🙂

If people feel good about having a ‘special‘ bike then why not I suppose

This ^^^.

I have a garage full of bikes some mainstream some not.
Why should I not spend the same amount on a custom hardtail as i do on a more mainstream full suss.

None of them cost much anyway as they’re all fakes. 😆

Anybody own a Moots? Always been interested as to how they ride

I really really want one of these…

but I might wait for the Surly Big Fat Ugly Ogre, a 29er with 4.7″ fat tyres will be almost a 36er…

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trying not to be defensive but when you start a thread requesting something in particular and then people start going off on tangents and dragging me with them then it gets to be a bit of a pain. yes this is STW and yes everyone is entitled to their opinion but i just wanted to see some nice bikes that i like and not have to try and justify them which is what i feel like i am having to do. maybe i have been wrong about some of my comments about custom built bikes but again everyone is piping in and saying they are ordinary bikes this and blah that. if you’re not really that into custom built bikes then why are you reading this thread and making comments. Also no i’m not just into bikes with names on them. i just bought a Diamondback Axis frame from 1996 for £30 for gods sake so i think that rules out that argument plus ive had a few Marin hardtails as well which probably wouldnt look cool to the STW massive as well as you guys are all into your Orange 5s, Cotics, Lapierre and blah blah, blah blah

now can someone please tell me about these fake Indy Fabs so i dont end up with one someday? or are you just pulling my leg

thanks you

now can someone please tell me about these fake Indy Fabs

Email tollah and he’ll give you the details.

if you’re not really that into custom built bikes then why are you reading this thread and making comments

This thread isn’t about custom bikes.

Yes please ^

This thread isn’t about custom bikes.

i beg to differ as it is mostly about custom bikes as if you read the thread title, WHICH I STARTED! then you will see these are all custom built bike manufacturers.

well done the STW crew has sucessfully put me off my own thread. congrats you ****ts!

FBOTY by nick3216, on Flickr

Not custom. Skill compensating (or enhancing?) suspension that worked even Back In The Day. Porn? you decide.

i beg to differ as it is mostly about custom bikes as if you read the thread title

But you also said the were ‘porn’, which is what people are questioning. If you just wanted pics of branded bikes you could have just done a ‘show me your x, y ,z’ thread 😆

not mine, but I used to have a black and neon pink dave lloyd hmmmmmmm

and a hand made Frank the Welder frame…..you don’t get much better pedigree

i beg to differ as it is mostly about custom bikes as if you read the thread title

No need to act like a big girl just because you got the title wrong.

haggis1978

trying not to be defensive but when you start a thread requesting something in particular and then people start going off on tangents and dragging me with them then it gets to be a bit of a pain.

It’s a forum. That’s the nature of it.

haggis1978
i just wanted to see some nice bikes that i like and not have to try and justify them which is what i feel like i am having to do.

No one is asking anyone to justify anything, in the grand scheme of things the “bike porn” that’s been posted isn’t that expensive, and much of it isn’t that nice. Your definition has just inspired debate as to what makes a bike “bike porn”, not whether anyone should buy a custom or boutique brand bike. That’s all. I posted when I had a look at the thread and it occurred to me there were some pretty bland, even ugly bikes in it, and that my off the shelf full susser would probably be as expensive, faster and more fun on anything other than a fire road. Which got me wondering, and posting.

Imo “bike porn” must surely be something like ( and I mean generally ) the Colnago CF8 or Specialized Mclaren Venge. Ie stupidly expensive, very rare and cutting edge performance. The aesthetics might be marmite but that’s not the whole point, they represent bleeding edge performance, form following function and a high degree of unobtainability .

In mtb terms the closest thing would be what?

Did you get those wheels for free?

I just like the strength and stiffness of deep section rims/short spokes compared to wider rims. I’ll freely admit they are a bit weighty though, especially with Phil Wood hubs. They work really well in deep mud though.

wow.. this went from being quite a nice fun thread to being a bag of ****..

shame on you taste dictators

I’m with Readers Wives.. and even Wayne Rooney when the urge takes me..

one mans Playboy is anothers Razzle and way too often Terry Richardson doesn’t even get a look in..

shame on you

If some of that lot are porn, is this the Littlewoods catalogue lingerie section?

well said yunki, too much tossery in force on narrow minded track world these days

yunki – Member
wow.. this went from being quite a nice fun thread to being a bag of ****.

I’m surprised it got as far as it did before it turned into a bag of ****.

for a change something nice to say here:
love that ’94 Dave Yates Swamp Donki!
Mighty proportions, wonder if it still rode well!?

Didn’t know it before, so that was worth reading through this thread alone.
Despite the fatuous feuds between the interesting posts.

