Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291580_10150926720307043_1012767588_o.jpg

only thing anti about that are the lights

you could fit a second bike in the gap between the down tube and front wheel.

what do you want, a nice cx frame.
oh wait...

only thing anti about that are the lights, mismatched finishing kit, downhill saddle, huge front clearance and ugly front end

yep

lets not forget the mountain bike pedals, the fact that the photo was taken in the small ring and the obvious fact that the bike is in a train station!

yeah, photo will small ring - straight to anti.

And jaunty photo angle

commutes from bank to cannon street and then from platform to rangerover in parking lot?

Cannot figure out why but that ribble just looks wrong, has it been crashed then repaired badly or something?

I think there is another bottle cage mount underneath the down tube

What, between the down tube and the front wheel?

ok but then develop your arguments
I will not repeat it 30 times that i did not build this dale
do compare my fits with today tri and TT builds

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2504/025zo.jpg

This is not a TT bike, it's an old bike with a very slack seat tube that required the saddle to be mounted such.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/388/mg8911.jpg

Perfectly normal as modern saddle does not need to have a setback seatpost nowadays.

All black tyres and grips, not much wrong.

Nice rumpus room though.

Put it in prancy functional, that bike never hurt anyone.

the last few bikes been quite nice actually, lets get this thread back on track

nope

"thread back on track"

EPIC FAIL

wrong both of you. Its horrid.

the bike might be acceptable but when you see the price and read the description its clearly
made to deceive the clueless.

The Type 1 LC 1948 is constructed from steel with manganese, molybdenum and niobium this special chemical composition to allows the walls of the tubes to be made super light but incredible strong.

http://www.condorcycles.com/components/com_virtuemart/show_image_in_imgtag.php?filename=/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Lotus_Type1LC_1948(3)_LORES.jpg&newxsize=630&newysize=419

http://www.condorcycles.com/Condor-Bikes/11586-Type-1-LC-1948-Single-Speed-Bicycle/flypage.tpl.html

You know I love Conder (as you can see on my avatar) and my Potenza is a soldier. But their Paris frame (similar, though less expensive than this one) is another useless showpony. I'd love one because it's beautiful. I want to ride it and use it every day and wear bits of the paint off and have to change worn out parts. But when I enquired about it they said it's an 'every once and a while frame, to take out on a sunny day and so maybe have a look at a fratello' Which by the way is classy looking but mostly sort of ugly.

What the fuck is the fucking point of making bikes that your not supposed to really ride? It's the arrogant, elitist side of craftmanship. Of course we need styling in addition to function, however I quoteth the timeless classic Bad Boys:

Marcus Burnett: Hey man where-where-where's your cup holder?
Mike Lowrey: I don't have one.
Marcus Burnett: What the f- w'you mean you don't have one? Eighty thousand dollars for this car and you ain't got no damn cup holder?
Mike Lowrey: It's $105,000 and this happens to be one of the fastest production cars on the planet. Zero to sixty in four seconds, sweetie. It's a limited edition.
Marcus Burnett: You damn right it's limited. No cup holder, no back seat. Just a shiny dick with two chairs in it. I guess we the balls just draggin' the fuck along.

People have told me I'm crazy because my only bike is now an NJS keirin frame (and I'm building it up with NJS parts). I have one bike and I ride the shit out of it. I don't have multiple bikes because I know I'll end up not riding one, and then what's the point?

I rode that wholly unsuitable, stiff-ass frame 75 miles the other day. It just added to the challenge.

Get a nice bike, ride it and enjoy it.