Ugliest bike you have ever seen?

[Cicli]

Post 'em here.
We look at alot of nice stuff around here. Some are horrid to the eye. Anyone have any examples to share?

[geeter]

This ought to be fun

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[Hilltopperny]

I'll play

[colker]

I'll play


HIgh end bikes in the vicinity of 10K, painted in tacky color schemes. Italian and american.

[Cicli]

I'll play

Along the same line.

[Elefantino]

I think I understand the engineering behind this, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

http://www.roundtailcanada.com/bikegal/diamante/img_0001.jpg

[skijoring]

GMC Denali

[pbarry]

I think I understand the engineering behind this, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Posting that image was mean spirited, yet wins the contest! :eek:

[Bentley]

GMC Denali

Not the ugliest just a POS

Ray

[Cicli]

This one from the fleaBay.

[spacemen3]

Lawn dart. :)

[Hilltopperny]

:eek:

[hollowgram5]

This one from the fleaBay.
Went up for sale on FB online marketplace. Seller toured it as being painted by a local artist and how beautiful it was.. I wasn't convinced.

[Red Tornado]

Lawn dart. :)

That's Ale-Jet's bike

[Steelman]

Trek Y-Foil, pronounced "why fool?"

[dustyrider]

I think I understand the engineering behind this, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

http://www.roundtailcanada.com/bikegal/diamante/img_0001.jpg

I've seen something like this around here, except I don't believe it has the tube between the toptube and bottom tube. It's just circular stays...I'll have to keep a look out and see if I can snap a shot.

[Hilltopperny]

...

[fuzzalow]

The ugliest bike I have ever seen is any bike, buried and forgotten in any garage, beneath and surrounded by piles of detritus, unridden and unused.

[colker]

The ugliest bike I have ever seen is any bike, buried and forgotten in any garage, beneath and surrounded by piles of detritus, unridden and unused.
NOt when it´s a De Rosa Primato and you buy it for 75 bucks.

[Jad]

I think I understand the engineering behind this, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

http://www.roundtailcanada.com/bikegal/diamante/img_0001.jpg

Yes--this is a winner so far. It looks like experimental teleportation gone awry...

https://parlorofhorror.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/the-fly-1986-jeff-goldblum.jpg

[Cicli]

Yes--this is a winner so far. It looks like experimental teleportation gone wrong.

Looks like they dont make them anymore.

[fiataccompli]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170402/576b27e9d63fef510ec43392a5c20f88.jpg

My humble entry


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[fourflys]

This one from the fleaBay.

um, I would ride in a second... IF I could take the wheels off... ;)

*edit- and take the decals off... guess I just like the Gulf Racing paint! :)

[SlowPokePete]

cue the recumbent

SPP

[madsciencenow]

I think I understand the engineering behind this, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.



http://www.roundtailcanada.com/bikegal/diamante/img_0001.jpg



Is it spawning or WT@?


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[Cloozoe]

:eek:

I dunno; I kinda like this one

[bpiecuch]

Geez... I actually still own a Kestrel KM40 frame. I thought the bike looked pretty awesome, it rode super well! All those mid-90's Tri bikes were odd and experimental. But even some of the newer Tri bikes (Shiv, Slice RS, etc...) are fugly.

I'll confess, I think the Serotta faded paint schemes (yellow and pink specifically) are pretty ugly.

[Cloozoe]

http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w502/kernriverrainbow/Ugly%20bike%20falco_zpsod3niacr.jpg

[Bwana]

http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w502/kernriverrainbow/Ugly%20bike%20falco_zpsod3niacr.jpg

Could use some matching (or non-existent) wheel decals, but that thing's pretty sweet!

[htwoopup]

Saw this while looking for a builder for my next bike...not going there (Black Sheep Speedster)although I am sure they also make fine frames.https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7c485a_c356d1e7cfb64f6bb966f5802778aa34.jpg/v1/fill/w_434,h_290,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/7c485a_c356d1e7cfb64f6bb966f5802778aa34.jpg

[Bwana]

How about this? Popped up on Austin's CL.

http://i.imgur.com/ofJUO91l.jpg

[Lewis Moon]

This thread is like a train wreck...ugly and horrifying, but you can't look away.

[cinco]

http://www.marchasmiticas.com/images/misc/eurobike2004/derosatango.jpg

Why?

[SpokeValley]

This thread is like a train wreck...ugly and horrifying, but you can't look away.

:beer:

[jmoore]

Pick pretty much any Landshark or Colnago paint and there's a better chance than not it will be heinous.

[Blown Reek]

Pick pretty much any Landshark, Pegoretti or Colnago paint and there's a better chance than not it will be heinous.

[gemship]

Any frame sized under 54cm or over 58cm. Geometry maybe there to suit the riders of said sizes but not always...and said triangles just look weird especially with wheels.

[tv_vt]

Any frame sized under 54cm or over 58cm. Geometry maybe there to suit the riders of said sizes but not always...and said triangles just look weird especially with wheels.

...and that's why I quit posting pictures of my bikes on this forum. Too many uniformity freaks out there criticizing people who don't conform to their narrow standards.

Yeah, it touched a nerve. But comments like that strike me as pretty intolerant.

[gemship]

...and that's why I quit posting pictures of my bikes on this forum. Too many uniformity freaks out there criticizing people who don't conform to their narrow standards.

Yeah, it touched a nerve. But comments like that strike me as pretty intolerant.

Well I wouldn't go out of my way to say someones bike is ugly because it's either small or big. I just expressed myself here where I felt it a bit more appropriate. I am a bit biased as I can fit anything from 54 to 56 given adjustments but really to me they just have a more pleasing to the eye squareness.