Thanks! 🙂

yunki

shame on you taste dictators

Who’s being a taste dictator? Is it the guys implying a bike has to be a skinny tubed hartail made in a shed with some 90’s throwback decals and a 4k price tag before it can be considered sexy?

Or the people questioning that?

now can someone please tell me about these fake Indy Fabs so i dont end up with one someday?

Sometimes they can look like this…

nick3216 – Member
Ha ha…need to justify your choice? Steve Peat needs skill compensation then?
Ha, your inferiority complex is showing.

At least I have the skills and confidence to make that choice. I don’t have to justify it to myself never mind Internet keyboard warriors. And indeed, sometimes I do ride wide bars and longer travel. My world is not black and white.

Steve Peat uses those things to enhance his already not inconsiderable skill. I remember him riding and beating people in a narrow barred Kona hardtail though. What a fatuous non-sequitur you raise.

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Ha ha, bully for you for having the “skills and confidence” to make that choice 🙄 I didi too with my custom steelHT. My only point was that you were slagging off those with FS, wide bars, etc, now you’ve backed down to say you love riding yours., but you’re still superior because you have the “skill and confidence” to choose/buy something else 😛

Anyway…a Turner Burner “back in the day”?…WTF it came out in 1994, are you some kind of NOO8 ❓

blah blah blah ing a taste dictator? Is it the guys implying a bike has to be a skinny tubed hartail made in a shed with some 90’s throwblah blah bla

I love you unconditionally

yunki

I realised I was being a dick and couldn’t construct a decent retort so I thought I’d try and be facetious instead.

Fair enough.

As the any definition of biek porn, Shirley it can be nothing other than individual?

I mean one man’s Asianbabes is another man’s GILF weekly?

rwc03 – Member
Anybody own a Moots? Always been interested as to how they ride

I owned a Rigormootis many moons ago but found the geometry to be a bit old fashioned.

They have short effective top tube’s as standard, for example the 16″ which has a 17.27″ seat tube only has a 22″ effective top tube.

You can get custom geometry, but that is even more £££’s over the standard price.

I think a standard geometry Rigormootis is around £2700.

muddyfunster – Member
blah blah blah.. stodgily completely missing the point.. blah blah blaaaaaah
Fair enough.

I could construct plenty of retorts Sonny Jim.. but to do so would be the intellectual equivalent of kicking a dog turd down the street..

😐

Thanks Sofaking but I’ve stopped doing fake IF’s now and only deal in fake DeKerfs commonly known as OnOnes 🙂

Imo “bike porn” must surely be something like ( and I mean generally ) the Colnago CF8 or Specialized Mclaren Venge. Ie stupidly expensive, very rare and cutting edge performance. The aesthetics might be marmite but that’s not the whole point, they represent bleeding edge performance, form following function and a high degree of unobtainability .

+1

Nothing here is at the cutting edge IMO. If you wanted photos of custom bikes and nothing else why not Google the brands in your post? How dare people come and ruin ‘your’ thread 🙄

Mighty proportions, wonder if it still rode well!?

Only on early 90’s style head-down arse-up friendly XC style race courses. There’s too much weight over the front end with that Dave Yates stem. A shorter (80mm) Bontrager quill stem has made it a bit more comfortable. Fat belly gets in the way these days too. The brakes were better than the available options at the time, but TBH even V-brakes outperform them.

you’re still superior because you have the “skill and confidence” to choose/buy something else

Have you visited a trail centre lately? Some of them need all the help they can get.

Does this one of mine count?

This is the prototype version of my next bike I think. It will also be custom made.

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Anybody own a Moots? Always been interested as to how they ride

For me, Moots YBBeautiful riding 😀

As the any definition of biek porn, Shirley it can be nothing other than individual?
I mean one man’s Asianbabes is another man’s GILF weekly?

so what Al said!!!

There’s no accounting for taste, is there? Surely shouldn’t!
We could have enjoyed each others interpretation of what bike porn is, without starting to argue about it.
Then again we obviously couldn’t. 😐

Sometimes I think it’s all about therapy.
Yes, the internet forum culture is one big therapy of being allowed to argue for the arguments sake, being irrational, being provocative, even pretty dastardly 😯 without civilisation and other spoil sports being too much in the way… for once! What an insight! I’ve got to write a book about it!

Hope it works! The therapy, I mean. For a better tomorrow! 😀

or do what I do scroll through and just look at the pics and ignore all the silliness.

or do what I do scroll through and just look at the pics and ignore all the silliness.

but where’s the fun in that? 😉

I’ve discovered that googling bicycle porn is quite enlightening and definitely NSFW

that Raleigh image counts as silliness. the bicycle equivalent of skanky

^ Nice Moots!