London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

I love that, all except the colour of the frame

haha, cheers fox, i have ridden that :)

Sorry but that's bollocks.

^^^ (The Crane) Slack paving....... dodgy slab line on the right, ha ha....... bike is spot on tho

+1
The saddle-to-bar drop is less than mine (with hands in drops, were they are most of the time), and I'm a shortarse.

no you don't, allowed me to demostrated;



the rider's set-up on a low pro is pretty similar to riding on the drop, all it usually take to be more comfortable is to use riser instead of bullhorn on the bike and you'll be fine for everyday riding.

Nice work Ed.

I'd imagine theres a good chance this is a repost. Apols if so.
Really like this...

clearly photochopped...

You reckon? It's a bloody good job if it is.

Look at the shadows. They just dont quite fit.

MMMM Lovely....

I just posted in the Spotted thread about seeing something like this yesterday eve. I really like the geometry of bikes like this.

I have to admit, I really like that - hence me umming and ahhhing about bidding on the frame on ebay few months back
Just hope Max finishes it off properly, good luck son! ;-)

+1

You are daft.

Oi! That's my sloppy paving you're talking about! ;)

Well said.

Cheers Pisti, one bit at a time! :)

I can see where you 'borrowed' the brick from to stand it up. I hope you put it back afterwards!

:D! I didn't notice you could see that in the photo hahaha

I turned up to a race last year on my lo-pro and somebody made exactly the same comment about how huge the saddle to bar drop was. I put my bike next to his drop bar machine, and the hand grips of my bullhorns lined up exactly with the hooks of his drops. It's one of the endearing characteristics of the old school lo-pro bikes that they scare the uninitiated.

really? thats porn?
What a mild imagination you must have.

i wouldn't say its far off though.

tbh i like it as it is

any bike that fits properly will ride better than one that doesn't whether it be lo-pro or not.

scoble's photochop doesn't tell the whole story though, as the angles and front wheel size are very different, the handling isn't anything like the same, even if the scale works for the saddle to bar drop, and 90% of the people who set up lo-pros on this forum have a bad fit, just a glance at some of the victims struggling along in town will tell you that.

they look so cool though don't they.

More so if they are sitting perched high on their seat post and knees knocking elbows.

very true, my lo pro is the same size as my everyday whip, but it is too small because of the geometry.

just a heads up im going to be selling it soon if anyones interested

it's like the difference between a normal track bike and normal road bike, you wouldn't be comfortable doing a proper mountain race on a track bike.

Who gives a fuck if you're bike 'fits' or not when you're ridning with a neon yellow Aerospoke FFS!?

Fashion B4 Function FTW!

combined with the 'sideways nod', head rocking side to side. created by the high saddle and locked arms. even if the saddle isn't too high they still do it. maybe they saw an alpha-hipster* riding like that and presumed that was how it was done.

*alpha-hipster: someone who has a cooler job or lifestyle than you and rides an even lower lo-pro with rarer NJS parts than anyone in your immediate circle of friends.

As a very old person, I have a lo-pro which fits perfectly becasue it was built to fit, with the dimensions taken straight off my road bike. The handling is a little bit different; as edscoble's pic shows, the effect is like having a very long stem on a road bike for the same position, which slows down the steering, but then the small front wheel quickens it up again. The weight balance is more on the front wheel than the road bike, due to shortening the front centres without changing the chainstay length. This effect is magnified if you run tribars very low, as I used to when I was younger and more supple, resulting in the back wheel catching air over high speed bumps. In fact, it was tribars which did for the lo-pro, as few people needed the small front wheel to get a low enough position.

I had one, last year, too small though... and too cracked.
(not readers wives as it's no longer mine :)

There were one of them on evil-Bay the other day, looked in reasonable condition from what I remember. Can't remember how much it went for exactly, something like £225

I assume you sensed my sarcasm when i posted that? :)

Corima V.I.F.


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/3...0fef85c1_o.jpg

that dudes new balances wins.

That's the old style Corima Cougar, not the VIF. The VIF has a semi-integrated seat post

http://www.corima.com/gb/produits/ca...cadre_vif.html

Probably a repost, but a few bits of shiny component-pr0n for my fellow polishing freaks.

http://miniportfolio.com/pages/campagnolo%20pedals.html

Readers ex-wives and absolutely hideous.

This is supposed to be bike porn ffs!

Hmmm yum!

and the link.... OH!

finally! someone bring this thread on track again... seriously though
BIKE PORN = a bike worthy of giving you sexy thoughts.

i personally don't have a wank over women i can afford or have any chance of marrying, porn is meant to be pure fantasy, a rarity, something to aspire to, something not available to every tom, dick or harry... not shitty Peugeot, mass produced plugs or bland destickered 'tasteful' conversion things. something you probably cant afford or are unlikely to ever own.
it's like rubbing your thighs over a Renault Clio rather than a Maserati. fools.

/rant over

P.S don't get bikeporn confused with fond nostalgic memories of yesteryear. vintage bikes even in concourse nick are not porn unless they were state of the art the time. i.e raliegh mixte... not porn. just kinda cool or aesthetically pleasing.

/second rant over.

Bollocks, 'porn' is whatever someone percieves to be alluring / beautiful, no one can prescribe anothers taste. For me that yellow thing is minging and this (attached) is porn. One man's ceiling is another man's floor....or something

PS: Charge Plug's are the exception to the rule because I have one between my legs every day

I think porn is as much about how something is photographed as what is photographed. That Corima Cougar (NOT VIF) isn't porn because it's carelessly shot.

Are you yanking my chain fuck fuck fuck fuck............

Perfect illustration of my point; light the money, crop tightly to the sex, don't have some scruffy bloke in the background putting you off your stroke.

...an approach which yields the world's most boring and soulless porn.

and a cropped out industrial/electronics conglomerate logo.
what's porn about a fridge manufacturer making bikes.

And the world's most inspiring erotica. It isn't sufficient to photograph well, but it is necessary

Pompeo Posar and China Hamilton are both technically proficient, but one is an erotic artist and the other was responsible for the most chocolate-boxy period of Playboy centrefolds.

Porn for ENG folk...


Have you seen some of the shit Campagnolo have turned out as an engineering subcontractor? Judge the object, not the parent company.

whatev's, this from the man who started a thread about nob outlines in lycra. inspiring erotica eh? rather subjective..

..which brings us back to square one. I find the panasonic "montage" dull and uninspiring; just because someone's put kashimax and all the right dooberries on their bike and shot it beautifully don't necessarily make it good porn, or even "inspiringly erotic". For me it's all about the bike / components on these pages.. at worst a bad "snap" only hampers full appreciation of true porn, and at best a good "photo" only indulges appreciation of it. At worst though a "good" photo (lit, composed, digitally processed etc.) can actually render its subject bland and cliched.

those aren't exactly good examples of bike photography, not the worst i have seen but certainly not the best.

jesus christ - it's bike porn.. bike looks nice = put it in the thread.

Rules? For bike porn? What makes good/bad porn? Can we just look at some bikes please and stop quantifying it.

Different strokes for different boats. Some people like midgets in chocolate sauce, some like 2 girls 1 cup and some people just like to look at page 3....