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Insiperd by this review?:

http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/article/mps/UAN/735/v/2/sp/

I want one of these

http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/article/mps/UAN/735/v/2/sp/

But with campag and lugged/strengthened for touring. What two wheeler do you dream of?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

I can't see that one. Oh, and the postie has delivered a small package for you which may be a bike part.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.moots.com/images/full-psychlox.jpg

oops, linked wrong thing.

Package is a camp thing not a bike thing.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

one day....
http://www.poshbikes.com/images_new/products/porsche_2_m.jpg

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

That's as ugly as their SUV.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/images/SeattubeMoots.jpg

You pay well for welds that smooth

At £2,550 for the frame they're not kidding!

Here's me pricing those £140ish things with disc brakes and front suspension and thinking I'm being extravagant.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

That’s why I like it.

If I did ever purchase one I’d only have it for about an hour as Id be dragged from it and relieved of it at knife point round here.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

A friend has a Moots ti mountain bike, which is quite something to behold, light as a feather as well. Ti is always a nice and understated finish I think.

That Porsche is way fugly though. Is it a Saracen in disguise?

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Anyhow, current object of lust for me is this Soulcraft singlespeed. Soulcraft are a little boutique bike brand from Petaluma, that do a bunch of top-end steel frames. They do quite a fetching x-bike too.

http://www.soulcraftbikes.com/5f252780.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

"is it a Saracen in disguise?"

Heh, the amount of midrange stuff I get in for repair, where the only difference between 2 "rival" "manufacturers" product is the colour & decals on the frame.

Mine is the Challenge Hurricane SL model:

http://www.challengebikes.com/html/index.php?taal=en&selectie=hurricanesl

super lightweight, carbon fibre rear swingarm & forks etc etc.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

nice

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Recumbents: there's one guy who just flies past me on the commute home sometimes. I can stick with most folks, but he just vanishes over the horizon in no time. Hate to think what mentalist gear ratio he's pushing. That said, it looks frankly terrifying weaving beween the buses on those things.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

does moots make track frames?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Looks like they don't do any anything with horizontal drop-outs, but they do eccentric bottom brackets as a custom option... but only on mountain bikes and their quite weird full-suss road bike.

Airborne do a ti track bike, but IIRC it's been rather liberally tarred with the ugly brush.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Airborne frames, and especially their decals are definately far from pretty.

Sibexsports, I think have a Ti frame with a horizontal dropout and British Builder On-One definately do.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.on-one.co.uk/products/index.shtml
http://www.sibexsports.com/frames_tt.htm
On the sibexsport site it says the dropouts are vertical but if you look at the picture, they are horizontal. I love the oldschool look of the sibexsports cross frame.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sibexsports.com/images/photos/cxbike.jpg

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I know that a couple of years back, On-One were sussing out the market for a ti version of their Il Pompino (don't ask!) s/s road frame, but I don't think it ever got off the ground though. They do a ti cross bike though.

Indy Fab definitely do one, probably costs *at least* as much as a Moots too. Here's the steel version...

http://www.ifbikes.com/images2/2005/track-lg.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

(Is it me or are the bars on that (otherwise great-looking) Sibex set at quite a jaunty angle?)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

It's partly the enormous horns that shimano shifters seem to be at the moment, but it does indeed seem to be quite pointy.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

What's the reasoning behind single-speed bikes, chaps?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.businesscycles.com/graphics/cin-pista-nero.jpg

can't find a picture of a built one...

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Singlespeed = simple to maintain, light, very direct, in a relatively flat city like london you don't really need to change gear.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

But but I change gear all the time! It'd do my head in that one time I had to go up (or down) a hill. Fine for Dutch people, but otherwise it sounds like an expensive toy of limited use.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

You should see the calves of single speed riding couriers, that's how they get up hills.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

you should see my calves.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

expensive toy of limited use

you know nothing.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Which is why I'm asking.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

r****, a courier friend, attempted to try on a pair of suzy's girly boots once and couldn't get the zip more than an inch above the ankle, they are about the same height.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

http://sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and it doesn't hurt that couriers are all vegetarian/vegan & poor, so they subsist on beans and rice and have 0% body fat and calves you could crack an egg on.

― Laurel, Friday, 29 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

that describes me exactly! esp the beans and rice part.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Woah. That answers my question prett effectively - sorry to be so dismissive.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Laurel, they eat the same stuff we do, and make good money in London. But they do spend a ton of it altering their moods.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Mountain bike singlespeed-wise, it's about the simplicity - less to get clogged up with mud, less to go wrong, less to think about. And less time spent fettling and fixing at home too. Bit more of a challenge though, gets you really working up hills and always makes you think about keeping your momentum going the whole time. Can get up most things here if they're not silly steep and I ride mostly in the South Downs which are fairly lumpy. Builds yer legs up and helps you spin nice and fast and smooth too.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

More succinctly...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/single.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Ah well, Suzy, I made most of that up, anyway, tho I'm glad Cutty liked it. I wonder if couriers make more in London? My impression of the NYC trade has been that margins are slim, but then I don't know any of those folks personally.

It's too bad that tv series didn't last longer, the one in which Jessica Alba played a bike msgr who was secretly an escapee from a government research facility.

― Laurel, Friday, 29 July 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.steelmancycles.com/Photos/ECperBa.jpg

― teh Nü and Impröved john n chicago (frankE), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

nick, that independent is sexy as hell.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

i need a geared bike. i'm thinking about one of these....

http://photos22.flickr.com/29466837_feb754235c_m.jpg

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/e/oconnor4.jpg
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/e/oconnor5.jpg
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/e/oconnor6.jpg
CUTTY U KNOW THAT CINELLI FRAME WAS MY LUST FRAME FIRST! DREAM STEALER!!

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

those lugs are giving me goosebumps! i kid you not!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

YEAH...BEAUTIFUL!!!

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

It's amazing to me but I hardly lust after bikes anymore, but perfect rides, or maybe the concept of ultimate fitness (which I don't pursue under present circumstances). I do sorta lust after high end wheelsets and idolize TUFO Elite LPS tires, which I can't afford now.

Whenever a super-premium bike appears around me I just wish to try and hammer the person riding it to see if he meets my puerile concept of worthiness. Sad.

That said, that Moots is dead sexxxy. If I ever get the money, maybe I'll do that, they're here in CO.

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

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