Pictures of your Bike

Bought this bike from a shop
Bought this bike from a shop on the internet and built it myself by hand without looking at the instructions. As you can see it has a monotube construction with a 0x0 drivetrain with trick grip tape on the rear stays for fast descents. The saddle is the latest in adventure biking with a handle for carrying the bike up a mountain. Tubeless tyres on lightweight 5 spoke carbon wheels complete the package.

These were saved from Craig’s

These were saved from Craig’s List for $40 each and including that I’ve got less than $100 each in them. They’re top notch for my purposes and are all I need.

mattydubster wrote:

There you go.  Built by me.  I’ve posted this bike before but have since changed the forks and stuck some 650b’s on it and gone through a load of mud.  Love it.

Super nice.

unconstituted wrote:

Unless you’re designing and 3D printing your own frame, I don’t want see any of this lame shit. Everyone out.

I went and mined my own titanium ore, built a furnace (out of recyclable and ethically sourced peace-lentils), hand milled the cogs and chainwheels and personally climbed the one remaining tree at the top of a waterfall, by moonlight, in a country that doesn’t exist, to harvest the nuts that contain a special oil that saves 0.5W at 400W.  On Mars.

Some people aren’t even trying.

The _Kaner wrote:

MarkiMark wrote:

Can we add a rule that just posting pictures of any old bike is not allowed. If you can walk into a bike shop and buy it then it’s not allowed, it’s just ‘a bike’. Mine is at least hand built by me.

 

No!

Why should it matter where the bike came from…a shop built bike – how utterly preposterous?

If it is a two wheeled, pedal/chain/belt driven…or trike/unicycle for that matter and someone is proud of it, then it belongs here.

Oh, you built a bike..did you manufacture the frame/fork/handlebars/groupset?

No…oh, you just put them together? How utterly fantastic you are!

 

Too right. This thread has been going for years.

Start your own thread for snobs, MarkiMark.

“just ‘a bike'”. Fucking puhlease, girlfriend.

Can we add a rule that just

Can we add a rule that just posting pictures of any old bike is not allowed. If you can walk into a bike shop and buy it then it’s not allowed, it’s just ‘a bike’. Mine is at least hand built by me.

Panasonic ORT18/U Titanium

Panasonic ORT18/U Titanium frame, Ultegra bits and bobs currently sitting on (non OEM) C50TU wheels. Other non OEM bits are Easton bars, a Fizik post and a Selle San Marco saddle. Yes, that is a Hello Kitty tool “thing”.  Best bit – the major parts were made within 70km of home so it’s a local hero bike. Panasonic have a built-to-order system here (Japan) where you can get measured up at a local bike shop then choose fitments, wheels, paint, cough up for it and…. wait for a bit.

This is my second Panasonic and it’s got the a similar “flame” paint job to its steel sibling. After ordering the steel bike I had a bit of buyers remorse — was it worth paying extra for the flames? When it arrived and I collected it from the local shop any shreds of remorse evaporated, it was worth it and then some, this was my first view of the thing, some things are worth the wait.