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All 3 make me want to poke my eyes out.
All three are gopping.
like I said, gopping fugly and pointless. buy yourself a proper 29" trail monsyer if you're an enough / tall enough and enjoy.
but those oranges look shite and are crackers ££££ if you pay retail.
single pivot ????? horst link still rules the world and no-one wants to pay the premium unless they can / own the license / are european 🙂
turner runs nicolai close , but not quite close enough.
if you want a shot of my helius AC 29er around pitfichie, let me know - yous for free for an extended demo - then you'll knw about quality 29" HL suspended design...........
Orange orange, straight tubes.
and others ignored the question all together in favour of jumping to conclusions about why I might own these bikes even though I never said I did
Rate my bike
I've tried this question out on a few non-cycling friends and family and as you might expect the responses are very different. So far, none of those people have even noticed the different sized wheels. Not even when asked to list 10 differences between the two Orange bikes!
you must be a hoot at parties 😉
FWIW - I think the orange orange is the least worst of a bad bunch, still find most 29ers to be out of proportion so the gyro doesn't sit well with me and makes me pull a funny face, but that Trance is just gopping...
who cares, they all look like everyday bikes...nothing special
The five looks best, but it should older swing arm graphics!
Based purely on looks
bit like trying to pick the pretty one out of these
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The orange (sorry ginger) in the middle... Excuse me I feel sick !!
Oh dear. Still I guess it was only a matter of time before that happened 🙂 It does seem as though most people's view of which bike looks best is strongly affected by their view of the how the bike rides though, which is basically what I wanted to test.
This thread was triggered by my wife trying to convince me to buy a neon pink Five with neon green rims that she'd happened to spot. I was trying to explain why that wasn't going to happen and was struck by the fact that my objections had less to do with how it actually looked than about my preconceived ideas about the bike and what I thought it would say.
[b][u]the_lecht_rocks:[/u][/b] Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on that sometime. I'm going to spend a little while mulling over my Gyro demo and getting a few more rides in on the Trance before deciding what to do next though. I'm sure nicolai make great bikes, but that's not really the point. In some ways my wife is right (she often is); it's not just about how the bike performs. I don't compete. I ride (on my own if possible) for fun. So, I don't need the bike to be the best, I just need it to be right.