Always had a thing for trigger's mum's bathroom blue too.
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What's the most beautiful race bike, MTB or Road - no questions asked?
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It's a bit try hard, don't you think?
Totally! The chain and spokes are Ti too.
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samuri, is there a bike in your pic?
I think this has a special kind of 'engineering beauty'
I sold it 3 hrs ago :'(
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Though to be fair the front end is a bit fussy and could be neatened up a bit - form won over function there. If I'm being honest I far prefer Obree's one of these - which is a truly beautiful bike IMHO - but I just can't find a decent piccy (maybe I should go through my old mag collection and scan).
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tortola RoundTail.
Now thats a thing of beauty.
That just looks weird to me.
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A lot of nice looking road bikes here! But I feel the need to add in another mountain bike. It would be the Focus FSL for me!
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schmiken - Member
Actually, scratch that, I found it!
I prefer the other shot of it lol!
The angles look messed up to me in that pic.Posted 3 months ago # -
If you noticed the bike first, I have bad news for you..
Always had a thing for trigger's mum's bathroom blue too.
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Always had a thing for trigger's mum's bathroom blue too.
The bouncy cat from Winnie the Pooh has a mum?
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Is that plastic road bike a few posts up really called a 'rotta?' If so, it truly is a rotter.
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Roger de Vlaeminck's Gios Torino
A real racer's bike and truly bike-beautiful, good call.
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Samurai - that is very nice indeed but not really a race bike.
Another super sweet Gios - probably similar to what De Vlaeminck rode in his 'other' discipline. I think this is now my final pick.
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If you noticed the bike first, I have bad news for you..
that bush needs a trim.....Posted 3 months ago # -
for aracer, there's a nice set of pics, of Graeme Obree's Old Faithful that I posted up on the 2nd page of this thread...
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I suppose it's difficult to define a Race bike, but somehow I think including all fixies is stretching the definition a bit. I know you could race one on a velodrome but there must be a limit to what defines a race fixie, surely..? I believe Race means, could or has been used in a speed competition..no?
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My 1992 Master Olympic is up there for me...
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IMG_0270 by philip.pryor, on Flickr[/img]Posted 3 months ago # -
Lovely bike Chainline. Can't agree with the wheel choice though. It needs some nice silver Campy hubs on Open pros and some gumwall tyres to finish it all off
I have a '97 Superissimo in a similar colourscheme.
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there's a nice set of pics, of Graeme Obree's Old Faithful that I posted up on the 2nd page of this thread...
I was talking about the one he didn't race at the '96 Olympics (picture on the other thread), not that one. Here's an article about it
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/obrees-big-stake-in-state-of-art-1349282.htmlPosted 3 months ago # -
If you noticed the bike first
you must have a huge screen!
the English stuff is pretty awesome!
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@HarYuken personal taste..an earlier incarnation here. I like both but on a personal note I love older steel frames with carbon/deep wheels/modern gruppo hence the carbon Record. I just don't like the braking characteristics of carbon, not enough modulation in the dry and in the wet, well OMG. I rode the Tourmalet on it with deep section carbons, they don't half go fast. I settled on the ACs cos I think they look good but also are aero enough..
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I love to look at this too, but it was this or the Colnago with the one in one out policy and the 'nago won
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Chainline - the plant pot in the background of the second pic of the Colnago made me do a double take, I thought you had a basket on it!
and HarYuken I'll say it before someone else does Campag please not Campy
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