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Epic ride, mate. Let's see some proper shots.

Sweet! Love the scheme! Don't change it!
 

:twitchy::twitchy:

Last one to have arrived. More or less out of the box. Won't stay long like that. Ignore the pedals, it's a Salsa so it thinks it is a mountainbike ;-)

Can I have extra points for the matching back ground?

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4317/...b4b43125_b.jpgSalsa Colossal by Lieven Loots, on Flickr

5.5/10

1980s style cage
too much spacers, chunky and small cockpit, never seen seatstay attach above the top tube, platforms, gravel/dirt genes but road tires...

You are too kind. No points for the background then?

That's where the half point was from

I like the colors, and the background, so you can have all the points you want for that. Otherwise, no extra points. Not that I'd take off points for anything, but I don't notice anything else to get excited about.

8/10. Needs black saddle and bartape and a different rear light that doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

There's something going on with the rear deraileur, maybe it's just the gear it's in but looks like the chain is too short?

Bottles look mismatching too, points deducted! Black bottles would of looked better, especially if they had yellow stripes or highlights. Should have black cages too.

Zipp wheels and Zipp stem is a nice matching touch (bars too?)

Nice colour though, is it a solid or metallic yellow?

I think it's the "torch" frame (2016 Olympics special edition paint).

It changes color from orange to yellow as the temperature changes.

Correct

Thanks for the critique. Yes, Zipp bars. Had just put on a new chain and it is a few links too long. I don't think black tape/saddle/cages looks right on these frames.

Built this up in March. Really enjoying it.

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^Your Wilier is quite hot. Well done.

very hot

Hot Wilier. If I had to pick a nit, it's be the ".com" on the chainstay - bush league.

Hot. What Vittoria tires are those?

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HOT!!!!!!

Excellent example of white saddle, white bar tape, misc white decals.. mixed with mostly black frame/wheels.. combo allows viewer to follow the white accents on the bike and the contrasting black frame.. just gotta turn that crankarm slightly forward.

Thanks for all of the comments! Cycledogg, those are Vittoria Open Corsa CX tires.

I agree. Hot

^^ Wilier - best of both worlds. It's black but not boring, it's white but easy to keep clean (except the bar tape good luck with that lol).

Hot.

Yes. It's actually rather festively formal looking. Not what I'd go for in a bicycle myself, (not the frame style or group I'd go for either) but it's very nice in its way.

For me, it is the tiny amount of red accents on the bike, from the computer to the skewers to the logo on the tire. It looks really well thought out and put together. I see the tiny bit of red on the top tube which of course ties it all in.

Willier is very nice though the top tube looks like the bike has rear-ended a car! Half a point deduction because the front tyre logo doesn't quite line up properly with the valve! :lol:
Carbon wheels look good without huge logos plastered all over them. Nice subtle touch too is the Garmin (?) in red to match the few red highlights on the frame.

the top tube looks bent. not curved - bent