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DonDaddyD

essex-commuter wrote:

Sex on wheels.

That's like having a fetish for disabled people or something....

Oh hum... Whatever floats your boat.

sfichele

I'm already a purveyor of my own!

notsoblue

My tastes have changed, when I first started commuting I really liked the look of this:



Kinda looks a bit ridiculous now :S

Now its the Fascenario....beautiful bike.

daviesee

This



The steerer has been cut, bar tape is now white, Vittoria Paves fitted and wheel stickers removed for bare shiny rims.
Although I hope to "have" to upgrade the components as I go.

PS:- If anyone knows of a supplier of quality naked alloy stem & bars, let me know

sfichele

Wowzers - have you seen how much the EMX-7 is...

The website says...

Only £13,275.57

LOL

ndru

This one. Bombproof, internal everything, comfortable and functional.

http://www.workcycles.com/home-products/handmade-city-bicycles/workcycles-fr8-city-with-universal-frame

thel33ter

daviesee wrote:

This



The steerer has been cut, bar tape is now white, Vittoria Paves fitted and wheel stickers removed for bare shiny rims.
Although I hope to "have" to upgrade the components as I go.

PS:- If anyone knows of a supplier of quality naked alloy stem & bars, let me know

Ritchey Classic?

daviesee

thel33ter wrote:

Ritchey Classic?

Cheers! Pity they are American though as I would like to keep it Italian 8)

But then my current stem is Japanese :oops:
Maybe, just maybe...............

rjsterry

Token do a chrome plated one which might match well, but not Italian either. You need to go 1" threaded for a big choice of Italian bare alloy stems.

thel33ter

daviesee wrote:

thel33ter wrote:

Ritchey Classic?

Cheers! Pity they are American though as I would like to keep it Italian 8)

But then my current stem is Japanese :oops:
Maybe, just maybe...............

Just had a look through CRC, only silver stuff is Thompson, Ritchey, Control Tech... all American stuff.

Or scour eBay for some NOS Cinelli or similar.

AidanR

daviesee wrote:

thel33ter wrote:

Ritchey Classic?

Cheers! Pity they are American though as I would like to keep it Italian 8)

But then my current stem is Japanese :oops:
Maybe, just maybe...............

Check out http://www.freshtripe.co.uk/ for some Velo Orange stuff. It's a bit like Nitto but cheaper. The quality is still superb though.

That said, I read something on here recently about Cinelli starting to make some of their old classic stuff again.

daviesee

AidanR wrote:

That said, I read something on here recently about Cinelli starting to make some of their old classic stuff again.

Now you are talking! Nothing on their website though.

It's a pity Colnago gave in and went for the threadless system but that's "progress". I may be missing something there though :oops:

AidanR

Ah, here we go:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/pho ... -10/165593

thel33ter

daviesee wrote:

Now you are talking! Nothing on their website though.

http://www.freshtripe.co.uk/Freshtripe/ ... Stems.html

Plenty of shiny bits on there.

The Rookie

Just to put a spanner in the road bike works
http://www.scott-sports.com/us_en/produ ... 283/217933

Simon

thel33ter

The Beginner wrote:

Just to put a spanner in the road bike works
http://www.scott-sports.com/us_en/produ ... 283/217933

Simon

Ooooh, If we're going into MTB's... 160mm of stunning carbon goodness 8)

The Rookie

thel33ter wrote:

[ Just had a look through CRC, only silver stuff is Thompson, Ritchey, Control Tech... all American stuff.

Or scour eBay for some NOS Cinelli or similar.

The Doris bike (silver polished ally frame and bars) has a silver Spesh stem I got off ebay.

Simon

MrChuck

No idea what I'd do with a singlespeed 29er hardtail with rigid forks, but I reckon the Niner Air 9 Carbon is gorgeous:

http://bikereviews.com/wp-content/uploa ... n-bike.jpg

thel33ter

MrChuck wrote:

No idea what I'd do with a singlespeed 29er hardtail with rigid forks, but I reckon the Niner Air 9 Carbon is gorgeous:

http://bikereviews.com/wp-content/uploa ... n-bike.jpg

Be slightly cooler than everyone else?

Clever Pun

JonGinge wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

http://www.eddymerckx.be/EMX-3

I think it was this one I was drooling over the other day, in black of course

Quite like that. Why not the emx-7, though?

that just happened to be the one I was looking at. I'm not a massive fan or the MERKX detailing on the 5 and 7's... they are really nice though

Clever Pun

slack chain aside, this is rather special to me

asprilla

Zoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

thel33ter

Make me think of these

itboffin

Brrooooommm

thel33ter

Too kewl for school. Till the front end snaps and your face disintegrates.

nation

I once saw a Carrera Vulcan being ridden down Union St in Glasgow with a rather incongruous set of Rockshox Boxxers fitted. The angles weren't quite as mental as that one but they were close.

thel33ter

nation wrote:

I once saw a Carrera Vulcan being ridden down Union St in Glasgow with a rather incongruous set of Rockshox Boxxers fitted. The angles weren't quite as mental as that one but they were close.

The one in the middle is a Boxxer

nation

Yeah, I don't think there's anything quite as mad as the old-school Monster Ts.

dhope

I think I could get over my want for a steel fixed commuter. Looks very much a track bike with space for brakes

EKE_38BPM

This doesn't look at all ugly.
Three different coloured spokes on the front wheel, three different colours on the front wheel, half Brooks style/half 1980s style Turbo saddle, water bottle bosses too low to be practical, nut saver pad like BMXs used to have, coloured chain, shin shredder metal pedals, cable housing colour coded to match the really cool colours on the front wheel, white front tyre. What a cool bike.
If it was any cooler it would come with extra skinny jeans and an ironic haircut.