My Modest steed

MountainMonster

Figured i'd post some pictures up as I have good a new wheelset ordered. 2012 Carrera Virutoso with a few other mods, pannier racks and lights come off at the weekend or when going for a serious ride. Hope you guys like it!

Some new Ultegra wheels should be here on Tuesday

Grill

Certainly looks like it took a trip through Halfords...

What are the aero bars for?

sandyballs

Sorry but that gives Embarassing Bodies a run for its money, hideous, but if thats what you like, ridings, ridings I suppose.

imposter2.0

never...seen...anything...like it...

declan1

Wow. I've never seen so many bolt-on bits on a bike in my lifetime.

rickyrider

I like the colour scheme of the frame, but the bike is certainly, erm, a little over-embellished...

MountainMonster

Hey guys,

Due to financial reason this is going to be the bike that ticks every box for me until I get a new summer bike. I know it is a little much with the bolt ons, but it is just a computer, my lights and rear rack, so not too much!

Grill

And aero bars, which I still don't understand.

TakeTurns

Are those Time pedals?

Lots of cables going on there...

I had a phase where I had aero bars on my road bike, but that was a long, long time ago. I'll forgive ya.

Something about your bike, reminds me of the Ghostbusters car...there's just so much going on!

elderone

I like the bike itself,think it looks good in those colours.Think with it being a halfords bike Its never going to get much positive feed back.The add ons would get slated on any bike I think.I also own a carrera and love it so dont make excuses for your ride just to placate a bunch of strangers on the interweb.

alihisgreat

not a bad bike underneath all the crap! but still:



First thing i'd do is get rid of the aero bars.. surely if its the right size you should be able to get your forearms on the bars properly?

MountainMonster

I enjoy the aero bars for training, so they'll definitely be staying

Thanks for the feedback

Grill

Training for what? Considering you have pretty much zero drop, the aero bars will actually put you less aero than riding the drops.

imposter2.0

elderone wrote:

I like the bike itself,think it looks good in those colours.Think with it being a halfords bike Its never going to get much positive feed back.The add ons would get slated on any bike I think.I also own a carrera and love it so dont make excuses for your ride just to placate a bunch of strangers on the interweb.

ironically, nobody else has mentioned anything about Halfords - except you..

MountainMonster

Grill wrote:

Training for what? Considering you have pretty much zero drop, the aero bars will actually put you less aero than riding the drops.

Training for my own fun. I enjoy them so that's that

Grill

MountainMonster wrote:

Grill wrote:

Training for what? Considering you have pretty much zero drop, the aero bars will actually put you less aero than riding the drops.

Training for my own fun. I enjoy them so that's that

And I enjoy fat girls, but you won't see me posting pictures of the ones I've ridden.

rolf_f

declan1 wrote:

Wow. I've never seen so many bolt-on bits on a bike in my lifetime.

You have lived a very sheltered life. What's it got? Aerobars, a slightly clumsy front light with an external battery, a rack and Cruds. And the mismatched cages aren't ideal but hardly a hanging offence (and you have bad form on cages so you should be sympathetic there ). There's not even dork disc or reflectors.

The only offence IMO are the aerobars which don't sit well with the other stuff but really, everything else is just essentials for winter commutes.

lawrences

panniers and aero's hmmmmmm. no.

ianbar

i like the bike it looks pretty nice, but yes the bolt ons are ott, saying that....you love it so who gives a damn!....get out and ride and make sure you fly past all the gripers!

look565wong

I like your bike, MountainMonster!

I like the fact it's a "do it all bike"......... Well, maybe not cyclocros!

Enjoy!

Cheers

MountainMonster

Thanks for the words guys. Believe me, I know it's cluttered, but I'm just patiently waiting until I get my dream bike so have to deal with multi purpose monster

petemadoc

What... No saddle bag?

TakeTurns

I reckon a couple of these would really bling up this ride. Call it; a finishing touch.

MountainMonster

Ooooh I havnt had spokey dokes in a while cool!

petemadoc

To be fair it's actually quite a good winter bike/commuting hack.

Apart from the aero bars that is.

smidsy

I see a bike like that and think "I bet he rips past dentists on their Pinarello's".

Ok so it's not going to win any prizes (except perhaps the bike with the most unusual set up award 2013) but I just know the OP is going to be quick..has to be, just think of all the strength he must have to actually get a bike with all that kit bolted onto it to even move :-)

MountainMonster

I don't even bother racing at the TdF, this bike is just too much for the other people to handle with me training on it. So I just let them play around with each for 3 weeks, would be far too easy to win.

Grill

I thought the reason you didn't ride the tour is because you'd have to 86 your aero bars...

jordan_217

Grill wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

Grill wrote:

Training for what? Considering you have pretty much zero drop, the aero bars will actually put you less aero than riding the drops.

Training for my own fun. I enjoy them so that's that

And I enjoy fat girls, but you won't see me posting pictures of the ones I've ridden.

Bustacapp

Bunch of bike snob arseholes in this thread.

Grill

Bustacapp wrote:

Bunch of bike snob arseholes in this thread.

In what way? I think everyone who has posted here likes the bike, it's the bolt-ons we have trouble accepting. Would you go out with a hot girl who happened to have had surgery to add a penis because she "likes the function"?