Good bikes that just look cheap.

Oh, and the white parts thing is just the sign of a fashion dying out… hence me just buying some white bars for pennies… fashion huh. Same with all those colour matched decals on forks and wheels… the end point of that fashion indicating “expensive” and moving to “cheap” is probably coming soon…

BIKENEIL and teetosugars,I have an orange single pivot superlight with everything in hope blue,and blue odi end caps,I did have an e13 blue single ring but thought it looked a bit cheap,you would love it.

the end point of that fashion indicating “expensive” and moving to “cheap” is probably coming soon…

“fashion, something so ugly it has to be changed ever 15 minutes ..”

There is an easy way to avoid colour based fashion faux pas….

Black

A few of the high-end Ti framebuilders have got full sus wrong in the past. Many have given up.
This is still available though:

Wow. That Moots is hideous.

I need to go google the Moots seatpost girl so that I an still like them.

Jones bikes. Hideous and expensive.

“fashion, something so ugly it has to be changed ever 15 minutes ..”

But style is something versatile …
Great song. Thanks for taking me straight back to the nineties.

All TT bikes that have the seatpost/saddle like this.

Have to agree there. That bike is gopping!

Jones bikes. Hideous and expensive.

Yep.

I like the moots…..

to quote Dolly Parton,

It costs a lot to look this cheap

Also, there is a difference between ‘gopping’ and ‘cheap’.

basic round tubes with no flair, that kind of thing.

I like classy, old-skool, subtle tubing, with no swoopy fancy shapes or odd cross sections

Lapierre especially comes to mind here….A lot of Cannondale road bikes to me just look cheap also,

Funny, I have a lapierre Helius which IS all swoopy fancy tube cross sections and I like it despite not because of it.

I MUCH prefer something like a Cannondale

or a Cervelo

with minimal shouty look at me shaping.

These are pretty and expensive

problem is your paying £400 for a Chinese factory open-mould frame and £1200 for the paint job 🙄

And we can’t have a bike aesthetics thread without a pic of the gorgeous Gulf racing Baum

A year ago I would have said ‘almost any Nukeproof’. I think the designs are much nicer this year though. They’re finally moving away from that yellow!

As for mountain bikes; any of those cotic bfe’s that were blue/green/purple. Horrid colours, and they all seem to be bought by slightly thick northern men

Wow. Slightly thick I can live with, but northern?

A year ago I would have said ‘almost any Nukeproof’. I think the designs are much nicer this year though. They’re finally moving away from that yellow!

Have to disagree there! The 15 ones look a lot worse than the 14 ones imo.

I think Giant have a knack of making their bikes look cheap, mostly courtesy of dodgy paintjobs.

Speaking of Giant…

Anything with Stans rims.

I’ve a set of Flows and keep meaning to rip the stickers off them, utterly, utterly hideous graphics.

Also the Specialized Pitch looked cheap when close up, saying that it was a fantastic bike for the price though!

I’ve a set of Flows and keep meaning to rip the stickers off them, utterly, utterly hideous graphics.

I wouldn’t say they’re hideous, but they don’t match much.

Do it. Hairdryer FTW.