Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

^ don't care for the paint choices on that
^^^ and that mixtemaster seems just as unnecessary, bar-wise; the frame (650Bs, right?) doesn't seem big enough to justify it

mebbe for a clyde

The longer the headtube the less of a triangle it become.

Basically the old answer of stiffen up the frame before oversize tubing start to become the norms.

Human Powered Snow Plow 2A - YouTube

The lady's bike gets a back brake for the winter. It's far from a pretty beast, but it happily gets her places, and even puts a smile on her face every now and again.

It's now got one drop lever and one cross top, so might put a second cross top inline on the front brake. See how she gets on as is first though.

Love that stainless steel rack/basket up the page by the RR guy.

none whatsoever, just for style.

If it needed a function, a lateral tubes would work well for giant bicycle, like this;

That's amazing. Serious porn that. *

• aside from silly brake choice.
  

Ooh, that's nice. Yours?

I wish! Would love to build one up for light on/off road touring but they tend to go for silly money.

I fucking love that bike. I posted it in pron a while back.

Rivendell Atlantis (as they're now called) are awesome bike, I genuinely think they have it spot on as an all round bicycle

That was the inspiration for my Saracen from a couple of pages back. Still not as nice as an X0-1 though!

That look like fun;

Seeing as Kona's are getting a viewing, I'm currently riding a Fire Mountain Race Light as my day bike -

Am thinking about fitting a rack but not sure where to start, any suggestions would be great.

I got myself a rear rack and some Ortlieb panniers in the end, but could do with some mudguards now as the weather is starting to turn nasty.
Any suggestions for easily removable ones?
I checked out the raceblades but they only seem to be for 700's and not 26's.

Surly looks great!

I've finally got around to sorting out my Dawes - pictures to follow. I'm really surprised with how good bar end shifters are. The only odd thing is I feel that you should pull up to shift to the smaller sprockets. I can imagine they'd work better in a TT-style position.

I got myself a rear rack and some Ortlieb panniers in the end, but could do with some mudguards now as the weather is starting to turn nasty.
Any suggestions for easily removable ones?
I checked out the raceblades but they only seem to be for 700's and not 26's.

AFAIK those Kona come with mudguard eyelit, why not go for a full SKS mudguard? they're more beneficial in the long run, hell you can run them with knobby tyres and not worry too much about mud catching it.

really liking this:

Thats porn in my book. Lovely bike!

So fecking practical, want this so much

That look like fun;

Would like to see how those tyres feel!
Ugly stem and bars, bars look uncomfortable as well, but i like this bike :)

Would like to see how those tyres feel!
Ugly stem and bars, bars look uncomfortable as well, but i like this bike :)

I tried the fat franks on mine!! think I preferred 2" big apples, and I couldn't be bothered to get bigger mudguards which don't really fit the LHT anyway… might try them again next summer without guards, but for now this bike will get winter marathons at the first sign of ice and snow.

Haha! That bike is an absolute tank!
Looks real comfy

Can you get guards that big??

Look like a lots of fun;

This is a bike, which really caught my eye, so I did a bit more digging into the builders work. The attention to detail is brilliant:

and he does some very cool cargo bikes:

Links?