What bikes do we lust over?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-20th-Eddy-Merckx-Millenium-3-Litespeed-Titanium_W0QQitemZ120538416255QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRoad_Bikes?hash=item1c10a6447f#ht_500wt_924

So tempted because it is my london frame in Ti.

looks insanely gorgeously mint but doesn't the seat tube look cocked back a bit? what is the advantage of that?

i know someone with one of those, he loves it.

that seems like a really great buy it now price

I should go to bed before I do, in fact, buy it now.

i didnt wanna encourage you any more than i had, but now that buying it now is no longer an option... imo that was a v. v. v. good deal. better even than the merlin extralight thingy the other day (tho the merlin is i think a better frame).

more moots love

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37220746@N06/4385221818/sizes/l/

think once i wear the CAAD out i would like one of these - better start saving then!

a coworker of mine just got a moots ybb 29er - he went all out on the build kit and asked me for help putting it together. it's a really fun bike to work on, since it's just so goddamned beautiful. on any other frame, i would be mad about the pain in the ass factor of having to disconnect the rear brake hose and feed it through the closed hose guides (and then having to bleed the brake afterward), but the thought of putting zip ties anywhere on that bike just seems like you're defacing it.

ummmmmmmm phil wood 40th anniversary Ti extravaganza:

http://www.thebikebiz.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BK-TRK-PHI01

pix: http://www.thebikebiz.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=BK-TRK-PHI01

only $15,500US

tbh i had no idea phil wood had passed away, RIP phil:

http://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/newsDetail/3856.html

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs373.snc3/23955_366526209497_366522479497_4963675_3501571_n.jpg

would ride

but what about the bike

http://to55er.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/bernard_manning.jpg

I'm here all week.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1232/4594088086_c5234a525b_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4590281876_9f163256af_b.jpg

huh, that middle-of-the-road chainring on such a cutting edge bike is like a fart in the room.

dur? sugino zen rings are (i thought) among the best you can get. they're like $140 a pop!

super zen imo, NJS KEIRIN LQQK (also about 3x the price iirc)

holy balls those are expensive

well yeah, but as if the owner of a $5k frame would be griping about a $200 upgrade on a chainring!

The rear tyre touching the seat tube can't be great for smooth rolling efficiency.

The bikes I lust after all tend to be stupidly-hip ultra-thin-tubed spare fixed wheel types, which I then hate myself for lusting after.

but the wheel isn't touching the seat tube!

It's probably just an optical effect, I agree, but there are bits where the (tiny) gap ebtween the two becomes invisible.

Sigh. No-one's getting my funniez today.

amazing baum frame in the style of the rothmans-sponsored porsches of the 1980s

flickr set

http://www.rouesartisanales.com/album-19544.html

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/4619203067_aaa00f0dd2_b.jpg

not really. but wouldn't be surprised to see one of these resurrected by a hipster.

durp?

Sat next to a bunch of Ritte team guys at the ToC time trial on Saturday, Ritte bikes kind of boner-inducing:

http://www.ritteracing.com/ritte-bicycles/

That is super pretty.

that is shit hot and the l geometry is identical to my treasured dean. *want*

that is nice

that moots psychlo-x up top is still ultimate boner time to me

belgian natl strip is great, but i don't know if i could do that. also, i remember seeing a cf track frame somewhere that had the "inside the stays and fork" paint accents, which are also on the ritte. i like that look.

that ritte is just fucking wow...

the paul smith/rapha road bike from condor uk had those accents you describe.

you guys know the UCI banned the Ritte for being too beautiful right?

it should be, it really should be banned.

when i think of all the crap or unimaginative paint jobs out there, and then i see THAT, i just wonder how the rest fail so badly.

canyons rock that 'inside fork/stays' look too. black ones have orange, matt lloyd's big pharma-lotto team one at the giro has the aussie national champion colours!

http://www.ritteracing.com/2010/01/behind-the-scenes-at-a-ritte-photoshoot/

lllllooooooollllll

pretty wicked-lookin black bianchi 928 SL w/ campy everything at a cafe i passed at lunch. looked like dude had ridden it HARD too, which is as it should be.

<3 that bike, i have the cheapo version.

Anyone have any suggestions for a DIY kit bike? It doesn't have to be especially light, but it should be very sturdy. A flip-flop hub is a plus. I want something just for commuting, even if it's not fast or even much fun. And I also want to learn more about how to fix my bikes by building one. Same way I learned how to maintain a server. :)

maybe get a frame like a salsa casseroll - steel road bike frame, not mega-racey or anything, has slider dropouts at the back so you could just run it as a single-speed at first and upgrade it with a geared drivetrain down the track if you wanted to. eyelets for mudguards and racks. versatile!

http://salsacycles.com/bikes/casseroll_single/

That post of mine should have gone on the "buying" or "noob" thread, sorry about that.

xp THANKS

if it's any consolation i kinda lusted after the version with the mudguards when i saw it at the shop.

funnily enough the bianchi '11 range was previewed last week, shasta what do you think of the new range-topper? think i like the look of the current one more!

http://road.cc/content/image/18214-bianchi-oltre-full-bike

yeah, the 2010 line is probably the dopest of the newer Bianchi colorways/looks.

Unfortunately I have a 2009.

The 2010 version of my model looks so much nicer (more like the 928 SL). I would be more T_T but I rated looks/brand pretty low on my WANT priorities.

okay, for those who can afford to make good on your lust:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4672358391_960404f8da_b.jpg

a really shitty camphone pic of my bru's:
2010 Giant Advanced SL TEAM RABOBANK SHIMANO limited edition
Di2 gruppo
Di2 SRM crankset (this alone costs more than my bike)
Dura Ace Tubeless

can't wait to own a doctor bike

http://www.bikerumor.com/2010/06/23/cinelli-to-re-issue-classic-laser-track-frame/

lol this wouldn't actually be legal geo on a velodrome anymore would it