I think I'm in love..............

Rich158

I've just had a test ride of this



Specialized Langster Monaco (without the cat)

Bugger the fixie build, this is the one. The only problem is I'll spoil it with proper brake levers, not the silly little fakenger ones that come as standard.

Somebody talk me out of it, the standard build makes more sense, won't need new levers, and is probably less nickable.....................................but I just love the colours

Roastie

I love those to bits. Buy it now.

Coriander

It's the cat that makes it. Pointless without it.

_Brun_

That was on my shopping list back in Feb before I ended up with the Genesis. I'm glad I didn't get the Langster, they're way too ubiquitous around Soho and I reckon single speeds look much classier with a full size frame.

1980s Martini Racing paint job is nice tho'.

cjcp

Was able to catch a fleeting glance as I blazed by one yesterday.

:shock:

Prefer the Touche.

And what's going on with those pedals?

And there's a lot of white, isn't there? Like a really white white. Not just white.

In summary: please don't. :P

robmanic1

It'll look shabby in mid-November in the sleet, covered with road-crud.

Rich158

_Brun_ wrote:

That was on my shopping list back in Feb before I ended up with the Genesis. I'm glad I didn't get the Langster, they're way too ubiquitous around Soho and I reckon single speeds look much classier with a full size frame.

1980s Martini Racing paint job is nice tho'.

That's my problem, I've got a full size frame coming frm Flea-bay, and most of the parts to build it either in the shed or on order

Only now this temptress has come into my life, and has left me in a quandry :?

Do I give in to temptation, and put the fixie build on a certain auction site, or do the sensible thing and go with what I've got :roll:

heart or head folks, what's it to be :?:

Coriander

Heart. Always heart.

il_principe

Rich158 wrote:

I

Somebody talk me out of it, the standard build makes more sense, won't need new levers, and is probably less nickable.....................................but I just love the colours

Ok - that frame is ugly as sin, so compact it almost looks like hardtail MTB frame.

Bleurgh! There are much nicer frames out there IMHO.

Agent57

Looks nice, but riding on the hoods is my favourite position, so I'd be spoiling the "track bike" lines too.

Greg T

I saw a veryvery nice Bianchi track bike last night - not a chrome pista a matt painted carbon forked jobby.

Aerospoke on the front - not sure what I think about aerowheels - look funky though.

Brakeless - made me double take as you don't see it often AND

No clips or clipless - just flats.

Riding brakeless with flats must be nuts - non?

DonDaddyD

Be prepared this is going to be the mother of all rants

Personally the paint job reminds me of a Willy Wonka designed every-flavour gum drop but in lollypop style.

It also has a BMX frame and I'm a fan of compact frames... but urgh!

Sorry not impressed, there is one thing buying a nostaligia birthed stylish vintage neo-romanticism/art nouveau (whatever) bike. That is made by the original founders of such a bike from that era and whose only reason to re-release the bike is out of pure passion, desire and nostalgia.

Its completely another buying a bike from some new age manufacturer trying shamelessly to tap into that market and whats currently vogue to make money.

Buying that bike jusitifies Brick Lane and skinny jeans and every fashion-concious-image trapped-designer-hungry-whore who lives, buys, desires and has a personality based purely on popularity, vanity, superficiality and nothing else.

Its wrong. Its just a Langster, albeit a nicely painted one with cool brakes, 'alternative white rims' and funky ass brakes but that's it, there is no heritage, there's no passion, nothing is real about that bike except that its marketing at its best.

Most people (mostly around Brick Lane) will have that bike or a bike like it (like the Bowery "Mash Up" - a name that tries to hard) in an effort to be a little different and a little bit extra cool complete with groovy shades (you know the ones the 80s ones). But if everyone has the same thing then they aren't being different and being a sheep is uncool.

Fact is that bike no matter how nice looking is a sad parody of "being cool" and "being different."

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Sorry my ribs are hurting and I'm miserable... Nothing personal....

Rich158

Il Principe wrote:

Rich158 wrote:

I

Somebody talk me out of it, the standard build makes more sense, won't need new levers, and is probably less nickable.....................................but I just love the colours

Ok - that frame is ugly as sin, so compact it almost looks like hardtail MTB frame.

Bleurgh! There are much nicer frames out there IMHO.

That's just the size, I rode a 56cm and it looked much nicer

Ok point me in the direction of another for a similar price, I may be tempted to be unfaithful before we've even started

il_principe

Erm...

