[Closed] Prettiest Bike you ever saw?

I've had one of these for years. Still think it's one of the prettiest mtbs out there.

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WTF is that? Is it from a circus? Looks utter ridiculous.

No coogan it's made by wolfhound who are apparently uber niche bearded builders and is therefore beautiful.

It really does look like a fat man has sat on it.

Normally I'd avoid threads like this because they'd get me angry but I can't sleep so I browsed away.

From what I've seen.

Almost everyone posting needs mental help, the bike pictures posted on this thread explain an awful lot abouit people in Britain and why this country is in such a terrible state.

For god's sake, look at the pictures you have posted and ask yourselves just how nasty these things are.

Someone with 'fish' in their username posted a fixie, now that's a nice bike.

now now samuri. objectivity. also some people aren't even british. 🙂
I'm smitten with this
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I know I said objectivity up there, but really PJM?

I'm so sorry, I own both.

The Enduro I've always admired since 2002, it's graceful and sleek in the way that pot-bellied post 2006 Specialized bikes can't emulate.

The Marin? It looks purposeful, but that swingarm is a work of post industrial art.

Shoot me now.

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Custom Curtis 853, I think it's pretty, dirty or clean

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris ]William Morris[/url] has much to say that is relevant here (although I suspect that he didn't have bikes [i]specifically[/i] in mind when he said it 😉 ) -

Principally - "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful".

I will concede that he has a beard however, which may suggest a bias.

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How cool would that be!

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Litespeed Ti goodness ummmmmmm

Innovations: suspension, disc brakes, spds etc

Different IMO to what the wee guys have done.

If you consider companies like AMP research or Mountain Cycles wee (certainly compared to the Giants, Shimanos and Treks of this world) then they did innovate suspension - horst link, linkage forks, upside down forks - and disc brakes. Not sure about SPDs though.

I Like the Amaro Lollobrigida above but prefer the Rossellini

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i've just put myself in charge of judging this: candodavid - yes; that's the idea.

alwyn - no; the letters are too big, the silhouettes too contrived, they're loud and vulgar.

(they're drunken tarts with too much make-up, shouting insults at passers by outside a football pub at 1am on a sunday morning)

i've previously voiced my opinion on the genesis equilibrium, so for a change, here's my input:

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do I win?

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Should we have the same thread but restricted to bikes that you can actually buy and use? (avoiding Vanillas etc?)

horst link, linkage forks, upside down forks - and disc brakes.

I'll give you those, none of which are really anything significant apart from disc brakes, and horst links - to DH guys and marketeers.

corroded +1 doesn't matter if off the peg or custom, pretty is pretty. name or quantity sold do not influence looks.

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(they're drunken tarts with too much make-up, shouting insults at passers by outside a football pub at 1am on a sunday morning)

Phwwoooar....

Tazzy that Brian Rourkes bike looks familiar. Is that yours?

no, it's belongs to one of the chaps from rourkes. It's a lovely bike and I've had a fondle, but steel is too heavy for my weight weenie ways

Ahh Steve's isn't it? Nice bike but bit bright for my liking 🙂

Still chuckle though at the thought of Matt riding round being tooted at by truckers thinking he's a woman with his long blonde hair and his pink Giro helmet on 🙂

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shitting dog bikes look like shitting dogs.

they look o.k as frames or when they are beach cruisers, not convinced they work well as mtb's, they look like an answer to a problem that never existed and ugly with it.

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Nearly there for me! Saddle back about 25mm, less rake on the fork, some nice clean white bar tape & a non drilled fork crown 😉

Engin - some lovely detailing on these

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Blacksheep - just because. Not keen on the front wheel lacing though

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ferrit32 - Member

Engin - some lovely detailing on these
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(they're drunken tarts with too much make-up, shouting insults at passers by outside a football pub at 1am on a sunday morning)

Maybe that's what I like 😉

Now your just being silly tazzy. That green thing looks like it's been crashed.

That Engin's luverly.
Needs a flat bar on it though.
Then it'd be double luverly.

Now your just being silly tazzy

I'm sorry have I [u]ever[/u] been serious on singletrack? 😆

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Hmmm, you're right, that isn't pretty but it is certainly striking...

On a more serious note Tazz.

WTF is that black and white thing in the top left of that picture?

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stu- I think you'll find it's a monkey bumming a hamster to death

Mmm.

just as i thought then.

Did it actualy die though?

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Did it actualy die though?

well the monkey did ask to borrow some gaffer tape, so I think it may have split

I'm biased, but I don't think that Mountain bikes come much prettier than a Cotic Soda. Not much in the way of fancy detailing, but the tubes are just in the right place.
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after all the gopping motorcycles being posted I thought I had better inject a touch of class..

Just happened across this and thought it rated pretty highly on the 'pretty' scale.

http://www.boutiquecycles.com/bikes/details/red_inbred/

are you serious? a stovepipe frame with a glossy paintjob.
(in other words a turd rolled in glitter is still a turd)