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I'm sure most agree... I just feeling like saying it. Rapha is kind of ridiculous, no? Just strikes me as a silly category of clothing to put thought into. I mean you're going to put it on, sweat in it, and take it off. My cheap adidas jersey and tights work just fine.

That said, fashionable clothing for biking around the city could be useful... I've been tempted spend some money on this site quite often:
http://outlier.cc/

a post a day keeps the doctor away

They're both a bit wank.

qft

i just wouldn't try to make them clever. the HTFU, minus the HTFU is palatable.

ok it's a repost...

cant delete threads?

repost? might be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn29DvMITu4

well you guys dismantled what i said and put it back together backwards. nice work. i'm impressed.

sorry to offend, but i wasn't talking to you at all. i'm cool as a cucumber.

yes thats fine....

but frankly, this debate perfectly illustrates the stupidity of this culture. the best is to have two brakes. I mean what do you gain by not having two brakes? A dual braked single speed 700c bike is more fun, more controlled, and safer than anything else out there. you can hop up curbs at 30 miles an hour, kick the rear end out in a controlled slide, mash on the front brake if you need to, coast down hills.... at least that my perspective, having ridden all species of bikes.

a single brake belongs on the back. you've really gotta be a stunad to put it on the front only. there simply isn't a plausible scenario where control loses out to stopping power. I am sure that the object you are mashing on your front braketo not plow into could easily have just been avoided with a few controlled braking turns. If you think that stopping is the way to avoid hitting objects on the street, then you are a bad rider.

I pointed it out in the 5th post ;-)

well i did it better.

any of you get this far in?

oh the ourony...

There isn't a left and right spring in cantis as far as i'm aware...every canti i've ever used has universal springs so it doesn't make any difference which way round you run them or on which brake...the spring will still exit on the inside edge.

You are right. I haven't seen them in years. But you are right. The springs are clearly universal. I have no idea what I was thinking.

Isn't this where I make some comment about doing tricks on a fixed?

Wallrides are wicked. This is just brilliant.

and then i would agree, right? is this that place?

and then there's this graceful solution. mouse over the thumbnail for the full shot.

http://sogreni.dk/Chainguard.php

some beautiful stuff in there!

there's this bad boy
http://www.velo-orange.com/postch.html

Boring, and those 'Dales always look deeply wrong because of the gross mismatch between the skinny lugged cromo fork and the huge smooth welded aluminium down tube/ head tube junction. The cantilevered track ends look like a fatigue crack waiting to happen, too.

going to have to disagree with you there.

"hebie chain glider" is neat, though i've never seen one in person.

http://www.hebie.de/Chainglider-350-38-42-44.hebie350chainglider.0.html?&L=1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/a/2677444073/

But how would it work? Canti springs exit on the pad side...i've never seen a single canti brake with the spring tip on the outside edge of the brake.
Can't be clearance either cos the brake would cover most of the mount anyway.

i immediately wondered the same thing. I suppose you could swap the left and right spring, but i don't know how well that would work in practice.

truly stunning bikes. such a throughly modern twist on classic detailing.

i would really like a sub 30lb 26" dirt jump bike. there are plenty to choose from and i wouldn't be very picky.

No wonder people finish like this
YouTube - Sian Welch & Wendy Ingraham - The Crawl - 1997

FUCK THAT.

seriously.

thats worse than watching someone saw their leg off.

Just curious - Is there a functional reason the bit between the seat stays has multiple holes or is it a point of style?

the holes are to make it lighter. the object, itself, is an ill-conceived idea increase lateral stiffness. In reality that juncture is the least laterally flexed juncture of the bike.

you guys are rough.

i love questions like this. my thoughts:

1. maybe some well placed ones...
   
2. my guess is the forces being dealt with in a bike are smaller than in a bridge or something, and consequently the windows are narrower.
   
3. Also, the freedom for physical distortion, before failure, in a concrete structure are much much much much larger, meaning the inherently elastic cable can actually do more to prevent failure. I guess i'm trying to say that if you distort the downtube +/-1mm, it's going to crack eventually. I think a cable will have a hard time preventing that.
   
4. In fact, in theory, now that i think about it, a tensioned cable can't prevent that. It just shifts the equilibrium towards the compressive end of things. You will still have +/- 1mm of distortion
   
5. concrete is likely very very happy when compressed, which the cable encourages, and very very unhappy when stretched.
   
   

anyway, thats my completely naive perspective

really like that colnagno

now THAT is gloss.