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  • Bicycle fashion – quick (candid) poll
  • Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    Do you:

    A. Like riding a bicycle and enjoy self too much to mince about wondering who is watching?

    Or

    B. Enjoy mincing about wondering who is watching, including when on a bicycle?

    Bonus Q – are your purchases influenced by A or B?

    I’m strictly A A. No mincing. If it’s shiny all the better, but only because *I* like polishing shine and seeing the sun on it when riding. Not for some peer-influenced poncense! Gottit!?

    razorrazoo
    Full Member

    A.

    And for the bonus, I don’t ride a carbon Santa Cruz and my kit is not colour co-ordinated. So A again. (but I do like my bike to look nice for my own benefit)

    bikeneil
    Free Member

    No idea what you are on about. I just ride me bike.

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    scaredypants
    Full Member

    AA

    my bikes have really ugly features like mudguards with milkbottle extension flaps and too-long steerers with old tennis balls covering the sticky-uppy bits

    it does slightly amuse me that they’re so fugly – could that be a B ?

    MSP
    Full Member

    If you start a thread about it, then you are 100% B.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    That

    zippykona
    Full Member

    Judge for yourself, my bike.

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    If you start a thread about it, then you are 100% B.

    Lol, and that’s science folks.

    It was actually the ‘saddlebag’ thread that set me thinking…and then the more I thought the more it dawned on me that PONCE ABOUNDS THESE DAYS!

    daniel_owen_uk
    Free Member

    zippykona

    Isn’t that rotor on back to front?

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    That’s the correct way. Let’s see some photos of yours….

    daniel_owen_uk
    Free Member

    Don’t have saw tooth rotors.

    Just looked odd, apologies.

    thepurist
    Full Member

    Fact: (almost) nobody looks good on a bike.

    Fact: If you’re quick enough the bike doesn’t matter(*)

    Fact: (almost) nobody cares what you ride or wear(*)

    (*) Unless you’re in an old school roadie club

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    My bikes are functional and I care more about how they ride than how they look

    Scapegoat
    Full Member

    Isn’t that rotor on back to front?

    Superstar Saw rotors mount facing that way, the opposite to Hope

    aracer
    Free Member

    I ride a unicycle. I don’t think anybody notices what the unicycle looks like.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    razorrazoo – Member
    A.

    And for the bonus, I don’t ride a carbon Santa Cruz and my kit is not colour co-ordinated. So A again.
    Along with starting a thread about it telling up that you think it’s better that you don’t ride something moves you into the B camp.

    I don’t care but as I had the chance to build a bike from the frame up from now stuff I did take some time to match stuff up.

    BigDummy
    Free Member

    Most things that work alright, look alright.

    It is therefore perfectly easy to have a bike and gear that (1) works really well* and (2) looks good**.

    * YMMV
    ** IMHO

    😀

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