Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

How are you supposed to lock it? Urban FAIL!

you just go all across it, like that

time for a hippstar mainstream ad:

hahah s.Oliver is the *least *hipster thing in the world.

Its pretty much M&S for Germans....

It's not the designer's fault the brief is probably:
**"Marketing says customers want it to look like the sponsored pro bikes. Leave no space unbranded because unbranded never made any money right? Oh and everything in slanty type... slanty is fast you know?"

**If you shot the marketing man, and let the graphic designer work with the bike designer... the results would be better. But that's life.
But surely the middle aged weekend club riders who buy these bikes, do indeed want them to look like sponsored pro bikes.

I passed someone yesterday on a discovery channel Trek.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg31/PatrickChurch/memberpics691-albums58-picture277.jpg

my, my, my you are a spiteful little man aren't you.....thanks for posting it, was far too busy lusting over Corima's to post it myself

Spite doesn't come into mate. If you can't take a dig, don't give it....but that is one piss awful bike you got there

i agree, but then again the one you didn't post is quite nice!

Your Colnago is very nice :-)

2K polo bike
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3691531404_45c515a6c0_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/3173543219_12023440d5_o.jpg

that must be a joke^^ (the archie wilkinson)

2K polo bike
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3691531404_45c515a6c0_o.jpg

that's a functional speedway bike, not a fixed wheel bicycle, it have a freewheel, designed to go round a dirt track as fast as possible.

not anti.

edit - actually it does look like a polo with spinny gearing to the point that you won't even need foot retention, didn't read the other comment or inspect it further, my fault but hardly anti apart from the expensive (or cheap?) choice of wheels.

i´m pretty sure it´s a track frame/bike


the owner calls it: Fixed plaything

"...but hardly anti"
christ.

well it's not porn is it?

Seems like (again) a fuck load of money on the wrong hands.

Seems like (always) a fuck load of money on the wrong hands.

fixed

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/3703037613_c37818f9db_o.jpg

Seems like (again) a fuck load of money on the wrong hands.

Wheres the money? those frames are £80, and their not track, their speedway as said before

looks like the discs are 650c to me... the plot thickens

Yeah they are, however the bike take MTB sized wheel (26), so it's close enough size really, this bike is the same as above, the entire bike cost £200.

http://archie-wilkinson.co.uk/images/199%20POUND%20BIKE.jpg

steel f+f for £99 new?!? could they be that shit that they wouldn't be suitable for newcomers to fixed riding/bike building?

I doubt that they're shit, just specifically aimed for dirt track, geometry is pretty different to your usual track/road frame, I have no idea how it'd handle on the road thought.

There's a bloke in Manchester has one fixed, it looks very nice IMO, he's currently couriering on it too. When I first saw it, I just assumed it was an old school British frame (mainly due to the name IIH).

He's called Punkture on this forum and he replies to a previous thread

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread20203.html