is there any advantage
 

to running a frame like this?

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2008/may...hurKnowler.htm

looks pretty wack but i may just be ignorant
sexy lugs though

well, for starters you get a link to your bike on bf...

Cars will definitely see you.

that's the ugliest thing i've ever seen

think more ppl might know bout it in vintage?

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told ya

The advantage is you'll never have to explain to someone that you're mentally handicapped... They'll just know.

super super tight. the advantage is super easy wheelies/turns tighter than a 9 year old.

http://www.bikyle.com/images/BikesRo...loP3AL_red.jpg

He's going for a lugged steel version of that.

Can't say I'm real hip on his paint job either.

I love lugs... but that bike makes me love them less. I understand the desire for a certain geometry, but that vertical bar isn't very attractive either.

i have an overwhelming urge to punch that bicycle.

ps, that build is corny as ****, from the carbon spacers all the way down to the wheel choice. what a clueless ******...

That style is an old one, designed to shorten up the wheelbase considerably. One of the posters above got it right when he showed one of the newer Cervelos.
It was used on time trial bikes in England in the 1960's. At least that's the only time I've seen it. It basically replicates the curved seat tubes we saw on the KHS;s of a few years back, although with considerably more tubes.
I for one, like the bike, even though the pinstriping on the lugs is horribly uneven.

haha thank you for all the replies

Let's use it to ride away and join the circus!
Way too much of some good things.

Obviously the guy had some extra lugs and tubing, and a lot of extra time on his hands.

The worst thing about that build is that the guy can't make up his mind if he wants to be vintage(framedesign,lugwork,sadle) or modern(cockpit,clipless,tires) and the combination is just a mess.

its not too hard to make vintage and modern work well together. its more showy/ostentatious topped off with a fatty serving of bland thats killing that bike...

Wow, that's what I was going to say.