Post your most embarrassing bike

It’s cool. Those are just formula hubs in the Miche box.
I relaced the deep vs to them after I stripped the formula hub. Did have another wheelset of miche-pink aeroheads.

[quote=akasnowmaaan]

:heavy_check_mark:︎ Ergo bars
:heavy_check_mark:︎ ERGO BARS
:heavy_check_mark:︎ Rusty stack + boner stem
:heavy_check_mark:︎ Alternating spacer colors
:heavy_check_mark:︎ Steerer above stem
:heavy_check_mark:︎ Huge chainring and big cog for ‘efficiency’
:heavy_check_mark:︎ a size too small
:heavy_check_mark:︎ crappy entry level Eggbeaters
:heavy_check_mark:︎ oh god that Futon couch, my only defense is it was San Diego near the beach

This is the bike that almost paralyzed me, when I fractured my skull and spine and was in a back brace for 8 weeks. In the hospital I promised my mother I’d never ride fixed again as long as she lived.

Judging from this bike, I made the right call.[/quote]

  1. If alternating spacer colors were cool, I’d be Miles Fucking Davis

  2. Since most of my furniture comes from the free section of craigslist, I’m proud to say I have the same futon frame. As long as you only like your futon in bed mode, it’s great.

  3. I’m starting to rethink the fixed wheel I have sitting in my shed, waiting for me to step up and try it.

I’ll just leave this here…

TC: friend got this knockoff in silver recently and it actually looked great:

this version could look nice with some plastic in an accent color cut to fit in the recess: http://www.ebay.com/itm/112037967287

So what exactly about a seatpost makes it a fixed gear seatpost?

search terms for noobs 101

Bro, seriously? NJS stamp, of course.

[quote=JUGE FREDD]TC: friend got this knockoff in silver recently and it actually looked great:


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That actually looks pretty similar to the (legit) Ritchey 1-bolt clamp design, no?

I was thinking the same thing

if the claimed weight is remotely correct its way lighter than the boat anchor miche post.

smh
SS with one brake

just costs you $50 for the stamp. Seriously. To this day on Q or Cyclone the Jaguar will cost $50 more than the Pearl based on the NJS stamp alone.

And for full disclosure I buy parts with NJS stamps. Call me old school, I feel dirty not using toshis.

yoooo
hosted on velospace

Just found this gem from before I knew how geared bikes worked. Wish I would have stripped the parts off and put a nice cockpit and group on this thing:

edit: not stealth enough

Sweet stealth edit bro.

[quote=newellbt]Just found this gem from before I knew how geared bikes worked. Wish I would have stripped the parts off and put a nice cockpit and group on this thing:

edit: not stealth enough[/quote]

That’s a strange amount of bokeh to my eye. Is that processed in any way? Can’t figure out why it looks weird.

The photo exists because a guy my building was working on a bokeh technique.

Large format camera?

Need nerd data (exif).

[quote=ergott]Large format camera?

Need nerd data (exif).[/quote]

I never asked him much, it was a DSLR and he shot a 3 column, 3 row array of images and stitched them together in some fashion. I don’t know if it was manual or he wrote an algorithm but he was making a system for it.

Perhaps the brenizer method? - https://www.flickr.com/groups/brenizermethod/