A dream bike is a bit like pornography when it becomes reality it is no longer fantasy.
A dream bike is a bit like pornography when it becomes reality it is no longer fantasy.
But wouldn't it be great finding this out for yourself? ;D
I have a dream (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17.msg270514#msg270514) bike. It gleams in a titanium-carbonny kind of way. Trouble is, gleaming is all it can do as the mech hanger broke on its first ride and neither the dealer, the importer or the manufacturer's European representative can source a replacement. I'm getting close to handing the thing back along with a solicitor's letter demanding a refund or replacement.
I have a dream (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17.msg270514#msg270514) bike. It gleams in a titanium-carbonny kind of way. Trouble is, gleaming is all it can do as the mech hanger broke on its first ride and neither the dealer, the importer or the manufacturer's European representative can source a replacement. I'm getting close to handing the thing back along with a solicitor's letter demanding a refund or replacement.
Incredible. Sorry to read that. Surely you are entitled to a replacement frame?
ChrisO - go for it. :)
I think the thing is that it's a Dream Fleet to have in your shed. One Dream Bike will never be enough...
I've acquired my dream bike several times. But then the grass is always greener in the next LBS, and something better always comes out just after I've bought the ultimate.
Are you holding the camera crooked, or is that subsidence?
I've acquired my dream bike several times. But then the grass is always greener in the next LBS, and something better always comes out just after I've bought the ultimate.
Another sort of "dream bike" is finding a unloved but fairly sound machine at the tip. I'd like to get a 80s Merckx or similar this way. Wouldn't that be fab?
Are you holding the camera crooked, or is that subsidence?
Is that (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18815.msg337543#msg337543) better? ;)
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I tend to think the riding's the important thing, rather than the bike itself. So my dream bike is whichever one I happen to be riding :D
as much as i like riding bikes, i kinda dislike how they look (irrelevant of make or price). all bikes (including the nicest) are wobbly, easily damaged, asymmetric, difficult to keep clean etc.
perhaps an unpopular opinion on a cycling forum, but there you go
All bikes are compromises, between strength and lightness, luggage capacity and speed, foldability/storability and ride quality, wheel size and compactness, gear range vs simplicity, abilities to cope with different surfaces, and a hundred other factors. The skill of the designer lies in making the right compromises.
An obvious example is 16" vs 20" folders. Different compromises.