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Look even better close up;
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To me a BMW just looks like a bunch of scaffold poles jammed together at weird angles. Close up it looks like someone has dropped a spanner in there and it's got stuck.
This thread is massively full of fail! Instead of 'the best looking dh bikes' basically every DH bike ever has been posted, and half of them are mingin' 🙄
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There is something appealing about raw functionality though. Remember the Millyard?
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Looks like a lighting gantry. But, apparently a giant leap forward in functionality, all from somebody's shed. All of a sudden lighting gantrys have sex appeal.
Anyone know what happened to them?
I do like sinister, although FTW has left to do his own thing again
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@RustyNissanPrairie love your killer-b (racelink) it's been a long time since i owned one.
hhhmmmm, antidote are still alive and kicking. Interesting rear triangle design.
No one in their right mind could describe the early Konas as good looking and that Tomac looks like something sold in JJB sports.
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That black & gold Scalpel is the sexiest bike I've ever seen, Devinci closely follows.
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Ok, if we're getting retro...
I remember riding this at the Malvern classic when it first came out - '94 I think. Was about 14. I would have done virtually [i]anything[/i] for it. 8 inches of travel! You could ride off anything! I would be invincible!
This pic bringing back a lot of memories:
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Just for you Robsoctane here's a pic in the local woods 😉
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Just for you Robsoctane here's a pic in the local woods
I hope you're very very fast - otherwise it would be quite embarrassing to have such a blingy bike. 😛
(slow owner of bike with lots of anodised gold bits here)
Yeah zangolin that is lovely.
The Schwinn Straight 8 is a sweet looking bike i loved back in the day, not sure if it's still being made though.
Millyard - only built the bike for his son to race DH on. Never went into 'production'. Apparently the air can is the same design as what they use on British tanks? His mate designed them, and so borrowed his ideas. I read an interesting article about them (interview with them). The DH bike was designed on massive sheets of paper on the shed wall - literally, drew it life size first time.
Millyard's most recent creation, as far as I know, is this... the V10 bike. Yes, he squeezed an 8.0L V10 between 2 wheels.
http://improvelife.info/links/v65/special/bikes/millyard.htm
207mph bike...
I hope you're very very fast - otherwise it would be quite embarrassing to have such a blingy bike.
(slow owner of bike with lots of anodised gold bits here)
Don't care if I'm fast or slow - doesn't matter as I'm not shallow enough to give two ****** what other people think or what sort of bike they ride. If it puts a smile on my face then that's all that matters. 🙂
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if you going to have a big shock in the back, you need redneck engineering at it's best
I had a Tomac 204 Magnum. So good in some ways, so epically bad in some others.
Loved it enough to want another if ever I saw a cheap one up for sale, even if it was to just hang on the wall to look at.
I had a go on a BMW once and thought it the most horrid bike I've ever ridden. Also, imagine what a bearing kit must cost for one.
Now a GT Lobo, or even better an LTS DH - now we're talking..!
I like the new Operator, and those 920 Laps are nice but apparently every single one in the UK has snapped....Snapierre
If looking like 'a bike' is a good thing (and god knows it would be an improvement of lots of the ones in here), then this does ok...
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Some of those bikes look amazing, I wish I had the skills and balls to do any of them justice.
Home of them however, munt on an alarming scale.
Pace RC500, how I lusted after one of these...
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Loved the looks of my Demo7 and use to love the way it rode even more.
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I had a go on a BMW once and thought it the most horrid bike I've ever ridden. Also, imagine what a bearing kit must cost for one.
it must have been badly set up or set for someone else. The Avalanche shock is custom tuned for the rider by Craig at Avy and are awesome. I had Avy shocks on other DH bikes because of how good they are.
Admittedly the Racelink is a heavy bike and has a very long wheelbase with a highish BB and are built around the dimensions of an Avy fork. They arnt UK bikes apart from maybe at Fort William, they are flat out high speed Alps bikes and not for mincing around the local woods on.
The main bearings are the same size as found on Cannondale headshock/headtube and are a standard Torrington bearing-not expensive, the smaller doglink ones are again Torrington and available from a local bearing supplier. I changed mine only because I was re-powdercoating it.
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Do your bars change colour?
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What's the general opinion on this then?
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Frame looks nice, structurally. The lines are spot on for my tastes. I think the paint job is dreadful though.
As an aside, and this is just a pet peeve of mine TBH, I'm really sick of those extra little braces found around the seat tube junctions of many bikes these days. They always look like an afterthought.
New carbon trek, looks pretty good..
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