On one poacher
pearson touche

Kinesis Decade

Bikequin

I want one too :P

DonDaddyD

Rich158 wrote:

Ok point me in the direction of another for a similar price, I may be tempted to be unfaithful before we've even started

I like to call this bike muscles: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/fel ... e-ec017109

Or: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/kon ... e-ec017275

Or: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/fuj ... e-ec018091

robmanic1

....and it looks like it's wearing far too much make-up

prawny

I quite like it, I like compact frames (as a fellow MTBer) and I'm never going to get a lancia Delta Integrale, so that would do.

Although I'd have to have it as a normal SS set up with proper bars, brakes and spds.

Rich158

DonDaddyD wrote:

Rich158 wrote:

Ok point me in the direction of another for a similar price, I may be tempted to be unfaithful before we've even started

I like to call this bike muscles: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/fel ... e-ec017109

Or: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/kon ... e-ec017275

Or: http://www.evanscycles.com/products/fuj ... e-ec018091

Nice try DDD

The felt is out of my price range v v nice though
The Kona and Fuji are nice bikes, but battleship grey doesn't really do it for me. It smacks of functional rather than sexy and fast.

I'm with Prawny, it's the closest I'll ever get to a owning a Lancia Delta Integrale

Rich158

DonDaddyD wrote:

Be prepared this is going to be the mother of all rants

Buying that bike jusitifies Brick Lane and skinny jeans and every fashion-concious-image trapped-designer-hungry-whore who lives, buys, desires and has a personality based purely on popularity, vanity, superficiality and nothing else.

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Sorry my ribs are hurting and I'm miserable... Nothing personal....

DDD, I think you've just made my mind up for me, how can you be so insightful when you've only met me once

Shallow, pretentious, moi :shock: surely not

Aidy

Yeah, the lines of that bike look all wrong.

Tiny, tiny frame - look at how short the seat tube is in comparison to the wheels. It's not like there's any sense to it either, that seatpost is sticking out by miles.

Agent57

They look sexier with quill stems, mind.

DonDaddyD

Rich158 wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Be prepared this is going to be the mother of all rants

Buying that bike jusitifies Brick Lane and skinny jeans and every fashion-concious-image trapped-designer-hungry-whore who lives, buys, desires and has a personality based purely on popularity, vanity, superficiality and nothing else.

[/rant]

Sorry my ribs are hurting and I'm miserable... Nothing personal....

DDD, I think you've just made my mind up for me, how can you be so insightful when you've only met me once

Shallow, pretentious, moi :shock: surely not

Well I didn't mean you personally.... I meant that's what that bike exudes...

Rich158

DonDaddyD wrote:

Rich158 wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Be prepared this is going to be the mother of all rants

Buying that bike jusitifies Brick Lane and skinny jeans and every fashion-concious-image trapped-designer-hungry-whore who lives, buys, desires and has a personality based purely on popularity, vanity, superficiality and nothing else.

[/rant]

Sorry my ribs are hurting and I'm miserable... Nothing personal....

DDD, I think you've just made my mind up for me, how can you be so insightful when you've only met me once

Shallow, pretentious, moi :shock: surely not

Well I didn't mean you personally.... I meant that's what that bike exudes...

I know dude, I know

it wouldn't have been the first time I've been called vane, pretentious, shallow and image obsessed :shock: Have you met my ex :?:

Somehow the colour scheme just apeals, maybe it's an 80's thing. I can remember going week knee'd the first time I saw a Lancia Delta Integrale, and it still has the same effect :oops:

Coriander's right, I have to go with the heart If I don't I'll always lust after the bike I could have had

Agent57

Rich158 wrote:

Somehow the colour scheme just apeals, maybe it's an 80's thing. I can remember going week knee'd the first time I saw a Lancia Delta Integrale, and it still has the same effect :oops

I assume you specifically mean the Delta Integrale in Martini livery, rather than just the car itself. I remember that car well - I had an Airfix model of it IIRC.



*swoon*

Gazzaputt

Hideous. Buy a Cannondale Capo far better.

_Brun_

Agent57 wrote:

*swoon*

I nearly posted that exact same picture. Gorgeous.

Rich158

ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

you can keep your Mitsubishi Evo's & Imprezza's, that's a proper rally car driven by real men

Colin.Watling

Behave this is a real rally car, driven by real men:

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prawny

^^

Now that is a car.

Isn't there a massive shortage of 2 door shells though now? Very sad

prawny

Although while we're on the topic of hairy chested real mans cars



Hubba Hubba!