Trek Project One competition: the shortlist

pretty much just a selection of bikes with flames in various colours???

Mine were much better

Only did 3 designs, so chuffed I got one through

#9 is mine ... would so love to ride this round the Gower!

Ooh, I'm in! Not bad for a colour blind boy!

If I had to vote, I wouldn't pick mine, I would pick No 6.

P.S. road.cc, sorry to moan but can you do something about the image quality?

For starters the bikes should be on a white background so people can see them as they looked as they were designed in the Trek Configurator?

Secondly, full screen the edges are extremely pixilated, especially the light coloured ones.

I seem to remember the image quality of the pictures submitted to the original gallery was much higher than this.

This judged on merit thing is all a bit old fashioned isn't it ? Let's get with the spirit of the times and ask all the finalists to submit an accompanying X factor style sob story as well as their design.

" I chose metallic beige, peach and minty green because they was me nanna's favourite colours - gawd rest her soul - and she did love a deep section wheel, the old girl. This one's for you nanna."

mine is number 10 and id also like to ride that round the gower!

Well, mostly I don't like any of them as I don't like the frame shape. But number 8 is OK.

Number 12 is bestest.

99 bikes i made and not one into the shortlist...gutted.

new vocation please

might try comedian next

But i will vote for one to show im not bitter

20/26 ed greenough.

good luck to all the lucky ones

There's some absolute mingers in that lot! And I didn't even enter, so no axe to grind.

Shocking!

Wish they had told me they wanted Flames and pink bar tape and I would have added them. Think we should all vote for the worse one as then they will have to face the embarrassment of riding it!

The majority are sh*t if we're honest.

Jeepers. And one of these will actually be built?! Some of these are like a bad trip.

I'm sorry but I think I just witnessed a fluorescent Hot Wheels display rendered in 2-wheeled Trek while on flame-inducing acid with intermittent sprinkles of I've-always-wanted-to-ride-steel-framed-Bianchi. Oh dear, that reads meaner than it sounded in my head. I'll pick #18 the black with understated pink says the person who took one look at this year's pinky-purple Pinarello Marvel and had a diaphoretic Barbie flashback.

So two females design's got through. At least not both of them had pink on them. I thought my grey and red number was by far the best! Did love the boys who'd opted for a bit of pink though.

flames should be automatically disqualified. Personally I like Alice Carter's design.

Guideline #4 of vehicle design -
'Flames, wings and anything that may be found on a hell's angels motorbike are cool. This also applies to colour.
Logos should incorporate flames, wings, wheels or possibly mountains. A huge phoenix rising from a burning mountain with a halo of a wheel, for example.'

Pleased to see so many flames options there. Good work )

18 will go with most of my Rapha stuff!!!

Jeez, my eyes!! Two or three very classy-looking bikes and far too many that look like a bad 1990s explosion in a paint factory. Bula hats and purple anodising compulsory.

14 or 15 for me. Anything with white or fluoro bar tape should be immediately DQ'd.

Gutted I didn't make it!

Faves off a pretty dull and uninspiring list are 3/10/15/17, and 15 will get my vote.

Alice Carters s lovely.. because it is virtually the same as one I did!

Design by Darren Collard: Enjoying all your comments here , what the image of my design doesn't show is that the paintwork is not just gloss, it's also metallic, and the tyres are pink as well!
I chose the metallic to add that bit of glamour that only the Giro can provide and obviously the pink represents the leaders jersey the 'maglia rosa'. It's not all designed from the heart though, I've upgraded the wheels and groupset to reflect the Giro's arduous climbs, the toughest of any Grand Tour. My design has meaning, it's a tribute to the Giro d'Italia.

16 is the only one I would ride.

I kind of regret not ignoring the £3200 limit now.
FSA crank arms and Aura 5 wheels do look good.

I would not take a free Trek. Same company that supported Dopestrong despite clear knowledge it was all FRUAD. Trek buried the Lemond brand despite Greg being 100% right about fraud, abuse and doping. To buy a Trek is a slap in the face to clean sport.

#17 - I'm doing something similar with my Cinelli at the minute and think it looks slick.

12.

You're a bunch of colour-blind morons who wouldn't know a beautiful bike from a hole in the ground.

How does a black on black design get in the shortlist ?
or a blue on blue one... not much imagination there really is there - v.poor shortlisters! And my multicoloured creation is not even listed - how very dare you, that's it you're off my Christmas e-card list!

I had a feeling the remit for judging might be based not on taste, but on how much of the customisable stuff you used. So something with black, mint, yellow and pink with tassles on the bar ends would beat anything that anyone with any taste would choose to ride....oh, well, maybe next time.

I know I would prefer a free bike - but there's the other part of when would you ever use anything so hideous.....