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You make a better door than a window.
That poor poor Santa Cruz, if it could talk it would be shouting ahhhhhhh!!
Please split and sell me
This isn't going to go well, OP.
some bloke wearing ill fitting tights has stuck something on your bars!!
Nice Sky !!
The whole picture is a pee take Shirley?
Looks photo shopped to me, and I have never looked so 'striking' as the OP manages to do so effortlessly 😆
If you took the person (sorry OP) and the weird bike additions out of the shot, that'd be one awesome photo!
Is this a joke? I hope this is a joke.
Wtf!
Good lord. You've just reminded me, for the first time in nearly two decades, of the Scott AT4 handlebars from the early 90s. These beauties:
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Just look at 'em. Magnificent, aren't they? I really wanted some when I was a nipper honking around the Peak on a too-big Raleigh. Marvellous.
That's the finest time-trial, touring, MTB I've ever seen! Needs front panniers.
Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans.
Nah, it was all about the Profile Durango bar.
Ned used them. 'Nuff said, innit?
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He was faster than you then, and I'd wager he's still faster than you now.
Dude likes his bike, and to be fair it looks like it gets used. Decent pic too (although I'd have preferred a bit less crotch in the shot).
He was faster than you then, and I'd wager he's still faster than you now.
Undoubtedly. Gosh, those were the days, when men were men, and mountain bikes were really **** weird. 😀
To the OP, did that scene really happen or is it green screen?
I like the bike shadow effect, it almost looks real.
Check those urges....not good can come from there.....
I didn't notice the bars at first. Just what is going on with the tights over the jersey look? 😯
When you're rocking a testicle that big you can have whatever handlebars you like.
That's the most German thing I've seen all day, and I bought a bmw today.
If you're willing to take on The Tour Divide you can ride whatever the hell you like - kudos! And to be honest, that bike looks much better suited for the job than either of my much 'cooler' mountain bikes...
Just what is going on with the tights over the jersey look
It's like one of those magic eye pictures.
The more you look at it the more things leap out at you!
😀
Top kek OP
It's defiantly some poor photo shop as mentioned the shadow looks burnt / coloured into the ground and the thing standing up has a different res than the surrounding
Separated at Birth:
Robs bike:
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It's the 'Drama' setting on Snapseed by the looks of it..
I don't understand
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He's hiding it behind him cos it's an e-bike
I've been wondering how to respond to this for a while and the nicest thing I think I can say is you have a very individual style.
Sir, I salute you!
Horizon isn't level.
Mate that is a pic to hang above the fireplace!
Blam
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I imagine theres many others on here who do a lot of road cycling and have nice fancy road bikes. I'm one of them and I'd bet the OP is a roadie who's decided to get a mountain bike.
But I really cant think of why you would want to be able to adopt a full time trial position like that while out in twisty trails on a full susser?
you lot are funny, this is a man who is about to attempt the south downs way double double, when I met him last week he had just rode 175 miles and was carrying on fir another 60 or so before he was bivvying diwn for the night...
It's because he's a tuckerman end of (spending to much time on Google images)
that was in one day I should add
Mighty Morphin Power Rangeeeers!
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It's defiantly some poor photo shop as mentioned the shadow looks burnt / coloured into the ground and the thing standing up has a different res than the surrounding
Yeah it looks like an HDR merge done badly. Hence the unusual appearance of the sky and haloes around the light - dark transitions.
But to dwell on the minutiae of the photoshop is to miss the point. I mean, just LOOK at it.
I think you all need to have a look at bikes that people ride for the Tour Divide and similar rides - these aren't for a quick 10 mile and then to the pub....anyway....
everyone is so judgemental based on one photograph, incredible in 2015
Amusing thread, cheers OP.
everyone is so judgemental based on one photograph, incredible in 2015
The one photograph is what people are commenting on. The man appears to be a bit of a legend in the long distance riding stakes but it doesn't take away from the fact that the photo is spellbinding in it's oddness.
I'd have preferred a bit less crotch in the shot).
Speak for yourself I am curious 😉
There are many things I would change for comfort before I clipped tt bars on
All I can think is - is it socks down there or natural.
care to expand Bigrich ?
See, a photo like that should appear in one of two ways...instantly, with the Old Spice orchestra, or gradually de-pixellating with a harp accompaniment.
Either way, you look a fit chap Op, so respect.
