Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Benotto track frame.

at least you can tell they are ridden hard, well right one anyway, looks like a beater

not all bad

edit: do i see a cycle cross rear tire??

snow couriering innit

Just get yourself a pompino quick, before you spend many hundreds of pounds butchering a frame that was never designed to run canti's, run canti's. Its never going to work as well as a pompino. Plus pompino frames are actually pretty nice, the forks look a bit basic/ugly. But the frame and its wishbone rear end are ace.

I think I remember you actually buying a pompino already, seriously, just use it!

For the last time, the pompino is for my dad, the pompino is a great bike, but not as great as the BMW, plus the angle of the cable actually similar to the pompino much to my surprise.

I love the BMW, why should I not add brake on it? given that BMW themselves said that they can add braze on under request, and that included cantis.

Instead of getting BMW to do it, I got a local bloke to do it for £40, hardly 'hundreds of pounds'.

.... plus the angle of the cable actually similar to the pompino much to my surprise.
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how?

my mistake - the cable got caught on the mudguard that made it look askewed.

can you not use something like this in the central brake hole?

Though about it - too short.

I do work in a bike shop, and that's the best solution, it perform perfectly well though.

Jop from the Netherlands fucking up some Mercians on their blog

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CG9GeQu2GoU/TZdtnTBkPmI/AAAAAAAAA34/szCwqERJGuY/s1600/Mercian%2B-%2BFixie%2B-%2Bbridge.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qyhU10K56fo/TZdtgxECurI/AAAAAAAAA3w/ZDrh5Qq6wBs/s1600/Mercian%2B-%2BRight%2BSide.jpg

the owner calls this "bloody buddy"

I call it, Bloody Horrible.

The roadie mercian is fine, I quite like it actually with a different wheelset in mind.

the fixie skidder is actually how he want it to be (custom order) - he used to live in London and I always see him riding it, it's still ugly though

I do work in a bike shop,

i thought you worked in Evans........ oh

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qyhU10K56fo/TZdtgxECurI/AAAAAAAAA3w/ZDrh5Qq6wBs/s1600/Mercian%2B-%2BRight%2BSide.jpg

Bell, Brooks and handle

These are local guys' old bikes, are you from Vancouver?
They should get a pass tho, this photo is like 4 years old.
I'm sure there are 1000x worse bikes from that time out there.

Stupid grip placement and that tyre? No, it stays here where it belongs.

the owner calls this "bloody buddy"

I like this except for the fact it needs bar-end lever.

scoff

Ha ha ha. etc etc.

jesus.

looks like some joker has filled in his dropouts too.

double snowmulti coloured snow flakes? that must have taken balls to ask for.
also the mech band on is still on

that is fucking epic!

double snowmulti coloured snow flakes? that must have taken balls to ask for.
also the mech band on is still on

Ha! 'Yeah, what I was thinking was a kind of....'

'...if Jason was more into wheels than coats!'