It isn’t really a hardtail if it has rigid forks, is it?

Cotic Soul or any steel hardtail with minimal/zero gussets.

That new Genesis Latitude in the classic gulf oil Porsche Morris Blue colour scheme looks amazing.

chiefgrooveguru – Member
It isn’t really a hardtail if it has rigid forks, is it?

Cotic Soul or any steel hardtail with minimal/zero gussets.

Got to agree and not just because of what I posted back near the start of page 1!

Slackline @ 140 mm

The genesis latitude copying the Shan 917 but not doing it anywhere near as well.

The genesis latitude copying the Shan 917 but not doing it anywhere near as well.

They both look **** awful. Slack head angled hardtails in garish colours. With long forks, dropper posts and massive cassettes. Plus one of those stupid seat tube braces. The preserve of the middle aged chubber in a fox racing t shirt, waddling round a trail centre.

That Niner OTOH; looks mint.

Christ, that looks broken.

you’d think for a publicity shot they would sort out the bloody cabling

Open cycles HT is the cleanest for me. That or Firefly ti.

Clean an light

Looks fun, amazing welds. Check their site

@ Davidtaylforth I think they both look great but the Shan wins for me. Beautiful colour scheme but not really clean. No bike with suss forks and gears can look clean.

Mate is racing a Saracan this year, looks ace.
Scott hard tails look ok
Saw the new Bluepig at Inners today, looks a lot better than my mk1 which couldn’t be difficult 🙄

Some shockers on here! Tang that looks a bit ‘Tron’ for me!

Singular Swift

Check firefly raw stuff. Amazing welds and finish.

Some shockers on here! Tang that looks a bit ‘Tron’ for me!

Last time there was a thread like this there were some excellent, well photographed bikes posted.

This is so far mainly a “post what you ride that you took a photo with from your phone” collection.

Where all the pristine press shots at!

Shame about the gold…

Bit better.

Shame about the gold…

like that’s all thats wrong with it 😀

I love the P7 and the Ritchey but my Soul is a kick-ass clean lined machine.

Done.

The Niner and the Shand look lovely (and that comes from a Solaris owner)

My mate got a custom steel ht from small town boy, it’s a cracker, moJo nicolai type geometry and awesomely finished in raw lacquer. Only cost him 450 IIRC.

I like bikes that tuck the caliper inside the rear triangle. And I like the integrated seat clamp – very clean.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, but I do think this looks ace.

Obviously it is a rip-off of the Shan 917, but that was a rip-off of a car!

My ideal colour scheme on a hardtail would be the half and half of the NS Eccentric but with a glossy chocolate brown on the upper half and the orange from the gulf colour scheme on the bottom. So there!

Of the above I think the niner has it, ahead of the Shand, which to my eye is let down by the hose/cable routing. Course if I had a decent digital photo of my old Dekerf Team SL…..

clean lines? seeing loads of cables about on these pics,

how about this with a white RS1 instead of a Lauf?

My new solaris build

Santa Cruz Highball Carbon in hardtail mode. Cable routing IMO lets it down for ‘clean lined’, but still…

[url=https://flic.kr/p/GT63uz]Santa Cruz Highball Carbon Hardtail[/url] by Nik K, on Flickr

Oh yeh, BARENDS BIATCHES!

Stantonslackcleanline

I’d show you mine but it’s late and the technology is being obstructive.

Do like my Swift, should look a lot cleaner if I sort out the cable run for the Alfine….. oh and remove all my junk!

[url=https://flic.kr/p/GtpFjo]IMG_20160505_175653[/url] by Stephen Williams, on Flickr

Doesn’t exactly meet the OP’s requirements, and as it’s turned into a post what you like kinda thread, I think the lines are pretty clean n’ smooth on this.

Oh and that thing with the Gold Enve wheels is gopping

the Shand, which to my eye is let down by the hose/cable routing

what’s wrong with the routing?

Would say its fairly clean!

That Solaris looks amazing.

Since we’re pretty much just posting pics of our own hardtails, which I am totally ok with.

Since we’re pretty much just posting pics of our own

If you can imagine away the rack and crud-guards then SS, rigid + internal frame & fork routing keep this quite clean looking.

thetallman – Member

If you can imagine away the rack and crud-guards then SS, rigid + internal frame & fork routing keep this quite clean looking.

Shame they used a chimney pot as a head tube

Shame they used a chimney pot as a head tube

There are some absolutely goppin’ bikes on this thread

Still lovin my 29CS, think it looks pretty clean. Except I never wash it.

My two:

Words cannot describe how much the Maxxis logo offends me…