that generally isn’t atm or is but is too wildly expensive?

I’d like a C456 29er so i had the option of a longer fork but it’d still be light enough to pedal all day, I’d have a C456 26″ if I fitted one

over to you Mr Richards

anyone else hankering for something that doesn’t exist?

Posted 9 years ago

Titanium Roadrat

Posted 9 years ago

Yes a carbon orange 5. All the fun but much less weight.

Posted 9 years ago

Alloy Soul:
Seriously – I used to be a ‘steel is real’ evangelist but I’m ok now. Would like a light, Easton alloy frame with Soul geometry.

Cross Check Disc.

A nice 853 tourer/cross bike that can take discs and has separate rack and mudguard eyelets. AT A REASONABLE PRICE.
If Merlin can sell Rock Lobster 853 frames at reasonable prices, other people can make decent value 853 frames too.

Posted 9 years ago

a Giant TCR Advanced roadie which takes discs (or any decent carbon disc frame)

I would buy this tomorrow, and spec it with some tubeless rims (maybe carbon, such a Reynolds Assault CX).

We have carbon CX disc frames but no affordable, non-hideous carbon road frames.

Posted 9 years ago

A sub £1000 36er rolling chassis.

£2000 seems to be the going rate which is way too much for a ‘just for the sake of it’ bike.

A 36″ Inbred would be ideal. Won’t hold my breath though!!

Posted 9 years ago

An Ibis Mojo with internal cable routing. Running 4 cables on the top of a top tube sucks!

Posted 9 years ago

Carbon Pomp…..

Posted 9 years ago

A bike based on late 90’s Kona geo, steel DB frame, rigid forks, V-brakes, full Deore groupset, for around £400. Would suit pretty much 90% of what the vast majority of people buying a basic mountain bike would need.

Posted 9 years ago

A bike based on late 90’s Kona geo, steel DB frame, rigid forks, V-brakes, full Deore groupset, for around £400. Would suit pretty much 90% of what the vast majority of people buying a basic mountain bike would need.

What I was going to say was close enough to this.

Would like the option to fit discs and eyelets for mudguards and racks too.

Posted 9 years ago

An Inbred designed for 26″ x 3″ tyres and 1 x ? drivetrain.

And a selection of 3″ tyres weighing less than 1kg and costing less than £50.

Could also be run 650b with ‘normal’ size tyres and 2 or 3 x drivetrain.

Posted 9 years ago

ragley G6

Posted 9 years ago

I nice retro quality steel tourer where you could mix and match components as you could in the 80s. When my bike mixed campag shimano mavic simplex etc and I could pick all the nice bits I liked and choose my gear ratios from the board in the shop

Posted 9 years ago

already available in other EU contries but not in the UK.. even if a brand sells in all countries like specialized etc

sensible everyday bikes with dynamo, guards rack etc

Posted 9 years ago

Reynolds 931 Cotic soul in large

Posted 9 years ago

Like The idea of 3″ 26 tyres and a Steel frame to match, ebb , campy hidden set., Low bb, built for a rigid Low a to c fork.

And fleegle bars with rise, Steel and in Chrome 😀

Chrome and flat Black.

Posted 9 years ago

Like The idea of 3″ 26 tyres and a Steel frame to match, ebb , campy hidden set., Low bb, built for a rigid Low a to c fork.

got one in alloy but other than that spot on 😀

Posted 9 years ago

I’d like Ti jones diamond frame and fat truss fork.

Posted 9 years ago

Carbon ss cross bike with discs

Posted 9 years ago

I nice retro quality steel tourer where you could mix and match components as you could in the 80s. When my bike mixed campag shimano mavic simplex etc and I could pick all the nice bits I liked and choose my gear ratios from the board in the shop

My Kona Sutra is steel. Has a mixture of Shimano road and Mtb plus Truvativ on drivetrain etc.
Id like to see a bike that could be used for proper off road riding and also take a rack and full guards. Oh. That would be the original clockwork.
Got few years to decide yet. Going to build my own from 853 for my 50th.

