Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Is there any other kind? Serious CX race bikes tend not be marketed in ready to ride form

is that not ride ready enough (besides seatpost trimming of course)

is that not ride ready enough (besides seatpost trimming of course)

The fact that it took you a week to prove me wrong proves me right.

Hah!

What about the Broadman one?

The fact that it took you a week to prove me wrong proves me right.

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i never realised Flea from RHCP rides bikes...

what a f..king waste! grrrrr! gimme some bullhorns now!..

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is that not ride ready enough (besides seatpost trimming of course)

Is that a good cyclocross bike? I want to get a decent off road bike and think maybe cyclocross would be a good choice...

...a decent off road bike and think maybe **29er **would be a good choice...

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It's me, and shut up Ed! Ride some miles other than the Wimbledon to Condor TT and then get back to me ;-D

That's unfair, Ed undertakes a grueling London to London ride most weeks.

Because of the obvious variance in terrain, I assume CX riders use a wider range of gearing set-ups and wheel/tyre set-ups than road users. S'pose this might make OTP purchasing more tricky. Other than that I've seen a fair few that look race ready to my uneducated eye*.

(*well most would want blingier wheels, but then so do most 2k+ road bikes)

Not sure the gearing setup changes as they have 10 or 20 gears but I know the serious cross riders have numerous sets of wheels so they can get the right tyre for the course.
Don't know what all the fuss is about, how much grip can you actually get from a 33c with a couple of pinhead sized knobs on it :-)

Not sure the market is big enough to lead the manufacturers to make a big choice of high end OTP cross bikes although Scott feel it is.

Is that a good cyclocross bike? I want to get a decent off road bike and think maybe cyclocross would be a good choice...

Yes, that looks to be a very nice cyclocross bike. If you ride on light trails and singletrack then in my view a cross bike is perfect. Not always the most comfortable, i.e rooty ground but that depends how hard you are :-)
If you do more than that then they are useless and you will find yourself riding at 3mph (5 foot drop offs, rock gardens, very rooty stuff etc,.)

Yes, that looks to be a very nice cyclocross bike. If you ride on light trails and singletrack then in my view a cross bike is perfect. Not always the most comfortable, i.e rooty ground but that depends how hard you are :-)
If you do more than that then they are useless and you will find yourself riding at 3mph (5 foot drop offs, rock gardens, very rooty stuff etc,.)

I ride both a CX and a 29er off-road. The big difference for me is rider positioning. The CX bike places me far more forward than the 29er. This makes the CX bike more fun on the lighter stuff, but dodgy going fast downhill or jumping.

If you have to ride far to get to the trails a CX bike is a real bonus though. I had to ride the 29er to work today (just built new wheels for the CX), and it was pretty slow. 2.55" tyres at 30 PSI, and 57GI is'nt exactly a road racing set-up.

What, oreospokes?

wow, somebody has waaayyyy to much time on their hands

what a f..king waste! grrrrr! gimme some bullhorns now!..

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Crickey, look at that chainring though!

You're right, needs some nice pursuit bars and it's in business. Unless the rider has gorilla arms there is no way those drops are reachable.

60T+ i believe. some real nutcase scenario bike, i wish i could lay my hands on the frme though :(

Crickey, look at that chainring though!

You're right, needs some nice pursuit bars and it's in business. Unless the rider has gorilla arms there is no way those drops are reachable.

Ha ha - never seen a top tube protector fitted to the down tube before......

I hate areospokes so much.

OMFG, that is awesome!!!

Surely that's Supergran's.

That's Joe's, innit?

Is that a good cyclocross bike? I want to get a decent off road bike and think maybe cyclocross would be a good choice...

I'm pretty sure (but could be mistaken) that one of those was trashed in last years 3 peaks by one of their sponsered riders. Not from a crash just from the ride. And whilst from experience I can tell you that the peaks are not typical you'd still expect more than a 3hours shelf life. It retails for silly money and unless you hae a bottomless balance is possibly too light for the purpose.

omg that spezialied with aerospokes, is a top 10 anti-porn! I foucking love it, what effort.

The fact that it took you a week to prove me wrong proves me right.

sorry haven't been checking this thread as much as usual recently

Is that a good cyclocross bike? I want to get a decent off road bike and think maybe cyclocross would be a good choice...

full carbon f&f
sram red
carbon wheels

surely you can come to some sort of conclusion from that.