Not sure about Robs tights - but he insists they are part of his equipment - which is all to obvious.
Robs unusual looking bike is set-up for long distance off road riding - http://tourdivide.org/ which Rob completed in 2011.
Robs passion for endurance riding will be fed in his attempt on the South Downs Way this month - not that far you say... watch this space!
I haven't laughed so much at thread for ages. Genius - I really don't know who is having a laugh at who....priceless...
I was watching a few henduro hedits last night and almost all the riders looked the part with their aesthetically approved bikes and on trend riding kit with mucho colour co-ordination. Was a pity most of them couldn't ride for shit. Keep on keeping on OP (and great pic - if a little creepy).
the photo is spellbinding in it's oddness
Perfectly put.
I'm not sure that the bike and outfit combo is any stranger than this one:
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Drinking my brew and reading this pish 1st thing, is a good way to start the day 😆
Good luck on your big ride OP, hope the wind is on your back in both directions.
Not a fan of those bars but if it makes quick who gives a flying ferc.
Definitely cooler than all these enduro clowns wearing multicoloured pyjamas, ski goggles, Tupperware on their elbows and knees and pumping/bumping/bopping/fisting each other at the bottom of every red route.
Good on ya mate. That's a fair bit of bike riding you're doing!
It's funny how a bit of lycra and some different shaped bars can get the STW massive's panties in a bunch! Especially funny since every second post here is about road bikes.
Guy riding his bike and it makes him happy .. Reason I started biking all those years ago ..
Carry on sir 8)
The op has cheered me reer up, top bombing fellow.
LOL, how the tone has changed now we know he's actually a better rider than the vast majority of us!
Definitely cooler than all these enduro clowns wearing multicoloured pyjamas, ski goggles, Tupperware on their elbows and knees and pumping/bumping/bopping/fisting each other at the bottom of every red route.
That chip must weigh a fair bit.
Great pic - purposeful. Nothing wrong with that.
South Downs Way double double is flippin insane. I know the "no hills in the south" lot will think it's basically no harder than the Tuesday whippet club ride but anyone who's tackled the SDW will forgive even bibs as outer wear and a bar-end/TT bar combo. (The stance however, unforgivable.)
I make that 400 miles and 40,000 vertical feet in one go. 😯
Chapeau.
[i] this is a man who is about to attempt the south downs way double double[/i]
Going by the shirt he's done the Trans Rockies too..
Still, self awareness and all that. No way I'd put a photo of myself up, lycra or no.
If the guys doing the SDW Double then Yay ! However you don't need TT bars for that, sorry.
'Holds hand up' I have run an MTB with tri-bars 😉
#awesomeontheflatbits 🙂
[i]If the guys doing the SDW Double[/i]
He's doing the double double - ie riding the length of it four times.
He can ride what he likes, imo, but the bib shorts over jersey thing is getting a bit bikerfox 😉
harsh crowd tonight .. he's out there and we're not. Is that an hdr shot?
After all its not a fashion parade, whatever helps you get from A to B in the fastest most enjoyable way!
I'd prefer the picture with just the scenery myself.
Jesus, what's with the people telling other riders what they do and don't need, should and shouldn't wear etc. I always thought stw was a socialist place, but I see its full of fascists.
I don't think any one was being nasty, I wasn't anyway. The op knew what he was doing posting that pic and titling the thread the way he has, it all seemed like a joke to me so people went along with it, just a bit of light hearted banter.
Good on him for doing what he does, I couldn't do it. But that's not why I ride bikes any way so it really doesn't mean that much to me, I can't really comprehend riding that far in a day. I can big him up though if thats why he posted, I don't think it is though.
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but I see its full of fascists.
Are you sure about that ?
Clearly the forum has it's piss takers but fascists ?
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but I see its full of fascists.
Jeez. There are some right nutters here today.
I don't care if you're steve mcqueen crossed with the pope, wear your bibs on he outside and you're fair game!
Nora Batty just called: She wants her tights back.
How fast do you have to be going to get an advantage from aero bars? Or are they just for a change of position?
Was thinking just the other day about one of the people I looked up to when I was starting to get into MTB - John Stamstad who used to win the Iditabike every year.
400 miles off road?
Sod the Tri bars, i'd need one of these:
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Bolted to my bike! 😆
I blame the photographer.
but I see its full of fascists.
Is she calling me fat?
Isn't fasciitis a foot problem...