Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

What frame is this???

vrooooooooooooooooooooom!

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^ that is not anti, it's ace.

saddle angle and a different rack mount for the front (shorter) but thats no reason for it to be here

a flat saddle angle is wrong?

I think he thought the bag was the saddle.

Ooh, I thought it was pointing up a bit. The camera he's got in his hand confused me.

That poor Zipp frame ^^^^

it's a Softride.

and it's freaking awesome

Sure about that?

le Zipp -

a la Softride -

I know the difference, I've ridden a Zipp

Also...

Before

During

After

OMG!

Yes he left the cranks on....

and sorry if these are reep...

You have a bike. You have a choice - make it 'practical' for touring / shopping / keeping you dry and you pretty much guarantee it's ugliness.

I see what you mean but saying all bikes that are practical are guaranteed to be ugly is a lie, I've seen plenty of good looking and highly functional bikes but equally how do you measure practicality?

Keep it free of anything superfluous to the primary purpose of a bike (getting you from A to B with occasional stopping) and you have a chance of making it look damn nice

Many of the bike posted in porn you and I would agree are 'damn nice' however many of those are race bikes which completely detract from the idea that bikes are for getting you from A to B

I think the point that we're all guilty of missing is that; Porn/Anti-porn is judged on aesthetics/looks both of which can not be quantified therefore personal preference is the only means of judgement

Saddle sore any one?

Porn:

Practical:

Practical Porn:

hehe

hahaha

Saw this horror while out and about on Saturday. Apologies for crappy phone pic, but I had to share the magnitude of the fail.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_v_qTEX85gEA/TY-le33tKNI/AAAAAAAAAGI/j9uH7m7-uW4/s912/photo%20%281%29.JPG

fairly popular combination there.

its a rum old state of affairs when your front wheel is worth more than the rest of your bike

The picture quality nicely reflects the subject

Is the white one also a Creap?

I saw that black un when last down in london, somewhere around oxford circus?

didn't take a pic as I thought it would be "well known" already...

classic front wheel worth more than rest of bike...

I saw that black un when last down in london, somewhere around oxford circus?

Yup, just round the corner on Great Castle Street.

Yeah, our lass was like "oooh that's a nice bike"

My response "no its not, its a heap of shit!" stunned here a bit... ha. think she was only trying to be interested for my sake when she saw me staring at it...

at least she made an effort

Yeah i know, i'm a dick, don't deserve her, she's great etc etc ha

i'm just passionate, ok!? (: