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Hideous looking thing, almost put me off my fish n chips. What is going on with that toptube.
I don't think it looks bad to be honest. £1000 for 150mm 29er from a half decent brand isn't to be sniffed at. There's stuff in the classifieds for 5x the price that looks far worse! 😉
There’s stuff in the classifieds for 5x the price that looks far worse
Are you talking about that steampunk bike?
It's heading back to the infamous sh*tting dog Santa Cruz.
Useless without pictures, so this one?
The tan walls aren’t helping it’s cause. Hate that too tube too. Good spec and think geo is ok (and looking past the wagon wheels) but it’s mother couldn’t love it’s looks.
everything about it is great apart from that top tube, if it were straight it wold look so so much better, prob cost less to manufacture to boot! really considered it but sadly aesthetics matter to me as much as the rest of it - it is ugly. bit of a bobfoc!
It's in the eye of the beholder. I love it!
Looks like that new carbon Bird
I'm not normally bothered by the way a bike looks, apart from old Ellsworths, which are butt ugly. However those Boardman's would be off my list. I don't think the tan walls are doing it any favours.
I wonder if the kinked top tube is to allow the shock to clear a water bottle, or something todo with the shock angle/leverage.
everything about it is great apart from that top tube
It's in the eye of the beholder, Dale Cregan's left one.
Looks like that new carbon Bird
Errrr....
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Looks a bit weird, but what bike doesn't these days, it's got hydroformed tubes to allow the shaping to support the design and strength requirements, you can see the top tube being that shape for the rear shock positioning, as well as allowing the appropriate length and ability to get the required angles/head tube size.
It all looks very functional to me, no over engineering, just what is required to get the best out of that frame, they are kicking it up in the market, guessing C2W increasing limits may give boardman an edge into higher level models like this.
I actually don't hate it.
Bird is a lot longer with a lower rocker but I can see davros' point, sort of.
The Bird looks worse because of that awful downtube. Why couldn't it be straight, can't see how that would have made any difference to how the frame works.
So what were saying is down tube from the Boardman and top tube from the Bird for the win?
Well without the first kink the front wheel would hit the downtube on full compression, and without the second you couldn't fit a waterbottle in there which is apparently essential these days
The lower kink in the bird downtube really doesn't do it any favours. I get the need for it if a bottle is important but is fitting a bottle really that important? I'd sacrifice a bottle for not looking like you've ridden into the back of a bus flat out.
I think it looks better than the Bird. The Bird looks too much like a Pole (looks like the rear end has sagged before sitting on it).
Looks fine to me, apart from the god-awful skinwall tyres & that massive Boardman logo on the chainstay; not the fact that it says Boardman, just that it's so flippin' large and the solid colour jars with the paint fade on the front.
I'd have one (and swap the tyres).
I think it is OK but I'd be removing the tanwalls as soon as I got it home. I think it will sell really well, not only is is it very good value but there are still a lot of companies that have a £1k limit on cycle to work.
Anyone ridden one? My 2017 FS Pro is still going strong, but wouldn’t mind a slightly slacker ride sometimes....