best looking downhill bike of all time!!!

^^ thats a hitman not a racelink, nice though.
New carbon demo.

its either (a) turned into ugliest DH bike of all time (b) people are being sarcastic or (c) you all have abysmal taste!

its Intense M9 or 951. Or Honda

What about the M9 Lotus factory custom job? I’ve got a photo on my PC but can’t load it

😉

Is that demo photoshop gone wrong or is the shock really on one side?

thisisnotaspoon – Member

Is that demo photoshop gone wrong or is the shock really on one side?

Nope, that’s what they look like – asymmetric ftw!

Is that demo photoshop gone wrong or is the shock really on one side?

Shock is in the middle, frame is asymmetric.

Shock is in the middle, frame is asymmetric.

Not quite in the middle – pretty interesting I reckon.

A lot of the posted bikes look a lot nicer in race photos than they do in the marketing side-on catalogue shots.

If Scruff posts any more of that nonsense there’s going to be a UK shortage of mind bleach.

In the interests of bringing the discussion back to the OP, here’s my own example of the best looking downhill bike of all time, admittedly not going very fast, but not suffering weld failures (because they don’t do that any more).

951’s are minging.

It’s a thread mostly of rotters, including the first one.

How small is that Yeti’s rear brake!

Scruff, how can I say this politely?

Erm…. let’s just stick with the “it’s not a bike” argument.

Zerodes are nice…. just not in that colour ^

Lets have something classic and not gopping

In action

Someone has to post this classic, Yeti

Wasn’t Tomac on drops not a ‘DH bike’, he was deliberatley riding it to prove a point that the course was crap.

A bit like riding a world cup round in your Y-fronts* **with pants written accross your chest in marker pen isn’t an example of cool rider gear.

*Clearly wasn’t a Rock Shox rider
**Thankfully this pre-dated the internet containing everything (2005 ish?) and doesn’t appear to have vbeen scanned.

And it rides bloody lot better than the rider.

Thankfully this pre-dated the internet containing everything (2005 ish?) and doesn’t appear to have vbeen scanned.

Nothing, is pre-internet.

Zerodes look like the kind of “concept bike” that car companies come up with. Might ride great, but not very pleasing to my eye.

Iolo – that Demo wins best DH front triangle, such a shame about the rear end.

Tomac was riding drops as he was on the 7-Eleven road team that year and wanted to keep the same position on all bikes (allegedly). He was last in Paris-Roubaix the same year I believe.

All these ugly bikes and still no Ellsworths

Leaf-blower/Lahar ftw in the ugly bike thread!

The new demo 8 with ohlins are very nice indeed- want one.

Evil undead looks nice and can be built to a silly light weight but flawed!

Can’t believe no one’s posted a Turner DHR up yet in ano orange or green.

Intense 951 are decent i’m pretty sure as partial to a bit of Intense.

All day long…

cookeaa – Member

Ha! That’s mine. Cheers cookeaa

A great bike though I’d contest it’s not great looking, I’d much prefer a Sunday but you can’t beat the steel for longevity. Maybe a SuperCo Silencer is the way forward?

When you see them all milling about the bottom of the bike park the new Demo looks like it’s from another planet compared to anything else.

Braaaaaap:

Or in the same vein as Scruff (ha!):

After looking at all the submissions it was that Intense that was posted on the first page (951 or something?) until the Millyard racing, homemade bike cropped up. It’s brilliant in pretty much every way and I love the way it looks.
Thread closed (not, but I always wanted to post that).

What’s the story behind Chris Ball riding in his pants?

timmys – Member
What’s the story behind Chris Ball riding in his pants?

I forget where or when but it was a protest at the standard of a World Cup track somewhere. Kind of ironic that he went on to become a UCI delegate. Maybe it’s what got him noticed.

Did he not end up getting disqualified for not having sleeves?

There’s a fine history of things like this in downhill… At some races, you must wear elbow pads. No definition of what qualifies as an elbow pad, no CE requirement. Leads to this:

SOmeone else was going to wear an elastoplast on each elbow- I don’t know if that passed tech

Or, mandatory spine protectors at Leogang

(my CE back protector wouldn’t be legal as it’s not rigid. Bit of cardboard? Go for it)

I used to stare at my Shocker for unhealthy periods of time….

I’m not usually that keen on white bikes (despite owning one) but that Shocker is mint. Borrowed one with a pair of 888s up front from a mate and took it to Cwmcarn for a day some years back. Absolute monster of a bike, let go of the brakes, point it vaguely in the right direction and it just steamrollered the whole track.

That black yeti on page 2 also looks bob on

The shocker looks great, then I start looking at the seattube, and all the gubbins around the BB… Certainly not ugly like practically everything else in this thread, but not that pretty either