http://theradavist.com/2015/12/the-radavists-top-ten-and-then-some-beautiful-bicycles-of-2015/#1
Some interesting bikes as always. Cheers 1 shed.

Was this a competition to design the worst looking bike? Some totally achieved it.

The Imshi Cycles one is doing a lot for me. None of the others are what I need/want in a bike so don’t do much for me.

Ted kings super six for me but that’s cos I have a super six and want etap…….

The handlebar angles on a lot of them … euuugh.

There’s some hideous looking bikes on there but I’ve got to say, the more I see the Cannondale Slate, the more I want one 8)

That cannondale is the most hideous, despite the competitio

Want the orange one.

i like the specialized best; which either means i’m not cool enough for the radavist…

or too cool?…

They all look the same to me, a bunch of average hybrid and cx bikes no matter what the badge says

Love the Bushmaster. 2 questions, who makes the frame bag? What’s that plastic thing by the BB?

Bushmaster plastic thing is a salsa anything cage and the framebag looks like a porcelain rocket.

I do rather like the Clockwork.

The Vanilla Speedvagens are awesome, love it.

Most of those look completely shite to me. A niche too far.

It’s difficult to make a bike look good when it’s designed for what (most of) they are.

When you look at them in the context of general purpose trips and even special events like the Oregon Outback etc. the choices make more sense and the functional aspects can be impressive even if not ‘beautiful’

This hooks into the CX/Gravel thread that’s also running at the mo, a lot of very ‘all purpose bicycles’ popping up, funny how they are being described as niche* when they really are anything but, it’s the highly specific MTB and road race bikes that are the niche machines tuned for a specific purpose, where as this is going back to bikes designed to carry people and kit over a wide variety of terrain and be highly adaptable, and similar to a lot of what of people all over the world actually use their bikes for, it’s only they fact they aren’t focussed on by the popular media that means people think they are odd.

There are a couple of obvious concessions in there though like the commuter at the top and the pure road race bikes.

* as in a highly specialised *something*, just because MTBs and Road bikes are popular doesn’t make them not-specialised for their task, and of course doesn’t mean that a lot of people are riding popular bikes that are totally unsuited to most of their actual riding.

Not many conventionally attractive bikes there I’d agree, but who cares. Build it ride not to look at. I like the attitude of those bikes.

funny how they are being described as niche* when they really are anything but, it’s the highly specific MTB and road race bikes that are the niche machines tuned for a specific purpose, where as this is going back to bikes designed to carry people and kit over a wide variety of terrain and be highly adaptable, and similar to a lot of what of people all over the world actually use their bikes for, it’s only they fact they aren’t focussed on by the popular media that means people think they are odd.

A good point well made.

Speedvagen Urban racer really does it for me, it just looks like fun to ride, albeit in the right environment. Very sleek looking bike as well, particularly some of the examples on the main website.

“Bushmaster plastic thing is a salsa anything cage”

So I’m guessing you’d need bottle cage fittings on the downtube….

Like the Paul’s black cat