FreedBehindBars

Those white classic cages would look sweet! Thanks for the the idea.

Wheeljack23

Dammmmmmmmn! This is one good looking bike!

Tyranniux

Thank you, it actually looks better now, I've been for a bike fit and the stem is now fully slammed.

slowjamz

daayyumm, those tire clearances are hella flush... lol

Tire size?

Tyranniux

If that's in response to the foil, I'm running 25's

TenGrainBread 

Cockpit updates to '94 Litespeed...

growlerdinky

Not.

Maelochs

Pink bar tape clashes with everything and neither unifies nor contrasts with anything---IMO. Hot is in the eye of the person screaming because s/he has something hot in his/her eye.

Make no mistake---I would ride the snot out of that bike as it stands. But this is an "Art" thread. I find the bare metal of the stem/seat post doesn't work well with the black seat/hoods and crankset/derailleur. To me the pink tape doesn't pull the thing together at all ... basic black might. Even silver or gray might ... there is the contrast of black/gumwall and black/titanium. Maybe titanium-colored tape would work?

Not that it looks bad ... just not in my top ten in terms of pure esthetics. And like I say ... I'd ride it.

But bikes are like people ... look at them long enough and they just look like themselves.

cat0020

You gotta match the bar tape with the frame decal and saddle.. Make it yellow bar tape and saddle it would be much better.

650 wheels make that bike look like a junior racer.

ebow3d

Hot. And I like the pink bartape. It would look bland and boring with black or yellow tape.

TenGrainBread 

I had yellow tape on it before the fork change and it was too matchy-matchy. Using the same color to match everything is a really tacky way to think about style.

Also they're 700c wheels...

slowjamz

litespeed is definitely not hot in a jock-bike kinda way, but a full blown kook-bike hottie. I'd love to put moustache bars and a basket on it and ride it around the city.

With drop bars, i'd say you need a more compact bar with a shallow bend to balance the proportions.

kbarch

I wouldn't say having things match by color is a tacky way to thing about style, but there are definitely times when it's not satisfactory. I think everything comes together nicely on your bike.
For some reason, no color looks as good on titanium as yellow, but the bars aren't on titanium. It's fine when parts are allowed individuality, especially when nothing is too bold, and when it's "natural," like unblackened sidewalls on tires, unpainted parts of varying materials. Although it's hardly natural, the pink of the bar tape is fine; it's doesn't call attention to itself and isn't totally capricious. I might have gone a little less saturated, and paler, but that might have shown dirt too readily. Much of the time, when things don't match, it looks like the assembler didn't know what he was doing. But in cases like this, I'd say the opposite.

rockenrolla

So many hot looking bikes in here! time to share my Wittson Custom Ti Cycles...

noodle soup

Big bikes just look right.

Maelochs

LOL! I was going to say this was one of the rare big bikes which looked right.

rockenrolla

cheers boys!

BTSyndrome

TimothyH

The bike is nice but the setting makes it look like it was parked by the valet.

TimothyH

What am I seeing on the downtube?

Did that decal come with the bike or is it something you added?


-Tim-

BTSyndrome

It's a warrior tiki god. There is three people in my town all still rock'n the same 7yo bike.
It was a way to differentiate mine from theirs... (how people put their name on the bike but w/o putting my name on the bike)
And it does have meaning to me.

TenSpeedV2

Hot. Partial to the color scheme. Partial to the bike itself. Partial to the presentation.

rockenrolla

emmm ummm.. sorry... what?

xodondum

the seat post is the 1st thing that catches your eye, like a cute girl w/a huge pimple on her nose ;-) all the extra bumps in the frame makes it look odd, like fins, like it belongs in the ocean.

WhyFi

Are you saying that you'd like to throw it off the pier? Me too.