Perfect. All the black parts that were left black make it perfect.

May the FORCE be with you.

I like the crankset.

What are those brakes?

Old-er SRAM Red brakes...the Roval’s are 29.4mm wide, so they’re opened as wide as can be. I might buy a new set of Force brakes to see if I can get a bit more lever action.

Any particular reason why you chose to take pic with red garage/storage door? It's a hot, flashy Allez but it makes the bike look a bit camouflagy..unless that's what you were going for.

God no.

Wrong. Opinion or not, it's wrong.

Hot pink! Been a while since a really hot bike has been posted.

That specialized is seriously hot

I totally agree, that is why I would not post a picture of my bicycle here. While I think it is a VERY nice looking steed I don't consider it is 'hot'.


This is a VERY nice looking bicycle.

So hot that it should not be viewed by minors. XXX

Lol - funny pm. Calling out your horrible taste *is* a contribution to the thread.

But you know, I'm not sure "hot" is a matter of good taste anyhow. Seems to me that "volcanically hot" is in rather poor taste. ;)

As if only those that agrees with your taste matter in this thread?

Not my fault that that you fail at visualizing color scheme that allow visual flow in photography.

If someone thinks it goes good with more yellow, let it be.

If someone think it won't go good, let it be.

Everyone has a right to like what they want to. It's not anyone's responsibility to change what they see as beautiful.

LET IT BE.

maybe this thread should get locked, and we all use this thread

https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycl...ot-thread.html

Just a thought.

Many people don't read the first post of this thread, and things sometimes get ugly after that.

Where does sending pissy private messages fit in? Asking for a friend.

Triggered the pinknazis, did you?

I didn't realize this was supposed to be have only simple, uncritical "hot" or "not" responses, and while it is suggested, it isn't clear in reading the first post here. In any event, after I started following them, I never could keep the two threads straight, except it seemed one or the other did make a bigger deal of things like garage doors, valve stem angles, etc. :( :rolleyes:

If they disturb you, report them.

As if PM to you was untrue?
Keep it to PM if you have nothing to contribute to topic of thread.. like this one:

or this one:

If you disagree with someone's opinion on topic, state your reasons and how you think the bike can be improved or better picture could be taken.

Posters who just want to disagree without offering cause would always post no-contributing posts regardless which thread the discussion is moved.
In effort to clean up this thread from non-contributing posts would be simply identify those non-contributing posts and keep them to PM if you have nothing to contribute.

Personally, I keep the critics related to the bike itself, not garage door, not valve angles.. just how the visual of the bike itself can be improved to allow better presentation, doesn't have to be spotless clean, leave the grease, dirt, rust, grime on the bike if they fit into the bike's purpose.

Lol. Your "visual flow" notion is laughable. Photography is all about directing the viewers eyes to where you want them by utilizing various techniques such as subject size and placement within the image, framing, leading lines, selective focus, etc. What you propose, adding splashes of color at the periphery, would do the opposite - it would lead to a lack of visual focus and detract from the otherwise clean lines of the setup.

The tl;dr version: God, no.

Worse - the yellowtrimnazis.

We can discuss photography if you like to start another thread about photography, but that's not related to topic of thread.

If you have nothing to contribute to improving the bike; it is not related to thread.. keep if in PM.

Trollololol. *You're* the one that brought up photography in an attempt to justify your horrible, horrible suggestion, but you happened to do so with a photographer.