Objects of lust

Are you getting one?

Trouble is, most of these bikes people are lusting after are pure race machines. You'd need to be quick as **** in order to avoid looking like a numpty on a sportive!

It's be like having a target on your back. Worse than wearing a Sky top, I reckon!

Trouble is, most of these bikes people are lusting after are pure race machines. You'd need to be quick as **** in order to avoid looking like a numpty on a sportive! [/q]

Oh yeah. Because everyone on this forum rides sportives. Really slowly.

Too many Cervelos posted, ruined this thread for me. Every well off rider who thinks they ride as well as they acquire money has a Cervelo around here..

Imo that Capagnolo Anniversary set.

Good choice on the latest English TT bike. Also like the Rittes, even if they do amount to a very expensive paint job.

Cipollini RB800 (although would look nicer with a conventional seat post):

Cannondale Supersix Evo Team (I know it's garish, but there's just something about it that I really like):

People hating on Cervelos.

I do not condone that.

I really don't.

I just find cervelos so samey. I know it's each to their own but I'd like something different. Something like a Baum maybe.

Hang on! The title of the thread is I quote "objects of lust" not "I don't like what you do"

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Cervelo's are beautiful and all the neigh sayers are clearly wrong sorry to sound a little stw

Sir velo I doth my cap

Cervelos are the flipping taste.

Got a mini lust on for one of these:

I'm torn on what I would like my next bike to be. If its a Cervelo, I hope not to attract derogatory comments that I'm just a wealthy mamil. £1500 for an R3 frameset (2012 colours) is certainly not out of the ordinary compared to many other options...

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And how does anyone "do a bike justice"? Why does it matter? I really don't get it at all. You buy a bicycle. Therefore it's yours, so you can do exactly what you want with it.

Amen.

Unless you're a pro rider, the likelihood is that the bike you're riding could be going significantly faster under someone fitter and stronger. But so long as you're having fun, who cares.

My only road bike cost me less than £1,000. I ride it as fast and hard as I can, and it makes me happy. If I had lots of money to burn, I'd buy a really expensive bike. I'd probably be a little bit faster as a result, but would no doubt be overtaken by some riders on much cheaper bikes. That would bother me not one jot.

I really don't get many cyclists' obsession with what other people are riding or wearing. If I overtake someone wearing full team kit, riding a bike that costs many times more than mine, I don't think: "What a chump. They don't deserve to be wearing team colours or riding such a nice bike." I think: "Nice bike!" and give them a mental high-five for having such an awesome hobby. Anything else is either jealousy or snobbery.

We should be celebrating seeing more people out riding - not sneering at them.

Because if it is...

I am winning.

All day long.

JUST TRY ME.

tbh PX make some pretty nice bikes.

Hey this is weird.

Look at the email I got today.

Cervelo, cervelos, cervelos. This thread just got boring!

I guess this is pretty lush.

Ashfanman, Simon E, Bikeboy76 -

You're all better men than me then, because if I drop a fat MAMIL on some ostentatious Cervelo or whatever the current fad is, wearing the full Rapha, I do think 'all the gear and no idea' and feel rather smug.

But I'm obviously a bad person. Or maybe just honest?!