[Closed] Who has the blingest bike on here?

*Ian Pinder to the forum please*

andy

SSSTU?

Toons to the forum x2.

PS - Sorry your cube isnt really bling - good bike but not bling to me.

i no, not bling at all but could give me some ideas!! haha

Slx crank bling, bah here's where its at crank wise 😉
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stu and sheldon have some nice kit 🙂

[url= http://hagoromo.blogspot.com/2008/03/colnago-mexico-gold-plated.html ]you want bling[/url]

Sorry but that doesn't really count as bling. It's nice but it's not bling.

This is bling:

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Bling = something that is pimped way beyond what is necessary!

i like to think my bike is reasonably bling for me. nice smatering of green and white. would love to spend on some ti bolts.

Toons to the forum x2.

2nd that

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A build based on top end stuff if ever I saw one.

and he got one of the reverb first. 🙄

I've just ordered some gold braided BMX linear cable to use as gear outer for my lil bling'bred 😛

Pimp is always necessary crazylegs 😉

Toons to the forum x2.

2nd that

Even if his spokes dont match - cough cough 😉

opened a can of worms tonight Chris, my Zesty is pretty pimped I blame Ian Morgan TBH

I don't mind spending on good stuff, but there's a point after which you're only buying for blings sake.

This was probably as much as I'll ever spend on a bike.
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Not overly pimp but what I like and could afford at the time! I like it.

Hornet - very nice subtle blinging, congrats.

My Ion is..

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Waiting for Tim/Zangolin to post his mmmBop which seems to have more gold bits each time I see it 😀

This could get interesting! To me something you can just buy from any old bikeshop isn't bling, mass produced stuff just doesnt do it imo. Everyone will have a different idea of what counts though! Bling is in the eye of the beholder 🙂
Bling or pimp to me is something a little bit different and/or something a bit special or where a lot of thought has gone into.
For instance I've had 4 mango sapphires mounted into my sterling silver Independent Fabrication headbadge, that's bling in my book 😉

This thread is surprisingly light on Knights of Niche - have they all de-blinged?

EDIT - Darn - while I was typing too

This has got to be the blingest ride that actually feels like your riding on air: it's nickname is the jet.

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Sadly up for sale as I'm in to my motorbikes more and more these days.

bling for bling sake? yup, few pics of some components from my new build - frame pending, cannot get the right one

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Carbon337 matching spokes for especially for you

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It's mine......FACT !

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Igm, maybe they are all blinged out and imploded with self loving?

Changes for next week, reset headset and 160mm Devilles

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Mamadirt - gold braided cables - where where WHERE??????
I need them more than oxygen. My Pitch is going full on 70's disco as fast as possible - are they ok as gear cables??

i cant work out how to post pics but i like to thing i overkill bling

[url= http://www.bmxcity.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=2333 ]There you go Robdob[/url] 😛

Yes, they're linear like standard gear outer and not spiral wound, only difference is that they're slightly thicker (5mm instead of 4mm) so you'll need to use brake outer ferrules - standard gear inner wire will run in them fine though.

Oooh, littlegirlbunny, that's rather nice 😛

Ta-Daa

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tollah - Member
Igm, maybe they are all blinged out and imploded with self loving?

Nahh - I reckon you've all headed to a higher plane of existence where titanium is regarded as a Halfords special material.

I should never have typed what I did - you got me perfectly with the timing of your post

littlegirlbunny's is lavly!! 🙂

Aye - apart from those blue nipples.

Well I think bling isn't necessarily the most expensive parts. My Pitch Pro (brown anodised) is going the 70's disco look - gold pedals, bashguard and I just got these Spank Royala bars and stem which (it says on the package) are 24ct gold plated - that's bling!
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I like Geetee1974's Nicolai, that is pretty bling. IanPinder probably wins it though.

i dont worry about bling, its about function baby!

i dont worry about bling, its about function baby!

