Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

pretty easy fix

It's one of those builds where you think you can save it with one small fix, but then it keeps on giving.

There's a guy a city over from me in the US who makes these horrid circa 2004 style fixies with flashy colors, heavy china aerospoks, cheap cheap tires, and stupid tall gear ratios. He posts them all on his insta and actually thinks they look good. The insta is (at)madeit4ya and all of his "work" is there.

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What is it with fixiebieks and tiny, tiny quill stems?

I'm more angry that they're all road frames and look to have massive fucking gears.

Nah, those 4 changes would do it for me. Not my first choice for colour way of course, but that’s the gist and extent of what’s wrong with it in my view.

Vomit inducing

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Looks like a custom Circle One windsurfer I had in the 80s. Would bang.

Fruit salad throwback

I am partial to a fruit salad but I wouldn’t want to ride one.

WTB thickslicks compensate for every sin

thickslicks compound every sin

 FTFY

Whatgets me is the lavish finishing kit on a pretty basic frame. If it was 853 or something really high end would make more sense.

what are these brakes

Kcnc cb4

Aspirational blue lugger

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@Dogs

Yeah there's a lot going on there. If your going colored anodising then it needs to be a neutral colour frame, or orange on an Orange.

It's the dysentery-brown / hearing-aid-beige purple ano jarring combo that particularly unsettled me.

When it rains it pours.

Charles II of Spain vibes

This saeco colorway seems to be particularly attractive for owners that favour hideous builds...

(Love how the bottle cage matches the pedals though and bonus points for spengle disc)

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Don't get whats wrong with the top one at all, would ride.

Thought the same. Belongs in rat bikes thread.