Aesthetically pleasing mountain bikes

Sam knows how to make a bike that rides nice and also looks good.

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Needing more pictures of the Engima posted by dickie, lovely, simply lovely, even with those silly wheels.

Thomson layback post – denied!

This, for a FS 29er, has an inherent ‘rightness’ to it.

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I’d do bad things for one of these…

The original and the best…

david.

I’m devastated. 😆

dickie – Member
My current fav’s

Yup.

Yup.

Also the Tallboy C really tickles me

fizzcist those bikes are grim….like granny pron with added scat. 😯

Klunk – Member

the attractiveness of a designers bike was proportional to the amount of sex they got.

with the general conclusion that Cy was a very tired man.

Presumably there was a bit of a drought while he was designing the Hemlock (I love how mine rides, but it does look like a trebuchet)

Two triangles is the way to go, but I do like the Trek Sawyer posted up the page. The standard fork’s a bit weird and the very modern finishing kit is all wrong, mind.

singlespeedstu – Member
david.

I’m devastated.

😀

At least its not sporting some matching fuddyduddymamil brown leather effect bar tape.

Don’t let make it happen!

Ooh I’ve got a reet stiffy looking at all these ere’ niners.

That yellow one looks proper light and stuff! duntet! ?!

Saw one of these at FoD on Friday and it looked properly nice….

http://www.pipedreamcycles.com/product/skyline-r931/

Need to save up lots of pennies though, and hope they can be convinced to do an XL size…

Having looked at all those posted…beauty is definately in the eye of the beholder!

Two that spring to mind

This isn’t mine, but ever since I’ve seen these I’ve wanted one based purely on how amazing they look:

I’m torn by this one… think it might be the stormtrooper thing reminding me of my childhood:

and this one has a retro futurism thing going on:

Niners just look right ( I have one 😆 )

Engins, luvlie..

But there are so many bespoke builders out there that this thread could get clogged up with pron.. 😉

^ yes jive, reminds me of some Hepworth sculpture

The Kleins unfortunately, remind me of this

Some people seem to be confused what a mountain bike is. It’s easier to make a bicycle beautiful if it doesn’t have to work off road?

Was just working through this thread and thinking ‘good grief, no Kleins’ when that post blew it.

litevillequite partial to the liteville 301

I give up – how do you put images in posts here?

Its a bike Jim, but not as we know it:

also, this is without a doubt aesthetically pleasing:

The Liteville looks right, until the suspension moves….
Doesn’t bother me though, i seriously considered one

Yum.

@ M1llh0use – ta muchly!

and the thread-winner:

And it bucks the trend by going for function over form and achieving none.

Easy for me to say this, but:

Alpine 160
Cotic Soul.

I love the look of my Fat bike… I guess it’s just how’ I’d imagined a bike for off road fun would’ve looked like as a kid.. 😳

Cotic soul in orange.

Old kona HTs (which cy followed), especially the hei hei Ti.

For curvy new stuff the Ibis Mojo HD in white.

Quite like the flowy top tube of corratec HTs, which the OPs first and third pics followed, only to be ruined by having front ends looking like they’ve been crashed into a wall.

I always loved the look of these so i decided to get one this year!!

Well I think the thread is just about ready for…

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(well, people keep posting hideous bikes that they think look good, at least we can all agree this one’s disgusting)

i like ellsworths even that dare! but then I’m a wrong’un

The innertube wrapped round the chainstay finishes it off nicely.

This is like a rorschach test- anyone who looks at that bike and notices the innertube is obviously diseased.

Probably not far wrong.

Can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet….

A bike cannot be aesthetically pleasing if it has:

Black seatpost, headset, pedals, bars, stem or rims. They should of course be polished or silver.
Any type of hydroforming (or ming-butting, which is the correct technical term).
An inline post.
Rear suspension.
A saddle, grips or cables in any colour other than black.
A suspension or dropper post.
A rear tyre wider than the front.

Come on folks, it’s not rocket surgery, let’s put a bit of effort in, eh?