one tiny tip for a fugly bike. you won't believe how fugly a local mum's bike is

the first bike, obviously. it’s a really horrible bike. possibly the ugliest bike I have ever seen: http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/kensington/bicycles/700c-mountain-bike/1059175608

sorry I can’t do the cut and paste image embedding from my phone… can someone do it for me?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhh MY EYES!!!!!

Its an explosion in a bike factory

WOW that will never be beaten

Shifters location is kindof brilliant, mind.

I kinda like it.

You like Coldplay

Wowzers. I might buy that.

lol the forks are from an entirely different bike and the wheel appears to be a 700c road wheel.
& those plastic pedals should just be banned from sale.

Wow, it’s hard to imagine how to improve on that.

Reminds me of a shark graceful yet stealthy 😀

its a half-fat-rear-gravel-bike-rear-sus-rigid-forked-aero-69er-shopper!

expect Spesh and Trek to be offering them soon, and a budget version from On-One next week

I reckon Pact bikes have got their first project – this but non-urt and with aero forks 🙂

That used to be not too uncommon in the days before STI shifters.

Which unfortunately shows my age 🙁

I’m particularly fond of the way the shark motif is carried over to the dork disc. It’s attention to detail that’s the key to great design.

I’d actually buy that, just so I could ride it round trail center car parks and upset people.

Missing a trick on the paint job….

Is it a cast off from scrapheap challenge?

Something about that piccie screams “fake”, but I can’t nail down what.

(And I don’t mean the very small likelihood of someone capable of building that, wanting to build that.)

(It’s also more than just the question of what’s holding the bike up.)

the stick/kickstand by the back axle is holding it up?

i bet the bike was designed by these 2…

Something about that piccie screams “fake”, but I can’t nail down what.

you can’t handle the truth!

Had a 10 speed Raleigh Record “racer” back in the early 70’s that had the shifters mounted like that.

You’re all wrong. That there is pure art in BSO form, Frankensteinian mechanical sculpture of the highest calibre. It is beautifully observed and executed from the WTF-is-that frame mated to the steel road forks of dubious provenance, right down to the buzzsaw-style spoke-protector and the ergo-grips on the wrong way round. Stunning. I can’t decide if it should be in the Tate Modern or the Design Museum.

genius.

V brake and caliper? Genius!

V brake and caliper? Genius!

Exactly! It should be in the Louvre next to something by Duchamp.

2016 Spesh Epic prototype? needs mirrors, but apart from that magnificent

Do you think those pedals have more grip than my Vaults?

I reckon it is the equivalent of the really ugly houses rightmove have from time to time.

Clever marketing from Gumtree.

What happens if you attempt to buy one of these?

It needs a Gravity Dropper with the rubber boot!

It’s got a circular saw on the cassette which is quite handy.

It’s total genius.

You gotta have some legs to push those cranks from the look of it too, the outer looks bigger than the one on my road bike

Well the ergo grips seem to be round the wrong way, but apart from that I can’t see any problem???

Got all curious and went on a Google hunt for details on the original. Can’t find any reference online for Ubu bikes or Qds, anyone fancy having a go?

Not googling for that while the Govt are after search records. You’d get flagged instantly as a mentalist.

I can’t stop looking at it…….. 😕

It’s like the bicycling equivalent of John Carpenter’s The Thing, as bikes from Kensington are consumed by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the bikes it kills.