surreal

yes, you do. but, that's how i found your blog. my ol' lady wanted some creme tires, i found the delta cruisers, i googled "schwalbe delta cruiser review", and there was the blog. Replete with creme tire fetishism. And, other good content.

I'd have found it on here eventually, i reckon, but i bet you get a lot of hits related to your rubber preference.

-rob

caloso

This is my Fetish.



(Oh, that's not what we're talking about, is it?)

surgeonstone

The bottom Crankset is IMHO the absolute sexiest beast made. I love them, used to have one, fondled it, polished it, rode it and stupidly sold it.

surfrider

A few things:

Chrome plated parts (real old-style HARD chrome plating). Used to work as an industrial engineer in a plating shop and getting a perfect chrome finish on a part was a thing of beauty. A good nickel plate job comes close, but is only a close second.

Single speed bikes (not beach cruiser-styles, but race bike style bikes). Love the look of simplicity inherent in a single speed drivetrain. Adding brakes doesn't detract from the look, as long as the bike is used.

Aluminum frames, the ones with the oversized oval-shaped downtubes. They just look so cool.

seypat

I like headbadges just as much as the next person, but please people just take a picture! I don't like seeing the bike neutered of it's identity just for some collection.

rhm

Hey, no fair. I already posted in this thread, and now I can't find my post!

Well, anyway, I really like fender emblems...

though sadly none of my bikes have one.

I like my cranks spindly, I like my handlebars curvy and swoopy, and I want my brakes to look strong.

531phile 

I detest non-aero brake housing. I also hate full brake housing running along the top tube. Yuck!

Sixty Fiver

Veloria

Nah. I get more hits from "Pashley" and "vintage Raleigh" searches. But cream tire sales have gone up because of Lovely Bicycle, I am told, which I guess would imply the opposite relationship.

djkashuba 

Checking out beautiful rides being used as part of normal life.

OTS 

Love chrome, lugs, bikes, give me anything but make it shiney

Sixty Fiver

My theory is that we did not evolve from apes but rather, can trace our evolution to magpies.

clasher

I love the long curves on old forks and the slack angles in the frames.

ilikebikes

yup yup!....and brake calipers. I like the Modolo pro's. =0)

91MF

a beautiful classic bend type handlebar* perfectly wrapped with perforated tape --i like fizik but once i actually buy a brooks saddle i'll try some brooks tape to match.
a set of hammered fenders. one day i'll own a touring bike that would deserve some.
i really like track forks that have the little cutout in the crown to fit the tire perfectly.




*as mentioned elsewhere, soma fabrications has really done a fantastic job of making beautiful bar shapes available for reasonable cost. between the MT, the walker, and the new lauterwasser they have hit the nail on the head.

Rabid Koala

Chrome lugs, chrome rear triangles and chrome forks. I like chrome.

Also cranksets, shiny and/or unique ones/

sailorbenjamin

Pointy fenders.

surreal

It may well suggest that, although my wife was quite unaware of your blog, or really anything specific about bikes, but she said she wanted tires that were "all tan" or white, which prompted my searching. I think hat more ppl are into stuff that is vaguely like that.

in other news, while we're talking about pashleys, i saw a few on offer at trophy bikes in phila. Which leads me to another fetish item: drum brakes.

-rob

Bicycle Funk

Females and bicycles.

JohnDThompson 

Mmmm... drillium:

snarkypup

Fenders and chaincases, especially those French ones that are all swoopy and fancified. Don't have one, but I'd love it if I did.

I also like my aluminum and brass ding-ding bells.

Took my bike with me on a RV overnight, and it rained the entire time, hard. This necessitated the Panasonic being IN the RV (because the Panasonic refuses to be outside if it's pouring, of course). This then resulted in me staring lovingly at the bike, perched up by the captain's chairs in front, the whole time.

My favorite proof that I've become a bike fetishist: on my trip to England with my students last summer, we stopped in Cambridge, which must be the vintage 3-speed capital of the universe. One of my students turned to me about mid-way through the day, and said: "Mrs. M, stop oggling bikes like they're men!"

one4one

Happy to see I am not the only one to fetishize the Stronglight 93, but I like to see it matched with Lyotard Berthet pedals, Christophe clips and straps. My companion tells me to stop oggling bikes like they're women! And I do, because my other fetish is bikes locked up on the streets of my neighborhood. Some of them are thoroughly stripped, others remain unmolested for years and others inexplicably retain just a few desirable parts for months or more after being rendered unrideable by parts-theft. in any case my eyes are drawn to every one I pass.

Veloria

Beware of front drum brakes; they have very poor stopping power - unless they are the really enormous ones

Veloria

A belted magenta leotard and black high heels on a trackbike? How ridiculous can you get. A white-and-red leotard with silver mary-janes would clearly have been a better choice here. I'd also pin her hair up, so as to make those essential neck muscles more visible. I mean, come on.

snarkypup

I swear, I was thinking the same thing. Kinda. At least the part about the outfit being impractical and not matching the bike. Though after the shot in some earlier thread of Lance Armstrong training for a triathlon in what looked to me like a thong, I guess the leotard isn't that out there.

And for heaven's sake: it's a scantily clad woman! On anything! How is that a fetish, assuming one is a heterosexual male? Now, drum brakes, on the other hand...