Wow this beats even that absurd mash cf gan well disaster as the single most stupid track bike I have ever seen.

EDIT: the more I look at this the worse it seems. What is wrong with the ****up who made this beyond clearly having too much money?

amended..

yeah, i seen that gitane you repainted. its a very nice color

if i was gonna drop almost 4 grand on a carbon fiber frame just to respray it and hang it on the wall, i think i'd want to do something a little more exciting with the paintjob.

Maybe HUF can do a repaint and make shoes to match!
You know, for the cycling community and all.

Someone give me this look so i can give it a proper home.

Clips and straps on a Look carbon frame...

Also I'm glad your friend knows how to use the helvetica varients, but he can sure blow a lot of money proving he does.

This ugly green thing??? HAHA all the indigo from my jeans got on my suede san marco seat...

where have you been, [165]...

you think with all of huf's pull and bank he could come up with something better than a stencil font. and a poorly spaced one at that. of course most good designers wouldn't touch this hip-hop hot topic **** with a ten foot pole, so it stands to reason.

that's some bike shop ^^^

eat a dick baby!

and you are just clownin!

Which montrosity of moronic conspicous consumption are you trying to defend?

A bike is a ****in bike...let who ever ride it how ever they want. And I am pretty sure that MASH bike cost less than most of the bikes on this forum. There is nothing moronic about a good deal. ****in clowns...I tell you.

Damn a lot of people on here hate a lot....

Wheres the love at???

I just hate the hater not the game...

so whos gonna make the ad busters black dot fixed gear?

who loves a ****up who takes a $10,000 frame and puts ****ty parts on it and(probably) doesn't even ride it much and definitely not in a situation where a $10,000 frame would be useful.


Juvi- If he got a good deal he could have sold it. Riding it around to do bar spins and whatever other boring tricks are in this week is ****ing moronic. A stiff frame with tiny risers and clips is pointless. Same goes for the wheel(although if it is just a fancy looking peice of **** not so much).

It's all more pointless then the non-racing roadie on the madone. At least they are benefiting from their ostentation in some small sense.

If the game is making a bike more wasteful to show how much money you have to blow on **** then I hate both the game and the ****** bags stupid enough to become players in it.

Some people choose function, some choose fashion - and others find something in between. Riding for fun it what matters most. And I guess it is true that fun sometimes mean buying the most expensive thing you can find and flaunting it - for some people.

I love pretty bikes. Who doesn't?

Let's face it - the whole "track bikes on the street" makes little sense anyways. Fun as hell, but makes little sense.
And don't bother with the "zen/less likely to be stolen/cheaper/safer/been doing it for years" arguments. I love it, but it does not make sense.

but do you think that look is a "pretty bike"?

I said nothing - I stated a position without example as everyone's definition of beauty will more than likely be different. You are trying to contain a nebulous idea, something I struggled with also. I know what I like. I like the way the new Cramerotti's and Cinelli's look. And the Pista Concepts, also. The paint jobs on the Keirin bikes are incredibly alluring. Am I down with someone repainting a bike and putting their own slogan or whatever on it - I could care less. I think it is a bit ridiculous to advertise a "self" brand name for the sake of "promotion" in what now appears to be a trackbike-choked city (SF) as far as clique-y-ness and that like. But I am far away from that silliness. It is not my thing. When it went from enjoying a bike to flaunting it, that got old fast.

The real cyclists remain. The others, well...we shall buy their parts at severely discounted prices.

dutret is a clown...that is my postion!

awesome.. i havent been here in forever and this place hasnt changed a bit!

i'm with ya on that one.

Yes and trackasaurus highlights the most despicable aspects of fixed gear culture. There is little I despise more then status symbols and those that strive for them. Hipsters who where punk a few years ago and still ***** about capatalism and coorperations while they exhibit the worst type consumerist values are one of them. Honestly I don't know if Juvi fits into that category or what percent of the mashsf ****ups do. However my experience is that a pretty large percent of sneaker *****s do an the intersection of sneaker *****s and fixed gear enthusiasts is almost entirely populated by these hypocritical self righteous ****s. Whether they do or not doing stupid **** like riding around on a HED(no matter how much you paid for it) is just as ****ed as the dip**** suburbanite with a suburban and a 6000sq foot house full of rooms that don't get used. The motivation is the same and thats probably where they will end up in a dozen years if they can afford it. They have already demonstrated that the alter of conspicuous consumption is worth sacrificing most of their money and therefore time at.