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    • CommentAuthorwholarry
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    what do you guys think are the best frames?
    • CommentAuthorETNZ
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    Cinelli vigorelli 08
    • CommentAuthorHOPE
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008 edited
     
    Obvious question is obvious, evryone is gonna say their frame. =]

    Bianchi pista concept.

    New school ftw
    • CommentAuthorETNZ
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    Yup new school is the thing

    worth every single penny you invess in it :D
    • CommentAuthormeatroll
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    anything so unique that if it got stolen, you could probably get it back if you let the word out. basically, anything triple triangle, especially those broakland frames. not feeling the gt gutterball though.
    • CommentAuthorAeroAceV03
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    3rensho when it comes to looks

    im still looking for a strong frame for tricks

    maybe a fuji or cinelli
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    Broakland!
    • CommentAuthorGone
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    Anything in steel with lugs, preferably a vintage Italian track bike since they invented and perfected them.
    • CommentAuthorgarrett
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    Absolute favorite frame for me is a GT GTB. Triple triangle baby
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    Spectrum sprint and pursuit frames

    or good TIG titanium custom made small framebuilders that sorta stuff...NAHBS
    • CommentAuthorJ Juicy
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008 edited
     
    http://velospace.org/node/4929. I like fun frames.
    • CommentAuthorpockmark
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    KALAVINKA & YAMAGUCHI
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    Ah, the "Sound Off" thread. At least show pics, people.

    Softride.
    http://glyphpress.com/xfer/softrideBefore.jpg

    Cannondale also really hit one out of the park in the 80s when they started making their road frames. The fat tubes and the beautiful fillet welding really sing together.
    http://velospace.org/files/jetJaguarPretty1.jpg
    They've kinda choked recently with putting 20 (!) logos on each frame. It's crass. They used to make such distinctive bikes. Now everyone's knocked off their fat tubes, the company's been sold a zillion times, and they've lost their character. I hope they find their way out of bankruptcy with the grace that they entered the market with.
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    affinity pursuit or bianchi concept. fuck old skool lugged bikes. New Skool ftw
    • CommentAuthorChouseph
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    Love the Brooklyn Machine Works Gangsta Track - especially the fork... aero tubing is the jam. Currently waiting on my 09 Pista Concept though and still stoked on it, it'll be a return to aluminum for me.

    Oversize tubes or aero tubes excite me...

    Webbed lugs also pique my interest, and Merckx is always worth a look
    • CommentAuthorOtto Rax
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    -Kalavinka w/ longshen webs
    -Zunow Di Picce w/ monostay
    -1988 Schwinn Circuit
    -Miyata Team Pista (the blue & gold one)
    -Rensho SR Exports w/ fastback cluster and sockets
    • CommentAuthorandre
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    my bike
    • CommentAuthorcrisone
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    NJS Keirin color schemes (any color w/ flakes), Pista Concept style................
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    Pista concepts are shitty overpriced hipster rigs they don't even feel good and for all those lil kids that are gonna yell dumb shit at me now: ya'll never rode a real bike in your lifes if you really think the new Bianchis are so great.
    grow up and learn about how and who sold out to ideal bike corp. in Taiwan, cause thats where those shitty bikes are made at... all of em
    • CommentAuthorgreg
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    I like aluminum frames. I ride an aluminum track bike, cross bike, ss mtb, and fs mtb. All of the bikes have either carbon, steel or suspension forks and they have been awesome.
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    aluminum aluminum... great on smooth surfaces but if you ride skinny tires and no suspension it will bite you in the ass... I still love it got a few aluminum frames myself
    • CommentAuthorgreg
    • CommentTimeOct 25th 2008
     
    I ride skinny tire aluminum frames on the streets 3/4 of the year and fat tire aluminum frames on the streets the other 1/4 and its been OK so far. Long rides can be tougher, but I'll take it for the time being until I can buy a nice old Italian steel beauty to usher me into middle age
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    like I said I do it too just gotta love it though...
    • CommentAuthorMu_Empire
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    Curved seat tubes make me smile. My Colin Laing track and Surly karate monkey have them. I'd love to get a KHS aero someday and a Schwinn paramount p-14 track. For two years in the mid-70s the made the p-14 with the curved seat tube.

    Other than that, old schwinn cruisers, steel track bikes, unique bikes do it for me.
    • CommentAuthorcrisone
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    I don't own a Concept, I just like it's style.............
    • CommentAuthorGone
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008 edited
     
    Greg. I agree with Aliderkrasse on alloy frames with skinny tires. The concept is an excellent idea and saves lots of time and money to builders but at the end of the day your body is taking a hit unless you ride with a carbon seat post, fork and again I'm not so sure. Full carbon frame is the way to go but dig deep in your pocket and don't fall with the bike, it's all over. On the other hand steel/lugged frames forgives on bad roads and are repairable if anything happens. A nice steel/lugged frame is just as comfortable and appealing to the eyes if the geometry is right. So far I never seen a pro ridding an alloy frame on long distance races. My two cents.
    • CommentAuthorebrep1
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    Cinelli Vigorelli
    • CommentAuthorAeroAceV03
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    LUGS! ftw! i like italian and japanese almost equally
    • CommentAuthorbenhatton
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    how come most everything on here is a track bike
    • CommentAuthorGone
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    Track bikes are like blondes, they have more fun. Just kidding!
    • CommentAuthorAeroAceV03
    • CommentTimeOct 26th 2008
     
    Just Skidding!
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    What are people going to be defensive about, if it's not an inappropriate choice of bicycle?
    • CommentAuthorebrep1
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2008
     
    Alta

    http://www.altabikes.no/
    • CommentAuthorphophiend
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2008
     
    Cannondale Track, 1992 --blue or polished aluminum.

