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  • #1052
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    In fairness they're both hideous. Tri bars have never improved any bike I've ever seen.


  • #1053
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Ooohhh, controversial! But it is here with good reason.

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  • #1054
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Thats not ugly


  • #1055
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Oryx wrote: »
    Thats not ugly

    I know, but I had to put it in here. Sorry. It's a shift from the normal ugly but I had to brake the rule on that one.


  • #1056
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    It aint the best looking, but throwing it in here seems a bit harsh. Mind you, I don't like red and black as a color combo.


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  • #1057
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    It aint the best looking, but throwing it in here seems a bit harsh. Mind you, I don't like red and black as a color combo.

    You wouldn't believer how hard it was to post it here.


  • #1058
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    Raam wrote: »
    You wouldn't believer how hard it was to post it here.

    Extra ugly points for bravery. :pac:


  • #1059
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    OleRodrigo wrote: »
    Extra ugly points for bravery. :pac:

    Maybe I am just an old crank.


  • #1060
    StevieGriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭StevieGriff


    Raam wrote: »
    I know, but I had to put it in here. Sorry. It's a shift from the normal ugly but I had to brake the rule on that one.
    It's rank. In fact the majority of Colnago's are. It's just very uncool to not like them. #controversial


  • #1061
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Oh come on! Shift? Brake? Believer? Crank? Surely someone else has seen it?


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  • #1062
    dave_o_brien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭dave_o_brien


    Raam wrote: »
    Oh come on! Shift? Brake? Believer? Crank? Surely someone else has seen it?

    They're gonna derail your point. My opinion matches yours, unlike some things.


  • #1063
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    dave_o_brien wrote: »
    They're gonna derail your point. My opinion matches yours, unlike some things.

    You and me: our cogs mesh.


  • #1064
    dave_o_brien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭dave_o_brien


    Raam wrote: »
    You and me: our cogs mesh.

    I'm so confused by it. Why have you shown this to me? Why?

    That shifter "solution" is like a wet handshake. So disturbing....


  • #1065
    onthefringe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭onthefringe


    Raam wrote: »
    Oh come on! Shift? Brake? Believer? Crank? Surely someone else has seen it?

    Homemade shifters?????


  • #1066
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,278 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Di2 on a frame with mechanical cable guides doesn't look the best.


  • #1067
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


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    No respect for design, none.


  • #1068
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


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  • #1069
    dragratchet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭dragratchet


    OldBean wrote: »
    No respect for design, none.

    no respect for ones genitalia either with that saddle angle :eek:


  • #1070
    onthefringe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭onthefringe


    With respect to that design....cervelo may be as aero as it gets but they truly belong in this thread... All of em bar the R3 & R5 are dogs to look at no matter how fast they are...


  • #1071
    Thud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭Thud


    onthefringe wrote: »
    With respect to that design....cervelo may be as aero as it gets but they truly belong in this thread... All of em bar the R3 & R5 are dogs to look at no matter how fast they are...

    I think cube copied that saddle post for the bike on the previous page


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  • #1072
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Looks like one of those old concor saddles. There was a fad around 20-30 years ago for having them in garish colours and patterns. In bad taste then, and still in bad taste.
    The clown's handlebars from a circus bike is what really sets this machine apart though :eek:


  • #1073
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    When I look at that cervelo, I find myself checking the locks, hoping they're crap. Because if someone stole it, they could set it free, like Black Beauty escaping a cruel master. Give it back its real handlebars, and its dignity.


  • #1074
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    Raam wrote: »
    Oh come on! Shift? Brake? Believer? Crank? Surely someone else has seen it?

    Ok, just for us slower kids down the back...

    You don't like this bike because it has been switched to electronic derailleurs and they replaced the original brake/gear levers to basic brake levers and glued the electronic shifter buttons to the back of the levers? It's not elegant, but hardly overtly ugly, surely?

    I dunno, it's a bit like one of those "When you see it" pictures that you stare at for ages, then you spot a pair of creepy eyes staring out from a cardboard box or behind a couch or something, and think to yourself "That's it??". Maybe I just prefer my bike horror to be a little more in your face, the Cervelo there does that nicely. Everything seems normal, not even any creepy music, then... Blaarrrgh! A three headed slimefreak leaps out and eats you!

    So what's wrong with the crank again?


  • #1075
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    Oryx wrote: »
    When I look at that cervelo, I find myself checking the locks, hoping they're crap. Because if someone stole it, they could set it free, like Black Beauty escaping a cruel master. Give it back its real handlebars, and its dignity.

    It's one of those bikes that I hope was stolen by some aesthetically blind scumbag in the first place, and somebody didn't go spending good money on a frame to do that to it.


  • #1076
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Oryx wrote: »
    When I look at that cervelo, I find myself checking the locks, hoping they're crap. Because if someone stole it, they could set it free, like Black Beauty escaping a cruel master. Give it back its real handlebars, and its dignity.

    I wonder did some poor chap use these god awful handlebars as the original ones were broke. That's what I am hoping for anyway.


  • #1077
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    check_six wrote: »
    Ok, just for us slower kids down the back...

    You don't like this bike because it has been switched to electronic derailleurs and they replaced the original brake/gear levers to basic brake levers and glued the electronic shifter buttons to the back of the levers? It's not elegant, but hardly overtly ugly, surely?

    I dunno, it's a bit like one of those "When you see it" pictures that you stare at for ages, then you spot a pair of creepy eyes staring out from a cardboard box or behind a couch or something, and think to yourself "That's it??". Maybe I just prefer my bike horror to be a little more in your face, the Cervelo there does that nicely. Everything seems normal, not even any creepy music, then... Blaarrrgh! A three headed slimefreak leaps out and eats you!

    So what's wrong with the crank again?

    The frame is nice, I'd love one. It's the dirty mix of components which turns me off. Campag shifters with Dura Ace Di2 mechs. I just ask myself why bother to fudge something like that. Fine for that person, they can do as they please. It's just not for me.


  • #1078
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,278 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Cannondale Slate 2016.

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  • #1079
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,411 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i like that.


  • #1080
    Thud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭Thud


    Lumen wrote: »
    Cannondale Slate 2016.



    Why?
    2016-Cannondale-Slate-gravel-road-bike-lefty-04-600x400.jpg

    http://www.bikerumor.com/2015/07/01/cannondale-slate-gravel-road-bike-ready-to-hit-the-dirt-details-actual-weights/


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  • #1081
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    I saw a one fork suspension bike like that but a hybrid at Molls Gap two mornings ago. Thought it was a Giant. Shudda taken a pic - it deserved to go here. Guy on it was using it as a fully loaded tourer in what was a monsoon. That got him some kudos despite the ugliness.


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