Black is the new chrome/silver/polished. This is my favorite bike pic ever posted:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...heHour2015.jpg

1972 Schwinn Paramount, pretty hard to beat in the "classy" department.

http://www.geocities.com/sldbgallery...2paratr002.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/sldbgallery...2paratr001.jpg

^ One of the very few "classy" bikes on this thread!

French Class:

http://photos.nsmb.com/files/2/2/0/9/9/jeunet_large.jpg

Edit: I'm getting burned for that seat for sure. Dang.

Black lugs are nice.

my goodness, this thread is pure inspiration!

i think this bike is the epitome of a modern classic look.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1319/img5354eo4.jpg

I don't understand how people seem to read "classy" as track or tarck. Yes, there are classy track bikes (like that Paramount a few posts back), including new but inspired builds. A stock, entry-level track bike or even a relatively tasteful take on tarck still doesn't strike me as "classy." I especially don't see how the last bike qualifies as "classic."

And I seriously hope that choosing one's own pic as a "favorite bike pic ever posted" is supposed to be a joke, however weak it may be.

yes, but i mean, for that matter, i feel like "modern classic" is an oxymoron. (that being said, the orange tires are sick!)

This thread makes me think that in order to own a classy bike you either have to have disproportinately long arms, or a total lack of bike fitting knowledge.

Also, that's a raw titanium frame. Sick indeed.

Yeah, kinda, though I think there are plenty of bikes that take obvious inspiration from true classics (e.g. lots of what Rivendell does, regardless of the strong feelings the brand may elicit). I don't mean to hate on anyone's bike (well, okay, some bikes, but the last one looks pretty slick), but I wish tarck bikes would go in a tarck thread, and ideally, we'd even have a thread for cookie-cutter "Windsor" Hours. A girl can dream.

I think that bike epitomizes what is currently pretty trendy, not that it isn't a nice enough bike.

I love this thing. Only pic from the thread that got saved.

9 pages of misuse and abuse of terminology.
Classy does not mean classic.
Reese Witherspoon does not equal Greta Garbo.

Some very nice bikes, though, but only a few here are classic.

You know it says "classy" in the thread title, right?

That is a CLASSIC FAIL.............

Yes, I do. And that's what I'm saying: Some people are flipping over the word classy. The word, according to the intended context of the original poster, is a poor choice of word.

Still some nice bikes -- some classy, some classic, some cool, but some just bland and boring.

Don't rush to a conclusion, slice. You're timing is off for the pun you intended.

My submission...

http://www.crashs.net/cycling/yukky-raleigh2.jpg

Regardless, lots of the bikes here fail both the classy and classic criteria. It's hard to blame the thread title for that.

Yeah, I was in no way implying that the over-abundance of tarck in this thread was in any way, shape or form either classy or classic.

You fail again. Slice

Not set up SS at the moment, but I think she's def got some class:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...c001Medium.jpg

What's that crazy jazz at the end of your bars?