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

I suppose it’s difficult to define a Race bike, but somehow I think including all fixies is stretching the definition a bit. I know you could race one on a velodrome but there must be a limit to what defines a race fixie, surely..? I believe Race means, could or has been used in a speed competition..no?

My 1992 Master Olympic is up there for me…
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Lovely bike Chainline. Can’t agree with the wheel choice though. It needs some nice silver Campy hubs on Open pros and some gumwall tyres to finish it all off 🙂

I have a ’97 Superissimo in a similar colourscheme.

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

I was talking about the one he didn’t race at the ’96 Olympics (picture on the other thread), not that one. Here’s an article about it
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/obrees-big-stake-in-state-of-art-1349282.html

If you noticed the bike first

you must have a huge screen! 🙂

the English stuff is pretty awesome!

@HarYuken personal taste..an earlier incarnation here. I like both but on a personal note I love older steel frames with carbon/deep wheels/modern gruppo hence the carbon Record. I just don’t like the braking characteristics of carbon, not enough modulation in the dry and in the wet, well OMG. I rode the Tourmalet on it with deep section carbons, they don’t half go fast. I settled on the ACs cos I think they look good but also are aero enough..
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I love to look at this too, but it was this or the Colnago with the one in one out policy and the ‘nago won

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Chainline – the plant pot in the background of the second pic of the Colnago made me do a double take, I thought you had a basket on it!

and HarYuken I’ll say it before someone else does Campag please not Campy 🙂