Doge

I don't know the boundaries for bikes in this thread. Looks like 90% are legal UCI geometry. A BMX bike is not, a MTB bike is not and a tri bike is not, hot as they all may be.

aobenza

I thought I'd post a pic of my new build for the judging eyes of the Hot or Not crowd.
My build criteria you ask?
_ Not Black
_ No Gumwalls
_ No Gold Chain

Doge

Hot

Fox Farm

/\ nice bike but the HUGE KINDHUMAN lettering is awful.

TenSpeedV2

HOT! Much better.

Fiery

I like the Kindhuman. Not enough blue bikes out there and this blue looks really good. That's the perfect kind of build to go with a frame like that - no logos, minimal splashes of colour, let the frame speak.

Fiery

See the name of this subforum? That's the hint.

cycledogg

Hot, a better back drop may improve presentation, don't like the gold front hub.

aobenza

Both hubs are actually fire orange. Blue and orange are complimentary colors and I think that little bit of color adds something more to the build. Here's a picture with a closer depiction of that color.

garysol1 

Much and very Hot.....

RJM

What are the wheels?

aobenza

They are unbranded 60mm Taiwanese tubular rims laced to Kashima ceramic hubs.

thewilson 

Hot, room for little details to make it fire though. Maybe red ferrules or QR or maybe colored cable housing? I'll still push for more suiting cages

Muffin Man

I'm planning on getting the frame custom painted sometime down the line, so I'm not too sure what colors I'd highlight. Also, colored housings are the worst. Black or white only.

Only cages I'd consider right now are King ti or mandible. I'm not a fan of the buttons on the elite cages

SirHustlerEsq

Fire hot. T-11s or R45?

SirHustlerEsq

Fire hot as well. How does it ride compared to the Ti bike?

aobenza

They are pretty close to the R45s but these babies are actually Kashima ceramic hubs.

Muffin Man

The dean doesn't even compare to this. This is way stiffer, and almost as comfortable. Whenever I got out of the saddle with the dean, it always felt a little bit squirrely and no stable under me. With this bike, everything is rock solid, and all my power seems to be put towards pushing me forward. Descending is way more confident on the Evo as well. The dean had lots of flex in the fork/HT area, so hard braking would lead to what felt like fork shudder, and made me slow down more into corners sooner. I can lean the evo waaaaaaaaaay over and I still feel planted into the ground.

If you can't tell, I really really like this bike. PR'd a local climb by 13 minutes the other day, and I think it was partially due to the bike.

kbarch

A 13 minute improvement over you last best time? Had you ever even attempted a good time before? Otherwise, that must be some long climb!

SirHustlerEsq

Is it a High-Mod? I get a lot of crap for my Evo being a Wal-Mart bike (available at REI, lol) but can't imagine riding anything else than a cheap poverty-mod Evo.

I'm sure the PR is from new-bike fever or the gum-walls.

SpeshulEd 

Hot, but it'd look better with a gold chain. Actually, it probably wouldn't, just giving you ****.

Go with the mandible. Carbon bikes deserve carbon cages and the mandible is the best one out there.

TimothyH

Re. Bold/Red, I had to go to less aggressive brake pads on one of my bikes because of this. Went from Kool Stop full salmon to dual-compound. Still stops on a dime but does not shudder as you described.

Of course that won't do you any good now so...

SirHustlerEsq

I think Mandibles are fine but I have Dave-O cages and I've never lose a bottle on gravel and use a seat-tube cage in CX, never lost a bottle there either.

DrIsotope

RJM

The first thing I thought when seeing this is that Batman rides it.