Post Your Beausage.
 

So, we've all seen lots of pictures of all kinds of shiny new bikes. I'm getting a little tired of polished this and brand-new that. How about some beausage pictures? These aren't mine, but they speak volumes about my love for bikes, in ways that all of the studio-lit photos never can.

http://bikecult.com/works/archive/04...mekindaTrs.JPG

http://bikecult.com/works/archive/04...mekindaTcr.jpg

ha sucker your using rivendell speak!

rain + MKT trail = fun

I have filthy DA cranks too, but not as bad as that poor bike. There is a difference between well-used and neglected!

http://static.flickr.com/29/99298932_c5a303609f.jpg

i often do. i think it's pretty much clear to everyone who posts regularly that i'm just a rivendell kinda guy. only meaner.

This bike would be an excellent example of beausage, except it's pretty well concealed under the snow.

Bianchi paint=wearprone.

i like the pirate spokecard in first post.

i've posted this in other threads already. the picture quality steals some of it, but it's pretty caked with mud.

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/811/todayi4it.jpg

You're kidding right Ira? That thing is practically spotless, hell I'd have to clean everything once a week to keep it looking like that. Damned rain!

Guilty as charged- I work in a bike shop with a cleaning station, so that's as bad as my bikes ever get. Even after a mucky mtb ride, I roll out spotless a half hour later.

The thing that really sucks about Chicago is not the water or dirt, but the excessive amount of salt applied after every snow. It disolves into your drivetrain and then turns to little abrasive crystals that foul everything up.

That's one thing I miss now that I'm not working at a shop, easy access to the solvent tank and the part washers, that'd get it absolutely spotless, not that I really used it that much cause it was in SUMMER, argh oh well.

edit: I really can't complain the only thing that can keep me from riding is just bad attitude about getting wet.

wtf is beausage?

BEAUty+uSAGE=BEAUSAGE

Posted before, but why not again:

http://dcc.absenter.org/foto/misc/colnago_snow_01.jpg

http://dcc.absenter.org/foto/misc/colnago_snow_02.jpg

I ****ing hate that picture.

It makes me weep.

Yeah.

at least it wasnt another picture of "sophia"

ooo snap.. no he ditnt...

Oh damn- sounds like some people need to learn about a thing called "snow"... Don't you guys get tired of one season?

We have two thank you very much.

Greatness

Sorry, we don't have seasons, just some rain every once in a while...

http://static.flickr.com/24/94313793_f050353254_b.jpg

This is vomitron's Bausage...not mine.


http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...rtypursuit.jpg

dudes your all missing the point thats dirt not beausage, beausage should be attractive wear on a bike. It's the patina and rust and worn leather. it's like the whole worn in jeans look. It's this pair of boots:

it's really dirty in this pic. i promise.