Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Never seen a nice C35 but that one is particularly tasteless.

I can think of many, many materials less suited to making bike frames than Ti.

So can I, but I can also think of at least three better ones 🙂

Have we had this here before? I feel like we have but a reverse image search doesn't return anything on it. What would this bike be for? Some unofficial hour record? And what are the pedals?

And what are the pedals?

Vista Magic X, a kind of zero-or-less stack (sometimes called swing-) pedal. Same principle as DuraAce AX but clipless and threaded for normal cranks.

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The 1898 Ramsey is thought to be the earliest swing-pedal:

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Good lord.

If i remember correctly, this was build for a dutch cyclist and his failed attempt of breaking the hour record a few years ago. He went to a velodrome somewhere in latin america that was at a high altitude, but found it to be full of cracks.

Fuck that’s a good find. I’ve always thought my ‘pootle to the shops’ bike was missing an in inbuilt hydration system.

As long as your shopping fits in the bottle cage it's functional.

Wow this is one of the best anti pages I've ever seen

Always thirsty ✔️
Only ever shops for bottles ✔️
Rides a Shiv✔️

Yup, definitely @hippy 's bike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2LYOjG2Ihg

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maas_van_Beek

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMaas_van_Beek

https://web.archive.org/web/20160804035454/http://www.fiets-onderdelen-online.nl/epages/Fietsonderdelen.sf/nl_NL/?ObjectPath=/Shops/MasterShop/Categories/Inhoudspagina

Except, yellow. POC

translate.google.com

Hardly necessary when the original is in Dutch 🙂

I'm glad Google doesn't translate decimal separators, makes the article much more fun

Saddle, chain protector and reflectors for teh win

As long as your shopping fits in the bottle cage it's functional.

Does a bottle defintely fit in that cage? Looks to me like the downtube might get in the way.

I had to temporarily make one of my bikes rideable by my wife (who’s a few inches shorter than me and doesn’t have clipless shoes). It’s made me a little sad so I’m putting it here for cathartic reasons.

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Routing the rear brake cable right of the stem is a bigger offender. Bike looks good regardless!

There was a reason I did it that way but I can’t for the life of me remember why now!

Are we allowed to post Tri bikes or is it cheating?

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cheating?

Is shooting fish in a barrel cheating?

It's not very sporting is it?