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Post your fugly bike pics - the bikes that only you could like and even then only when weary Rose Rosie's rosiest rose-tinted glasses...
Only two rules:
1. You have to either own or have owned it (so no random google pics)
2. Explain why you have/like it?
Here's mine - Klein Mantra - built up when I basically got it for free from the classifieds and I'd always fancied seeing what they rode like with a rigid fork which was how they were originally intended. Needless to say, it was like riding a full susser with a rigid fork which was a bit rubbish 😉
As a full sus SS though, it's not bad actually - It doesn't bob around when gurning out of the saddle, the suspension takes the edge of the bigger hits and it weighs about the same as my 853 inbred frame so no real weight penalty.
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holy mother of god, i'd forgotten how ugly they were 😯
isn't it just...
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[s]Cannondale Super V 3000[/s]
Read the OP 🙁
Sorry its horrible but I didn't own it - FAIL
And loving the Panaracer magic tyres - i had a set of those.
I used to sell the Cannondales - easy to sell despite them being fugly - guess it was the 'different' looks that attracted people to them...
Awww, Rich, and I was going to give you bonus points for the gum coloured tyres too!
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yes it has a big fugly/gumpy rocker, but it does ride fantastically well
i think i will wait a couple of days before producing my top trump card
Ah, c'mon bring it out now...
is it a Whyte?
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The mighty Big Dummy. Because chicks dig it*. And because it can carry all sorts of things. Still hideous. 🙂
* in theory, in practice their enthusiasm doesn't blow me away.
There's no way that Elsworth should be allowed on this thread.
Sunn Crosss rigid singlespeed.
Ugly points:
Built in crudguard
Yellow paint with red anodised bits
Mary bars that are actually pink rather than the red I wanted
Odd cross pattern wheels
Glow-in-the-dark grips
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It looks better in the flesh - honestly (though only by a bit!)
It rides & handles excellently, stops on a dime, and climbs like a bas**rd......and keeps on going whatever gets thrown at it.
this isnt my top top trump card , but i could come close to winning with this,
ladies and gentlemen meet my very early Marin,, mount vision,, in single speed,, we came 111th in the ss worlds in 2001 ,
it's paint job is hazard tape from work , it sports fetching answer riser bars with bar ends and orange grips,
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Put this up on the Frankenbike too. Had to sell my 456 and bought this as a very cheap replacement. Now has non matching wheels, it has double+ bash at the front with mech and shifter still attached, although it only works on the bigger ring. Does occasionally get suspension forks, bigger tyres and gears but it spends most of its time like this for commuting. Had a big crash last week and I just need to clean the blood off and "good as new".
It is pretty heavy even as rigid SS, but good fun to ride. Although it is rated for 5" forks it doesnt feel right at 130mm, much better at 100mm
stooo - MemberThere's no way that Elsworth should be allowed on this thread.
yep agreed 😡
A mate has an Elsworth with triple clamps and that is fugly ,it's blue and looks like a Halfrauds special
WTF is that tensioner on the marin doing there--->
That Marin and the Sunn appeared while I was typing - not sure mine is Fugly enough!
I will eventually try and make it look a bit better, but not entirely sure where to start
not sure if mine is up with some of that top totty but fugly is the only way to describe it
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I really liked my Super V and thought it rode nice. How opinions differ 🙂
bigyinn it's a very old skool sunn dh thing ,, a normal ss tensioner doesnt pull enough chain to take into account the difference in chain length between full topped out and fully compressed 17mm i think,
i could have put a rear mech on but didnt like the look
hmmm... are my bikes fugly or not?... do I admit it and post them for derision, or defend their honour and refrain?...
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epicyclo i actualy like that,, it's a great solution to belt drive niggles, but,, there always is a but you must have the longest hose in the world on those front maguras
it's too nice for this thread!
Is that a B-twin Epicyclo? Loving your experimentation, how's the recumbent "thing" going?
Anyhoo... here are my fugly bikes (in the opinion of some, personally I like the looks of them all!) Which will be voted the fugliest I wonder?
Bow-ti
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Orange Frankenbike
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Indy-Fab 69'er
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epicyclo wins, with extra kudos for stupendous front hose!
ok here it is my top trump ugly bike,,,, ta da it's preston
some of you maynot have had the pleasure before,,
he has a 24" front wheel and 26" rear a 64er? single speed in this picture but more recently with a alfine 8 speed set up
you can see he is the love child of my old marin ss bike
matt grey paint with banksy style graphics,,
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Dear mother of god, that is bad...
What .. no pictures of the new On One carbon yet ??
That is well fugly !!
Pmsl! Ade that is truly awful lol. It shouldve been smelted down at birth 🙂
ade ward, thats just confusing to look at
i wouldn't ride that thing into battle...
Ade, why the small front wheel?
(like that's the only thing wrong with it!)
ade ward always liked the preston but glad i never owned one yours looks as though it has had a shunt up front hope it handles better than it looks 😕
i actually really like that orange frankenbike, is that an alfine of the back or just ss?
I love Preston. Just think, a slight deviation in the evolutionary road and we could have all ended up riding bikes like that. Well, maybe not quite like that.
I'm with Tazzymtb re the elsworth - it mings. I'm sure it rides well, but boy is it a case of function over form.
It's fair to say that most of the bikes I've owned have looked a bit grim due to their gateishness, but this is the one that has drawn the most criticism aesthetically.
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looks much nicer with the sticers on, strangely.
I think ade is comfortably in the lead atm...
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My old Preston. I loved that bike, because it was different. People would stop me and ask about it, which no one does on my 'normal' bikes
Rode nice too, anyone that said they were crap hadn't ridden one IMO
Admit it, Kato, they were pointing and laughing...! All well with you, old chap? Must try and dig out your email....!
I rode one (not mine I hasten to add). Nice enough but funny on hard cornering (where it seemed to fight against you
if you hit a bump) I found and nothing to make up for the way it looks 😉
the 24 " front wheel was to get more weight on the front,, i thought the production bike didnt handle as well as the first two prototypes,,
it seemed to understeer and i was loosing the front end a lot at mid corner,,
the easyest way to get more weight on the front was to drop the front so i just put a smaller wheel on it,, it was so much better,
turns in realy well ,,
poor preston was never pretty ,, it;s a shame it didnt get a redesign i still think the design has a lot of merits ,, it could have been great with carbon legs , wishbone and cnc'd links,,
poor preston was never pretty ,, it;s a shame it didnt get a redesign
If Mr Whyte had remained, I think it might have done.
All good Flash, have popped my email in my profile for you. Drop me a line and we'll met for a beer. Bring the dog, he's got an eye for the ladies
Dog RIP, Kato 🙁 ....but beer a plan! Will email shortly...!
If Mr Whyte had remained, I think it might have done
no he was put to sleep before Jon left Marin/whyte apart from the quad rear end nothing changed from the first production bikes ,, shame as i thought there was a lot more to come hence the small front wheel