freeskihp

do you read?

in response to who is magilla

doofo

uh it should have been less than 50 posts before someone said

use the ****ing picture thread!

delicious

Uh, most of ikea's designs are drawing from the same aesthetic as Eames. That chair especially. You know, 50's modernism?

rodri9o

my friend...I was referring to the furniture in this picture:
https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/843/img0036pc6.jpg

...not the chair.
damn...go have a beer or a bath to relax, man.

cyclotoine

well it is owned by the italian company selle royal but they are still made in england.

With regard to an earlier post... the B17 is a sport/touring saddle. In order for it to be comfortable as it was designed to be, the bars must be at least level with the saddle. Although the pro is designed for a more aggressive position it would not be comfortable as pictured on the OPs bike. But then again that discomfort is usually tolerable over small distances. No one in their right mind would do a century on such a thing. Serious injury is possible. What baffles me most is this bike is not meant for the track (okay I'm a roadie), so why do you go to such lengths to make it uncomfortable. I like riding fast as much as the next guy, but more than 10 minutes on a bike like that? no thanks... Note that modern track bikes actually have RISE to the stem. WHAT!?!? why? well it's because people today ride smaller frame with more seatpost because they can shave grams of weight that way and it makes for a stiff frame, so the bars are inherently lower than they would be on a traditionally sized bicycle. The OPs bike looks like he has sized himself by the modern school of though (because he has so much seatpost showing) yet he has chosen a track stem an bars... that's why you see most people riding bikes set up such as this with their hands on the tops and in the center (i.e. as much rise as they can get)... and many eventually develop wrist issue and next thing you know they are riding riser bars. (don't get me started on riser bars in track stems).

I guess the lesson here is Men (and women) will go through as much pain (or more) as women in ridiculous high heels in the name if fashion.

My fixed gear? Traditional fit, jacked road stem and moustache bars... mm comfy...

the pope

This thread is worthless without a picture of your boss in that chair. And somebody better be playing that damn bongo, Maynard G. Krebs.

(I'll just go ahead and preempt any confusion here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_G._Krebs ...)

dewthedew

i want a green pista.

parkerlewis

Nice bike man. There are some odd people on these forums! It is nice to know that people all around the world have so much invested time and interest in the comfort of other riders. It is also lovely to know that the 'drop police' are in full force, making sure that nobody dare touch ... ah i lost interest...

JellyMeetsJam

Nice setup, but a red paintjob would kill

Jerseysbest

What kind of light is that? I've never seen one before.

Youngin

take this h8ers!

I like it.

shakeNbake

+1

Or a banana daquiri.

Knog

metaljim

nah, i spotted the eames. and the knoll (right?). i just wanna see more.

nonnumericdave

Knog Frogs, running about $20 MSRP for a twin-pack.

tkarwin

It's a nice build, but I would have started with a nicer frame. You bought a complete bike and then swapped everything out. Money doesn't seem to be a problem for you, so I would have just started from scratch rather than buying a complete.

Swap the frame out to maybe a bareknuckle and you're done! J/K.... Kind of...

nathbdp

i'm not a h8tr i'm a sk8tr

doofo

if the op had taken a nice bath hed have thought twice about posting this predictably inflammatory thread

nonnumericdave

Come to think of it, this is kind of a bizarro version of my bike, down to the same city. I just can't bring myself to ride a threaded fork, or a chrome fork, for that matter. Deep Vs? No can do.

I know people are big fans of the top-down approach, starting with a quality frame, but a bottom-up approach, done incrementally over time, has been my personal favorite way of approaching bikes. I don't think I've ever not upgraded the wheelset on a stock bike as some point in it's lifetime.

And what he's got on that bike, color coordination issues notwithstanding, is a quality wheelset and headset. I had a Chris King headset I used on three seperate mountain bikes back in the late 90s, probably still under warranty.

Provided he had enough foresight to save the original components, he'll eventually have two bikes, one a quality stock bike, and the other, pretty ****in' amazing.

That said, take the Mr. Blackwell approach to choosing components on the next go 'round - you can't go wrong with black, white or silver. Blue, pink, purple or red? Not so much.

jodypolk

q2xft.

WNG

Then I guess someone needs to inform you how stupid your reply was too.
Not everyone give a **** about the furniture. He summed that up rather well.


How about everyone gets back to bikes.

kyselad

Just got to this thread and had the same thought.

piwonka

read the first post dammit.


and chrome and red don't looks that nice either. some dork here has a chrome pista with splash tape and red deepV's/phils and he talks about how indestructible his $600 wheelset is...he talks about how a ride uptown of only about 2.5miles is tough too.

LóFarkas

That chair looks disgusting. About the nastiest looking expensive chair short of some baroque abomination with purple upholstery fully covered in gold leaves.

Now that I got that off my chest, how much did the bike cost?

134k

Everyone has their own opinion. But I like your bike. It really makes me want to go threaded, because it looks so simple and clean that way-

MIN 

Lorok, post it in the pista thread and preserve the glory.