I'd say that stem is a tad bit above Max. Height too...

It's no more offensive to me than a vintage bike with brifters and deep v's.

Running the brake cables on the wrong side of the bars is a common mistake. You can see lots of examples on this site.

SORRY !
I like green but this is blasphemy!!

Never get tired of this bike. Now THIS is a tasteful use of green. Very well done.

That green chain on the Fiorelli, however. Is way over the top. Probably very low quality too, like most of Origin8's stuff.

Playing devil's advocate: it has impressive tire clearance and I could see it a halfway decent SSCX or fire road bike.

This bike is the stuff that nightmares are made of. that price shows what kind of person you are dealing with and the description of the people in the shop in a reply just confirms the original impression.

Bill

Makes me want to put the iPod in, listen to some "Foster the People" and lay down some skids.......Oh wait, I'm not 18 anymore.

I'm sure there is a segment of society who would enjoy spending their parents money on such a machine.

Evidently not as it's showed no signs of selling! So it appears that while there is surely 'one born every minute' there is not a sucker big enough to buy that bike in that condition at that price...and not from those people either. Really, the 'shop' looks like a very sketchy 'thrift' or 'junque' shop only there's nothing there but bikes. Lousy ones at that.

Exactly.

This is not my cup of tea, but being in Brooklyn NY everyday, I see bikes like this all the time. It's a hipster bike, plain and simple, colorful, outlandish, in-your-face, different, and individual, and if I'm not mistaken, being a "hipster" is a very American thing. Do we have here a case of road bike snobbery? In the hipster crowd, a bike like this would be talked about like us C&V guys talking about a Basso Gap or Colnago Sport or maybe an accurate, period correct rendition of a 70's or 80's Tommasini or Ciocc. That's our thing, but a hipster wouldn't care about that at all. This bike however, would likely get them buzzing...

​lol.....

I bet the brakes sound great.

I've seen much worse.

Well, it's a heckuva conversation piece.
Zero street cred. Too much of it matches.

One of those bikes where the thought of stealing it never even crosses your mind.

I'd steal the frame and leave the green stuff as a statement.

...Just kidding! I'm no thief!

You're WAY off the mark here. In the "hipster" crowd, a proper C&V bike would get much more attention than that ugly badly done conversion. If anything, this bike would get made fun of more than it is here on this forum. There's conversions done right, and there's conversions done wrong. This bike is an example of someone, who like you, is way out of touch with a certain 'scene'. The only difference is this guy built a crappy bike to try and capitalize on his misinterpretation of what these kids want. That's why it hasnt sold duh

Just think of the lime green making it safer to ride in traffic. On second thought never mind, I think I would rather be hit by the bus than ride this.

I've done enough charity rides with large hipster contingents that didn't give mine or anybody else's C&V bike a glance, but come an outlandish, multi-colored monstrosity of a bike and they are all over it. Individuality seems to be there game, and there's nothing wrong with that. I've very rarely (if ever?) seen a hipster on a proper C&V ride either. Maybe an old cheap, unrestored, beat-up, patched-up, non-period correct Raleigh or Schwinn, but never a high end Italian.

And the reason this bike hasn't sold is the price...Duh....

Oh, and please Google "hipster bikes brooklyn" and look at the images. Lot's and lot's of pictures of some very colorful, funny looking bikes, but not one proper C&V road bike.

Auto virus**********

Computer-savvy slang for a virus that infects itself, duh.

Ah, kind of like a backwards gun that shoots the shooter instead of the target.

Oh, you've googled pictures of hipsters and seen a few on a local ride or two...
Excuse me for questioning an EXPERT lol

You're just perpetuating an old, tired stereotype and it's a bit silly.

Somehow I hit a nerve with you, and I don't really know why. Your condescending tone is unwarranted IMHO.

My posts were not at all anti-hipster and I think that whatever they want to do to their bikes is just fine. I'm not trying to be an "expert" on that scene (if there even is such a thing) but I know through my experience's with them, that they are not into really nice high end, clean C&V bikes and that's fine. Maybe they are by you, but not in Brooklyn. I don't think the stereotype is tired, old or silly, as it still seems to fit here. Heck, I don't even think it is a stereotype anymore, it's become a lifestyle. So good for them!

It's cool man, I'm not personally offended or anything...if anything I find the whole "outside looking in" take a bit amusing.

I find the whole "Oh, gasp! Look at what the hipster did to this one!" threads awfully boring. If you hate what someone else does to bikes then buy them all and save 'em. Wait, I think that's actually the MO for some folks around here.

Check 'em out; a LOT cheaper and some nice stuff if you're into bike bling:

https://sgvbicycles.com/Retrospec-Fixies-Track-Bicycles

Apparently this is a pretty big thing - and I'd be willing to bet a 6-pack of Torpedos that a fair number of these kids will turn out to be geezes [like us] on the C&V forum with their own English steel steeds one fine day about 20-30 years down the road...