Bikes

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Me and my chopper bike in 2008. Still have it and still ride it from time to time. Taken the edgy flame stickers off tho.
It's pretty chill

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>>1074838
>>1074837

Both bikes are shit guys.

look at that cannondale track

https://www.flickr.com/photos/109906786@N06/albums

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>>1074839
>dat flite
how can one saddle be so based

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Road Bikes are the only acceptable optin

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>>1074842
>>1074841
>>1074839
>>1074838
>>1074837
Special snowflake: "The bycicle"
Picrelated is really fa

>>1074839
>>1074841
>>1074842

They don't have brakes.

>>1074842
literally the bike I have. exactly this one.

>>1074845

Why didn't you get a good bike?

>>1074846
Moved to a new country, needed new bike, this one was on sale and it was pretty? I'm no bicycle nerd and this one did the trick for me.

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>>1074843
>>1074844
this is a fashion board
high-contrast black-red-white-painted generic massive weld beads frames can go and stay go

>>1074845
put a quill stem on it

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>>1074842
That's not a road bike....

I own a titanium road bike wonder if that's /fa/

Full carbon litespeed fork, 48cm frame, comes out at just under 14.5 lbs with tape, pedals

>>1074847
It's okay. It's basically a fake race bike. But you can't really race it since the geometry is kind a fucked and it's too heavy to be competitive in a world where full carbon bikes and wheelsets are king.

However it's steel and it's heavy and ships with /like 25 or 28 size tires so ride quality is pretty good if you're going slow.

But wheel and component quality is questionable.

I mean you could have built a better bike.

But not everyone has the skills to....

It's like "gaming PC thread" and you post a MacBook in a thread full of water cooled, cable combed over clocked machines who max out AAA rated games.

Running high end modular keyboard with 8 different types of.cherry mx switches on it.

Sure you can play league of legends in low settings with a MacBook and it's technically a gaming PC if you run Windows on it.....but it's not up to par...

Fixie no breaks dumbasses

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>>1074851
Pic Related, color scheme could be better

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>>1074850
see >>1074848
>this is a fashion board

try telling me windows (or any) computer can ever be more /fa/ than a macbook

>>1074852
>>1074851
no pedals as well

>>1074849
you sound fucking autistic kek

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>>1074853
You don't think the tinted glass cases of most higher end PC's these days don't look better than plastic painted to look like cast aluminum?

>>1074842
fucking expensive fore a 800

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>>1074858

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>>1074859

titanium brompton with brooks saddle

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>>1074860
what's your favorite crankset, fa?

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>>1074863

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What's a bike that won't make me look like a cuck. Everything in this thread makes me look like an Amsterdam silly nanny or a Bostonian bike fag.

Example: Not the man on the far left.

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>>1074864

>>1074837
Land Shark [steel ones, not the plastic ones made now]

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>>1074867
land shark bump

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i live in the netherlands so i use it everywhere desu

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is my bike /fa/?

>>1074865

A modern road bike or MTB.

Performance and function over chrome and watching your gf get finished in.

>>1074870

No. Which is a good thing when it comes to sports equipment.

>>1074873
sexu

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90's race bikes ftw

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>>1074875

>>1074870
>quarq crank
>plastic

no

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Frank Ocean released a song about bmx. And bmx culture is coming on heavy in the streets. Just look at No Jumper. SoundCloud rap and bmx is basically synonymous right now. Better get on trend before the hype beasts lads.

>>1074848
By far the most effay ITT

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>>1074837
This is my bike, once I was stoned and couldn't stop admiring it's beauty

>>1074878
good thing soundcloud rap is shite and so is bmx so i dont have to worry about buying one :)

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Mine. Still have the old white leather seat, but this one is more comfortable and doesn't hurt my balls, although it looks like shit unfortunately.

