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    #542
    seany15
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭seany15


    kenmc wrote: »
    Thats a unicycle with stabilizers.

    it's unconventional. But not ugly.


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    #543
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Two horizontal top tubes! I'm in love.


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    #544
    Scrappy600
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Scrappy600


    Lumen wrote: »
    Two horizontal top tubes! I'm in love.

    oh god, ye're all way further gone than i thought, no saving you!!


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    #545
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    tumblr_n2899mf7yc1r4mfcxo1_500.jpg


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    #546
    rollingscone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Oscar Gateaux wrote: »
    tumblr_n2899mf7yc1r4mfcxo1_500.jpg

    Tell me that this is a post accident photo.


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    #547
    inc21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭inc21


    photoshop gone bad


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    #548
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    What have they done at the seat-stay and seat -tube junction?

    10383538_881240955237452_8947303036160090002_n.jpg?oh=b104944c28e3a18b03eaf5269c66330f&oe=54539DFE


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    #549
    Scrappy600
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Scrappy600


    Raam wrote: »
    What have they done at the seat-stay and seat -

    Doesn't someone on here's daughter/wife/partner have one of those? Remember it being posted before I think. It's different therefore I like it.....


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    #550
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    More crimes against seat tube junctions.

    Lapierre%20Pulsium%20detail%201.jpg

    ...and forks.

    Lapierre%20Pulsium%20detail%202.jpg

    Lapierre Pulsium 2015
    http://road.cc/content/news/124572-sneak-peek-lapierre-2015


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    #551
    brownian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭brownian


    TBH, with a name like Pulsium, it's already struggling. That white hub is also rather nasty.


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    #552
    seany15
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭seany15


    I kind of like the forks.....


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    #553
    check_six
    Registered Users Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    seany15 wrote: »
    I kind of like the forks.....

    Well, maybe in a "I've just crashed the bike, but the forks don't look like they have cracked all the way through, and I should just be able to roll home if I take it easy" kind of way? But otherwise, no.


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    #554
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    brownian wrote: »
    TBH, with a name like Pulsium
    They should have called it the Motilium :pac:


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    #555
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Jesus H Christ, do they not do some kind of sanity test on these things before releasing them?


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    #556
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 20,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Raam wrote: »
    Jesus H Christ, do they not do some kind of sanity test on these things before releasing them?

    I'm sure they have a raft of data to to show this setup is better objectively. Tis fierce ugly though.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #557
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    brownian wrote: »
    TBH, with a name like Pulsium, it's already struggling. That white hub is also rather nasty.
    Does it have a single white spoke?


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    #558
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Brian? wrote: »
    I'm sure they have a raft of data to to show this setup is better objectively.
    I find your faith disturbing.

    I would guess that some marketing bod instructed the designers to come up with something "impactful" and then spun some limp technical justification for the results.

    For instance: most aero bikes have been nowhere near a wind tunnel, but they still claim the designs are faster. The objective is to make something which looks fast.


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    #559
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Lumen wrote: »
    Two horizontal top tubes! I'm in love.

    That's a towel warmer not a bike.


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    #560
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Scrappy600 wrote: »
    Doesn't someone on here's daughter/wife/partner have one of those? Remember it being posted before I think. It's different therefore I like it.....

    Mel Spath. Raam posted it before.


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    #561
    Scrappy600
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭Scrappy600


    Oryx wrote: »
    Does it have a single white spoke?

    A lot of wheelsets have, as far as im aware it indicates where the valve is located, may have another function but thats the only function i know it serves.....


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    #562
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Scrappy600 wrote: »
    A lot of wheelsets have, as far as im aware it indicates where the valve is located, may have another function but thats the only function i know it serves.....
    I find that the valve does a good job of indicating where the valve is located.

    I think it's a bit like Michael Jackson's white glove. Slightly try-hard and not something I want near my nipples.


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    #563
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 20,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Lumen wrote: »
    I find your faith disturbing.

    I would guess that some marketing bod instructed the designers to come up with something "impactful" and then spun some limp technical justification for the results.

    For instance: most aero bikes have been nowhere near a wind tunnel, but they still claim the designs are faster. The objective is to make something which looks fast.

    I understand your point. But no way would they make a bike look that ugly without some sort of reason, misguided or not.

    It's the good people at Pinarello I have serious issues with.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #564
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Mel Spath. Raam posted it before.

    She has this one. It is different. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90371000&postcount=6912


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    #565
    Idleater
    Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Is it the new version? Same photo location.


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    #566
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Idleater wrote: »
    Is it the new version? Same photo location.

    Mel's is the Massive Attack.

    The ugly one is the Foo Fighter.

    It says it on the bleedin' frames!


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    #567
    Idleater
    Registered Users Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Raam wrote: »
    Mel's is the ...!

    Yeah, I know that, I just wondered given the identical photo location and not overly popular frame if it was the same owner with next year's race bike.


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    #568
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Idleater wrote: »
    Yeah, I know that, I just wondered given the identical photo location and not overly popular frame if it was the same owner with next year's race bike.

    Ah right. Photos come from WindyMilla themselves.


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    #569
    Plastik
    Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Plastik


    I thought stuff like this only happened on the internet. But I saw it with my own eyes this morning!

    88A7E5A5-FEF3-4C72-B98F-AED96252EAF3_zpsoicdmkv2.jpg


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    #570
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    Plastik wrote: »
    I thought stuff like this only happened on the internet. But I saw it with my own eyes this morning!

    88A7E5A5-FEF3-4C72-B98F-AED96252EAF3_zpsoicdmkv2.jpg

    Bikefitter made him do it :D


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    #571
    rollingscone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    I'm going to hold back my vomit because something that extreme surely has to be to do with health issues :(


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