Mumonkan

details.

pwebb

those first two basically say "F*** your tire clearance" to me. I like the last one but not a huge fan of asymmetrical bike stuff personally. Lefty front forks always drive me nuts for some reason.

sickz

id be embarassed to display that at a bike convention.

sacrificing function for ugly.

TejanoTrackie 

Also, the lugwork is totally meh, no smoothing or filing. I have 1970s bike boom era gas pipe frames that look better than that.

sickz

good point... all that pointless fluff, yet lugs are still basic.

IAmSam

1899 Columbia/BSA pro-track ridden by the one and only...Major Taylor...
Acquired from a relative of Major Taylor's former bicycle shop sponsor in Wooster, Massachusetts before his death, they kept this bike as original possible from the day he rode it in one of the British Six Day races in same year he won the World Championship (not on this bike)

T13

Toe clips....hmm.......

Soil_Sampler

SpeshulEd 

It made the porn thread and the jackass thread in the same day!

Muffin Man

I've seen that bike in person, and while its a cool bike, it's not worth that price tag to me.

rex615

I like the bike a lot, just not the price tag.

Mumonkan

i still think the rack for a tiny pannier (that doesnt exist) is stupid. im not a fan of the bars either.

the idea for the bike is interesting i suppose, but i feel like they chose that automatix hub so it wasnt just another "fixie"

supporting local american business is cool and all and i understand its handmade, but but id be more comfortable spending a tenth of the price for what it is functionally

Soil_Sampler

Perfect!

Ictoanta

That Speedvagen (which I can't stop reading as "SpeedVegan") does absolutely nothing for me... if I had to select one part that I like, it would probably be the tires :S

Different strokes, ey?

50voltphantom

I don't understand why it has an insane amount of fork clearance. It's almost like it's suspension corrected.

Mumonkan

im thinking it has something to do with the wheels being 650 b and the enve fork is most likely for a cross bike with 700c wheels, but i could be wrong

maybe he just wanted clearance for all that mulch hes shredding

Dan515

+1 to everything you said.

I especially don't understand why they fitted it with a single-sided custom rack that only works for a currently non-existent pannier... that may only exist in the future in the form of a custom Porcelain Rocket bag??

And for the price tag, I'm pretty disappointed that it's got an Automatix hub... not even a Rohloff or something that's actually really functional and pricey at the same time.

Talk about catering to an exclusive crowd. But then again that's what all these handmade bicycle guys do I suppose.

rex615

It might just have a 29/700 fork instead of a 27.5/650B.

EDIT: Just notice @Mumonkan beat me to it.

Soil_Sampler

With those tyres on a 700 wheelset you would have to use 29er fork, or custom.

SV Urban Racer ? The Vanilla Workshop

https://static1.squarespace.com/stati....Guidebook.pdf

SpeshulEd 

Seriously?

POPULAR UPGRADES:

FIRST SCRATCH

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This upgrade is $10

Ictoanta

If he's taking the piss (which I strongly suspect, no-one can be that full of it, right...?), I take my hat off to him. If not, I don't know what to say

rex615

^^^ It could also work in case there is a scratch on the bike when you receive it.
He could say, " Oh, don't worry about that scratch, we won't charge you for it, you can have it for free"

Ictoanta

Yeah, or you get a properly f'd up bike on delivery, accompanied by an extra invoice for 500$ worth of scratches

As a business model, it's amazing!

Kindaslow

You guys are just jealous that you did not think of it first!!!

Ictoanta

Yes, I'll admit to that