Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Single speed bike project... - YouTube

oh the humanity

It has it's own soundtrack which makes it an awesome bike.

Are the wheels really small?

650c - they were fashionable for a while on full sized tri bikes.

Single speed bike project... - YouTube

oh the humanity

Frame n fork could build into something fun, rest of it can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

650c - they were fashionable for a while on full sized tri bikes.

A mate of mine bought a 650C specific bike for tri's. They look horrible on a 700C bike......

.....and thus will blend in nicely at any tri transition stand.

This is the current line-up. It's not from 2006.

awesome, a rigid bike that looks like a full susser? allll up in yo FACE!

Quite.

Rather.

Ironic frame design.

Iconic frame design.

Possibly, but spendy (1099 frame only) for Chinese crabon. They do Hed 3 copy wheels for more than real Hed 3s too; strange.

any idea of their motivation for that^?

No idea, maybe just industry noobs picking the wrong parts from the Strong Guo catalogue and applying old-school mark-ups. The F16 frame is £700 here, and OEM price seems to be about $450 in quantities of 10+

The Matrix/Tank tandem looks pretty sweet, shame the .uk company hasn't chosen to bring that in.

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That's a pretty high BB height

Wow, Matrix really go from one extreme to the other; after the track tandem, which is verging on porn, the F18 "tri bike with disc brakes" goes off the scale in the other direction, making the F16 look pretty normal in comparison.

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That's a pretty high BB height

IIRC, long wheelbase single track vehicles have to lean over more for a given corner, so a high BB on a tandem might make sense. On the other hand, given Matrix/Tank's form, they might just not have much of a clue.

Why would you put discs on a tt bike?

Why would you put discs on a tt bike?

To avoid putting heavy brake tracks on the rims. With carbon tubular rims (and even, to lesser extent, metal and clincher rims), the elimination of the brake track and the reinforcement needed to resist the brake squeeze might be pretty close to the weight penalty of disc brakes, and you get brakes which work properly in all weathers as a bonus.

Isn't a rim brake easier to make aero than a disc though? Also as bikes have a minimum weight it may not actually be worth the effort. I can see it reducing the rotational weight but then for TT's that doesn't really matter as you're not accelerating/decelerating much

Isn't a rim brake easier to make aero than a disc though?

No idea; there's a current thread on brake aerodynamics on ttf, and the lesson we should all learn is that looking aero is not the same as being aero.

True. Like the thing about wheel vortex and the gap between the seat tube and tyre etc...

mdcc are you really that bothered about aesthetics? Surely if that TT bike up there did the job, it'd be fine? No offence, but your bike isnt exactly porn either

No offence, but your bike isnt exactly porn either

Which one?