Following on from the other thread
Post your abominations, crimes against cycling, things that only you could love, or generally stuff that's going to annoy others.
Must be your own bike, not random internet pictures, they can go in the other thread.
I'll start - overload of Hope ano for the blue/orange (not quite Gulf theme). For extra points, the fork decals are Hope orange/Kenevo blue. And the orange jockey wheels are a completely different shade. Oh and the yellow spring clashes. I like it though...
Revel in the sheer beauty of the Boardman seat stays 🤢 . And my flipped stem...
That was my thread but I appreciate my bikes probably trigger other people so here we go...
-Tan walls
-Red bikes
-Big logos
-Dinner plate sized sprocket
-Big mech
-Birds nest cables
-Internal cable routing
-Bar/seat bag
Duplicate post
Forgive me STW for I have sinned. Mightily.
I was just going through a phase. Grips, mudguard, rotors, wheel decals and pedals. I'm over it now. Mostly.
Wait?
What?
Tanwalls?
Did i not get a memo or something?
Pretty much all my tyres are tanwalls. Unless i can't get that model/tread/spec in tanwall (or the tanwalls are too expensive for my wallet).
Revel in the sheer beauty of the Boardman seat stays 🤢 . And my flipped stem...
I'm OK with dropped seatstays on a road bike because 'aero' (plus my SuperSixEvo has dropped stays), but that bend it just weird. Also of concern:
- Huge seat pack
- Huge phone mounted to stem
- Bizarre cable routing
- Photo taken with chain on small chainring
- Pointy up stem
- Flat pedals on a drop bar bike
I quite like the colour though and think the tan walls work.
Revel in the sheer beauty of the Boardman seat stays 🤢 . And my flipped stem...
...state of that garden!!! 😱 😜
I can forgive everything you've listed but I can't stand the amount of flare on those gravel bars @citizenlee
Revel in the sheer beauty of the Boardman seat stays 🤢 . And my flipped stem...
I'm OK with dropped seatstays on a road bike because 'aero' (plus my SuperSixEvo has dropped stays), but that bend it just weird. Also of concern:
- Huge seat pack
- Huge phone mounted to stem
- Bizarre cable routing
- Photo taken with chain on small chainring
- Pointy up stem
- Flat pedals on a drop bar bike
I quite like the colour though and think the tan walls work.
It has a top tube bag too now 😉
I do have a Garmin now, so no phone needed
And also has CB Candy's now
Apparently the seatstays are like that to 'flex'
I can forgive everything you've listed but I can't stand the amount of flare on those gravel bars @citizenlee
I'd blame the angle of the photo, but the flare is 21° so I'd be lying.
I bought them thinking it would get me into riding in the drops (vs 16° on previous bars) but I still never do. I should just convert it to flat bars and be done with it.
Wait?
What?
Tanwalls?
Did i not get a memo or something?
Pretty much all my tyres are tanwalls. Unless i can't get that model/tread/spec in tanwall (or the tanwalls are too expensive for my wallet).
Yep, tanwalls on 5 of mine
My road bike. Bent top tube, yep. Dropped seat stays, yep. Saddle bag, yep. Logos that are too big, yep!
Rides lovely though!
Just for the front mud guard! It was temporary, honest....
And, well, miss matching orange bits, white forks, non black brake hoses, and that front mudguard again....
Seems I completely invented the DMR stem, It is in fact a Ragley stem holding Ragley bars, but still, it's a Bird frame. I also forgot about the red bottle cage, the mismatched tyre/wheel logos, and having a black (grey) sheep of the cable family.
I love big mudguards I can not lie ! 👍
I also love coming home from a ride like Quantocks today with a nice clean bum so haterz carry on hating 😁
But Tan wall tyres and winter boots in Orange , I'm looking at you Endura !
Red bike, tan walls, matchy to grips and saddle, massive cassette, tiny chainring, wireless seat post, modern geo, skinny tubed steel, big AXS mech.
A real horror show. #sorrynotsorry
Red bike, tan walls, matchy to grips and saddle, massive cassette, tiny chainring, wireless seat post, modern geo, skinny tubed steel, big AXS mech.
A real horror show. #sorrynotsorry
Nope, doesn't qualify - you're not getting away with offending anyone with that.
Anyone who doesn't like it can get in the bin and have their pedal bike licence taken away from them
Red bike, tan walls, matchy to grips and saddle, massive cassette, tiny chainring, wireless seat post, modern geo, skinny tubed steel, big AXS mech.
A real horror show. #sorrynotsorry
Lovely. It's like bike my Trek posted above wants to be when it grows up.
@northwind to the forum please
WHAT? Oh yeah, this? Yeah I know, mismatched tyre brands, it's a sin. 
Ah, an Ellsworth, the original garden gate. An absolute eyesore!
@northwind to the forum please
WHAT? Oh yeah, this? Yeah I know, mismatched tyre brands, it's a sin.
Did you make the rear triangle in metalwork class?
That is Aerospace Grade I'll have you know.
I think the best thing is that the front and the rear are both individually ugly but they're also ugly in completely incompatible ways. It's like they got 2 different people to design half of an ugly bike then put it together in the dark. It genuinely rode worse than it looks.
Odd that I don't have many photos of this abomination.
As ugly as it is with those bars and a fork that was definitely too long, it was easily the most comfortable bike I've ridden, perfect for pootling along canals & river paths. Like an MTB shopper
Red bike, tan walls, matchy to grips and saddle, massive cassette, tiny chainring, wireless seat post, modern geo, skinny tubed steel, big AXS mech.
A real horror show. #sorrynotsorry
Nope, doesn't qualify - you're not getting away with offending anyone with that.
Anyone who doesn't like it can get in the bin and have their pedal bike licence taken away from them
If I was being picky (which I have no right to, because I honestly don't give a flying **** what my bikes look like*), I'd say that the mismatch of colours between the fork and the seatpost is annoying. Can you even get silver dropper posts? I think you should be able to.
*given the list of things people don't like on the other thread I doubt there's a picture of any bike i've ever ridden that wouldn't qualify for this thread.
I guess that's the bike of a person with an alcoholic dog.
... what exactly are the keys doing?
I like the look of the Elsworth.It looks purposeful and Industrial.Lovely blue colour also.
Can you even get silver dropper posts?
Yeah, but not wireless ones. I do know a chap who removed the anodising on the lower part of an AXS dropper, but it looked a bit agricultural for me.
Can you even get silver dropper posts? I think you should be able to.
Yeah PNW Loam, but as tom says, mechanical. Here's mine, so you can hate on my camo saddle 🤣
And some tan walls 😊
Big rim logos for another tick and I think the green fork/yellow shock combo irked someone 🤣
Wait?
What?
Tanwalls?
Did i not get a memo or something?
Pretty much all my tyres are tanwalls. Unless i can't get that model/tread/spec in tanwall (or the tanwalls are too expensive for my wallet).
Don't worry mate, those that complain hate nostalgia almost as much as they do colour!
Here's some of mine over the years to make people's teeth itch. Not boring colours, anodised stuff including rotas, Orange full suss, three types of Kashima and even a bit of mismatched anodising with garage spare seat post mounted mudguard! Won't someone think about the children!!!!!!!! Oh, and an amber walled, 26", flat bared bright yellow retro bike just to finish them off. 😪 🙄 😲
