2010 Bikes

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Was in Decathlon today and they have one of their MTB/hybrid frames set up as single speed with horizontal (not track) drop outs for £79.99 complete !!!

wow, that's fantastic! defintely a lots better than those Tesco 18 speed rubbish, obviously certain part may be a little weak, but nothing a good mechanic can sort out.

horizontal drop out are usually the norms for singlespeed than track end.

that's edscoble's next bike^

Was in Decathlon today and they have one of their MTB/hybrid frames set up as single speed with horizontal (not track) drop outs for £79.99 complete !!!

That has to be one of the ugliest bikes I've ever seen. Mind you, I don't read the Antiporn thread.

That has to be one of the ugliest bikes I've ever seen. Mind you, I don't read the Antiporn thread.

Or the Foffa thread, obviously.

it could serve as a spare throw in polo bike i guess

it could serve as a spare throw in polo bike i guess

No need, you only throw in the mallet, you don't chuck the bike away.

That has to be one of the ugliest bikes I've ever seen. Mind you, I don't read the Antiporn thread.

uglier than a faux fully suspended 18 gear thing that it would compete against (on price) ?
This bike would be a far better bet for people wishing to only spend £80 I would think and the only ugliness to worry about is on the potential riders mismatched tracksuit ensemble :-)

I think it's perfect as a bike to lock up at a station. It's not trying to be something it's not: like a unipack or foffa, and the price reflects this. It's utilitarian to the point of ugliness, but who cares? it's for someone to ride a couple of miles on, not pose with.

horizontal drop out are usually the norms for singlespeeds with mudguard eyelets, than track end.

Fixed ;)

Still bloody ugly though.

uglier than a faux fully suspended 18 gear thing that it would compete against (on price) ?
This bike would be a far better bet for people wishing to only spend £80 I would think and the only ugliness to worry about is on the potential riders mismatched tracksuit ensemble :-)

My brother bought just himself a full-sus BSO for under 120 notes, off a catelogue. I said I would have bought something like this Nexus geared jobbie.......

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f%5FProductID=9452&f%5FSupersetQRY=C432&f%5FSortOrderID=1&f%5Fbct=c003155c018333c018336

.....I get the impression he thought I was mad for wanting to spend twice as much, for a cheap looking bike with no 'features'. Fat tyres, big red rear sus springs, disc brakes, flashy wite sus forks, all sell bikes it appears.

Bring on the cheapo singlespeeds, I say.

The B-Twin would probably look better with some mudguards filling up part of the huge clearances

uglier than a faux fully suspended 18 gear thing that it would compete against (on price) ?
This bike would be a far better bet for people wishing to only spend £80 I would think and the only ugliness to worry about is on the potential riders mismatched tracksuit ensemble :-)

Your implied point that for that price individual components are likely to be better quality than on a geared MTB-style BSO is of course taken. But with bikes like that, there's always something about them being outside of any aesthetic categories--e.g., not even making an attempt at a diamond frame, which this one does, and, I think, fails tragically.

That said, I don't like it if people buy cheap shit landfill BSOs quite generally, be it MTB or fixie-bouncie.

Colnago Pista
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Colnago Pista aluminium, about £1200 complete

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Bianchi Pista

Swap a threaded chrome fork in there and I'd have it...

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Colnago Pista aluminium, about £1200 complete

I just posted a really nice one in the Bike Porn thread.

That's what made me check that it was in this thread.

**Fort R37.SX Track frame
**$749 (£465)

Wish they still did a 54/55cm one... My 56cm is just a tiny bit too big and I WOULD have another one, best frame I've ever ridden.

My 54cm Fort track frame will be for sale as soon as I can get the cranks off it.

Can we have a 2011 bikes thread or is it too early? I'm really liking the look of the Genesis Day One Cross alfine!

Can we have a 2011 bikes thread or is it too early?

Not too early, as product launches for next season are already under way. First thing I thought when I saw that there was a new post in this thread was that it must be time for the 2011 thread.

Alfine 8 speeds (or is it the new 11spd?) with brake shifter? brilliant!

Can we have a 2011 bikes thread or is it too early? I'm really liking the look of the Genesis Day One Cross alfine!

It's an interesting idea and makes a lot of sense for cyclocross. I wonder if the gear range works, although I guess you can get it spot on by speccing the right sized front chainring. At £999 it's going to be a hit on the Cycle2Work scheme.

Alfine range from top to bottom is about 3:1 isn't it? That's like running a 1x8 dérailleur system with an 11-32 cassette, pretty big jumps for cross racing but (Al)fine for leisure use.