>>1074842
shit bike

>>1074850
sieg you havent changed a bit, you have aproximate knowledge of a lot of things and try to parade as an expert, this is far from a " basically a fake race bike", its a bike targeted at track cycling beginners and hipster who want a "fixie", the geometry is pretty standard for an entry level trackbike, similar to a dolan pre cursa, this bike isnt trying to be a competitive race bike (whatever thats supposed to mean) most people that buy them just run them with freewheels and brakes and use them as commuters

>>1074878
I'd love to have a BMX bike that was sized for someone 6'1" or 6'2". Does anyone know whether such a bike exists?

>>1074877
literally nothing wrong with quarq, and enjoy racing on a non carbon frame

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Is pic related effay?

>>1074887

Bump...................................................................

I'd really love to know the answer to this question.

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>>1074837
This is true fashion

>>1074837
>Is this effay?
GTFO my board stupid cunt, a bike is not a fashion accessory, idiots like you ruined cycling forever, you semen slurper.

>>1074935
no they didn't. it doesn't matter what they do. it would take the entire combined burgerstanian armed forces enforcing a worldwide cycling ban to 'ruin cycling forever'. some idiots saying words doesn't mean jack shit.

>>1074942
They did, the industry thinks of bikes as fashion accessories because of them, then everyone ends up buying shitty chinese color coordinated fixies as their first bike.

>>1074945
that doesn't matter at all. you're tilting yourself over nothing because you're an insecure teenager. grow a pair, bro.

>>1074886
Big boy is 6'4" you cuck.

>>1074946
It does matter, people think biking is hard for this reason, that's why they don't ride as much as they would if the industry wasn't selling bikes that are more fashionable than functional.

Fashion ruined biking forever.

>>1074837
I don't believe in bikes as fashion accessories, but if they look cool, that's always a plus. I have a Wal-Mart beach cruiser that I used to commute on, it was all black and a lot of people thought it was cool. Getting compliments for a very cheap bike is cool. Beach cruisers are cooler than fixies IMO and really not any less rideable since they are all single speeds anyway. Cruisers tend to be popular among the elderly, but I don't mind that.

>>1074869
I prefer the American style cruiser to the Dutch bike, but they're very similar. Of course, the cruiser bike needs a rack added to be just as useful.

My Schwinn 80s road bike gets a lot of compliments. A guy at a traffic light today complimented it. The mountain bike gets few comments but it's a practical bike to ride around. Mountain bikes are rarely fashionable anymore. The 80s and 90s had a lot of experimental head turning mountain bikes. That's rare nowadays.

>>1074878
BMX is cool in the "urban" sense of things right now. If you want a bike that looks nice riding to work, that's obviously not what you're looking for.

>>1074921
You might say it's true high fashion.

>>1074870
If Eric Harris could design a bike.

>>1074885
you can't ride a pista at most velo dromes

>>1074873
That bike litteraly hangs in a clothing store in my city so it must be /fa/.

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>>1074886
just buy a dirt jumper

>>1074837
>beach cruiser
>effy
... do you even /fa/?

>>1074886
Get a dirt jumper, or 1 speed mountain bike from Nashbar, Bikesdirect, etc. with a rigid fork. There are 26" BMX cruisers but I'm guessing you want a bike that you can sit and pedal on.

You could also consider a fixie or putting BMX cruiser/moto bars on a beach cruiser (if coaster brake is OK)
>>1075013
Underrated post

>>1075152
dat ground clearance

>>1074886
why do motherfuckers reply to this with hurdur get a dirt jumper
no my man
get a 22'' bmx
Fit Bike Co. has one with 22" WHEELS
but you can get them with 22" top tubes and 20" wheels by: Fit, Haro, Sunday, Subrosa, WTP etc etc

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>>1074862
Gotta be one of my all time favorites.

Rotors are the sexiest though.

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Precision designed racing bicycles are literally the the most /fa/.

Function=Form.

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Easily early cruisers.

>>1074850
fuck off, sieg

>>1074886
SE Fat Ripper

Full Suspension, doesn't have to be crazy downhill travel, but suspension seatposts can burn in hell.

