Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

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  • What. The. Fuck.
    this fixie craze has gone too far.

    brb going to cry, again.

    Winter training bike perhaps? Only needs to take the stickers off the rims and change the tyres and I reckon it would look pretty tight.

    Nothing wrong with riding a conversion. I ride one because I don't want to ride track geometry on the road.

  • Epic engineering fail, most of the weight is unsprung.

    How so?

  • Nothing wrong with riding a conversion. I ride one because I don't want to ride track geometry on the road.

    +1 makes more sense to me to ride road geometry on the road.

  • How so?

    Battery about half way along the swing arm, so that's 50% unsprung. Rack bag behind the axle, so that's >100% unsprung, motor in the wheel so that's exactly 100% unsprung. OK, so the fat cop is going to outweigh all of that, but the low grade suspension combined with a high proportion of unsprung weight is going to make that thing wallow like a hippo in a mud bath.

  • Meh.. Personally I would only have the one. If I could afford it..

    not sure single spok is ever a good idea, if you were going to run spoks you need to accept they weigh a ton but they are strong as a pair, unless you were riding a disk on the rear, but then i guess you could afford a spinergy or tri-spoke which are better.

    mdcc, want to chip in with some facts? im pretty sure that what ive just said is bullshit but im trying to back up my no one spok rule.

  • mdcc, want to chip in with some facts?

    That's pretty much what I've been saying all along. Spoks effect on a bike is negative, but multiplies. 1 spok = -1, 2 spoks = +1. That does mean that a tricycle with spoks all round would be anti too.

    For a flat time trial, spoks would actually be faster than Lightweights, despite weighing over 1kg more for a pair.

  • you're just not trying anymore are you?

    I WANT PHYSICS!

  • 1 spok = -1, 2 spoks = +1

    Who needs physics when you have some good old fashioned maths?

  • if it were in a stack of bikes I honestly wouldn't give it a second glance..

    @MacNall - who are you to tell him what to do with his frame/money? He's clearly not joining a track league on the thing, just riding it on the roads. Get over yourself.

    +1 - bike is obviously ridden a lot. No need for it to be in this thread just because someone is jealous.

  • it's one of merckx's all time greats, ruined. more money than sense

    Nothing that cant be undone on there. Just some misguided belief that this particular cycle should only have the one gear. I'd ride it, then I would source a period Chorus groupset for it. Then Id garnish it with a set of hand built ceramic open pros on Hope hubs with amber wall tyres........you get the idea.

  • oh so close.

    could easily be saved though with a new chain/pedals

  • and a proper seat height

  • The owner has enough time to change it.

  • it will look even better with my blue speedplay pedals

    By better I think she means differently worse

  • Didn't even see those pedals. Why even put them on?

  • cause she was wearing heels

  • I just realised how tiny that thing is, the really deep section wheels don't help it either.

  • is that a childs bike?

    needs more streamers and kittens.

  • and a proper seat height

    seat height seemed normal for someone of that height.

  • I meant in relation to the bars

  • That's also what I meant, still seemed normal.

  • Look at the saddle to bar drop on Emma Pooley's bike who's 5'2 and ride a 26" wheel bicycle;

  • These small people aren't normal.

  • paging 'hoops and damo

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