    DROOOOOOOL!!!!!
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    Altas are quite beautiful, but why are they so heavy?

    It's hard to beat 90s Cannondales, to be sure. My Jet Jaguar is a '92 R900. I love that frame.
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    yup that cannondale is a nice one but if you compare it to a really high end custom frame it is a bit sluggish... it took me awhile till I got my cannondale all perfect.
    • CommentAuthormashhup88
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2008
     
    pista concept? are you hipsters cereal?

    try any NJS or keirin stamped frame, why would you want some ugly pista that you see nearly every street corner?? get real... you newschool newbs


    cinelli, zeus, 3ren, bomber pro, bridgestone, kalavinka, georama, makino, uno, and level. the broaklands are bomb as shit too.

    fucken pista concepts.... tsss
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    ...you forgot: Spectrum, Olmo, De Rosa, Pinarello, Geurciotti, Moser, JRJ (aka Bob Jackson), Huffy (at least their pursuits), Hufnagel, Geekhouse, Naked, Lemond, Kish Fabrication, Desalvo Cycles, Calfee and the list goes on and on and on I could probably ride a book about what frames I think are sick. Fact is though: dumb hipsters will only spend a few bucks on their frames and therefore mostly ride shit like Concepts or Pakes or other shit frames... what always surprises me is how they end up putting a gee or two into wheels and cranks which won't benefit from a shitty frame... but that's just me
    did I mention Frances Cycles?.. siiiick or Veritgo Cycles sweet
    • CommentAuthorchikN
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2008 edited
     
    Lol the same old story, you guys aren't tired of always crying bout hipsters for no reason? Everyone should have the right to ride it's bike the they want to, why hating on A F***ING RIM COLOR or the choice of a frame. As long as you pay to get it, i don't understand why so much velodrome racers or messenger or wtv you call em keep crying. I don't see any road bike riders hating, people at my lbs are really enthusiast when we share with em our experience of riding a fixie in the streets. IT'S A FREAKING BIKE only metal and rubber. My 2 cents.

    p.s: don't call me a hipster or anything, i'm not. Just wonderin' why bike lovers hating on other bike lovers...
    • CommentAuthorGone
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2008
     
    Guy's! Riders you uses concept or alloy frames are messengers who earns a living or folks who do tricks with their bikes. Let's not forget those NJS or vintage Italian track frames don't come by easy, they are very expensive and you can't do tricks with them or leave them locked on the streets. I have great regards for folks who build bikes with what they can find or budget. I own several high end vintage bikes that are posted on this site and hipsters spends a lot of money and they have great looking bikes too. The whole idea is to have fun with your ride and makes you happy. My two cents.
    • CommentAuthorOtto Rax
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2008
     
    there are pieces of crap out there that people pay way too much for. you can get a very nice italian track frame for much less than a pista concept. road bikers hate too, they just hate in real life. everyone else hates virtually
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    why we hate them hipsters... I don't hate em. I sometimes make some good money on them (custom powdercoating, wheelbuilding, mechanical works etc.), the local shops all love em because they drop good money there... duh.
    I criticize em...
    I think the main critique is the fact that they bring up component costs of "hip" items, give real cyclists a hard time at the LBS, are often very arrogant about their knowledge about bikes when they don't know shit, are mostly rich kids you just wanna beat without getting caught and they shred nice ass bikes and components doing dumb ass looking tricks some of us would've whupped 10 years ago on a BMX (and still do). and like I already said I don't hate em so I will just stop for now... I could go on and on...
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    also it ain't about having the right to ride their ugly ass missmatched shit frames with seven hundert dollar trispokes in the front... cause they got the right, just like we got the right to give them shit over that
    • CommentAuthorGone
    • CommentTimeOct 29th 2008
     
    I hear you but still they share the same love of their bikes like me and you, that's the whole point of this site. We all should bitch at bad drivers not cyclist.
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    im EXTREMELY stoked on my new makino :]
    • CommentAuthorzzoundss
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2008
     
    Ciocc, Pogliaghi, and Alan are probably my favorite Italian frames. I've owned a Levant [njs] and I just ordered a custom Sanrat track which should be on my doorstep this weekend =] Oh and colored deep-v's are fucking ugly.
    • CommentAuthorchikN
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2008
     
    Aaaaanyways, I own a Van Dessel DSC for two weeks now and i must admit it rides pretty nicely. But my dream frame is a Yamaguchi, the aesymethric one is simply amazing.
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    Posted By: aliderkrasseFact is though: dumb hipsters will only spend a few bucks on their frames and therefore mostly ride shit like Concepts or Pakes or other shit frames.


    Are you really comparing a $200 pake to an $800 bianchi?
    • CommentAuthorOtto Rax
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2008
     
    I'd rather ride the pake. The concepts have quite a few flaws - most are "user error", and the user don't know better.

    But the real question is, what makes a 'favorite frame'? Looks, ride quality, or sentimental attachment
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    Posted By: Otto RaxI'd rather ride the pake. The concepts have quite a few flaws - most are "user error", and the user don't know better.


    Please explain.

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