>>1076212
Function>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Form, unless you are gay.

>>1074853
older thinkpads are /fa/ af

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>>1076197
because non 20" BMXs are trash?

i bet you post here piero you french weeb

>>1076323
I think he's implying that when it comes to bikes, focusing on function often results in the best form, not that the two are equally important.

>>1076253
>Black Phantom
That thing weighed like 60 lbs but it was the most adored bike ever. The typical beach cruiser is a "middleweight", the road bikes were "lightweights", but this was the most famous of the "heavyweight" models. It was built like an Abrams tank and had every imaginable feature a kid or adult could want on a bike back in the 1950s, and it cost a lot for a 1 speed cruiser. They reintroduced them in the 1990s for a while. It would be cool to make a klunker with one but they are too expensive for that. Definitely one of the best looking bikes ever made, even if cruisers aren't your thing.

>>1074870
stop posting this it makes me too jealous :(

>>1074879
I have a lot of friends that ride bmx semi professionel and one of them is 205 cm tall and his bike is the same size as everyone elses

>>1079368
Was meant for>>1074886

>>1074876
This photo is amazing

>>1079368
>I have a lot of friends
If you're shitposting, at least be subtle about it.

>>1074839
Fixies are still practical, beach cruisers are inferior in about everything.

>>1074873
A shame their Vanmoof T is no longer sold in Europe, it's actually a quite nice mini velo.

>>1080208
Lol, enjoy having no brakes and never being able to coast down a hill. If I want to go fast I will ride a geared bike.

>>1080710
You can still put brakes and a freewheel on a fixie making it superior in every way besides comfort compared to a beach cruiser.

>>1080713
Well I guess to each his own. There's not a huge difference in speed other than the seating position. A lot of fixies have riser bars now. I've never rode a single speed bike with drop bars so I don't know what that's like. I can hit pretty impressive speeds on the cruiser (it's actually a 29er), and tucking forwards is possible but more awkward than on a fixie. Riding off road is more pleasurable than on a fixie. A modern cruiser will be heavier than a fixie, but lighter than a mountain bike because of suspension and gears. The wheels are also really strong on a good cruiser, since they make them in the old V-shaped style.

>>1080716
Fixies are very similar to road bikes, a pro rider could probably get about 85% performance out of a fixie compared to his roadbike. Not having gears makes a fixie a great cheap alternative compared to a road bike.

Just look at these dudes, they get crazy speeds on their fixies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSw6_0B2n1Q&index=1&list=PL8AB12EE20FCC8A05

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>>1074886
I got curious about that too and did some research

apparently there are many tall BMX pros such as Niek Kimmann, Tory Nyhaug and Corben Sharrah, maybe you could get a bike similar to theirs.

Copying pro equipment is a bad idea for many sports tho. I don't know much about BMX so that might be wrong.

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>>1080751
thats for racing, freestyle bikes are different

if you are tall and want a bmx get one with a 21.75 top tube, and get elevenz bars

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my best bike. rate it

>>1080717
>85% percent
Yeah, good luck using the same gear to climb and go down big hills.

>>1074865
I'd rather be the guy on far left than the complete children in the rest of the picture.

>>1081070
trailer trash/10

I like junky looking bikes.
Its nostalgic to be on something with a crappy paintjob

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Say no more senpai.

>>1076740
That's not a BMX though.

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I love super aggressive track bikes and fixies, with the toptube pointing downwards a lot.

>>1074870
it is and I'm jelly

>>1082051
>special ed
Nice.

>>1074842
Isn't that a track bike?

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>ywn own an X-53 for less than $1000 that's in mint condition and not rusted to shit
Why live?

>>1074870
No. Murdered out bikes were played out 3 years ago.

>>1074870
It appeals to me and looks like a giant pile of shit all at once.

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>>1074837
Woah, that's a cool bike!