Jesus ****...

I can be impressed no more by one person's ridiculous collection of bikes. It's time for you to go, tripleC.

'Tis better to have loved and lost...

every time dude posts one of his bikes, I like him less and less. More money than aesthetic sense.

I could take a few off his hands so he'd be slightly less money. Plan?

Is that yamaguchi track-legal? I don't know much about track rules, but I know that UCI-Road rules want downtubes.

The Yamaguchi deserves its own thread. I am very facinated by it but it seems like an absurd design for stiffness. There is a reason why the double triangle frame design has been pervasive for the last 100 years.

The 'Guch can do no wrong. I really ought to take his framebuilding course.

I know you meant ST, but I think that they're track legal. He made more than one, so they have to have served some purpsose.

I think the first incarnation of his Bilenky and now this Yamaguchi look amazing. Said it before, but the Yamaguchi is my dream bike.

i can't believe someone actually owns that bike.

btw, isn't burying carbon rims in the snow kinda bad for 'em?

sick bike.

Nah.

Sweet Yama, when are we going to see a groupshot of all your bikes?

WTF? You stupid.



Go buy/build and post your own bikes now. Thanks.

where the **** did you get the guch frame from!?
thetriplec, you have quite the stable. forget the haters.

If you check out the flickr link in his original post, the last photo is of him with mr. yamaguchi at a velodrome. Which I assume indicates it's legal.

I would love to see the build sequence for that frame. The fixturing alone...

The picture was sent to him by Yamaguchi and the white guy in it is not the current owner.

Story of how he got the frame here. Sounds like a dream.

That is an amazingly awesome story. Some people have all the luck :p... well the photo still implies that the bike is track legal.

track legal and uci legal are two different things.

as long as it has drop bars, track ends, no qr, no freewheel and no brakes, its fine...

Have you even seen the bikes this guy posts? The Bilenky and Mercian made me want to poke my eyes out. The Guch is an awesome frame, obviously, but imagining it sitting there with the rest of his collection makes me frown. I just hope I remember to look at my color wheel when it's time for me to build up a multi-thousand dollar bike.

Another fun little conversion I just finished.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1/102_2196.jpg

Ahh.

And yeah, I meant seat-tube.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2365/...65a71429_b.jpg

What a beautiful ride......about time someone posted something like this ...these 20 $ conversions are shortening my life span ..... PLEASE LOSE THE BROOKS FFS ...DONT GIVE ME THAT COMFORT BULLSH.IT LINE DUDE ...THAT BIKE IS A FUTURISTIC AS THEY COME AND SO WAT DO YOU DO PUT A SEAT ON IT THAT LOOKS LIKE IT CAME FROM 1800'S ********************?? an awesome bike though other than that I dont want to imagine what that set u back . .... 8/10 . :)

Yep, a good read and a pretty amazing find.

I'd like a desktop size of this, is that a possibility? Great looking bike, seat and all.

I doubt it is now. UCI requires a main triangle. It was legal when Mike McCarthy won the 5K (yes, 5K) professional pursuit on it way back when.

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the Asymetric is sex on wheels