Mick F wrote: ↑5 Sep 2021, 10:40am
The ugliness (to me at least) is the lack of colour and bling.
They look something like the army would use.
I can cope with the geometry I suppose, but black, grey, matt, brown, dark ............ I cannot cope with.
Interesting 'cos I also think it's "ugly" but for completely different reasons. My personal preference is for black/matt/dark and personal choice is no bling (I can spend ages seeking out components/accessories that are black rather than shiny/chrome (to go on my black bike).
But then I also have strong preferences for certain features e.g. I far prefer horizontal top tube rather than sloping - I suspect the reason goes back to my childhood when bikes were like that (horizontal top tube). I can't justify that preference atall, just the way I react to designs. And I admit it's daft.
Ditto for the horizontal top tube: it allows you to carry two 1-litre bottles and extract them easily. I can get a 1-litre bottle into the rear cage of my carbon butterfly, but only in a side-extraction cage, and then it falls over sideways into my calf half the ride.
... Morris emerges as an intrepid cyclist, braving the most inclement conditions on two wheels: ' riding home from the station in inky darkness, my lamp blown out, and no possibility of lighting again - wondering which was ditch and which was road - all this was the best part of the day'.
Carbon fiber bikes are ugly and ride with an ugly noise. So why shouldn't ebikes be ugly?
Is there some cycling snobbery that dictates that only carbon fibre bikes are allowed to be ugly. Carbon fibre owners should be prepared to share there ugliness and rejoice in having embraced their ugly brethren with open oversized chunky arms.
So there!
Lots of steel bikes were black as your hat when I was a nipper and nobody puked at them. What I hated was the 1990s craze for partially chromed forks: along with a gaudy paint job they looked whorish.
My commuter eBike no worse or better than any hybrid. The difference is with electrical assistance, I don't mind the weight of multiple lights, lock, heavy duty commuting tyres, and actually can use my bike to commute to work even in rain/darkness etc rather than using the car.
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑13 Nov 2021, 11:20pm
Hi,
Your gonna luv this then
Is it the Derny bike for off-road Kierin's ?
Is that a serious question
Honda CT90/110-
I want one, sorry to digress
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