Fugly cycling trends

[ColinJ]

I thought for years that my backache when cycling was due to having the bars too low and too far away so I flipped a shorter stem and stacked up the spacers. It turns out that I am much better with a longer, unflipped stem and one less spacer.

I wonder if the riders with those very odd bar setups have serious flexibility problems, bikes that don't fit them properly, or maybe are making the same mistake that I did?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Not sure there's a huge difference between a triathlon bike and a TT bike (although www.timetriallingforum.co.uk had a 115+ page thread going on about 3cm) but I quite like my TT bike. My profile picture shows me on it but since that was taken wheels, cockpit and brakes have been replaced.

I don't mind some TT bikes, it's specifically those triathlon ones with all of the integrated hydration systems and storage cubby holes for food, those are the ones that doth offend mine eye.

 

[winjim]

I don't mind some TT bikes, it's specifically those triathlon ones with all of the integrated hydration systems and storage cubby holes for food, those are the ones that doth offend mine eye.

Nah. Being able to work outside the constraints of the stupid UCI rules means that they can actually do cool stuff with carbon fibre, rather than having to still pretend like they're using metallic tubing. I think they look cool and futuristic, which is what carbon bikes should be.

Edit: I, along with I suspect most cyclists, am never going to enter an event which requires my bike to be UCI compliant, so why don't they make bikes like that, but in road rather than tri configuration? Why, if we want carbon frames, do we have to stick with the stupid old fashioned tubing style?

 

[Psycolist]

The fugliest bike related things in my world are Schwinn Stingray. A hideous fad, second only to the recent Fat, or is it Phatt bikes seen on local pavements..

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Nah. Being able to work outside the constraints of the stupid UCI rules means that they can actually do cool stuff with carbon fibre, rather than having to still pretend like they're using metallic tubing. I think they look cool and futuristic...

The Cervelo one you posted looks just that. However, for every swan, there's an ugly duckling.....

 

[winjim]

The Cervelo one you posted looks just that. However, for every swan, there's an ugly duckling.....

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That's an absolute abomination. Truly horrific.

 

[swee'pea99]

That's an absolute abomination. Truly horrific.

That and the one you posted are both not just ugly bikes but quite possibly the ugliest things I have ever seen in all my days. Hideous. Grotesque. Utterly bereft of grace or elegance or harmony.

 

[TheDoctor]

That^^. For ever and verily, that.

That Giant is horrid. No idea what the other one is, and I don't care.
They should both be nuked from orbit, Twice.

 

[raleighnut]

@Fnaar

So despite fnaar having asked us not to flag him you do .

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

I forgot .
Deleted.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

If the UCI had stepped in to nip this in the bud in 1983 none of this would have happened.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

So despite fnaar having asked us not to flag him you do .

Incidently,have you told @Fab Foodie off for paging Fnaar in Mundane
Or are you being selective?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Incidently,have you told @Fab Foodie off for paging Fnaar in Mundane
Or are you being selective?

Oops, I wasn't aware of this. Noted.

 

[Drago]

This is far from Ugly. On my next bike short list.

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Definitely in the beholder. A set up like that that permits so much wheelbase change as the rear suspension operates just looks wrong to my eye.

 

[raleighnut]

Incidently,have you told @Fab Foodie off for paging Fnaar in Mundane
Or are you being selective?

Hadn't noticed that.