Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Vanilla Porn

Ok, either this works or it doesn't. I'm a brain doaner when it comes to posting photos, so here's a link to my yahoo stuff. If it actually works, I'll be amazed. If anyone wants to thumbnail these, go for it. Disclaimer: photos were taken after 2 Fat Tires, 1 Samuel Smith's Old Brewery Pale Ale, 1 Chimay (duh), and a Duvel. I know there's only 50 photos, but I'm just trying to get something posted. Btw, lighting and all that makes the frame look black. It's really dark metallic gray and the downtube panel is the black section.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/chimay42/album?.dir=7d1b

holy mother of all things holy, that is HOT!
please take some pics of it in the sunlight after your first ride. please?

omg... the seatpost... the dropouts... the lug carving...

hot.
so amazingly hot.

you owe me some new pants

The two photos that came up for me looked hot. Congrats on the new build man.

the bars the bars the bars one peice seeeeexy!

wait, so the stem and bars are one piece?

Tuck it in bed nicely tonight and try not to overstep your bounds.

Sweet ride.

you owe me some new pants


seconded

That's one heck of a sexy bike...
stick it behind glass, it's too purdy to ride.

wait, so the stem and bars are one piece?

looks that way ... sick!

http://us.a1.yahoofs.com/users/427949c2z2252e712/7d1b/__sr_/aa4a.jpg?phVPWeDBI9e6B3TB

that's insane and gorgeous. i've never seen that before. anyone know of any other examples?

I love all the fine details. the blacker than blackness, and the shinier than shininess of that thing. It's simply amazing. I especially love the detail around the chainstays/track forks. I don't quite get the handlebar stem thing.

That thing is one serious bit of bike porn, but I'm afraid if I owned it I'd never be able to ride it. not so much because I'd be afraid to hurt it as because I wouldn't be able to stop fondling it long enough to get on and rride.

No I think it's better for everyone that I never own a bike like that...

or that's what I keep telling myself.

Let's hope you don't have to change stem heights/angles/bars/etc. in the future. :o

Looking at these pics are going to take a very, very long time to digest. I feel like I'm studying a painting that has ten different levels of interpretation.

Congrats, and amazing.

holy crap i got a *****
(__)__)::::::::::::::::D !!!!!!!!!

Sorry for some crappy pics and lighting. I just propped it up and started taking pics. I'll post some more pics in better lighting. I've got friend a who does great digital stuff and he can put up some decent photos.

Yeah, it's a one piece bar stem combo. Sacha said the detachable face 31.8/carbon bar, lugged stem, etc would almost be impossible to pull off, so he came up with this. It's a NJS Nitto track bar mated to a custom Vanilla stem with a custom Vanilla lug. Sacha "smoothed" out the lug on the bars and carved the lug on the stem part. Bars went to chromers for the stem portion then the bars got painted the frame color. Somehow I'm gonna get decent photos of the bars to show they match the frame color.
I hope my buddy can get some respectable photos of this bike. The dark metallic gray, polished lugs, black panels look unreal in person. 'Scuse me while I go clean my shorts again. I'm still in shock from finally having it...

have you... uhm.... ridden it?

Wait! Don't tell me. I DON'T want to know.

wow.

wow, that is disturbingly hott.

i should have waited until after i finished the paper i'm working on to look at that, now i'm all hot and bothered.

absolutely beautiful...a work of functional art.

Where's the basket?

TLC should base a show around Vanilla. That bike has incredible aesthetics.

I just got home from the bar, sat down, checked BF, and said "Oh, my GOD" out loud when I saw these. Wow. Holy sh*t. That looks amazing.

that's insane and gorgeous. i've never seen that before. anyone know of any other examples?

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/roberts.htm
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2004/b/chen.htm

syntax - i meant the one piece stem/bars. thanks though! always love seeing more vanillas

I think he meant one piece stem/bars.

I'm just honored to live in the same city. If I ever see you riding that thing around, I'll scold you for submitting it to the harsh desert sunshine.

Bee-yootiful.

i just blew it early.. holy ****

weak sauce

yeah those bars are serious

seriously hot.

syntax - i meant the one piece stem/bars. thanks though! always love seeing more vanillas

Ah ok. I think I've seen the one-piece lugged style before, but I can't remember where. It was probably on fixedgeargallery, though.

oh sweet mother of god.

I saw this thread last night but I waited till this morning to fully enjoy them.

But 59 photos only? You remember I requested 100 at least right? ;)

Stunning bike. While the one piece stem/bar combo is great, what takes the cake for me is the seatstay bridge. So clean, minimal but classic rather than modern.

Ride that one daily, ride that one hard.

I'm off work Thurs-Sun this week. Will get some daytime photos then and put her through her paces then.

excessively baroque.

that seatstay bridge reminds me of something you'd buy at Williams Sonoma. that's a complement. i love that store.

excessively baroque.

Well, it would have been "baroque" if he hadn't "fixed" it.

I don't mean to be a nitpicker (it is undeniably a f$%&ing gorgeous bike), but I noticed that the spokes on the front hub are lace heads in. Doesn't a heads out radial lacing put less stress on the shoulders of the spokes?

I have no words...

WOW!! That bike makes me realize what a bike is supposed to look like... Thank you for learning me!

Today's episode of sesame street has been brought to you by the letter V for Vanilla and enVy

Doesn't a heads out radial lacing put less stress on the shoulders of the spokes?

yes

Love the way Sacha sweats the details. Beautiful overall package you got there. Enjoy.

Stunning bike! I like the way that the bar/stem and seatpost lug nicely echo each other. Polished stainless script and panel borders? Super cool. Inspirational and humbling at the same time.

Brent! Thanks for your help w/ the cogs and switching out the hubs for the SLRs. For the record, my cogs are one dull silver back and one is copper backed. With the chain on, you'd need a magnifying glass and a penlight to see the cog back. Damn near invisible and certainly no worries to me. One thing on the hubs though...What's with the ugly a$$ orange bearing seals???? Anychance of some black ones?

Chimay - did Sacha take any "studio" shots for his site? Will they appear at any time perchance?

absntr...I have no idea, didn't ask.

UNBELIEVABLE. I thought his site showed most of his "good" work.

Lugged carbon post, Vanilla bridge, raised chrome lettering, one piece bar. THAT is a showpiece.

Call me gauche, but how much (ballpark) would a frame like that cost?