grant40

I guess you're right. These bikes are

grant40

Here. Have a look at this beuty.

TomM

Those come in tandems?

Bianchi pc

Hmmmm, not exactly but close.

brace yourself - it's not an easy thing to look at.





From a distance I thought this was two people From a bit closer I thought blow up doll And now I can't unsee the truth I have deep sympathy for this obviously intellectually unequiped mans family.

grant40

Is there is just something weirdly awesome about the 1st picture that I love. I really need to know what is going on in the 2nd picture though.

grant40

Here is some context.

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/...t_27972226.htm

Bianchi pc

Hmm - interesting - I told you we were here to styfle innovation

..,still it's hard to ague that this bike

isn't jackass...

Bianchi pc

If we wanted to move cycling forward we would....

we we have options.

Have had options ...for a long time.

Options that look damn good.

And are faster - but yea f@:k that noise we wanna pay thousands for ha ha, aero frames with tucked cables on which to ride in a non aerodynamic position. Get outa here with your progress!

Gr33nFly

The Rocket bike is probably the most Jackass of them all

Bianchi pc

Well he would be a lot safer if he had a fairing...

Bianchi pc

Ahh the sweet smell of success.

As defined by the appropriate ruling body of course... We aren't anarchists or some kind of independent thinkers are we?

grant40

le mans

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...08068864%22%7D

veganbikes

I guess he blue himself...

grant40

Whitecoyote

Bianchi pc

Azov Battalion?

chdrd

Next level halloween costume. Would be fun to do it this year doe.

grant40

That is actually really cool.

veganbikes

It may not be a bike I would ride and certainly yeah aerospokes are aerospokes but I don't see anything majorly jackass here someone took an old Tri bike and turned it into a fixed gear bike na dit doesn't look terrible or anything like that nothing seems horribly out of place and while I may not love some of the component choices I didn't see anything that was dangerous or terribly done.

grant40

It is due to it being brakeless without foot retention and the owner being unwilling to add foot retention.

veganbikes

Ehhh that is a weaker point. I don't disagree that yes foot retention is helpful I have ridden fixed sans retention and I am still alive. Granted yes I had brakes.

geomiko

I see a lot of that with the teenage fixie riders in my city. Some swear by it. My LBS refuses to service brakeless bikes with no retention.

grant40

It is perfect safe to have a fixed gear with no foot retention as long as it has brakes.

grant40

My LBS won't even service fixed gears with no brakes even if they have foot retention. They will only service bikes with two functional brakes (fixed wheel is not a functional brake in their eyes). Their only exception is track specific frames with no place to mount brakes, in which they will assume that the rider has experience riding brakeless if they have that kind of specific frame.