Originally Posted by Spoonrobot

This instagram post caught my eye. Caption reads "Aesthetic Bicycle. How To Make A Beautiful Touring Bike. (New Cycling Mar. 1985" and there are a few more photos posted at the account with more detail.



It's obviously in Japanese but I can't help but wonder if there was an English language equivalent? I'd love to see the explanations for different angles and such. Aesthetic sensibilities for bicycles have always fascinated me as they seem to have become less and less important as the sport moved into modern frame design after the late 1980s. My first bikes in the early 2000s were 70s/80s road bikes that I set up per what I found on Sheldon Brown's site. The only guidelines I remember were the brake levers tips being slightly above an imaginary line extending along the bottom of the drops and that seatpost, stem and crankset were all supposed to be the same color. In 2018 it seems like most of the consideration for what a bicycle looks like is often limited to make sure the photos taken are crisp and clear and that's about it. Does anyone have their own aesthetic rules for setting up their bikes?