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Trek Project One competition: the shortlist
Well we've stroked our chins and looked at nearly 6,000 different bike designs, and in the end it's come down to this. 25 designs that made it through the initial cull, then the subsequent weighing-this-one-against-that-one discussions to finally land on the shortlist as the best* of the bunch.
Some people have clearly missed their vocation, getting quite a few designs into the long list, but we've picked 25 different designers for the final cut. And one of these bikes dun gone get made. We'll be opening voting next week so you can pick your favourites.
In the mean time, have a scroll through them and tell us which one you like best. If you want to take the time to tell us that we're a bunch of colour-blind morons that wouldn't know a beautiful bike from a hole in the ground, that's fine too. In fact, we demand it.
*yes, we know yours was better.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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damned if you do, damned if you don't then. Plus ça change, etc and so on
why do carbon bikes almost always look so ugly?
Dave - your decisions are your decisions. As competition setters and rule-makers, that's entirely fair.
we're just saying you may need to visit the optometrist, like
Hey folks
I'm a noob here, well, I've been lurking for a while. Mine is #15. Now I've told you that I guess I probably lost some votes, haha!
Not sure why mine was picked and some could say it is 'boring', but I thought there was enough of a 'cool' stealthy look with a dash of electric blue to give it some zing when I entered it. I don't think anyone would be too embarassed to ride it.
Ignoring my entry, I quite like #11, 13, 14 & 20
Is the fat lad at the back allowed to ride a machine like this anyway? That is me.
Well, you got my vote Greg!
As i'm eyeing up the competition, a couple of them are growing on me a bit more. Still prefer my #22 overall, but then i suppose thats the whole point isn't.
Thanks Andy!!!
Reckon Darren Collard's is the smartest, although in the real world, I'd end up replacing the bar tape with black as it would just look crap once scuffed and dirty.
Thank you notfastenough
, I've been a little crafty in my design as the pink has been limited to both the tyres and 'bar tape, which can cheaply and easily be changed. But all the same, it makes it standout a bit too as it is!
Oh I'm not against pink - no-one with as much Rapha as I have has any right to be! - but I tried white bar tape because my bike looked really cool... for all of 5 minutes. Hence I go for black tape and saddle, although I tend to think you can get away with it with tyres.
In the past I have matched the colour of tape and tyres just to give the bike a different look.
mines no. 18 which is black and pink, it is 100% for myself
Is there a prize for the one on the shortlist with the least votes? Looks like I'll win that one.
Voting hasn't started yet, you never know what will happen!
The comments here don't necessarily reflect what the final outcome will be.
Lets hope that there are runner-up prizes too, we deserve some for being on the shortlist from nearly 6000 entries!
Good luck.
I'm still in a state of disbelief that mine got through...
If there is a prize for best lobbiest then Darren C gets it.
mine is 19, I designed one which was a bit less pink but clearly didn't get through! I'd have to buy a matching Day glo pink Lampre kit if it got made just for a laugh!
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Some interesting options however how did the entries with the carbon rims meet the required budget limit? I tried for ages but couldn't get anywhere near the limit.
Did I miss something?!
Of course my pink and black and all pink options were way better;)
It is possible to get carbon rims if you downgrade the groupset.
That's right, I also did this on one of my entries, but on my shortlisted design I upgraded the groupset to Ultegra and put in a Ceramic bottom bracket to reduce the weight even further.
I shaved a few quid off here and there. There were a couple of paint options not as expensive as the rest, same goes for the bars if i remember right.
Oh thats fancy, voting is open and every time you view the page it reorders the entries randomly.
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