Aesthetically pleasing bikes

that

There is something amazing in the simplicity of such minimalism

And the new Treks are some of the best looking bikes I’ve seen for a long time. Love the little details like the matching pinstripes on the forks.

Seconded. They really have lost their ‘solid, steady, boring’ image recently and come up with some lovely looking bikes.

I particularly like this

my old fixie

old singular

and i really like my new 456

Gosh rudeboy is a closet roadie. Those bikes make me cringe. Yeugh.
Funnily enough the ones I like are mountain bikes.

Talking of Treks –

then theres the classic.

I’m still waiting to get one of these, 1979 Huffy Good Vibrations

As a design exercise I like this:

And just for sheer silliness I like this:

Lots of mingers on here (plenty I’d love to own mind you) that old hei hei is a lovely clean frame let down by pretty much everything bolted onto it.

The peg things quite nice and I like postierich’s frame colour.

The cinellis are swoopy frames with orrible angular/spinldly stuff bolted on and the trek DH has some much vaseline smeared on the camera lense I’m surprised you can see it at all (but maybe thats the idea?)

simplicity

I find the lines of my Dynoglide pleasing to the eye.

OK, I know its not everyone cup of tea, but I still think it deserves a mention here:

One of the mechanics had one at our LBS and I remember been blown away by the external butting.

Finally got to have a spin on one at the Malvern Classics and remember to this day how harsh it felt, pop went my dreams 😉

Apologies for poor pic quality. Dekerf. In this case, a Generation. Disk mount supplied by Chris DK and added later.

A vote for the San Andreas as well. A real marmite bike that you’ll either love or hate. I’ve owned two – the last one was a plain brushed finish and looked beautiful.

The 1955 cruiser wins so far. Elegance

I rather like these as i think they are quite elelgant and at the risk of getting flamed also rivendells.

Second the Sovereign, looks like a bunch of scaffolding and then you see it in the flesh and it looks spot on…

I’ll be amazed if that link works…

Some stunning bikes on here and some totally plain looking run of the mill crap too! A lot of people hate my new one so they’ll really not like these 🙂

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://stylecrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/stealth01a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://stylecrave.com/2008-12-02/the-cannondale-stealth-concept/&usg=__vU2v7Ds6JEL7xlNzasX3k_wp6ic=&h=373&w=570&sz=39&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=EPhRlL-W4jgdwM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcannondale%2Bstealth%2Bconcept%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

mmm, a few of you like classic looks, I got this for sale if anyones interested. £100

allow me, on and on…

Another vote for the ‘San Andreas’, first saw Pauls Smith’s in Bike pron in MBUK around 95, took 3 years of saving……….very much regret selling the last one i had!

Personaly i love the look of a nice ti or steel singlespeed, in work so i cant post pics 🙁 i love the simplicity and the clean lines.

here you go simon..

The Retrotec is lovely, but I think GT got the look better.

the retrotec is lovely in the flesh even better gt is nice too. Fancied a retrotec but standover looks mad 🙂

And

Ive got one of these, lovely.

Soveriegn’s are taking my fancy. And PostieRich’s simple machine. Hmmmm nice.

I’ve always loved these bikes.

[/url]

I appreciate that cargos are not to everyone’s taste, but this is currently probably the nicest one out there.

There’s a lot of bikes people think are cool or look rad but not a lot of actually aesthetically pleasing ones :-/ That includes the Orange Five and I bloody have one!

Anyway…

Kona Hei Hei

early full susser

2010 Ibis Mojo slx (prototype)

lol at ‘genuine mincer’ 🙂