Good looking full suss bikes?

Anywhere else you see the mega wide downtube.

Aren’t we used to that now though? Wide downtubes on ebikes just look normal to me now, where as they used to look incongruous.

@eatmorepizza eventually sold mine a couple of years ago after it sitting unused for 5 years. A guy in Latvia bought it, sorted the shipping out and everything!

Aren’t we used to that now though? Wide downtubes on ebikes just look normal to me now, where as they used to look incongruous.

Might be used to it but still looks terrible. The first manufacturer to make a properly pretty E-Bike will clean up.

Any of the latest Banshees

Anything Steel/Tubular

Actofive

Not a fan of the banshees – same as a lot of the Ibis bikes – the DW link style suspension makes the rear triangle sit too low vs the top tube and something about the extra support between top tube and seat tube looks odd to me.

I still think steep seat tubes with slack head tubes looks weird. Like you’ve bent the bike upwards by the wheels. Might ride well, but they’ll never look good.

@aidy – I agree – particularly on hardtails but some full suss too. Some of the Sick bikes they made looked properly squashed in the middle.

I’ve just ordered a M/L Aether 9 Shimano
Build. Its not a bad looking bike, it’s definitely better looking then my old Sonder Evol 2018!
Got to wait a for weeks though as the frames aren’t in the country yet.
But I’m very much looking forward to getting back out on the trails with my new sled!

Might just be me but horizontal shocks always look nicer than vertical ones. Any that are attached to the top tube are an affront to the MTB gods.

Literally not a single good looking bike in this entire thread 

well done 

Care to offer one?

Literally not a single good looking bike in this entire thread 

well done 

Come on then, knock us dead with your suggestions….

We’re not deserving of its beauty.

I’m just here to judge 

I do like the look of the spur as it goes.

I like the shape of the Raaw bikes. The DH rig ticks all the boxes.

Also agree that Transition are doing it right, even down to the colours.

What about a Liteville 301, always liked the look of these.

Anything with a shock that looks like it is waiting to castrate the rider at the slip of a pedal is a no from me.

How much you fancy riding one isn’t a strict factor in bicycle prettiness imo, but yeah, that Liteville looks like a bike had an unfortunate run in with a scissor lift.

You don’t look at the mantelpiece… etc.

That is why I always insist that anyone I ride with has a beautiful bike. I don’t give a stuff what mine looks like.

Might just be me but horizontal shocks always look nicer than vertical ones

Very tired, meant the other way around. Vertical shocks just look nicer to my eye. Like they’re supposed to be that way around. Horizontal looks okay on industrial bikes like Orange and Curtis.

Just to add, I do think Mondraker make some of the best-looking FS bikes, e.g. this Foxy:

The straight line from top tube to seat stay helps, but they also look positively svelte next to a lot of current bikes with chonky-BB areas and downtubes.

That’s not bad looking at all. Let down by the rear triangle arrangement that makes it look like it’s fouling the tyre, and the curved top tube.

Carbon version looks better.

New Banshee’s look great.

Literally not a single good looking bike in this entire thread

well done

I think you can make a reasonable argument that as soon as you insert a shock. and associated gubbins into a frame, it becomes inherently cluttered and lacking in the sort of graceful simplicity that makes for a classically good-looking bike, It’s a kind of gazelle versus hippo thing… Or one of those weird, gas-lighting TV ads where brands try to convince you that their latest SUV is a svelte object of desire.

It’s a kind of gazelle versus hippo thing

Personally, I’d rather shag a hippo 😀

Didn’t Transition used to have horizontal shocks? I thought they looked better then.

He may get bored with them quickly, but Weeksy has had some nice looking bikes. I’d give the Slayer a good going over

and the Status he’s posting up now, appeals to my hippo lovin eyes. (Apart from its flesh being a touch too pale)

That Slayer is an awful looking thing! 

That Slayer is an awful looking thing

And weeksys wasn’t as nice as that one 🤣

Sorry weekst 😉

The brace/shock mount does it no favours

That Mondraker looks nice apart from the extra bit in the rear triangle. Anybody know why the hell it’s there? Just ruins what would otherwise be a very nice looking bike.

You taking the piss @tomhoward? 🤣

Even down to the fact that they’ve written ‘pull-shock’ on the rear triangle 🤮

I post this Ancillotti every time this thread comes up. It is still my favourite looking bike. It also has pull shock written on it 😀

Glad to see Ancilloti back with a new bike. That looks really good, you know, as a bicycle, to actually ride. Not whatever messed up criteria people are judging everything else by.

Of it’s time but it always drew my eye in a good way.

That Slayer is an awful looking thing! 

Functional at best, I’d say.

That Mondraker looks nice apart from the extra bit in the rear triangle. Anybody know why the hell it’s there?

IIRC it’s a cross brace for the rear end.

Edit: It’s the vertical part of the rear triangle, and goes either side of the tyre. You can see a bit better here: FOXY R (mondraker.com)

+1 for Ancillotti. I always thought the tubular frame and polished Al looked great.

The brace between top & down tube for the shock mount on the slayer is definitely an eyesore as is the hideous colour scheme that literally goes with nothing, there isn’t a fork available that’ll look good on that thing.

Not keen on the straight line thing tbh

I Like the Ancillotti’s up there.

Stumpy Evo

Santa Cruz

Evil offering

Current fetish is overbuilt xc bikes.

Dropped top tube, contrasting rear end, quirky klunker style for the win.Trail razzer rather than mile muncher but my view on looks changes like the weather. Never been keen on orange full sussers though🙈

I’ve never got the love for Evils looks tbh, but to each their own.

Apart from the imperial hardtail from the 00’s