[Closed] Fugly bikes pic thread

ooops! Foot in mouth there, but it shows how long it's been since I've seen you. Ah ha, an email

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I had an old 1994 Green Halfords Carrera - rode like and looked like a dog 😉

the ellsworth and that belt drive bike are too sweet for this thread (ignoring the brake hose).

Ade Ward's efforts smack of too much wilful effort to create a gopping bike, rather than one that just ended up like that (though Mr Whyte also gave him a head start) 😀

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This one isn't mine but I owned one. I liked it back then, when 3.5 inches of travel was classed as a DH bike.

Ellsworth Epiphany - the biking equivalent of Kylie sporting a beard. Nearly so beautiful but [i]ruined[/i] by that gawping great big linkage

not mine or MTBR

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i sort of like it in a ugly way

I like that Chumba. I like it a lot...

[edit] the front looks droopy, like it's hanging it's head in shame.

my recently retired Mong

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ooops didn't read the rules... 😕

*chortles at "mong"*

I love the thinking behind the suspension, but the execution reminds me of a Tate Modern sculpture gone hideously wrong.

I have always wanted a bike like Ade's. I think it's beautiful - form follows function. It's the only way you could convince me to have a full sus bike.

Also there's no way a Bow-Ti is ugly. Even if you painted it with Manga graphics 🙂

My latest creation isn't all that pretty but it's very popular 🙂

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From this ...
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... to this ...
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... as it morphed to a commuter. Bit of a waste of the frame TBH but it allows me to tackle the challenges of London's towpaths fearlessly and manfully. Fleegles now replaced by boring risers.

psychle - Member

Orange Frankenbike

it's bad enough seeing that bike in the mag, let alone on the forum...

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On eBay from Monday.
Form an orderly queue.
A Works Special - whatever that meant at the time.

I'm afraid this is fugly without the f. Frame remains buried in my garage 8)
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My eyes are bleeding now.

My latest creation isn't all that pretty but it's very popular

,,,, wrong side of road is a bit worrying but kev is obviously in bed

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Monster-cross-tastic, ON/OFF road commuter .. speed from the rear, cush from the front - great fun! Except the roadie campy cranks - flexy as fuq under power

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Jeezus H. Christ fella, there's limits y'know.

Ginger hair AND a ginger beard? That's scandalous...

not just ginger hair .. ginger dreads! O my Jah!

nixon_fiend

ps v fugly

Woody's winning.

Here's my Maverick, with looks only an owner could love...

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It's my 2nd Maverick, and personally I absolutely adore them. I rode one years ago, when they were still fairly new on the scene (about 2003) and thought they looked a bit odd. But to ride it was to be in awe of its ability, and the looks began to grow on me.

Most people hate them, but to me they're a design classic.

mboy - sorry, but for me, that takes the win. Most of the previous bikes have had a quirky or interesting quality (with a few exceptions) but that just plumbs the depths of fugliness.

It's the way it bulges out in unexpected places and bends in all the wrong places too.

And I say this as an ex owner of a Halfrauds GT i-Drive.

The Sanity Assassin - Member
Jeezus H. Christ fella, there's limits y'know.
Ginger hair AND a ginger beard? That's scandalous...

The Maverick is nice!

I've always thought of ellsworths and mavericks as a bit like a fat lass, great fun to ride until your mates see you with one

Ive also owned a new shape Marin munter vision (ugly as sin and a bit crap to ride)
A sinisiter splinter (redneck engineering at it's best and another case of function over form)
A felt virtue (super quick, gumpy rockers with added red bits! did go up hill over technical rocky stuff like a doped roadie though)

oh and I love 29ers.....someone fetch me my white stick and dog 😀

This is my wifes bike. An old Kona Roast stripped and left bare with 24" wheels for extra stability. Im not entirely sure why I have an XTR mech on her bike and only a Deore on mine tho?

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This was my baby back in 1992, Kurk Revolution Magnesium:

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After the 2nd frame snapped the head tube off I sold out and bought a Marin 😉

Well here's one for debate.

In 1997 I got a Marin DH-FRS frame (same as the Marin B17 of that year) - 6" travel at the back but I mated it to a set of Pace RC36s with 80mm travel. It originally had a pearlescent white front 'triangle' and a mango swingarm which really looked awful so I stripped the paint off the swingarm and repainted the front as below. I could never decide whether it was ugly or industrial (though I have an inkling which was this thread will go 😉 ) but I quite liked riding it despite the fact that the travel was so mismatched. In fact I did rather well on it at some enduro type events back then.

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EDIT - this was the original colour scheme
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oh! oh! can I play!!

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That's not really fugly though - just a bit chunky.

I think Woodys Trek is so ugly people are afraid to discuss it and are going off topic a bit.

Seriously people, that is the most appalling bike I have ever seen. We now need some sort of support group to help people who have seen the picture. 🙁

Clubber - I think that Marin was really nice. When built I'm sure the dated geometry makes it look a bit spoddy but I like it.

Woody is winning so far, and by quite some margin IMO. That thing is so ugly it actually made me guffaw.

EDIT: Ah, good, I'm not suffering alone then:

I think Woodys Trek is so ugly people are afraid to discuss it and are going off topic a bit.

Seriously people, that is the most appalling bike I have ever seen. We now need some sort of support group to help people who have seen the picture.

Wow, just had a look at the Trek (couldn't see it here, had to look on my mobile) - LOL - I remember those - they really were proper aesthetic horrors weren't they!

I that even a trek? It looks like someones bought 4 apollos and bodged them into one bike!

[i]I think Woodys Trek is so ugly people are afraid to discuss it and are going off topic a bit.

Seriously people, that is the most appalling bike I have ever seen. We now need some sort of support group to help people who have seen the picture. [/i]

It is that bad!! I am still crying 2-3 mins later - even the dogs are upset !

Chumba looks good from here and Preston / Whyte in black is starting to look normal-ish.
That Trek is truly desperate 😳

The [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fugly-bikes-pic-thread/page/2#post-1517481 ]Kirk[/url], it caused an audible shriek of horror.

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In response to the comments about my Maverick, well beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and to me she ain't no fat lass... 😉

Seriously though, if you've never seen one up close, you won't appreciate all the tiny little design details that really contribute to it's appeal, some improving the way it rides, some just for aesthetics. They are very much a "form follows function" design, but that said, a lot of effort has gone into refining the design of the frame to attempt to make it look a bit more organic. You'll not find a sharp angle or an untidy weld anywhere...

I do understand that they are like marmite, you either love them or hate them, but by the same token, who says that a bike frame should look a particular way, and that the bulges are in the "wrong" places on a Maverick? I'd argue strongly that ANY Marin or Whyte full sus bike is distinctly uglier than any Maverick.

Fair play to the guy with the Kirk Precision though, not only was it made of magnesium, but it was an E-stay design, but also it was bright pink! Nice one...

I think Woodys Trek is so ugly people are afraid to discuss it and are going off topic a bit.

Back on topic - I have also recently acquired an ML8 😯

I think Woodys Trek is so ugly people are afraid to discuss it and are going off topic a bit.

Back on topic - I have also recently acquired an ML8

I'm cleary guessing here, but you either/or a)ride on your own alot, miles from anyone who might see your bike-de-jour and b) your eyesight is worse than mine, and worse than you think....... 😉

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I'm afraid to ask, but is there a bigger picture and more info about that Trek? I suppose it's like reading those "worst ever disaster/murders" books - it's grim but fascinating.

Here's one of mine:

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and here's another:

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and to top it all off:

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This thread ended after the first Whyte PRST was posted.