[Closed] bikes you really shouldn't like but...

Bromptons. 😳 (Ti ones of course)

I've been seen lusting at Bromptons too, the one with the gold welds showing ... 😳

Would have quite happily ridden about on a Kirk Revolution, if one lasted long enough. 🙂

That Moulton that costs about fifteen grand.

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Bromptons are super cool. Orange, Green or Raw. Wicked.

I really really like Puglseys and Fatbikes now but have zero need for one - i fully appreciate it's never a need thing but a dedicated snow/sand bike... when i don't want to ride on the beach... agh. Damn Bruce and his niches!!!

This http://www.brewracingframes.com/id79.htm

i can see what you like about that rusty (it's not just the name though, right?)

Bromptons are super cool.

No they're not. There a compromise that works just about acceptably, for commuting. They're ok if you [b]need[/b] to have a folding bike, but other than that, they're simply too compromised. Silly little wheels, nervous twitchy ride, stupidly overpriced and have some pretty poor quality components.

I want one, but only for the pub and when I might need to be able to use public transport.

not just the name, I've got a non rusty Brew in the garage (BMX).

[url= http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11472/horsey-by-eungi-kim-seoul-cycle-design-competition-shortlist-revealed.html ]dandyhorse[/url]

They aren't twitchy. Trick is to not look down. 8)

thebikechain - Member
They aren't silly, nervous and little. Trick is to not look down.

That could apply to something else, eh, Fred? 😉

+1 ol rusty. (Liking the cross tyres).

Guilty of fixie bikes in general (yes, still...)

I liked my old Preston

.............. no one else did mind you

They aren't twitchy

Yes they are.

That could apply to something else, eh, Fred?

You tell me, Flashy! 😉

Kato, old chap, not everyone hated that bike, you know.

Look here - www.accidentinapramfactory.com

😉

+1 horsey, too

I hated that bike Kato 😉

I hated that bike Kato

AH those were the days!

a dirt jump bike

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and a fixed wheel bike

Yeah all bmx's should be 4130, 44/16, flats, comp 111s .......but
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/gt_bicycles/7364

Marin attack trail 😳

I know this is getting a bit off topic. I've never really wanted a motorbike, until now.

Realman, is that a carbon Boardman HT?

Trek [url= http://www.bikerumor.com/2010/08/07/treks-new-broadsider-what-mad-max-will-ride-when-he-runs-outta-gas/ ]Broadsider[/url] concept. Yum!

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I know it's wrong but I always fancied owning a PRST for a while...

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Yes. Yes it is.

I guess people stopping you and saying it's a godawful looking duckling of a bike would get a bit tiresome after a while 🙂

spindi - thats a godawful fugly duckling of a bike.

Bromptons are super cool. Orange, Green or Raw. Wicked.

I really really like Puglseys and Fatbikes now but have zero need for one - i fully appreciate it's never a need thing but a dedicated snow/sand bike... when i don't want to ride on the beach... agh. Damn Bruce and his niches!!!

me? Mmm a Pashley govner..just for riding to the nearest village on a summer afternoon for an ice cream 😮

SOLD

*orders pugsley*

IBIS mojo - swore years ago I'd never touch carbon again, Lopes rides one ;). I don't even like the geometry but there's def something I like about them.
Giant Anthem - I know I'd prob snap one and I only really like hardtails for XC but it'd just be such a weapon for quick XC riding.
Evil impreial/Duncon cocker/nicolai 2MXTB - I ****ing hate long travel hardtails! (there, I said it) and these are so wrong they've almost gone full circle but aesthetically I've always kinda like them. (it's the 12yr old BMX fanboi coming back out I reckon)
Curtis SX - I hate steel bikes, IMO they're always either too weak or too heavy and these fall into the latter category, great bikes otherwise tho.
2011 Intense Tazer FS - I'd never buy an intense (nuff said I think) but they actually seem to have got everything right with this one 😯
MrBig ST-10 - no need to comment on why they're wrong but I've very nearly bough a few.

er.. this list could go on and on.. think I should stop now.

GW agree with you on the intense tazer fs, wonder if they are as flexy as other intenses.

I even have all the parts to build it up.

I second the broasdsider.

'survival bike'

I like the Boardman. For some reason a light, fast carbon HT seems better suited to the Boardman tag than a trail HT. If it's as competetively specced and as (comparatively) light as their other bikes I think I could get a bit of mild bike-horn for it.

Not sure how profitable it would be though, given how most MTBers are more into the overbiked mid-life crisis thing. 😉

My name is GW and i'm a bikeaholic.

there were pics of a built broadsider at SSWC10 if memory serves

some [url= http://magicbike.ru/concept-bicycles/classic-bicycling/ne-proxodite-mimo-brutalnyj-broadsider-ot-trek.html ]here[/url] too

pace 204 allegedly!

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Shouldn't like it cos its got drop bars, only one gear, no brakes, no freehub etc... I'm not into road bikes, singlespeeds, fixies or anything without brakes... But it just looks sooooooo sooooo right... 😛

Also, 29ers... According to seemingly most of the bike riding public they should be crap and we shouldn't lust after them, certainly if we're less than about 6ft4 tall (I'm just under 5ft11), but I love them!

specialized allez steel

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not available here in the uk. dammit.

Also, 29ers... According to seemingly most of the bike riding public they should be crap and we shouldn't lust after them, certainly if we're less than about 6ft4 tall (I'm just under 5ft11), but I love them!

I just bought one to try out mainly cause I don't want a bike for the road and one for the trail. Seems to be a good middle ground.

tandaylor - Member

I know this is getting a bit off topic. I've never really wanted a motorbike, until now.

There have always been bikes that I've really wanted but that's changed over the years as I've changed the sort of riding I enjoy. Right now, I'd love to go and build my own 853 cross country frame with a geometry to suit 80-100mm forks or some rigid forks. When I've got the cash, Dave Yates will be getting a call...

I'd love a nice, simple track frame like the one shown in the pic from mboy. But then I'd want to live close enough to a track to warrant it.

Well, according to the STW backlash type thing I shouldn't like an Orange 5 but i love them!!

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