Bicycles: Man's Greatest Invention? Photos?

[mimbresman]

What do you think? I just like them. I have liked them for a long time. Transportation Or toy? I enjoy looking at them (obviously Dav does too).
Is there such a thing as a bad bike? (Exclude BLO's but even those have their place.) To be honest FS bikes don't excite me too much, but that just me.
Photos of (cool) bikes.

[rockhound]

I agree wholeheartedly...and when there is something a little off, you can just tell immediately.

[mimbresman]

From Steve's blog. I think he's making some of the best looking bikes right now.

[davkatreb]

What do you think? I just like them. I have liked them for a long time. Transportation Or toy? I enjoy looking at them (obviously Dav does too).
Is there such a thing as a bad bike? (Exclude BLO's but even those have their place.) To be honest FS bikes don't excite me too much, but that just me.
Photos of (cool) bikes.
Does Gilligan not grasp the concept of "island"?

I mean, it's a nice bike even if The Professor had to help him with it, but it ain't getting him home.

Maybe he just did it to impress Mary Ann. Mmmmm, Mary Ann.....

[phlatlander]

Maybe he just did it to impress Mary Ann. Mmmmm, Mary Ann.....

Mary Ann showed me her taters at a trade show a couple years ago.

[rockhound]

Ooooh, Mary Ann...stay on topic y'all...

[mimbresman]

Just thought I'd start the thread with something different and somewhat innovative.

Posted this pic before, but I see this kind of stuff quite often down here. Some bicycles are more than recreational vehicles.

[davkatreb]

Mary Ann showed me her taters at a trade show a couple years ago.
She's still second runnerup to the title, "World's cutest farm girl". Second only to Daisy Duke and my beloved wife, The Beautiful Miss Kathy, who holds the crown. And yeah, I'm half in the bag on Wild Turkey and Coke. So what?

[mimbresman]

A bit more sophisticated approach to using bamboo (http://www.calfeedesign.com/bamboo.htm)as a frame material. Maybe the Professor (Dav) would be more impressed.

Calfee Design bamboo cross bike

[davkatreb]

Ooooh, Mary Ann...stay on topic y'all...
Topics? We doan' need no steenkin' topics.

Hey 'hound, is that a Cook Bros? Me rikey. Me rikey velly velly much.

Mmmm, cruiser. And mmmm, Mary Ann. And Mmmmm, Wild Turkey and Coke. And mmmm, The Beautiful Miss Kathy. Especially The Beautiful Miss Kathy*.

Oh yeah, and is that a Cook Bros? Nice bike. Mmmm, bike.




*If I know what's good for me. And you bet your sweet ass I do.

[davkatreb]

Fekkin' thread's turnin' into a proper trainwreck, dontchathink? Man, I love it when that happens.

[phlatlander]

Shit, sorry Mimbs. ;)

Back on topic, courtesy ANT (check out the brake):

[mimbresman]

Nice one Phlat! Check out the chainring as well.

Dav...you're drunk! :D

[davkatreb]

Them's just cruiser bars flipped over.

And some crappy quill stem; prolly Kalloy or less.

Coaster brake, even.

And it has a sloping top tube. "Scorcher", my ass.

The red rims are pretty spiffy though.

Still, a grand and a half seems a bit much to pay for what is basically just another beach cruiser.

Are we having fun yet?

[davkatreb]

Dav...you're drunk! :D
Mims, you say that like it's a bad thing.

You're just jealous because your buddy 'Oogo keeps all the good booze for his self.

[mimbresman]

Mims, you say that like it's a bad thing.

You're just jealous because your buddy 'Oogo keeps all the good booze for his self.

Maybe he's getting to that by aligning himself with the Iranian and Hezbola, but that for the Politics section.

[davkatreb]

Maybe he's getting to that by aligning himself with the Iranian and Hezbola, but that for the Politics section.
Nah, them people that want to blow up the world don't feature alkyhaul; not one bit. Didja hear about the raghead cabbies at some airport that wouldn't pick you up if they thought you had booze in your luggage? I'm talking an American airport; not some third world little shithole.

And they won't let dogs in their cabs, either. Even seeing eye dogs. Claim they're "unclean". Damn, did you ever sit downwind of one of those stanky funkers? "Pot, meet kettle" indeed.

But yeah, this prolly belongs over in the Politics forum.

Ummm, whatwuzwetalkinbout?

[OTBSkinloss]

Ooooh, Mary Ann...stay on topic y'all...

To hell with Mary Ann, I wanna do Mrs. Howell !
:D

[S. cerevisiae]

To hell with Mary Ann, I wanna do Mrs. Howell !
:D

Um, yuck...

People, people. Focus. Back on topic.

Maybe bikes are the greatest use of the greatest invention (wheel). Can be used for trans., commerce, recreation, sporting endeavors (and arguably another form of commerce thereby), and something to argue about.

One can make the case that bicycles could end up as important to us as horses once were. O'course they'd be hard to pull a plow with...

[S. cerevisiae]

looky, looky. urban assault...to be ridden for CM?

[davkatreb]

I bet that turd weighs forty pounds. And the seatpost sticking though the frame makes it look like it's got a pecker. Ill conceived and poorly executed. C- at best.

[rattlecan]

WOOOO HOOOOO!!!! i love this thread!
finally a whipping post for cynical bastardos!!!!

try these on for size...http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2007/feb/IanHarland_2.htm

eric.

[davkatreb]

WOOOO HOOOOO!!!! i love this thread!
finally a whipping post for cynical bastardos!!!!

try these on for size...http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2007/feb/IanHarland_2.htm

eric.
Ummm, I don't get it...

[rockyrider]

If we had never discovered aluminium, carbon and steel frame tubes....

[rockyrider]

The bike is absolutely the best idea that Fred and Barney ever had after creating the round things at each end.

[Spalls]

Maybe it has taken a while to work out the details, but were are getting it.

[davkatreb]

If we had never discovered aluminium, carbon and steel frame tubes....
Nice bullhorns. I didn't know Gilligan was a hipster.

[davkatreb]

Maybe it has taken a while to work out the details, but were are getting it.
Reminds me of that one South Park episode where the kids went to Canada to repatriate Kyle's adopted brother, Ike.

[mimbresman]

Moving large appliances...

[real_ss_budgie]

is this longhaultrucker????

[real_ss_budgie]

on your starboard!!!!

[mimbresman]

The widow Shirley Braxton...(Sam Braxton made some of the best touring bikes of the 1970's and 80's).

[davkatreb]

on your starboard!!!!
You mean "port", numbnuts. Frickin' landlubbers...

[phlatlander]

You mean "port", numbnuts. Frickin' landlubbers...

Don't they drive on the port/pass on the starboard down there? ;)

[davkatreb]

Don't they drive on the port/pass on the starboard down there? ;)
Who knows? Fekkin' loser countries...

[real_ss_budgie]

yeah skipper, get your facts right.

[longhaultruker2]

is this longhaultrucker????

hehehehehehehehehehahahahahahahahaha!!!! !!damn,i bout fell outta my chair!sorry,but while i did have tanker endorsement (great for kegs:cool: ),never got around to gettin my doubles\triples endorsement.i had drove dumps,pulled dumps,flats,drops,containers (20-45 ft),dry vans (48-53 ft)and most recently reefers (no,not THAT kind:p ),but i'm officially retired as of this week.

if y'all didn't get this already,i am longhaultrucker.i recently relocated and my former isp is now extinct,and i couldn't remember my password:o,and dr couldn't do the automated thing to an extinct email,so i just rebooted as "longhaultruker2".but,i was retired this week,so now i'm just mr. mom,i guess:D