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Frankenbike sighting.

  • 07-12-2012 10:44am
    #1
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭


    This encounter moved me sufficiently to feel the need to share it here.

    Yesterday, at the end of Wexford street a man passed on a nightmarish contraption of perverse beauty...an old steel MTB frame, with drops featuring those weird shifters that protrude from the ends of the drops facing backwards, fat slicks and full mudguards.

    The MTB frame sill had some eye scarring 1990s style faux graffitti lettering on it to add to the disorienting effect.

    Has anyone else encountered this strange beast?


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  • #2
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Plenty of steel framed 26" touring bikes with dropped bars and bar end shifters.

    Youman might have just DIY'd a tourer for himself and put the less nobbly tyres on it for commuting.


  • #3
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    rollingscone wrote: »
    with drops featuring those weird shifters that protrude from the ends of the drops facing backwards,

    I used to use this setup, not even sure it counts as backwards on the drops.


  • #4
    happytramp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭happytramp


    €10 for the first photo.


  • #5
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Yeah, I ride one with bar end shifters. Smooth as butter.

    P1020263.jpg


  • #6
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Planet X wrote: »
    Yeah, I ride one with bar end shifters. Smooth as butter.

    P1020263.jpg

    lovely looking bike. that 26" or 700c?


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  • #7
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    26" 52cm.


  • #8
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Planet X wrote: »
    26" 52cm.

    Buy it whole or build it yourself?
    I see Cyclebike are seeling them now.

    Would love one myself.


  • #9
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Off the peg. Cyclebike. ;)


  • #10
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Planet X wrote: »
    Yeah, I ride one with bar end shifters. Smooth as butter.

    P1020263.jpg

    I see the dog's not sure about them...


  • #11
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    As you can see the Surly is not hideous. If I had money and a more understanding wife...


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  • #12
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Fairly hideous when I bought it.......


    P1020256.jpg


  • #13
    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    I really need to invest in a brooks saddle and some tape. Lovely.


  • #14
    route66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭route66


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    I see the dog's not sure about them...

    Nice bike, but are the mudguards for bigger wheels?


  • #15
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Nah, the mudguards are 55mm. It can fit 65mm guards.

    Those tyres are stock 1.5".
    I now have 1.75" on.
    I can go up to 2.1" with mudguards.


  • #16
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    P1020564.jpg


  • #17
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Planet X wrote: »
    Nah, the mudguards are 55mm. It can fit 65mm guards.

    Those tyres are stock 1.5".
    I now have 1.75" on.
    I can go up to 2.1" with mudguards.


    As they are, mud is never going to get stuck on them too :)


  • #18
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    P X, those tomatoes are looking well, where the hell did you get the weather for them :P


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