Fancy a bit of bike porn?

mrjinx

Alright calm down unlock the door……Rapha have just launched a range of exclusive bikes to drool over . You may need a tissue to catch your dribble!
http://www.rapha.cc/bicycle/

flasher

Completely underwhelmed!

AndyD2574

:?:

CarleyB

Flasher wrote:

Completely underwhelmed!

+1

balthazar

I quite like Rapha clothes, and I very much like the small-scale steel framebuilding cottage industry, and I'm even slightly fond of the "Portland Scene", even though they all seem to be just the best of friends! living in a snowy idyll.

But, really.

This is all a bit much, isn't it? I know they're for people who don't know what "cool" really is because they paid attention at school, but can (for that reason) afford to pay somebody to assure them that they are, after all, the coolest of all. That's the same market that had cityfolk moving into ready-furnished factory-converted-loft-spaces in Shoreditch, years ago. The desperate monied uncool, and sharklike opportunist "stylists", have always suited each other well.

The trouble is, it's putting me off the totally ordinary bicycles (for transport, not racing) that I've always rather liked- by fetishising them.

Rodrego Hernandez

Meh

antlaff

sorry that is like seeing your mum in razzle !! deflating!!

ademort

FWIW these must be the most over-priced bikes that i,ve ever seen. For the same money you could buy a top quality bike from one of the better known manufacturers.
Ademort

Scrumple

porn?

or Jackie for girls magazine?


No drool here...

pastey_boy

bike porn would be an oiled up and nude jessica alba stood astride a chopper not some over priced niche bicycles for people who feel they need to spend a fortune to be "cool"

vs

This type of 'porn' seems more popular

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12751016

ilm_zero7

uninspiring indeed - this is more like it

http://www.wilier.it/it/catalogo/accessori/

Brian B

Now that the thread has been hijacked I submit this bit of porn weighing in at 600grm for the frame.

http://www.storck-bicycle.de/en/web-anz ... bjekt=Road Bikes&objekt3=Fascenario 0.6

paulbox

Not even a semi...

jimmcdonnell

I suppose they're a kind of porn, in that if you saw one you'd think "look at that c**t on an overpriced hipster bike"...

mrjinx

Hahahaha thats rich coming from a c**t who rides a Litespeed Tuscany, Cosmic Carbone, Ultegra/Dura-Ace

Paul RS

i personally don't dig the Rapha thing..

mrjinx

doesnt make it wrong to like the style as with everything to do with cycling you buy what YOU like and can afford

pastey_boy

people sit in starbucks and drink the nasty brown liquid they pass off as coffee just because its cool to be seen in there, people get on a quirky bike , dress like a tw*t whilst paying through the nose for the privilege totally deluded in their own smugness, its nothing to do with liking the style but how others perceive you

vs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58334786@N03/5357048947

flanners1

IMO the bikes are nothing to write home about.........and why no bike from Condor?

mrjinx

smug people like to tell us they ride titanium bikes because they think they look cool...

Evil Laugh

Hmm, I like the Cinelli but for the money I'd sooner get a custom traditional geo Enigma Exstensor finished naked like my current steed and have enough left over for some pretty nice wheels. That would be more yum. IMO.

I loved the old, cream/blue coloured Classico they did and there was a nice looking ti bike in there at the end of the year.

zippypablo

the Cinelli xcr is marketed as scarce and cool and €3500 for frame and forks. I could think of a lot of frames I'd buy with that budget rather than that one. Not least a custom Enigma made from the same material but less than half the price.

Evil Laugh

zippypablo wrote:

the Cinelli xcr is marketed as scarce and cool and €3500 for frame and forks. I could think of a lot of frames I'd buy with that budget rather than that one. Not least a custom Enigma made from the same material but less than half the price.

Mate you're such a follower, I think you should probably shop at Condor.

zippypablo

Condor is just a rich man's Ribble

tri-sexual

ugly ugly bikes

FransJacques

balthazar wrote:

I quite like Rapha clothes, and I very much like the small-scale steel framebuilding cottage industry, and I'm even slightly fond of the "Portland Scene", even though they all seem to be just the best of friends! living in a snowy idyll.

But, really.

This is all a bit much, isn't it? I know they're for people who don't know what "cool" really is because they paid attention at school, but can (for that reason) afford to pay somebody to assure them that they are, after all, the coolest of all. That's the same market that had cityfolk moving into ready-furnished factory-converted-loft-spaces in Shoreditch, years ago. The desperate monied uncool, and sharklike opportunist "stylists", have always suited each other well.

The trouble is, it's putting me off the totally ordinary bicycles (for transport, not racing) that I've always rather liked- by fetishising them.

Beautifully put. Rapha are leeches on the rich, flabby 50-ish bankers on £7k rigs who surround me at work. Both are happy with the relationship but it's hollow. There's no real underlying appreciation for anything. I stay far away from it but mainly because I was watching in the 70s and 80s; so paid attention at the time and don't need the remedial course in distilled, free-base cool.