Fugly cycling trends

[Markymark]

I excluded mtn bikes.

Quite right. It's not very nice for adults to tease children.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

Quite right. It's not very nice for adults to tease children.

 

[fossyant]

Discs on road bikes. Fugly.

Dropper posts are ace. Yep Fugly but MTB'S aren't meant to be pretty.

 

[mjr]

And dicks on road bikes are the future, get used to it.

FTFY

Gravel bikes......why oh why, no good on MTB routes and our roads aren't that bad, just yet.

Give it a while. We've at least three more years of Cons in Whitehall.

 

[Slick]

FTFY


Give it a while. We've at least three more years of Cons in Whitehall.

How did one so young get so bitter?

 

[Ian H]

A beautiful bike is one that has no more and no less than the minimum required to do its job well.

 

[ChrisEyles]

You used to get some really beautiful cranksets back in the days of steel framed ten speeds, I love my Lambert & Viscount drilled big ring on my 60s racer. Even the 90s STX crankset on my MTB looks all right.

When did it all go wrong? Modern shimano road cranksets look to me like someone's glued a UFO to the bottom bracket, don't like them at all!

 

[mustang1]

When the adverts proclaim a "triple monocoque" frame. Like the whole point of monocoque is singular and the marketing department dupe us into thinking more is better. Pfft. I think I saw that on a spesh. They're a marketing company these days right?

Edit typo

 

[Fab Foodie]

Dropped seatstays and Curved seatstays. Got to be straight.
Bianchi Celeste, just vile.

I'm with you on the curved seatstays.

 

[Fab Foodie]

No, but mine keeps my chin warm on cold winter days, that's why I grew mine back after being clean shaven for a month.

But you're pre-retro....

 

[screenman]

I think a lot of those posting here are over 30, bring on the new stuff I love it.

 

[Fab Foodie]

you bunch of elitist, miserable gits

 

[mustang1]

Endurance bikes.

 

[Smokin Joe]

This is how road bikes would look if the UCI hadn't recoiled in terror at the thought of people having access to something Merckx never rode.

Beautiful, I can even forgive it being black -

 

[marknotgeorge]

Mud guards or pannier racks attached to the seat post, with acres of sky between it and the rear wheel. Very, very silly.