I've just stumbled on this and am shocked

snoopsmydogg

the rules don't seem to apply to communters

Yossie

Most things don't apply to communters: taste and decent bicycles for two .........

skylla

... red lights ...

Yossie

..... not riding on pavements ..... not shouting at people ....... not wearing cameras on your head .......

rolf_f

You should have a look at the 'post your bike' thread in MTB - not a one of them has drop handlebars. And there's all that anodised stuff. Go there - you'd be appalled.....

skylla

Rolf F wrote:

You should have a look at the 'post your bike' thread in MTB - not a one of them has drop handlebars. And there's all that anodised stuff. Go there - you'd be appalled.....

oh dear, wish you never mentioned it... some of them bikes never been near a bucket of warm soapy water. It's a disgrace what's going on this country. One of these days the daily mail is going to find out and hang them all!

pinno

Have a look at RolfH's Rolls saddle clad scaffolding pic, half way down p62 - he must squeak like a Jenny with the drop between saddle and handlebars.

To be fair, I spent a while communting to work when I was in Naam, Cheltenaam. After only a few weeks of it and having numerous incidents with car drivers, I think you go a little bit bonkers. The continuous twice dailly blood pressure/heart beat rise doesn't do a lot for one's mental health. I think thats why they are all a bit 'funny'.

rolf_f

pinarello001 wrote:

Have a look at RolfH's Rolls saddle clad scaffolding pic, half way down p62 - he must squeak like a Jenny with the drop between saddle and handlebars.

Maybe he just has long arms? :?

pinno

Rolf F wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Have a look at RolfH's Rolls saddle clad scaffolding pic, half way down p62 - he must squeak like a Jenny with the drop between saddle and handlebars.

Maybe he just has long arms? :?

Maybe he has a very very long body and extremely short arms.

Yossie

Cleat: we've been deleted.

Oh, what a fun bunch the communters are .........

Ben6899

ALIHISGREAT wrote:

I've found a nice one! Some faith in humanity has been restored!



but I must admit the tube on the seatpost does look a little tryhard.

I think that's Will's bike and to be fair, he's a bloody decent cyclist!

MattC59

DIESELDOG wrote:

(at least "Little Matt" doesn't make much mess though)

You wounldn't want him on the end of your nose for a wart !!

dmclite-3.0

Sweet baby Jesus.

I commute, do not use tri bars, crap bike or cover it in shite.

Litespeed Siena, Ultegra and kysriums SSC SL's. Vittoria zaffiros 23mm and no spacers. Communters seem to have a lot to answer for. No excuses, sort yer fecking fekkers of feckin bikes out.

itboffin

yeh this one made me want to puke viewtopic.php?f=40076&t=12536578&start=1100#p17465231

FGSS commuting outside of London the bastard :x

itboffin

Then my years of posting in commuting caught up with me and this happened, be warned children this shite could happen to you :shock:

viewtopic.php?f=40012&t=12852823&start=40#p17612220

Cleat Eastwood

Yossie wrote:

Cleat: we've been deleted.

Oh, what a fun bunch the communters are .........

Haha, what a fecking joke this forum's become - I might email aggie and see if theres room in his basement.

mercsport

Thanks to all of you wits I enjoyed this thread. I'm agog to know what the mods deleted though. :shock:

An old-school fella me, I harbour a loathing of deep section rimmed/hubbed tractor spoked wheels. I cringe when I see trackies and TT types at work wearing their daft aero helmets and skin suits pedalling distorted disc wheeled abominations (although I'll try to be positive today when Wiggins is -hopefully- busting a gut to get a gold and an inevitable sainthood). Anyhow, as I was dragging and dropping these pictures into this little box to illustrate some of what I considered to be horrors of bicycle design a strange thing occurred in that I developed a grudging appreciation of what they were about. They're not half as bad as I originally thought. Though the webbing trailing behind the head-tube of the Aston Martin thingy is still a no-no. Likewise its disc brakes. And look at the length of the valve in the top pic! :shock:

The electric shopper I thought was interesting, and the trackie too.