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  • 13-11-2013 01:02AM
    #1
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭


    Always hated this one. You'd almost expect it to transform into Darth Vader.

    Darth Vader in a man bra, prone to falling over, that is.

    2014-Complete_01-1_Viper_disk.jpg
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  • #2
    AstraMonti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,704 ✭✭✭AstraMonti


    This thread has to have the classic:

    world%27s%2Bgreatest%2Btrek.jpg

    and.. another one

    708403.jpg


  • #3
    snollup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭snollup


    I have a feeling that we will be seeing lots of TT bikes here!


  • #4
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    U...G...L...Y...
    they aint got no alibi,
    they ugly.

    Those disk brakes hurt my eyes.
    Please let this be a fad that passes quickly without causing too many "casualties".....








    (fast forward two years to me trying to delete this post before changing my mind and buying a set because on the road their braking power is superior and safety is etc etc..........)


  • #5
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    ror_74 wrote: »
    Always hated this one. You'd almost expect it to transform into Darth Vader.

    Darth Vader in a man bra, prone to falling over, that is.

    2014-Complete_01-1_Viper_disk.jpg

    What's with the random numbers on the frame?


  • #6
    check_six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    thebouldwhacker wrote: »
    U...G...L...Y...
    they aint got no alibi,
    they ugly.

    Those disk brakes hurt my eyes.
    Please let this be a fad that passes quickly without causing too many "casualties".....








    (fast forward two years to me trying to delete this post before changing my mind and buying a set because on the road their braking power is superior and safety is etc etc..........)

    Re: the disc brakes

    Ettore Bugatti was once asked why he put such a poor braking system on his sports cars. He replied that he built his cars to go, not to stop!

    The disc brakes look peculiar on a bike that has been optimised to be aerodynamic, especially since they won't get much heavy use in a TT, or am I wrong about that?


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  • #7
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Nope.

    Parlee-ESX-aero-road-bike01.jpg

    From here: http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/11/14/all-new-parlee-esx-aero-road-bike-slips-into-reality-ttir-tri-bike-updated/


  • #8
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 23,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Raam wrote: »
    Nope.

    Parlee-ESX-aero-road-bike01.jpg

    From here: http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/11/14/all-new-parlee-esx-aero-road-bike-slips-into-reality-ttir-tri-bike-updated/


    I don't think that's an ugly bike. It's not a looker either though. Those wheels are very nice though.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • #9
    Scrappy600
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Scrappy600


    image_zps4fc17c3d.jpg

    image_zpsd0458043.jpg

    image_zps827842a2.jpg

    image_zpsf8c042e7.jpg

    image_zps423988e5.jpg


  • #10
    pointer28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭pointer28


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    What's with the random numbers on the frame?

    Read somewhere its the geometry angles.


  • #11
    Ole Rodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    What's with the random numbers on the frame?

    No idea. Proof of its ugliness?

    You'd expect to find this in a skip outside Look's R&D:

    675light-carbonwhite-ultegra-americanclassicargent_1.jpg


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  • #12
    lizzylad84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭lizzylad84


    Scrappy600 wrote: »
    image_zps4fc17c3d.jpg

    image_zpsd0458043.jpg

    image_zps827842a2.jpg

    image_zpsf8c042e7.jpg

    image_zps423988e5.jpg

    ewwwwwww......i think i just threw up a bit in my mouth


  • #13
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,480 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    100_4959.jpg


  • #14
    T-Maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    ^^^Might not be bad in black though.


  • #15
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Brian? wrote: »
    I don't think that's an ugly bike. It's not a looker either though. Those wheels are very nice though.

    It's the funky bit on the top and down tubes which ruin it for me.


  • #16
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    This, not pretty, but probably very collectable.

    280657.jpg


  • #17
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    It burns! It Burns!


  • #18
    flying11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭flying11


    ror_74 wrote: »
    No idea. Proof of its ugliness?

    You'd expect to find this in a skip outside Look's R&D:

    675light-carbonwhite-ultegra-americanclassicargent_1.jpg
    i gotta say, i disagree with you on this one. To my eye the look 675 is gorgeous (especially in red white and black ---> here ). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder i suppose :pac:


  • #19
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    flying11 wrote: »
    i gotta say, i disagree with you on this one. To my eye the look 675 is gorgeous (especially in red white and black ---> here ). Beauty is in the eye of the beholder i suppose :pac:

    I vote for the skip also on that one.


  • #20
    J Madone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭J Madone


    Dare I ask what type of machines these beauty experts have???


  • #21
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    J Madone wrote: »
    Dare I ask what type of machines these beauty experts have???

    Wilier Cento Uno is my latest. Drive side fail, but I was only taking the pic for the weight.


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  • #22
    J Madone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭J Madone


    Raam wrote: »
    Wilier Cento Uno is my latest. Drive side fail, but I was only taking the pic for the weight.

    Very nice


  • #23
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Raam wrote: »
    I vote for the skip also on that one.

    I'm with Raam on this one and this one is mine...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82650347&postcount=5126


  • #24
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Seriously fugly

    804883d1370228949-ugly-bike-eyesore-wtf-thread-trek.jpg


  • #25
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Seriously fugly

    804883d1370228949-ugly-bike-eyesore-wtf-thread-trek.jpg

    Probably very collectable though. By the bin men! :P


  • #26
    outfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭outfox


    675light-carbonwhite-ultegra-americanclassicargent_1.jpg
    You might find this hard to believe, but I met a guy who has one of these, and he had to put a riser on the stem:eek: Turned a beauty into a fugly in one swipe. Bike cost him about 4000 eruo I think. Riser cost about 20 euro.


  • #27
    Glass Prison 1214
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Glass Prison 1214


    IM_fixie2.jpg


  • #28
    outfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭outfox


    What's the thing sticking up from the handlebars? Some kind of spike, just to keep the rider focussed??


  • #29
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    outfox wrote: »
    What's the thing sticking up from the handlebars? Some kind of spike, just to keep the rider focussed??

    Pipe from the speedfil water bottle.


  • #30
    Glass Prison 1214
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Glass Prison 1214


    Johnny Hoogerland's awful crash at the tour
    tour-de-france-johnny-hoogerland-crash-pic-reuters-709105660-141021.jpg

    Electric bikes(eewww)
    Electric-Bicycle-UNK-936Z-.jpg


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  • #31
    mahoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 460 ✭✭mahoo


    I find this thread deeply deeply disturbing ... the bikes that is. they're worse than jonny hoogerlands ass


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