Prettiest CX bike...

[smutchin]

Just been catching up on this... wow, what a lot of gorgeous bike pron. I am drooling. Unlike mickle, I love the look of CX bikes. I think it's the combination of road bike sleekness (and lack of suspension) and full-size wheels with chunky tyres that do it for me.

But gaz's Bishop wins the thread for me. That is a stunner. And singlespeed too, so right up my street.

 

[Howard]

The detailing on the Bishop and the profiles of the tubes...and that stem

All rather lovely

Could you race it though? I'd be scared to take it off the mantlepiece

 

[Moss]

My X Ride with Easton EA Wheels >>

 

[VamP]

Cracks me up how people (wilfully or otherwise) fail to grasp the concept of bike pron, and post pics of their own bikes - usually used for anything other than CX, preferably lumbered with road tyres, saddlebags, bottle holders and what not.

Now what do we think about this offering from Raleigh

 

[Rob3rt]

Looks distinctly normal.

 

[Rob3rt]

The detailing on the Bishop and the profiles of the tubes...and that stem

All rather lovely

Could you race it though? I'd be scared to take it off the mantlepiece

TBH, the Bishop looks like it would be more at home on a grass track. The brakes spoil it for me.

 

[Moss]

Cracks me up how people (wilfully or otherwise) fail to grasp the concept of bike pron, and post pics of their own bikes - usually used for anything other than CX, preferably lumbered with road tyres, saddlebags, bottle holders and what not.

Now what do we think about this offering from Raleigh

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Would look nice with a set of bottle cages, a tool bag under the saddle; and nice set of road tyres - JMO of-course, because I agree with you! It looks lovely just as it is, just as a CX should. but what would I know? It's just my opinion.

 

[VamP]

Looks distinctly normal.

See I am seeing total simplicity of focus on one and only one thing. To be fast on a CX course.

In that regard it looks perfectly designed to me (other than the battery location)

 

[MacB]

Cracks me up how people (wilfully or otherwise) fail to grasp the concept of bike pron]

Quite a few of us actually do know what the 'rules' are but don't really care and post what we like including our own stuff. That you've been brow beaten by others online into such a narrow outlook isn't really our problem. I suppose there's always the option to hold your breath until you get your own way, I'm not sure how well that will work on the net but if it matters that much to you it has to be worth trying. What you won't get here is a reaction like you would on somewhere like LFGSS with a big posse of self appointed right on internet police jumping all over the thread to slam the slightest transgression, at the same time as being incredibly cool.

 

[VamP]

Quite a few of us actually do know what the 'rules' are but don't really care and post what we like including our own stuff. That you've been brow beaten by others online into such a narrow outlook isn't really our problem. I suppose there's always the option to hold your breath until you get your own way, I'm not sure how well that will work on the net but if it matters that much to you it has to be worth trying. What you won't get here is a reaction like you would on somewhere like LFGSS with a big posse of self appointed right on internet police jumping all over the thread to slam the slightest transgression, at the same time as being incredibly cool.

There's rules?

WTF?

And what on earth is LFGSS?

 

[derrick]

Cracks me up how people (wilfully or otherwise) fail to grasp the concept of bike pron, and post pics of their own bikes - usually used for anything other than CX, preferably lumbered with road tyres, saddlebags, bottle holders and what not.

Now what do we think about this offering from Raleigh

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It ain't pretty

 

[derrick]

Th is is still the prettiest one on here
http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab275/derrick-nelmes/look.jpg

 

[VamP]

It ain't pretty

I assume you're going off the paint job, because in terms of frame design, that's one of the cleanest fit-for-purpose executions I have seen...

 

[VamP]

Th is is still the prettiest one on here
http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab275/derrick-nelmes/look.jpg

Now I hate the colours on that! But worse WTF happened with the chainstays? A blow torch accident? Why on earth are they that shape?

 

[Rob3rt]

The chainstays look like shoot! Frame colours are good though, but the gray tyres, awful!