[ultraman6970]

Because they could!

http://www.marchasmiticas.com/images/misc/eurobike2004/derosatango.jpg

Why?

[cmbicycles]

Well I wouldn't go out of my way to say someones bike is ugly because it's either small or big. I just expressed myself here where I felt it a bit more appropriate. I am a bit biased as I can fit anything from 54 to 56 given adjustments but really to me they just have a more pleasing to the eye squareness.

I find little bikes ugly, they gotta be over 61cm to be pleasing to the eye. ;) Smaller bikes are just out proportion... at least my proportions... not that any of us would be biased towards our own size or anything. [emoji14]

[monarchguy]

I actually like the way the suspended bikes look -- weird like that. OTOH, never thought I'd see a DeRosa I wouldn't want.

Dan

[gemship]

I find little bikes ugly, they gotta be over 61cm to be pleasing to the eye. ;) Smaller bikes are just out proportion... at least my proportions... not that any of us would be biased towards our own size or anything. [emoji14]

LOL, I thinks you need your eyes checked:D

[oldpotatoe]

I sold these silly things for a while..

[colker]

Pick pretty much any Landshark, Pegoretti or Colnago paint and there's a better chance than not it will be heinous.

If you find a Pegoretti Luigino ugly then you are sick in the head and there is no cure.
I believe it´s contagious. Good luck.

[Blown Reek]

If you find a Pegoretti Luigino ugly then you are sick in the head and there is no cure.

Pegoretti is the Italian Landshark. If you're a fanboy of either, the other is ugly. If you're not, then both of them are.

[colker]

Pegoretti is the Italian Landshark. If you're a fanboy of either, the other is ugly. If you're not, then both of them are.

Blablabla..
Pegoretti has many different paint schemes. Way different from each other.
The Luigino has usually the nec plus ultra of classic cycle painting.
Calling "fan boy" got old ten years ago. It´s 2017 and there is a clue, find it. Buying stuff does not equal having taste or knowing *** is going on.

[Blown Reek]

Blablabla..
Pegoretti has many different paint schemes. Way different from each other.
The Luigino has usually the nec plus ultra of classic cycle painting.
Calling "fan boy" got old ten years ago.

Painting? Pegorettis are the most beautifull bikes ever.

i am a huge pegoretti fan. Dario Pegoretti is the classiest act ever, in my book.

... and a true gentleman. A true King.

Okay, fanboy.

[colker]

Okay, fanboy.

Glad it took you some work to find proof of my admiration for the man´s heart and art. Stay idle w/ nothing else to do and you end up passing bad judgement on good stuff. You couldn´t find any time to badmouth the pic I posted of Dario´s FG since you were busy searching the forum. Maybe the problem is finding something to do.

[Blown Reek]

Glad it took you some work to find proof of my admiration for the man´s heart and art. Stay idle w/ nothing else to do and you end up passing bad judgement on good stuff. You couldn´t find any time to badmouth the pic I posted of Dario´s FG since you were busy searching the forum. Maybe the problem is finding something to do w/ so much time on the hands.

You're all over the internet, on all kinds of sites singing the praises of one particular framebuilder, not just this one. That's the adolescent equivalent of obsessing over a certain band, over and over and over. It doesn't take much idle time to Google "Colker Pegoretti" and when you do, the "let me tell you why my favorite band is the best in the world!" drivel is plentiful.

We get it. Pegoretti is the best builder ever. He's your high water mark, and everything else pales in comparison for many quantifiable reasons. And his bikes and paintjobs are "art", because, because. You see Pegoretti, I see Landshark. Please don't take it personally. If you can, that is.

But if you do, it's only because someone with too much time on his idle hands struck a nerve with Dario's Biggest Fan™. Sorry about that.

[fourflys]

come guys, simmer down... anyone's "favorite" is only one person's opinion and it's not right or wrong.... be proud and REPRESENT!

I'll sing the praises of Black Mountain Bikes all day long and you won't convince me otherwise... ;)

[dpascal]

I think I understand the engineering behind this, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

http://www.roundtailcanada.com/bikegal/diamante/img_0001.jpg

Definitely the ugliest creation in human history !

[Gsinill]

...this one comes close, or maybe it's just "interesting" and grows on you:

https://s14.postimg.org/5ten8grpd/3_Rugly.png

NOS and currently FS on eBay Germany (http://www.ebay.de/itm/NOS-3Rensho-RH-Set-Original-Colour-1-of-4-build-SUPER-RAR-28-Vintage-3-Rensho-/132169745900?hash=item1ec5ee45ec:g:EFkAAOSwzqFY~mC P&autorefresh=true)

[d_douglas]

...

Ive got no issues with this bike. Oh wait, one: it is engineered to collapse under my weight if I were to plunk 200lbs on it.

Otherwise, I don't think its ugly!
http://forums.thepaceline.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1697937263&stc=1&d=1491132520

[rodcad]

this one on Boulder CL

[cinema]

...this one comes close, or maybe it's just "interesting" and grows on you:

https://s14.postimg.org/5ten8grpd/3_Rugly.png

NOS and currently FS on eBay Germany (http://www.ebay.de/itm/NOS-3Rensho-RH-Set-Original-Colour-1-of-4-build-SUPER-RAR-28-Vintage-3-Rensho-/132169745900?hash=item1ec5ee45ec:g:EFkAAOSwzqFY~mC P&autorefresh=true)

beautiful i think. would build up and ride without a second thought

this rock lobster's been up for a few months and it seems the seller couldn't give it away http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-built-Vintage-Rock-Lobster-Bike-88-made-rig-Early-90s-/272643081043?hash=item3f7acb4353:g:JLIAAOSwal5YGTA a

[adamhell]

http://www.pedalroom.com/p/leeder-kegaro-12431_1.jpg