a sneaky trip to the US to get them. Also does anyone know how much they cost if someone is importing them.