What's the most beautiful race bike, MTB or Road – no questions asked?

I like subtle… 😉

Those wheels with ‘Lightweight’ on them instantly rule out the bike they’re attached to. Awful font.

What’s your point DezB ?? It’s a thread about bike beauty, and you can’t never get too much bike beauty I’d say!! What’s your favourite anyway? Put your muscle where your mouth is….

Love the English cycles stuff – suits my mountainbikers aesthetic of what a road bike should look like.

Also Baum for the paintjobs

As far as mtb race bikes go, well carbon doesn’t really do much for me – especially in xc. Kate Potter’s one off Soda was pretty special in the metal. And SOOO damn light.

DH bikes though – Turner DHR and Transition TR450 do it for me.

This is the best photo i got of it. custom bike in a bike shop called Citizen Chain in San Francisco! check the rear tyre clearence 😛

I forgot this

One day I’ll do it!

Veloheld Urban Spring Classic

Pashley Guvnor

Roger de Vlaeminck’s Gios Torino

MTB wise, that English is very nice

That’s it !! I was waiting for an excuse to go to the States…San Francisco it is, then. I love that bike in the shop window. It looks like it has a linkage of some sort on the Top Tube, a la Ritchey Foldaway…beautiful and functional !!!

There are many – but Bobby’s are probably the furthest from race bikes so far…

Swedish – my first thought was a Gios, just couldn’t find a really nice pic.

So many nice looking steel road bikes – ruined with deep section carbon wheels.

Kate Potter’s one off Soda was pretty special in the metal. And SOOO damn light.

One-off in what sense? Is it a special frame? Or just the build?

ruined with deep section carbon wheels

Anything with deep section wheels look awful, as do all road bikes (apart from the odd skinny fixie) and 29ers.

This is fact, y’all.

One-off in what sense? Is it a special frame? Or just the build?

Custom geometry for her. I couldn’t find a pic of the other one from the previous year which had a carbon seat tube for extra BB stiffness.

I like deep section wheels on skinny steel bikes btw…

What’s your point DezB ?? It’s a thread about bike beauty, and you can’t never get too much bike beauty I’d say!! What’s your favourite anyway? Put your muscle where your mouth is….

Just that everytime these threads appear (quite often), a load of digusting roadie bikes appear. I mean that first one in the thread! bleurgh!
And a Whyte appearing in a thread about beauty? Huh?
Ok, I’m a mountain bike person and I like these. Cos I would like to ride them.

Insert other black full sus bikes here.

oooh yes DEZ I like your style… Those new bottlerockets are really nice too! functional is beautiful.

Someone has to!

Oh I missed the word RACE in the thread title, so I don’t belong here anyway 🙁

[edit]”Race”? Race a WHYTE prsT? ! hahaha!

CALLING all Merlin xlm owners to this thread!
Once a Merlin has been posted up then that’s end of topic.

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No Absalon bikes, No Peaty bikes, no Tomac, Missy Giove, Palmer…that’s my memory hurting already! what??

Brakes, what is that ti MTB? beautiful!!!

Amaro bikes. Don’t know much about them – custom frame builder in Italy.
I just saw it and thought WOW!

Amaro Bikes

My lynskey, beautiful to look at, amazing to ride

Always liked FB’s Summum

Mio Suemasa’s 951 aint to shabby looking either.

heh! these threads produce some god-awful looking things. beaty in the eye and all that.

for me it’s simple, clean, minimalist.

It’s got a titanium saddle for christs sake!

It’s got a titanium saddle for christs sake!

It’s a bit try hard, don’t you think?

Always had a thing for trigger’s mum’s bathroom blue too.

It’s a bit try hard, don’t you think?

Totally! The chain and spokes are Ti too.

samuri, is there a bike in your pic?

I think this has a special kind of ‘engineering beauty’

I sold it 3 hrs ago :'(

Though to be fair the front end is a bit fussy and could be neatened up a bit – form won over function there. If I’m being honest I far prefer Obree’s one of these – which is a truly beautiful bike IMHO – but I just can’t find a decent piccy (maybe I should go through my old mag collection and scan).

tortola RoundTail.

Now thats a thing of beauty.

That just looks weird to me.

A lot of nice looking road bikes here! But I feel the need to add in another mountain bike. It would be the Focus FSL for me!

schmiken – Member

Actually, scratch that, I found it!

I prefer the other shot of it lol!
The angles look messed up to me in that pic.

If you noticed the bike first, I have bad news for you..

Always had a thing for trigger’s mum’s bathroom blue too.

Always had a thing for trigger’s mum’s bathroom blue too.

The bouncy cat from Winnie the Pooh has a mum?

Is that plastic road bike a few posts up really called a ‘rotta?’ If so, it truly is a rotter.

Roger de Vlaeminck’s Gios Torino

A real racer’s bike and truly bike-beautiful, good call.

Samurai – that is very nice indeed but not really a race bike.

Another super sweet Gios – probably similar to what De Vlaeminck rode in his ‘other’ discipline. I think this is now my final pick.

If you noticed the bike first, I have bad news for you..

that bush needs a trim…..

for aracer, there’s a nice set of pics, of Graeme Obree’s Old Faithful that I posted up on the 2nd page of this thread…