[Closed] Ugliest bike in the world, ever?

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The paperclip bike, without a doubt.

tempted to say the marin alchemist.. but that's probably a bit mean.

WHyte PRST4 thing, hang on....

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Any most other full sussers made by marin probably

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But it makes up for it in performance...

Wheres all the blind riders with the Orange 5 nomination? 😉

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Dango - admittedely the seat post is a w£$k but other than that surely the Zinn looks like the silouette of most XC/Train bikes currently available?

any of those road bikes plastered in logos, gaudy paint jobs & deep section wheels with MASSIVE writing on them

I quite like simple road bikes' lines (even like the planet-x ones) but logos almost always ruin them

I dont know if this is so ugly its beautiful, or if its just so ugly.

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any softride bike

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any slingshot bike, I couldve done better in my shed

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what a waste of XTR..

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Dango - admittedely the seat post is a w£$k but other than that surely the Zinn looks like the silouette of most XC/Train bikes currently available?

What 300mm long stems and a 26 in the front and a 29 in the rear

Spotted in Morzine, last month....

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WTF is that saddle?!?! AND 2 steering dampers?!?! WTF????LOL!!!!! OMG!?!?!

loving the homebrew steering damper :-)!

I think the 24" rear wheel is to counterract an overlong shock

possibly

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Bloke in Morzine has realised his mistakes, gone to the opticians - but it's shut! Bummer.

Bloke in Morzine has realised his mistakes, gone to the opticians - but it's shut! Bummer.

That road has a very, very slight up-slope on it. He couldn't even ride it along there....
We were in a cafe opposite. It made my day!

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I'm having trouble keeping my lunch down

Anything ridden by SinglespeedStu apart from his BlackSheep of course 😉

Lol, there are some absolutely minging crates there.

Great !, keep'em coming.

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Solo

come on you all know I win this hands down

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and if thats not good enough the first protoype was even worse shame i cant find any pics of it

Hey; that whyte's lovely - just like mine 🙂

I suspect that make me biased though.

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any slingshot bike, I couldve done better in my shed

Ugly as they are, Slingshots ride really well!!!

i think you will find i may be slightly bias I own two,,, and had a lot to do with it's birth

Ugly as they are, Slingshots ride really well!!!

I've just noticed the STEM on the Softride bike...!

YIKES!!

@ade - really ? I lusted after a PRST from the moment I saw the one hanging up in Bike '99 with PROTOTYPE across the frame - I finally got hold of a brand new one a month or so ago - the last one ATB sales had; I'm led to believe 🙂 - They'd run out of forks; so mine came with some from a JW-4

i was on that stand at bike 99 lurking with the prototype chatting do punters ,,, I still have the very first prototype,,, well half of it hanging in my garage the forks were made of 1.5" by 3/4" box aluminium cut and shut ,, it left two tyre tracks in the mud even when ridden in a straight line,, but the front end still worked better than telescopic forks

No paperclip yet!!

I probably had a chat to you then 🙂 If I remember correctly; it was paired with the Maximum Mountain Bike stand; I won the Marin courtesy of the Downhill Mountain Bike Arcade Game / competition thingie that was there - happy days !

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Simple bikes look good. This looks like a ladies hybrid has crashed with a shopping trolley.

That proflex looks great. Early models were made by Serota and pretty good bikes, also the girvin forks worked pretty well consider what else you could get. The later models with fat ally tubes that kept breaking were rubbish.

Flatboy - I still want one of those Alpinestars.

Hey, I reckon a lot of those bikes look great - especially the Whyte.

I reckon the belt drive bike that I rode at this years SSUK should qualify as an ugly duckling though.

Bikemomkey beat me to it!

And for all you old school STW heads, here's one from the archives....The Paperclip Bike!

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I've never ridden one of those Whytes, how do the forks compare with something intended for purpose?

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A rocker link longer than the forth bridge doesn't help matters 😆

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Hand crafted by a blind hobbit maybe?

It's not just the design of the Paperclip, it's also the spiel on the webpage.

http://www.geocities.com/sjodesign/

Made from aluminium the frame is light and beautifully balanced giving a more enjoyable ride. This balance coupled with the positive flex, which propels the bike forward with greater ease than a normal full suspension frame, has given me my ideal mountain bike.

Winning this should be easy. Just combine the two things responsible for the ugliest bikes ever in the world and combine them, search for biks of that nature and bob's your uncle, ugly bike ahoy.

so, google..... 'German' '29er' here we go.

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I've never ridden one of those Whytes, how do the forks compare with something intended for purpose?

think braking on a waterbed

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44 posts before someone uses the words shopping trolley to describe the look of a Jones.

STW ain't like it used to be. 🙄

Flatboy - I still want one of those Alpinestars

me too 😀

the girvin forks worked pretty well consider what else you could get.

yep i had some of the carbon ones on my bike for a while, they were really good despite some peculiar brake dive.

Had an Alpinestars raised chain stay bike though can't remember the model, bright yellow though. Great to ride and climbed well (Mind you I was thin and fast then). Had replacment frame as all welds cracked at head tube, seat tube, stay and top tube. Importer said we've not seen this before, had to remind the them that Tim Davis (Alpinestar Pro) had got through eight frames already. Sold it as soon as frame arrived.

That Nicolai is something to behold isn't it?

Hi Ade!

Sorry, but I think the PRST has a brutish charm about it! Pure engineers beauty!

Paul

I'm still refining that design me, you and Brant were looking at btw!..

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[i]Part[/i] of me thinks this is a good look.

Right then...

Please tell me you mean the hat?

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Samuri - You have to wonder why some one would build a purple single speed with lefty and red side walls.. but then you see the Garry Fisher name on the frame and it all just make sense and is no longer ugly.

[url= ]not sure ugly or stunning ,,,, [/url]

but check out his other creations
[url= http://www.ollierkkila.com ]mad genius[/url]

WTF is that saddle?!?! AND 2 steering dampers?!?! WTF????LOL!!!!! OMG!?!?!

To stop the bars from spinning round either way/keep control I guess?

We were taling the other day- how come you dont see Ellsworth Jokers/Isis anymore? They all snapped?!!

[url= ]another from the mad genius[/url]

That forkless cruiser is odd, but not ugly. 🙂

I like that..

That forkless cruiser is odd, but not ugly.

WANT!

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Looks like someone got their frame broken on the plane, so decided to build the bike up using the bike box. And forgot to put a chain on it.

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LOL @ Darell

How far down Spooky Wood do you think you could get on the forkless crusier ? Could it do the red downhill at fort bill ?

full suss clown bike

quality 😆

How far down Spooky Wood do you think you could get on the forkless crusier ? Could it do the red downhill at fort bill ?

i doubt some of the "mountainbikes" on here could either

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google..... 'German' '29er' here we go

PMSL! Classic!
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singlespeedstu - Member
44 posts before someone uses the words shopping trolley to describe the look of a Jones.

STW ain't like it used to be.

Just what I was thinking Stu

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Some of Sheldon Brown's work was a bit minging. He came up with a Karate Monkey with 2 lots of everything once.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/surly-rohloff/pages/1-rightside.html

ahhhhhhh my eyes, take it away

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