What's the most beautiful race bike, MTB or Road – no questions asked?

Anyone got a favourite bike, of any era, maybe saved as a jpeg on your desktop, or hanging on your wall ?? Post them up here, telling why you love it, maybe because of the proportions, the technology, the material, or a famous race it won…. or rider – whatever !!

Because it has a certain persons name on it.

The Whyte PRST1

… Ugly, but beautiful… and I love my one.

Salsa
Jellybean
JMC

If you have to ask why…..You weren’t there, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! 🙂

even cipo’s name on the wheels…maaaann!!!

Road bikes.

I read Rouleur and want to own every bike in it.

I read Privateer/STW and think that the bikes look like they’d be good for riding certain terrain but there’s not much of an emotional reaction.

my pc took ages to load up all the parts on that Whyte PRST1 !! awesome machinery adi66 !

got piccies of your faves, let’s get the juices flowin’ !!

Its not ‘current’ but the old Colnago EPS takes some beating…

Is this Singletrack? Ah yeah – OK, sure. It’ll be this then… Vive le Yorkshire!

MTBs are just functional, don’t look ‘beautiful’ in the same way as a nice road bike IMO!

Can’t see me buying one as they’re obscenely expensive for such a weighty frame, but I still really like the Prince (the Dogma just doesn’t look as good!):

I love that Ti fixed bike, it’s sooo clean!!!!!!!

Vive Le Yorkshire!!

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Salsa
Jellybean
JMC

Hmmmmm Sophie Brooks….. 8)

*Rubs knees in a Vic Reeves stylee*

Look bikes for me.
Road:

Mountain Bike:

The mountain bike is certainly a love/ hate bike. It’s an ugly bike but for some reason I love it. The 695 is stunning in the flesh too.

^ oh god ^ bike porn.com!

You’re welcome.

Jeez, those road bikes are awful looking. What’s with the wavy forks and frame? They look like Fido Dido’s hair… The Orange Five is the nicest looker so far, and that is horrendous. 🙂

Bontrager CX… in fact, any Bontrager.

Saronni Master Xlite ’82

A classic beauty.

* hi fives adi66 *

RACE bike??

Without a doubt it would be a Cannondale.

The orange carbon Niner Air9s with the rigid forks is one bike that makes my trousers tingle:

One brand I don’t get the aesthetic appeal of at all is Pinarello. Horrible, gaudy-looking, over-designed things, the lot of ’em.

Kitz_Chris – Member
RACE bike??

Without a doubt it would be a Cannondale.

Without a doubt, it wouldn’t have a Lefty if it was.

Why is everyone trying to make me be sick?

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One brand I don’t get the aesthetic appeal of at all is Pinarello. Horrible, gaudy-looking, over-designed things, the lot of ’em.

Agree about the Pinarellos, they’re gopping, even in the flesh. I’ve been in a room with about 15 of the Team Sky bikes and what must have been close to £50,000 of wheels but it was just “meh, so what”. I suspect if I posted that on the Team Sky Facebook page, all the fans would shoot me down in flames.

Love the bike you’re on…

tortola RoundTail.

Now thats a thing of beauty.

Gleaming Italian beauty from the golden age – a 1984 Colnago Master with Campag Super Record

What’s the most beautiful race bike, MTB or Road – no questions asked?

impossible to say for sure, but this is very pretty:

Pinarellos not only ming, each frame weighs as much as a small elephant.

Speedvagen win for me, good looking but steel so not really race bikes.

1990 Colnago Master Olympic

Just looks right to me, but love the copper track bike and this 1931 Brennan

There’s a great bike shop and museum on Bainbridge Island, Seattle. Well worth the ferry ride across from the city
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Again cannondale flash or scalpel ultimate, non of this 29er, rigid , singlespeed nonsense 😉

I’m quite fond of this too, but then it is mine.

Right back at ya – SteveHine

I can’t see how you wouldn’t love my lil’ beauty:

A True Classic… and way better than those skinny wheeled “Racers” ! lol

@Downhille…. and how many links and bushes / bearings does a modern full susser have. It’s OK you can like a PRST1-4 :-p

This has got to be up there

though I still have a hankering for one of these

Classic Italian steel

The Colnago above also fits the same bill. DeRosa is nice except the wheels.

Deano’s Speedvagen CX is a thing of sublime beauty.

steel so not really race bikes

Now that’s funny – many more races won on steel bikes than anything else….

edit – those Pinarellos are completely hideous, how anyone could think otherwise I’ve no idea.. they did make some nice bikes though…

I nominate my Litespeed ultimate 🙂

U.z.