Posted 9 years ago

Carbon intense slope style, series 1. It will never happen.

Posted 9 years ago

Id like to see a bike that could be used for proper off road riding and also take a rack and full guards.

Sounds like a Surly Ogre?

Posted 9 years ago

TBH I’ve already got 2 bikes which tick almost all the boxes so…

Let’s have a Super-Hemlock, with a little more rear tyre clearance, and lighter, and dropper post cable guides, and with tweaked geometry to get rid of the 2 degree adjuster headset. And that’s it.

Posted 9 years ago

What Dans said. It will happen, I just need to predict 6 numbers correctly….

Posted 9 years ago

A 7lb (no more, no less) 6″ travel trail bike, complete. With Di2. For less than £1000.

I fear it’ll be a long wait. But my god it’ll be the best bike ever.

Posted 9 years ago

Not so much a bike but a material. Someone needs to work out how to add colour to carbon fibres. Imagine the possibilities. Tartan frames, checked handlebars?

Posted 9 years ago

A slack 953 frame like an LTHT but with 2″ of fairly stiff single pivot travel to go with a 140-150mm fork. Just a little give for flexing into corners and a smidge for landings; but by no means a compensator. Single pivot for a single piece back end and low maintenance & no weird bearing sizes! CNCd tapered headtube, or maybe a machined hourglass 44mm? Offset insert thingybobies at the pivot for more tweakery of the geometry to match fork choices/preferences.

Polished or brushed, straight-ish tubes, swap-outs for fettling potential. Simple, stainless and with options. The bastard son of a softtail, 4x bike and a LTHT.

Posted 9 years ago

Mostly Balanced – Member

Not so much a bike but a material. Someone needs to work out how to add colour to carbon fibres. Imagine the possibilities. Tartan frames, checked handlebars?

Wouldn’t be hard tbh, lots of existing carbon is basically a structural part, wallpapered so that people will go “ooh- carbon!”

Posted 9 years ago

A Cotic Soul in Ti.

Posted 9 years ago

A Ti Sovereign, with a 44mm headtube, that isn’t priced relative to the crazy rrp the steel one had.

Posted 9 years ago

warpcow – Member

A Ti Sovereign, with a 44mm headtube, that isn’t priced relative to the crazy rrp the steel one had.

Yep, tbh with Evil it’d cost £10000 and then there’s a reasonable chance it’ll fall apart and you’d have to wait 2 years for the replacement

Posted 9 years ago

A Monsterpetamine…

Pompino geometry, 2.5″ clearances. Midge bars, BB7s.

Posted 9 years ago

A Jones spaceframe with truss fork that I could run a rohloff on without any clutter

Posted 9 years ago

26″ ss ebb bike designed for low ac rigid forks and 2.5″ tyres. That’d be me sorted…

Posted 9 years ago

Not so much a bike but a material. Someone needs to work out how to add colour to carbon fibres

Already exists, I can think of white, blue and red carbon parts.

Posted 9 years ago

Someone really needs to place a Rohloff in the BB shell and attach the cranks to it, I don’t get why its not been done.

Posted 9 years ago

A niche bike that doesn’t attract enablers and apologists on here when it’s obviously flawed, breaks too often or comes with poor customer service.
By all means praise a good product (but not just because it’s cheap) but spare us the doe-eyed sycophancy, the taste of bile is bad enough how do you put up with that horrible acrid taste* on the end of your tongue?

*not being brown nosed im guessing what shite tastes like.

Posted 9 years ago

Bring back The soft tail, i have never tried one, but like the idea of an inch to save my back.

Posted 9 years ago

Someone really needs to place a Rohloff in the BB shell and attach the cranks to it, I don’t get why its not been done.

Torque

Posted 9 years ago

Plus fat bottom brackets are ugly.

Next thing I’m building (well, next after this road frame) is a Hetchins. A 29er MTB Hetchins.

Posted 9 years ago