Originally Posted by Poguemahone

Er... I am an artist. (Maybe, I draw comic books and cartoons, and many a wall artist has insisted I'm not an artist). Your criteria are entirely subjective. There are many more factors than simply size that factor into aesthetics and balance. Look at the two bikes I posted above. Now tell me which one is more aesthetically pleasing. If you answered the Huffy, your eyes, good or not, are missing and you need to go look for them.

This entire argument is like saying a beautiful woman can only be a certain height. Having dated both women shorter and taller than me, I can say any assertion that height is a determining factor is pretty bogus. Admittedly, it was hard to find a woman taller than me...

A Motherwell can be aesthetically pleasing, as can a Durer. Just like if the Serotta were 48cm and the Huffy 62, their aesthetic would be entirely reversed.

Seriously, claiming that a "good eye" tells you smaller bikes are more aesthetic reminds me an awful lot of the snobbish wall artists who would try and tell me Jean Giraud couldn't draw and his pages were an abomination.



And they'll say the same about Carl Barks and countless others.