BMC Time Machine TT02 Track         Featured Bike! on 04/27/2011

Well a lot's been said here and everyone has grievances. No need to get twisted up. All I'm gonna say is the drops issue is moot to me. If this where mine it would have drops. And after a short stint riding fixed as shown (which admit it is probably fun as hell) then - I'd realize all that massive speed potential (just look at it) is wasted on one gear (esp that fun street ratio) and I want to push this thing as fast as it'll go - gears! Just build it up and go fast.

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thanks dude.

yeah thanks man, it did cost a bit, but i built it over quite a while so it never really hit me that hard. by full custom, do you mean i should have had a frame specially made?

Yeah, have someone build something to your exact dimensions/specs. Maybe one of these folks: http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/category/nahbs-2010/2010-exhibitors/ :-)

yeah i thought about it but that will have to be another project, this one i just kind of got carried away with the time trial look. theres a great frame builder near by actually, famous in melbourne, check out his stuff: http://www.gelliecustombikeframes.com.au/
i would love to learn to build my own frame.

Those are nice.. I'd go with a geekhouse if I had the cash. And at some point I'd love to apprentice to one of the great builders, learn fillet brazing, maybe titanium smithing.

yeah geekhouse have some really nice shapes down. but for my next, if it ever happens i really want thin steel tubing, classic geomotry, as a road bike. just clear coated steel looks great too. but who knows, theres heaps stuff im interested in. will you ever build up a dream bike, possibly a custom geekhouse? or not worth spending so much on a bike, like i have?

Oh I definitely want a custom, but thats a looooong ways off, or if I prove that competitive cycling is more than just a hobby. Actually, speaking of raw, I'd definitely like to have a Geekhouse mudville (their cross bike) thats been polished then powdercoated clear. I think that'd be all kinds of sick. And a Lynskey Helix. And maybe an Engin fixie.

well if it ever happens let me know. id go the lynskey helix, thats a nice bike and titanium is the best.

They'll all go up on velospace when and if I ever get that kind of cash

my friends at a local bike shop have tested out different types of chainrings with tensile testing machines (engineers) and they've assured me that they are actually very strong. i was a little concerned at first but now riding it, it actually feels very stiff, very secure. im use to not having a brake so i havnt really been using this one. but i dont want to risk crashing this bike, hence the brake. and i cant get it insured without one.

I like how you put "(engineers)" after talking about a tensile strength testing machine. I've worked with one before and I don't need you to inform me of what its used for. Your bike needs gears for one reason, because thats what the frame was designed for(whether it goes on the track or not). You abviously don't know shit about bikes, because you are running 42-16 on a BMC Time machine. I'm assuming you wanted those wheels for their weight and aero design. Well let me inform you of something, you won't even be able to take advantage of the aero design unless you are pushing 170 rpm, because that's how fast you are going to have to spin your cranks to get up to 35 mph. By that time your ass will be bouncing on the seat and you will eat pavement. Have fun and enjoy your overpriced epic fail. Thanks for playing!

wow, your a very angry person. im just glad i could build a bike that can actually make someone this angry just looking at it on a computer. what you dont understand is i didnt build this bike to win world championships you idiot, i didnt build it to reach 100 miles per hour and to be honest i dont care what it weighs, how aerodynamic it is or what you think. it was built for fun, yes thats right i find building up crazy looking bikes fun. and thats exactly what it has achieved, everywhere i ride it people are crazy for it, it looks great its fun to ride. it cost me just over four thousand AUD and everythings brand new, thats cheap! i could sell it in pieces right now and make a profit. so why dont you crawl back to your leader/ windsor or whatever dream machine you ride, get on it and ride around thinking shit yeah im fast all the while calculating just how aerodynamic, light and rpm efficient you really are. because god knows you own the coolest bike in the world. and lucky it, it has the owner to match.
thanks for the advice.

Don't get me wrong your bike looks beautiful. Its a very classy and clean build. I'm just saying that you could easily built a machine that fits your needs better that was way less expensive. The least you could agree with me on is the gearing. You are just missing out on so much speed with a bike like this. If you just bumped it up to a 42t chainring at the least, you would feel a major difference in top end speed. Maybe speed just isn't your thing, but I know that I like to get the most out of my bike. Glad to see you are enjoying your build in my opinion though I just think it deserves gears and 99 percent of people that aren't hipsters and know how bike design works would agree.

ok, thankyou. but it is a 42T chainring. and one day it might get some gears. but for the meantime it looks better without them.

because this is a proper setup: https://velospace.org/node/18559

thanks dude,
i gave up on the corimas, couldnt convert it. ill just hang onto them till i want a road bike i guess. ill upload photos of it finished soon...... hopefully. i need to take some first.

tomorrow, theyll be up.
just finished yesterday, its so cool.

umm why would someone who rides fixed gear bikes start whinging about the impracticalities of my bike. dont know if youve forgotten but fixed gear bikes are actually made for the track, not the streets. fixies in general are completely impractical. Its for fun not having the most pure set up track bike there ever was. how boring. and ive ridden tubs on a fixie before, they perform better than clinchers, these go to 200psi, are 320 tpi and take 2 mins to change over if i get a puncture. i find it much easier.

It gets annoying when people call it a fixie. It makes you sound like a tool and a fag.

my words exactly!!!

probably not

thanks dude, glad you enjoy my work. ill enjoy ripping it past these haters in the streets.

Everything that people have said about your bike is true, not to mention not everyone who says something negative doesn't just ride their bike. This bike just looks like your spoiled out the ass and have nothing better to do

what your saying is you cant ride nice parts. i couldnt care less what you think of me, and im glad that at least this bike is getting so much attention, i just think its sad how fukin cool you all are.

yeah isaid in the notes, im still awaiting a few parts, its down to just the cog now, but the back wheel might change, spacing complications! ill upload pictures in a couple of weeks when its completed, i rode it as a single speed just to get a feel of what its like but thats it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, i just checked out your bike.
can anyone who comes accross this please note my boy thomas here says:
"you saw all this shit on velospace, reading hipster blogs, or fucking ebay"
DUDE! your riding a fuckin cannondale on an aerospoke with a velocity, spoke cards, risers and a whole lot of other shit straight off the shelf at your local inner city bike store. who are you to say jack shit about my bike, your riding the exact same fuckin fixie as the other 30 million 15 year olds out there. maybe you should get off the "hipster bike blogs" yourself!!

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OH YEAH!!!! Gaint bowery beats cannondale anyday!!!!

ive ridden bikes as long as i can remember, my uncle was a professional road racer and he got me into road riding when i was young, ive owned many bikes none this good. ive built this up over a year and a half, youll see ive only been a member of velospace for a couple of months. how is any of this "hipster" i have a bmc frame, how many of those do you see? i have corimas, ive never seen them on a bike before. and ive changed high end road bike parts to suit a fixed gear, given the fact i was brought up around road bike parts. This bike really couldnt be any more unusual or custom. how am i following any trend other than possibly riding a fixed gear? you seem to be following a much greater trend yourself.... hating on them!

get fuked if your not gonna give any constructive critisism

m an stfu with that, this is an open forum, if someone has an opinion they are free to write what they want, stfu with your get fucked shit,

no shit everyone "just rides" "just ride your bike" i hate people who say that shit, its like anyone who rides a carbon frame that was meant to be raced is not in the game to "just ride" it doesn't make sense. He's runnign integrated risers... to save weight?... for racing? It's just such a fucking atrocity, does this thing not hurt your eyyes?

their not risers.
thats all.