Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

[grey-beard]

No, No and No, yet here we are.

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How to make a road bike cool.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

How to make a road bike cool.

 

[novocaine]

No, No and No, yet here we are.

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Is this where hipster go to rest? (looking at the other might steads that are pulled up too)
also, obligatory "slack chain" quote.

also, 2x1 gearing (a bit like 1x, but backwards)

 

[moonlite]

Is this where hipster go to rest? (looking at the other might steads that are pulled up too)
also, obligatory "slack chain" quote.

also, 2x1 gearing (a bit like 1x, but backwards)

A frame expensively developed to be as aero as possible, skilfully adapted with a riding position that negates any hope of achieving aerodynamic efficiency. All done in a very knowing, self-conscious way -- "I know but I don't care."

 

[novocaine]

A frame expensively developed to be as aero as possible, skilfully adapted with a riding position that negates any hope of achieving aerodynamic efficiency. All done in a very knowing, self-conscious way -- "I know but I don't care."

or, I like that one, it's red and black, but I need to fit in with the others.

 

[Imlach]

Is this where hipster go to rest? (looking at the other might steads that are pulled up too)
also, obligatory "slack chain" quote.

also, 2x1 gearing (a bit like 1x, but backwards)

Imagine the chain slack when he slips it into the smaller front sprocket

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The future is not stupid. Bigger is always better. Imagine the plow on a 39er

Nimble, light steering, playful

 

[Imlach]

Flat bar and some knobbies?

9 inch risers and balloon tyres

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Baha sorry I edited that one out from under you, @Imlach

 

[Woz]

How to make a road bike cool.

I actually had a nightmare over this last night.

I dreamt I was the Cervelo design and production engineer. A zillion hours spent studying mechanical engineering, researching materials, shapes, production technics, making budgets and renting hours in aerospace wind tunnels, engaging with top athletes for feedback, doing stress tests with all the latest electronic measurement transducers and being there when a great olympic time trailist rode it to victory.

Then I see it on the street. I wonder what the actual fcuk, how it could end up on LFGSS with people giving opinions how to make it "Rad, Sick and Far Out". My life work feels immediately destroyed.