You need to get out more.


I like it, btw.

perfect canidate for a full suntour superbe group. i'd love to own a 3rensho road bike w/ superbe everything...

Eh, parts is parts, y'know?

probably because the BMC, being carbon, would be a serious racer, whereas the steel track frames we're riding around the city are only seen on a professional level in japanese keirin races where they're following 70's policies, and the rest of the world has moved onto clipless pedals, aluminum/carbon frames and aero wheels over 36 spoke box rims, steel frames and quill stems. that stuff is cool on lower level competition but you'd never see it professionally, whereas the BMC would be quite at home.

that's my train of thought at least. i can't lie, i'd love to own that frame and i'd use it on the street, i'd just never run risers on it. couldn't spend that much money on a frame w/o using at the velodrome too, though.

i hate myself for loving the bmc.

the fake as **** 'lens hood' burned corners still annoy me to death on that picture.

fresh colors on the whip....
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...0012160007.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...0012160028.jpg

i am so surprised that those colors look great all together.

i disagree, but it might be different in the photo than in daylight.

As I just noted on a forum in a parallel universe, I actually like this bike. I would ride the **** out of it, as configured, every day, in the street, and apologize to nobody. Oh, and I'd have fun, too.

BMC looks like cheap molded plastic....

It would take very little paint-pen editing to turn that ridiculous BMC into a "crack machine"

Looks like actual vignetting to me.

canon kit lens at 21mm f/7.1 shouldn't vignette

But who knows how the hell the guy who shot it has his **** set up. Yeah, it could be fake, but I'm just saying it isn't necessarily so. Besides, who says it's the kit lens? All the metadata shows is 21mm.

a little too ovalized to be natural i say...

Perhaps. In any case, I'd still ride the **** out of that bike.

+1, that thing is amazingingly ridiculous

that's what I'm saying. He basically framed the bike with the burns. obviously not real vignetting.

burn != vignetting

In photography, burning means adding light in the printing process (ie. the opposite of casting a shadow, called dodging).

just assuming.

Would you be ok with real vignetting ?

ah ****, yeah you're right.

and yeah I would be alright with real vignetting.