but if Giant isn't cool at least it's doing cool things.
I got a trance X5 on the ctw scheme and thought I'd get laughed at cos everyone would have one. I haven't seen one Trance X yet other than mine and I've been to a fair few places. They do look a bit 'different' but it's kind of cool that Giant have put functionality ahead of looks and created something quite interesting.
Who's cooler, some guy on a fully custom ultra exclusive bike or the guy on the mass produced (ie spesh) who rides rings around him?
When I was younger, I used to worry about what was cool, about what other people thought. I wanted to be like them, to be liked. Which is what cool is about. It's about what your peer group thinks. People that you think are better than you. It's about something that you can attain that'll make you better. Some people still care about what is cool. I'd rather just be me 
I passionately hate with a demented vengeance whatever Hora's presently riding
Coming from the lad riding an Intense in that fashionable blue 
Now Kinesis must be niche/cool as no one has mentioned it 
Skids are cool
I'm with Jedi on this. The coolest thing I saw recently was someone passing me on the 8% mountain climb near here on an 80s road bike with tan walls wearing old trainers.
I own two Specialised and they are both pretty cool.
My custom Ti, custom parts, Rohloff, factory special tyred, incredibly expensive hardtail is the most uncool thing ever because only true bikegeeks know what it is; which kinda defeats the point.
My coolest bike is a Brompton - the chicks dig it.
SL2-X Clear by Flamejob, on Flickr
if you buy a bike because its perceived as cool you're on a slippery slope to douchebagness
latfh!
Surfing is cool if done properly (99% of surfers just pretend)
Cycling isn't but it's lots of fun.
End of
Jens Voight likes Terry Pratchett - Thats cool (to me) (me liking Terry Pratchett is probably perceives as uncool, but hey...)
Who the hell is that emo geek?
The trouble is, motor vehicles make bicycles look really lame.
A roadie in full power ranger gear on a carbon wonder bike is still slower than a chav on a moped.
Back in the pre-steam, hobby horse days though- you'd be the tits on toast on your futuristic velocipede
the title says it all - 'perception' as opposed to reality. there is no reality of cool as it's an opinion that is then reacted against or followed, etc etc
personally, i think anyone that understands a bike enough to ride if for design / fit / handling instead of brand image is, well not cool, but credible and justified. cool is a BS idea really.
for that reason there are treks, speshs and giants that i class as equally worthy as an indy fab ti hardtail or a custom rourke road bike.
and tom ritchey is a dude, fact )
I would do a quote but CBA. Realman - what?
Singlespeed OK cool
29er Cool
Get it made from plastic by specialized with a Stumpjumper lable on it and you just completely undo the 2 cools you did have! 
Off topic, sorta...
Regardless of whether or not they are "cool" BMWs are great cars. Drivers cars. They are built for the driving experience first, the luxury thing 2nd. Sure some have small engines, but they all share the same class chassis. And anything with a 2.3 ltr engine and above is gonna be a lot of fun. Same thing can be said for the Audi's of this world.
You get a lot of folk who don't seem to have much clue about cars who instantly label some of the best drivers cars in the world as poseurs cars, hair dressers cars, etc. Then quite happily brandish the keys to their Kia 4x4.
I'd love to replace my R32 with a 330 Coupe, M3, M5, S5, RS4, TT RS, etc. I'd certainly not feel I was driving some sort of fashion accessory so much as one of the best cars money can buy.
Zero - is that in the right section?!!
Agree with it though. I had an R32 (mk4) and now have a 335d. Splendid car but I don't reckon it's very "cool."
There is nothing cool about any kind ofcyclingmotor vehicle. At all.
Fixed that for you coogan.
Sorry double post.
See, that just sounds stupid
I haven't had a car in 5 years but this reawoke my car lust. Mmmmmmmm.
Haven't you seen the news? The last thing they are is cool
Darn, and I was so close to saving up the £170k 
Still cooler than any pushbike though
How can a car be cool just for being a car ?
Anyone with enough money can walk in to a show room and buy one.
Cool is what you do with your vehicle, like driving a T55 down the M42 or doing wheelies in a 22 ton 6x6 truck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbyFEMxAAg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztS6JTJ6IJY
The only cool car is batmans, any of em,
There is nothing cool about any kind of cycling. At all.
Why? It is fine as it is.
I can't believe that this is still running.. as someone has pointed out.. even entering a discussion such as this is the antithesis of cool... everyone here is at the very best... (and I'm being optimistic here..) at the very best.. pretty much the opposite of cool..
bike companies being cool...?
cars being cool..?
crazy driving...?
tour de flippin france competitors...!?
saints preserve us..
GIVE it UP.. for the sake of the children..
Cool: On-One, Nicolai (despite being fugly), Kona A.
Uncool: Trek, Marin, Spesh, 'Dale.
Can I have an uncool bike then, please?
Agreed with Yunki and Coogan. Nothing relating to Cycling or this Forum can be described as cool, nor is it anti-cool ergo cool
I love cars and cycling but both are definitely NOT cool.
Most mega enthusiasts are just geeks (me often included).
Cool doesn't write on internet forums.
Cool doesn't try and define cool.
Cool just is cool.
Ferarris are great cars in lots of ways, but I would never consider one cool. They're too self conscious for that. However, cool is in the eye of the beholder, and I remember thinking they were very cool when I was a child.
My 05 Specialized Enduro was cool cos it defined a new class of mountain bike.
I just sold it.
D'oh.
Robin Mather - custom bikes
Klein
Trek soho - carbon belt drive
Surly Big Dummy
Brompton
Seven Cycles - custom ti
Peregrine Swift - old style still cool
Pashley - cruiser weight fighter
Any BMX ridden well
4 pages is not cool! 
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