Good looking full suss bikes?

Oh no. Boggin’

That Frameworks? up top is lovely and I like the Privateer and Airdrop as well (maybe some nostalgia for the older Kona bikes and Turners). That transition is proper nice as well.

But of a soft spot for Nicolai as well though it’s a fine line between purposeful and a looking like explosion in a bridge factory.

Really dislike Giant, Spesh, the Orbeas and the Scotts, all snoopy and yuck and the less said about Ibis the better.

Just in case people cba to look at page 1

After not being able to get that Spur, I built up this. Definitely not as pretty as the Transition but for a SC maybe not too bad. Lack of parallelism of the seatstay and top tube is a disappointment obviously.
A big part of a bike build is understatement. No orange grips / pedals / spring.

And no swoopy / bent top tube. This applies to both full sus and hardtails.

Yeah, that Transition is It isn’t it 👌

If I get another FS, I think it will actually be a Transition. Just been eyeing up this Smuggler

I want a Spur. I’ll never be able to afford one, but I want one just the same. 😁

Last Tarvo Acto5 and Ra, probably the best looking I’ve seen in person.

Raaw look great too.

Unno looked terrible.

New smuggler looks great. Shame about the price of a frame!

I like the look of my flaremax. Not neat and tidy with external cables but I like the skinny tubes look. If only I’d been more patient and got the gloss purple one.

Depends on your aesthetic I guess. I REALLY like skinny tubes and a form follows function look, so to my eye my bike looks great.

That Enve and Ohlins equipped Stanton caught my eye for the wrong reasons, wtf is going on with the routing.

Commencals from a few years back had a nice purposeful look to them. Saw one in raw in the flesh and it looked even better.

Have not quite cracked image linking but a link from this fair website:

https://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/commencal-meta-am-29-team-review/

i have a starling and think it’s quite, quite pretty.

so bums to you that don’t

so to my eye my bike looks great.

That its mostly hidden in that shot with light doesnt inspire confidence. Its interesting how many photos in the thread are from somewhat odd angles.

My aeris looks fine when I am on it so who cares about how good looking it is for anyone watching. Frankly I am far more offputting that the poor bike for some trying a decent photo.

so to my eye my bike looks great.

I like the look of my Spesh ebike, but to the majority of other people it’s without doubt, absolutely gopping 🤣

Think we have a winner with Transition, there’s been some lovely example posted, bravo! Egerie also floats my boat, as I think the Curtis might if I can decide to get along with the swing arm.

For someone with strong opinions I assume Scotroutes is trolling with that eye bleach Occam? The other Orbea is better but “Anything with a bent top tube automatically qualifies as ugly, sorry”.

The Santa Cruz still has that B&M head tube area, looks like no thought went in to it at all. Shame as they used to make nice looking bikes. Thumbs down for the Privateer unfortunately.

Trek, Canyon and Specialised aren’t offensive.

matt – that “transition” between seat tube and shock angle hurts my eyes. 

Where does gopping come from? Seems to be a forum favourite word but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it in the real world.

That’s quite tasty @stompy what is it?

Privateer…in raw finish. Like mine 😉

@STR

REEB sst 120mm…… It’s on my ‘ I’ll never be able to afford/justify one’ list

SST Coil GX

Yup, another vote for spur.
Straight line from HT to rear dropout, vertical shock, done. Lovely. Transition nail it.
Make that shock horizontal, no matter how you drive it, and it all goes to pot.

See also the poor man’s Spur (Izzo). Lovely looking things.

Nothing above comes close to the Spur.

I think my Geometron G1 freshly polished looks fantastic in the flesh with it’s shiny weldy chunkiness.  They don’t look as good in a picture though.

Make that shock horizontal, no matter how you drive it, and it all goes to pot.

Was going to say similar earlier when I posted the Stanton. Even though I love it and may one day own one, would look so much better with a vertical shock

There’s far worse-looking FS bikes than Orange IMO.

Transition are mixed for me – those Spurs are lovely, but the others with the swooped tubes do nothing for me. Am I straight tube kinda guy?

This is, in my heavily biased view, pretty damn good looking:

“Oh look, there’s a good looking Nicolai”

Said no one, ever 😉

This is, in my heavily biased view, pretty damn good looking:

disqualifies itself as the top tube and down tube are still in different postcodes when they get to the headtube 😉

“Oh look, there’s a good looking Nicolai”
Said no one, ever 😉

😉

Swarf Contour …

I’m another one who’s a sucker for a straight line from head tube to drop out.

Modern Transition frames obviously, not the previous gen swoopy ones.

Last carbon frames, very similar to transition.

Airdrop new Edit MX. Almost had that line.

All three have vertical shocks in front of the seat tube as well.

That Reeb SST wins the thread. Pure class.

Starling bikes look nice, not to overly complicated, although I rather like the  Carbon Wasp frame.

That Transition wins so far. I have a 5010 but would love a Jibb..

Seems most people like double diamond style full Sus frames or those hiding the shock completely.

2023 Pivot Mach 4 SL

Pivot bikes just look totally interchangeable to me. Could be a Trek/Scott/Giant/BMC, basically any full suspension with the geometry of a road bike.