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Sol's Trek is mainstream tat 😉
I'll post my maybe 'bling' bike when it's built 😆
IanMmmm, I spotted your Hammerschmitd, how are you finding it then ? Ive got one and have been using it since Oct now on my Transition Covert.
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Here's mine.
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Custom paint job - 2011 Transition Covert
Chris King Hubs
Hammerschmidt
2011 Fox 36's Talas
800mm bars
Braided hoses
Saint brakes
Thompson stem and post (Uppy downy on order)
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Finally. Mastered putting up the pictures.
Picture by previous owner. I've just changed pedals and saddle.
Trimix, more pics are required for pimpin pimpin covert.
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And for sale!
Trimix - get some more shots of the paint work on the Covert up please. It looks sparkly 😉
Mine has electric sex welding.
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It's the little details that do it, Tune Prince/Princess hubs, full length Alligator i-links, every bolt that could be Ti is, pre-production Formula R1s (bit less bling now they are actually in production), etc.
Yes it has been ridden, but photo was taken before the first ride.
Something even more bling on it's way (new bike thread to follow soon)
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Need more pics.....
Not the blinginest one here, but i iz rockin sum bling.
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mines pretty bling
indy fab ti deluxe 29er with split stay for when i get my belt drive kit
paul comp hubs and cranks, phil woods bb niner carbon forks just need some ti jones bars and inline ti seatpost now to finish it off 😉
Jeez there is some tat people call bling round these parts 😉
Yeah, I do need more Pics. I will sort some and upload them. I got the paint done at Argos. I spent ages with them discussing the colours and how to get the sparkley finish. They used the largest metal flake you can put through a paint gun onto a standard metalic colour, then double lacured on top. Looks different in different light. When the sunlight catches it just right it looks magic, in dull light it just looks emererald green.
Some people dont like the colour, but hey, its my bike and Im riding it 🙂
I have fallen off and scratched it, which hurt for about five mins.
I really don't like niner carbons other than on the air 9! They look horrible.
Sorry!
Niner forks are luvverly
It's pretty much there after just over a year of constant tweaking. For trail days I use a set of Crossmax SXs. The nice touches are the Stoy shock. Ti spring, shockmount bolts, rotor bolts and brake mount bolts. NSB brake mounts, cane creek angleset, Straitline levers and Point 1 Podium pedals. I'm also loving the 745mm Sunline V1 bars.
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[b]ashfanman[/b]
Who cares. That's one of the nicest bikes I've ever seen. Stunning.
You've reawoken the "I want a Ti hardtail" itch, damn you.
Thanks Ash :o) Needs a wash after a very muddy ride yesterday though! Some more pics here if you are interested;
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Nothing with silly bars can be considered bling - that's like putting a diamond on a tramp and saying that he's bling 😉
How about some 'retro' bling for your delectation...
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Now sporting a slightly less gauche look, more functional though... and I'm happy to ride it in this guise as well, no fears of getting her muddy 🙂 Soon to be converted to a SS as well for additional simplicity and clean lines 8)
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My old 223:
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Resprayed in metallic Cherry Red
Fox 40's
Saint cranks
Hope 6 pot / 4 pot brakes
Thomson seatpin
King headset
Was the last new bike (or frame) that I bought, everything since has been secondhand. Sold a good few years ago and now replaced by the following ratty looking things:
Orange Patriot 66 / FR prototype
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Sunday WC with uplift scratches galore
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Chameleon in singlespeed mode (and yes, the saddle is too high - it got lowered about a minute after the shot)
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This is [i]Bling[/i]:
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Or in keeping with mamadirt's research:
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It's as bling as my budget (and wife) will allow!
psychle your ibis is the most horrible bike that i have ever lusted after... 🙂
some bucks spent on here!!
cubemeup - Membersome bucks spent on here!!
Some bucks wasted. Some horrid bikes.
A wee bit of ti
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One of the old girl
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I have this
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Here are a few of mine for your consideration
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Custom painted Cotic Soul
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Restored Fat Yo Eddy with discs and 2001 SID
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92 Boulder Defiant with white Onza Porcs
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And some modern gubbins
Here's mine.
2010 Ibis Mojo SL medium naked carbon frame and blue links
2010 Rockshock Revelation Team 150s
SRAM XX shifters, front mech and cranks
SRAM X0 rear shifter
SRAM 10 speed XT cassette
Chris King hubs with Flow rims and Conti Rubber Queen 2.2 black chilli tyres
Formula the OneMY10 brakes 180 mm front and rear
Sunline V1 745 bars
Raceface 80 mm stem
Time carbon pedals
27.5lbs and feels less on the climbs 🙂
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Photo taken back end of last year up in the Dyfi forest at the top of one of the Enduro descents called 'The Hazels/The Builth descent' depending on who you are 🙂
I tried to link the photo off my FlickR account, but for some reason it wouldn't show the picture - no idea why.
Ladies and germs we have a winner!
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Made me smile in a very big way.
Thankyou for sharing. 😆
What GeeTee said - i want it!
That is THE bike isn't it Tops, the one we all wanted.
The one and only Fat Chance Yo Eddy.
I was a heart beat away from buying one back in 1991, but I ended up with a Bontrager instead.
I so should have bought the Yo Eddy.
solar1
i hate you! 😀
the yo eddy and the boulder were two of the bikes i craved 20 years ago!
my friend has a broken yo eddy hanging in his work shop. i think i spend more time looking at that then the new stuff he makes.
That Boulder has it for me - that bike was so ahead of it's time. Just take those nasty tyres off!
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This is Surly Pugsley bling! Provided free by Mother Nature.
gary
www.pugsley-on-patrol.org.uk
dunno if bling and bikes fit really?
"Surely Bling means 'in yer face' and 'a bit vulgar'. Subtle sophistication is where it's at really " ....agreed.
'fashion, something so ugly it has to change every 15 minutes,
but style is more versatile, it's in the way you walk or the way you smile'
i don't remember the band but i like the lyric. so my vote is the singular rigid ti 29er with loads of carbon for being new yet timeless, and pure class.
Does this count??
I think its got to be up there..
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Josh
solar1, Onzo brakes too. Umm nice, I used to have a set of them, really well made (although not that great in function!), and well bling at the time 🙂