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rogerzilla

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The fugly bike thread
« on: 14 February, 2010, 06:17:30 pm »
Can be your own or one you found on the Internet or in Real LifeTM.  Points are awarded for vile frame/saddle/tyre/rim colours, weird geometry, a ludicrous number of headset spacers, untrimmed steerer tubes, wrong-sized wheels, non-coordinated bar tape, excessively chopped bars, seriously slack chains and silly or badly-fitted accessories.

Inspired by one of the bikes in the "members' bikes" thread, but I'm not saying which  :P

To kick things off, here are a few from FGG.  The blue-and-gold one at least suggests some kind of strategy, but the top one is the sort of thing a stoned magpie would ride.  The saddle is exceptionally horrid.

Fixed Gear Gallery :: as seen in Tokyo

Oh, and Velocity Deep Vs are crap, even once you've scraped off that nasty yellow sticker.  They have no eyelets and no lateral stiffness.
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Rhys W

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #1 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:26:31 pm »
Most of the ones I see here are repulsive - compact frames, anatomic bars pointing upwards, stems pointing upwards with loads of spacers (above or below), overstuffed enormous saddle bags, horrible Shimano Sexually Transmitted Infections mounted way too high... and worst of all - a bloody Brooks saddle on anything more recent than 1950.
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MSeries

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #2 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:30:26 pm »
Quote from: Rhys W on 14 February, 2010, 06:26:31 pm
Most of the ones I see here are repulsive - compact frames, anatomic bars pointing upwards, stems pointing upwards with loads of spacers (above or below), overstuffed enormous saddle bags, horrible Shimano Sexually Transmitted Infections mounted way too high... and worst of all - a bloody Brooks saddle on anything more recent than 1950.

on here ? on yACF ?

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Polar Bear

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #3 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:35:22 pm »
Quote from: Rhys W on 14 February, 2010, 06:26:31 pm
Most of the ones I see here are repulsive - compact frames, anatomic bars pointing upwards, stems pointing upwards with loads of spacers (above or below), overstuffed enormous saddle bags, horrible Shimano Sexually Transmitted Infections mounted way too high... and worst of all - a bloody Brooks saddle on anything more recent than 1950.

 ;D  ;D  ;D   :-[  :-[  :-[   :thumbsup:
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dasmoth

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #4 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:35:35 pm »
I just don't get the spacer-hate...

Next, people will be coming out and saying they prefer quill stems <shudder>.
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MSeries

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #5 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:36:39 pm »
Quote from: dasmoth on 14 February, 2010, 06:35:35 pm
I just don't get the spacer-hate...

Next, people will be coming out and saying they prefer quill stems <shudder>.

yup
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rogerzilla

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #6 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:39:07 pm »
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rogerzilla

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #7 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:40:57 pm »
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stems pointing upwards with loads of spacers (above or below)



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compact frames...stems pointing upwards with loads of spacers (above or below), overstuffed enormous saddle bags... and worst of all - a bloody Brooks saddle on anything more recent than 1950.



Bastards  :'(
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clarion

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #8 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:44:07 pm »
Quote from: dasmoth on 14 February, 2010, 06:35:35 pm
I just don't get the spacer-hate...

Next, people will be coming out and saying they prefer quill stems <shudder>.

I prefer quill stems. :thumbsup:
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Tewdric

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #9 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:45:05 pm »
Quote from: MSeries on 14 February, 2010, 06:36:39 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 14 February, 2010, 06:35:35 pm
I just don't get the spacer-hate...

Next, people will be coming out and saying they prefer quill stems <shudder>.

yup

Me too - I'm looking forward to N+1 which is going to have a 1" threaded steerer!  :thumbsup:
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Zoidburg

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #10 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:45:19 pm »
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clarion

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #11 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:48:10 pm »
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Polar Bear

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #12 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:48:53 pm »
Quote from: clarion on 14 February, 2010, 06:44:07 pm
Quote from: dasmoth on 14 February, 2010, 06:35:35 pm
I just don't get the spacer-hate...

Next, people will be coming out and saying they prefer quill stems <shudder>.

I prefer quill stems. :thumbsup:

Yes, but you are being rehabilitated, slowly!   ;)
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Zoidburg

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #13 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:50:18 pm »
Tearing my eyes out at the incongrous mixture of frame and wheelset.

Fixed Gear Gallery :: Matt Cleary's Kojima. Sydney Australia

 :facepalm:
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clarion

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #14 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:52:53 pm »
That's a quill stem I don't like!
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rogerzilla

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #15 on: 14 February, 2010, 06:53:22 pm »
Quote from: Zoidburg on 14 February, 2010, 06:50:18 pm
Tearing my eyes out at the incongrous mixture of frame and wheelset.

Fixed Gear Gallery :: Matt Cleary's Kojima. Sydney Australia

 :facepalm:
I got a 23.5" bike for my 14th birthday, when I was about 5' tall .  My parents thought I would grow into it, but I never achieved the necessary 6'3".
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rdaviesb

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #16 on: 14 February, 2010, 07:01:11 pm »
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Zoidburg

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #17 on: 14 February, 2010, 07:02:33 pm »
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MSeries

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #18 on: 14 February, 2010, 07:14:48 pm »
Quote from: clarion on 14 February, 2010, 06:52:53 pm
That's a quill stem I don't like!

Looks  a bit like the Kalloy stem I flogged for £5 to a Fixed rider in Leeds week before last

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rogerzilla

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #19 on: 15 February, 2010, 08:35:41 pm »
http://www.fixiefiend.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ae2809ac2a6ac692e280b9ac692c2bcae2809ac2b31.jpg

Apart from the random mix of must-have fashionista dayglo colours, it only has a REAR brake.
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Fab Foodie

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #20 on: 15 February, 2010, 11:49:11 pm »
Quote from: rdaviesb on 14 February, 2010, 07:01:11 pm
Truly horrible



Those bikes need to be taken into care and the owner arrested.
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Zoidburg

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #21 on: 16 February, 2010, 11:57:37 am »
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vorsprung

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #22 on: 16 February, 2010, 12:09:19 pm »
Surprised noone has linked this yet

T h o r n C y c l e s L t d.
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Zoidburg

Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #23 on: 16 February, 2010, 12:13:17 pm »
Quote from: vorsprung on 16 February, 2010, 12:09:19 pm
Surprised noone has linked this yet

T h o r n C y c l e s L t d.
But they are "custom" made!.

In China.

In all of two top tube lengths.

For the price of UK handbuild.
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clarion

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Re: The fugly bike thread
« Reply #24 on: 16 February, 2010, 12:33:44 pm »
Ah, but C+ like them.

That'll be the C+ that carries a double page ad every issue and reviews every Thorn that comes out...
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