Hey, I got it to work perfectly for me [b][i]first[/i][/b], now it's PARTY TIME!

I have a nice enough bike but it will never reach the higher echelons of bling, basically because I can barely afford the rent let alone bling bike bits, and it's not important anyway. . When I see someone on a totally bling bike, for some reason I expect them to ride amazingly as well - it's not the case. I am not the most skillful rider, and I am certain, buying lighter/shinier stuff isn't gonna make me any better.But I like pictures 🙂

but I am jealous of that park tools stand. want!

tollah do I know you?
I don't do bling myself, but high street parts bling?
I seem to recall the IF with bejeweled headset? now that's bling is that yours I'm thinking of.

😉 @ igm, they must be watching!
I'm not sure oldgit, I've got a SpotBrand with a silver headset spacer? Maybe that's what you're thinking of? The sapphires I havecare mounted in the headbadge and match the paint on the bike.

but I am jealous of that park tools stand. want!

£50 at the Go Outdoors sale, I have literally waited 15 years to buy a workstand, within 2 minutes of using it I kicked myself for not buying one sooner!!

Bling schming.

If I had a £150 rear mech and £450 cranks my bike wouldn't leave the house for fear of getting it spoilt.

That said, it's fascinating to see what people come up with given an outrageous supply of cash and imagination.

I think it might have been either Salsaboy or coffeeking that had the jeweled IF or Spot.

Salsaboy has a jewelled headset spacer if memory serves me right.

Mine's pretty bling (for off the shelf components) but as a general rule I never buy major bits new, and try to pay a maximum of 50% of rrp. Only the forks, bars, cables and grips are an exception to that rule on this bike. There are things that could be bingier, but wouldn't be as strong, and I'm a big clumsy fit who likes to ride it more than look at it.

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Do we have a winner?

It said blinging, not minging!

that was a crc email promo bike 🙂

I'm tempted to post mine but I have no XTR or Chris King components which takes it out of the running IMO.

king and xtr not bling, just functional

Functional, yes but still bling! More so than XT and hope anyway.

igm - Member

Nahh - I reckon you've all headed to a higher plane of existence where titanium is regarded as a Halfords special material.

Nahn - They just CBA to post up any pictures of their unobtanium egochariots. 😉

As tollah said back there.

An off the shelf production bike can never be propper bling no matter how many colour coordinated parts it's got on it.

Nice maybe yes but bling no.

Toons wins!

Bling ish...

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Now with Talas 32 FIT and full X0 gears for added bling

Since you asked for me

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SLX crank blingfail. 😉

Reckon mine's bling-ish. The red detail bits are: hubs, disk carriers, piston caps, brake levers, brake resevoir caps, bar clamps, headset, seat QR

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Where are the 7 sevens?

I always back a winner 8)

druidh - Member

Aye - apart from those blue nipples.

you know you love my blue nipples druidh, don't deny it

Where are the 7 sevens?

sold, stripped down and parted out

Not enough CK in this thread for me.

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Just needs some XTR.

Full carbon ss would be quite bling...

Oooooo Littlegirlbunny that's niiiiiice!

Is this bling?

As stated earlier, bling is going above and beyond the 'off the shelf' variety of bike that we see (mostly) in this thread. Anyone can get their credit card out, spend a few hours on the internet ordering stuff and claim that their bike is bling.

To that end I submit Flameboy
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CharlieMungus

is this bling

nope, it's been vajazzled.

dirtyrider - Member

Where are the 7 sevens?

sold, stripped down and parted out

One of them still lives on 29er Sola SS

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http://www.amazingluxurylife.com/tag/swarovski-bicycle/

Not very bling. And it's not any more.
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Can't do pictures. Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Would someone adwise me. Cheers P

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Not sure if mine is bling or not?

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Surely [i]Bling[/i] means 'in yer face' and 'a bit vulgar'. Subtle sophistication is where it's at really 8)

not mine, mate's bike

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...that ok not at its most bling.

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