it's also cool to have your brake levers at such an angle that you can't ride on the body without reaching out.

I think someone should tell him riding on the hoods isn't an aero position.

I hate to be the "it doesn't fit" guy, but that doesn't fit. They need to give that to somebody that is both shorter and has better taste than themselves.

*raises hand*

I really don't think we need to carry this thread over

You mean that's not where they're SUPPOSED to be?!

Ugh, that makes my head hurt. I'd be afraid to get beat up for riding it by angry roadies.

gawd, it feels like home already!

And rightfully so.

wait isnt that a Falcon frame? I think falcon just slapped Eddies face on frames. Assuming this is true, its not so carazy.

Its this type of negative attitude that got you all banned to begin with. You might as well ban yourselves again.

it's this type of douchbaggery that made it so fun to get banned.

VAGINA!

I like cock.

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That's hillarious.

I spit a little.

Hahahaha what a douche.

hahaha. incredible. this board's gon' be fun.

I can't believe he attempted to say he wasn't stirring shit over in BFSSFG by making a thread... when he's over here starting MORE shit.

Guys, I figured out why he's such a curmudgeon. Turns out he's Wilford Brimley.

Hahahahahahaha

"I have diabeetus.. but the diabeetus keeps me from doing the things I love like beating my wife and going to cockfights. Fuck diabeetus and try my medicine, youll be cockfighting and beating yourwife all day long"

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-z

Really though, I'm going to ask again. Does anyone think it was threads like this that perpetuated the negativity seen at BF?

no threads like this contained the hate so it wasn't spilling out all over

Back on topic:

http://velospace.org/node/703

Someone needs to turn of "invert colors" in photoshop.

so what, exactly, is wrong with that frame? you don't like the paint job? that's kinda reaching.

Something is really whacky about that image. The bike looks almost photoshopped.

Invert colors means when the colors go all negative. Whites are black etc... something is really weird with it.

Also, do I see downtube knobs? Why is this beautiful frame getting converted?

hey, man, those 80's italian paint jobs contain far too much awesome for any puny camera to contain. i'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else about converting that bike to fixed. that would be a jackass move. especially considering he's already got those hot-ass shamals.

either way, that bike needs gears. not necessarily c-rec, but at least chorus/croce d'aune. and i'm saying this as the current owner of a singlespeed road bike.

Agreed on gears, if he really wants a singlespeed tell him he doesn't have to shift. I'm a bit more concerned about this being his "first build." Also, did anyone else notice the wheels are listed as Shamal 650's? I wonder if he is planing to do many aero barspinz.

Too bad those bars are only aero from the front not laterally for super fast spinnz.

yeah, the 650s were what got me.

The frame looks like it's a made for a 650. The velospace picture from the back looks like there isn't enough space for a 700. That does look like a 700c fork though. Maybe it's some weird time trial thing that they were doing in the mid nineties. I think that only "parts that would sexy on this frame!" are the original ones, but if he does convert it, I hope to god he changes those fucking bars.

I wish my bars looked like an original battlestar galactica cylon ship.

It's probably the angle that makes the rear look like it's the right size but if you look at a regular bike from about the height of the seat stay bridge it should be somewhere around the top of the rim. This guy has a rim with tires on it (granted they aren't inflated) and you can still see the bridge clearly. The difference in radius is about 2.5cm from 650c to 700c so from some angles it might look right. If you look at the side view the bridge is between the clover and the chrome arrowhead thing, looks like more than enough room for 700's. My money is on this guy being clueless. I cant wait until he mounts his campy delta brakes and is confused when they don't reach.

yeah, i see it now. those pictures are so shitty, i didn't realize the wheels had tires on.

ummm sweet saddle d00d?

The problem is that by now the cylons have developed bars that look just like your average risers with Ourys...

I just don't understand why that saddle exists, who invented, or why that guy put it on his bike.

And there are 12 colors. Only 6 have are known.

Speaking of BSG, this bike is called the imperial tie fighter

I'm not going to speak to this bikes jackassery but I don't understand those bars on a conversion?

http://velospace.org/node/1880

Nice bike with a weird combo of parts. Personally I'd never ride those bars on the street though.

I cant see the lever for that brake. Is it safe to assume it's located somewhere stupid?

I think there are bosses that a lever thing screws into that places it under the bars. Kind of like reverse TT levers.

I could be mistaken, but thats what it looks like from the side shot.

Yeah the cable goes into the bottom of the "wing" on the left.

looks like they ran out of bar tape too soon on the right hand side.

Looks more like a Klingon bird of prey to me

Those Falcon Merckx bikes are low-grade. They also did a mixte version that I'd love to have, just 'cos it's a mixte with Eddy's head on the seat-tube. Someone should turn up to a cat 5 race on one.

Can someone embed an incredibly crappy Dylan cover?

Then we can all scream, "It's in the fraaackin tarck!"

backwards risers. winz.

Oh shit, for serious.

WTF?

Seriously, I thought that SSFG Jackass thread was something epic.

I'm just now realizing the potential that this place has to completely erase it from my memory.

Where the fuck do these bikes come from?