Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

ah, the lynksey finally found its way home..

School Project?

^^ thats a reep can't find the post but it wasn't so long ago. Its a rebrand, can't remember the original manufacturer.

edit: found it http://www.factorbikes.com/

edit 2: oh it says it on the top tube

facepalm.jpg

With a TT sloping the other way it might be quite nice. Could do with the brake being on the right side.

With a TT sloping the other way it might be quite nice. Could do with the brake being on the right side.

It has a horizontal top tube...

Plus, is there a right side for a front disc? Or is it the man who said it should be on a certain side?

ftfy

Stool project.

^^^ No, that TT is sloping up to the saddle. That or there's some amazing perspective going on.

^^ Standard is on the l/h side. why make a disc that you'd have to have a specific caliper for? none of the other standard calipers will fit on the mount.

Moniez

that TT is sloping up to the saddle.

Nope, just the back wheel jacked up on the turbo

^^^ No, that TT is sloping up to the saddle. That or there's some amazing perspective going on.

^^ Standard is on the l/h side. why make a disc that you'd have to have a specific caliper for? none of the other standard calipers will fit on the mount.

it uses a standard (bb7?) caliper that is monted with the outside facing the spokes. it's rather inelegant though.

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.

Sometimes they spout shit like that. If you buy it ride it how you want it. Its your bike!

Don't let salesmen influence your choice.

QUICK QUICK everyone
BMC Time machine on Regent street
The very worst bit of anti porn i have ever seen in the flesh
Super Record Gruppo with mud guards
TT bars with mirrors on boths sides
i'm sure a i saw a rack .. although my eyes had been blinded by the horribleness

pics or it dint happen!

i wish it didn't happen but it really did
anyway my 35mm SLR camera will have it's film developed in about 2-3 weeks i'll post up the pictures then
if i stick the photo's facing my TV screen will people be able to see it ?

go and visit it yourself ... you'll not believe it

just looked on internet and it seems like it is a £6,000-7,000 time trial bike and the person has added mudguards and wing mirrors too much cash in the bank right there

stolen?

No, just the next step after the worlds greatest Madone

^

QUICK QUICK everyone
BMC Time machine on Regent street
The very worst bit of anti porn i have ever seen in the flesh
Super Record Gruppo with mud guards
TT bars with mirrors on boths sides
i'm sure a i saw a rack .. although my eyes had been blinded by the horribleness

Mayfair hedgie with too much cash to spare?

^that'd be Von, a courier with a predilection for working on flash tt bikes.

He bought the time machine with the cash from settling a case against a less than scrupulous former employer, he's one of the few people to stand up and actually do something when shat on rather than wingeing down the pub.

Awesome bloke, and after 20 years as a working courier well entitled to run around town on whatever he feels like.

r well entitled to run around town on whatever he feels like.

like everybody else :-)

True,
Though if it was a banker who'd simply bought the most expensive bike in Evans irrespective of its intended use I'd be straight there with the haha.jpeg.

Von's always ridden tt bikes and, as he says in the linked interview, the BMC was his dream bike. Fortune smiled on him and now he can ride a £7,000 bike for work.

Is it sensible?
No.

Does it make hammering around town all day a hell of a lot more fun?
I certainly expect so.

^

wordless

Whats wrong with the madone? Switch the rear rack for a front basket, flip the stem, boom