The "Cool Wall" of mountain bikes

zero303

To summarise it would seem that:

Steel Hardtails generally fall into cool. Cotic Soul, Orange P7, old Konas getting the most nods I think.

Full sussers generally uncool.

Giant/Trek/Spesh uncool.

That man with the Yeti 575 - so uncool! It couldn't be more Audi/BMW if it tried!

Tim.s

Monster full sussers are cool, especially Marins with white components.

Jonesy.

reckless_rat wrote:

so whats cool so far ???? im confused !

Basically all bikes are cool.

But we can't have a proper cool wall without either a voting system, or a tall bloke with curly hair who smokes too much and likes to offend lorry drivers to decide what goes on there.

Or, we could use the Top Gear cool-test and ask what bike Kristin Scott Thomas would be happy riding down the red carpet on at a film premiere?

Obviously she'd choose a Klein 8)

P-Jay

ANY Cove really, for me the coolest make (Lapierre and Evil are also pretty dam icey at the moment), lurid colours, rude names, rare, handmade, leftfield choice.

geordiefreerider

This is the coolest bike ever in my opinion, it is the very reason for my existence, the end goal of my aspirations !!!!!

geordiefreerider

And yes kristen would think im a tool for having a metal bar from my rear caliper to the frame but when i told her it was dope her knickers would be wet !!!!

gezzza

geordiefreerider wrote:

This is the coolest bike ever in my opinion, it is the very reason for my existence, the end goal of my aspirations !!!!!

Thats about as cool as Chilli and chilli has never been cool

fred1star

reckless_rat wrote:

so whats cool so far ???? im confused !

Just read my signature... Its basically a list of whats cool..... 8)

Rodmc

jairaj wrote:

chorscroft wrote:

http://www.chargebikes.com/projects/project/files/Tango/

hhmmmm.... yummy bike! thats defiantly super ice cool! 8)

+1 I think that might just be the best looking mountain bike I have ever seen, I want one. Anybody need a kidney I need to raise some money.

projectsome

FOR MY COOL WALL ENTRY THE META 5



FOR MY UNCOOL WALL ENTRY THE PROPHET 1

joshtp

Rodmc wrote:

jairaj wrote:

chorscroft wrote:

http://www.chargebikes.com/projects/project/files/Tango/

hhmmmm.... yummy bike! thats defiantly super ice cool! 8)

+1 I think that might just be the best looking mountain bike I have ever seen, I want one. Anybody need a kidney I need to raise some money.

+1, that is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

The Spiderman

As expected,with 2 mainstream big brand bikes I`m distinctly uncool,though my old school 531 framed road bike might qualify......if I turned it into a courier style fixie.....

Cotic Soul is an easy contender for the cool wall.Just having thae name "Soul" is somehow so right.

To be cool I reckon the more niche the better.

Now this is an interesting one,the Trek 69er,a distinctly niche bike by a mainstream brand,cool or not? :roll:

jpstar

Projectsome

Please tell me thats not your garage

Ocrider

Now this is an interesting one,the Trek 69er,a distinctly niche bike by a mainstream brand,cool or not?

Not including the more recent ones with Fox forks mind you.



Edited: Imageshack removed the image cos it had 69er in the title :roll:

P-Jay

Ocrider wrote:

Now this is an interesting one,the Trek 69er,a distinctly niche bike by a mainstream brand,cool or not?

Not including the more recent ones with Fox forks mind you.

Not my handfull of gooseberries, but very cool.

gezzza

Ocrider wrote:

Now this is an interesting one,the Trek 69er,a distinctly niche bike by a mainstream brand,cool or not?

Not including the more recent ones with Fox forks mind you.

Cooler than a Cool thing at a convention for Cool things

supersonic

Looks like a malformed tree with wheels.

chorscroft

supersonic wrote:

Looks like a malformed tree with wheels.

I definitely agree, and the wheels appear to have grown at different rates too

bomberesque

Jonesy. wrote:

... we can't have a proper cool wall without either a voting system, or a tall bloke with curly hair who smokes too much and likes to offend lorry drivers to decide what goes on there.

MODS!!!! ^ spot the really good idea

please can we have a dynamic thread type thing where anyone can submit a picture of a bike for consideration as an addition to the cool wall. Each bike gets a separate thread and is voted /commented on and generally drooled over or abused. If the bike gets eniough votes, the picture and a link to the vote thread is added to a central coolwall sticky automajically.

No need for clarkson, I think we can magae this without him (thank heaven )

Tim.s

I'm going to say something controversial (sp?) here.

Dons flameproof coat.

I don't really rate the Meta 5 (Gasp)

I had one for a test and it just felt cheap, the welds were all thin and it just felt dead. Didn't seem to have much spring in its step if you know what I mean.

I was expecting a superbike from all the reviews but it left me disappointed.

I'm glad ive got that off my chest, its been bugging me for a while. Thanks.

Turrican

What about these http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/1117728/
And i have a frame to build up so i have one......Cool i think

zero303

I'm going to say something controversial (sp?) here.

Dons flameproof coat.

I don't really rate the Meta 5 (Gasp)

I had one for a test and it just felt cheap, the welds were all thin and it just felt dead. Didn't seem to have much spring in its step if you know what I mean.

I was expecting a superbike from all the reviews but it left me disappointed.

I'm glad ive got that off my chest, its been bugging me for a while. Thanks.

Don't worry, I found the same thing when I rented one...

Tim.s

Phew..... I'm not the only one then.

projectsome

jpstar wrote:

Projectsome

Please tell me thats not your garage

lol I wish!

Daz555

Ocrider wrote:

Now this is an interesting one,the Trek 69er,a distinctly niche bike by a mainstream brand,cool or not?

Not including the more recent ones with Fox forks mind you.



Edited: Imageshack removed the image cos it had 69er in the title :roll:

Could easily go in the Ugly bikes thread.

hoathy

Daz555 wrote:

Ocrider wrote:

Now this is an interesting one,the Trek 69er,a distinctly niche bike by a mainstream brand,cool or not?

Not including the more recent ones with Fox forks mind you.



Edited: Imageshack removed the image cos it had 69er in the title :roll:

Could easily go in the Ugly bikes thread.

Or the 'totally unnessesary and annoying looking front end' bike thead... is there one for that?

Lapierre t 400

my contribution

switchback18

Ok, I reckon...

Curtis T45 Freeride



All Turners, the Ventana full sus tandem, and although I'm not sure my Orange Five is cool, you have to admit the Blood is seriously cool. The Five is awesome, and I'd have another, which probably says something about my sense of coolness... just bought a Paramo for biking, so might have no credibilty left in the coolness stakes!

Treks never were & never will be cool.

MacAndCheese

All Santa Cruz, v10 is cool, but maybe too flashy for super cool.

So I recon this has gotta be in with a shot:



I want one!

Hercule Q

this has to be cool cos you could re-enter the earths atmosphere to flat and still not use all the travel