[Closed] Bikes only a mother bike could love? Show me your ugly.

here is my nastiest, although I have to admit obessive modification since this photo...

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I like that (maybe only cos its a Pro-Flex!) How old is it?

My shitting dog's quite ugly.

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C'mon, someone must own a Decathlon bike!

have to say i quite like all of the above!
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apparantly mine ^^^ is not everyones cup of tea 😀

more [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-ss-build-pics-voodoo-wanga-d ]here[/url]

What about that Seven TT bike, or the FS from that thread the other day, both truly hideous.

A lot of folk think my Fuel's ugly, I'm not a huge fan aesthetically:

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Not mine, but holy moly is this a munter!

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😉

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you guys realy need to try harder

Jones if fugly and then some. I think your own mother would disown you.

i would drown you at birth if you looked like ade ward's pic 🙂

Where are all the mavrick's

whytes?

I really miss my Tomac Eli - RIP with cracked welds like the rest of them 🙁

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Ok here's my old maverick.
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I'm no good with linking pikturs and stuff
But from the roadbike world I'd recommend* you check out...

3)Any recent Pinarello
2)Wilier Imperiale
1)How could it be other than THE DEROSA TANGO in the top spot
* actually dont check them out, you'll pure boak!

Here's my Decathlon bike. It's not that ugly is it?
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(note:- bar ends removed after a tree-hooking incident at Cannock Chase 😳 )

My Klein Mantra. I quite like it, mind.

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west kipper - Member

I'm no good with linking pikturs and stuff

Or spelling 😉 and most certainly have no taste. Ok the Derosa is nasty.
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But from the roadbike world I'd recommend* you check out...

3)Any recent Pinarello

WTF!? What are you on about, Pinarellos are simply lovely!

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Yes please!

that de rosa looks like Beth Ditto in lycra, lumps n bumps in ALL the wrong places

http://www.contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/beth_ditto_5398722

njee20
WTF!? What are you on about, Pinarellos are simply lovely!

tazzymtb - Member
that de rosa looks like Beth Ditto in lycra

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Can't believe those Jones frame and fork cost 4k! I'd pay a quid, nothing more.

Don't have it any more; I was 'experimenting'!
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mind you I've owned some ugly bikes,

Felt virtue - top bike, fast as **** but ugly
Sinister splinter- Built like a brick outhouse definately not pretty
swoopy framed mount vision in pearly white- fab trail bike, looks like a hunched back munter
lots of on-ones - agicultural welding of gas pipes but I love them

I seem to choose bikes that suit me 😀

The point about all the strange fork and stay designs that you see on lots of modern Italian carbon road frames is the designers clearly have no idea what they're doing, or what they're trying to achieve,
OK, you can commend them for trying to be different, but thats about it.

nice voodoo dambala, not sure about the drops

And to add to the above, With most ugly MTBs, their 'differently comelyness' is a function of things like shock placement, pivots and such.
With road bikes THERE IS NO EXCUSE, OK? 🙂

west kipper
The point about all the strange fork and stay designs that you see on lots of modern Italian carbon road frames is the designers clearly have no idea what they're doing

I've got one of these...

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Who remembers [url= http://www.kirk-bicycles.co.uk/Kirk-Models.htm ]Kirk Precision[/url]? Though I never owned one, I found their ugliness strangely endearing.

I remember them. Made of magnesium I think. Odd, but somewhat likeable.

Shall we raise the benchmark a bit?

http://www.xylonbikes.com/cell-en.html

I,m no good with pictures but surely this is the ugliest of them all. And I have two Whytes:

http://www.bikepedia.com/quickbike/BikeSpecs.aspx?Year=2002&Brand=Whyte&Model=PRST-1+XTR&Type=bike

and it was $4000 aaaaaaaaargh

Clink - Member

Don't have it any more; I was 'experimenting'!

Clubber's Klein Mantra is the winner, not only for being a minger, but being a singlespeed full susser with a rigid fork. That proper inovation, that! Well done, Dylan! 😉

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on and on, someone brought one of those?? must be a bugger with the mud in the spring, summer, autumn and winter!

Never seen one in the flesh thought it was a magazine only special!

On and off, a bike made out of a pan scourer, thats pretty minging!
At least its got flat bars though.

The ugliest one I ever built . . .

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Strangely it rode quite nicely - very 'sit down, shut up, hold on', but I just couldn't get my head around those looks 😐

whyte ,, form follows function,, I also have two ,,

but only I can make it uglier,,

Mr Reluctant - Ithankyouverymuch 😉

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Shame it never really fitted me, it was great for big Scottish mountain days.

ooh kirk precision - my cousin had one of those, we used to refer to it as 'the fridge'

I've got a Carerra Fury, that's ugly and chav

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Any full suss Orange should do.

Surprised no one has mentioned Thorn here yet. I like them, but they look functional, especially with a rack....

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Also surprised no one has mentioned any full sus Marin (that I've seen). Horrible looking bikes, that swing-arm is disgusting.

And this perhaps?

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Or does it look good? I cant decide.

Realman - what the 'kin hell is that?!?

Another vote for the Kirk here at the hands-down winner - although when it came out I did (being young and impressionable) drool over the photos of it in MBUK.

36"er?

looks good to me!!

Yeah its a 36er.

This ones the real ugo though.

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Hmm, this has degenerated into "bikes I've found on t'internet".

Here's my much-loved and SSUK-proven Dad bike.
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Cheers, al.

(To Please The Swede) My Old Maverick...
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My Current Maverick...
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My Giant...
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My Gary Fisher Rig (perhaps not quite so ugly, but it's Purple FFS!)...
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And perhaps my only good looking bike, my Genesis Altitude... Though many would argue that the Maverick fork makes it ugly by default!
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Just to add to the sin, I've owned some other UGLY bikes in the past too... Anybody remember Orange's first attempt at Full Suspension, the X1? Yup I had one of them! Remember the Bright Blue/Red/Yellow 97 ProFlex Animal with Red Girvin Chubby forks? Yup I had one of them too! In fact I've had a few pretty gopping bikes, but for the most part they've ridden very well despite their looks...

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as seen in france by some of my mates, brooklyn rubber ducky.

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Park ranger

etc

People keep telling me Idrives are ugly, tbh I can't see it but the masses
have spoken.

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