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I popped in this afternoon and... I've fallen in love with at least half a dozen bikes, principally the Ibis Hakkalugi*. Oh. My. Word.
Sigh. So many bikes, so little time (and money).
* The Cube bikes are pretty cool too. And the Lapierres. Ooh, the Yeti bouncer covered in mud. And the Surly Pugsley.
Ibis Hakkalugi
Yeah it comes in very pretty colours :)
It's just gorgeous!
Snot green? Must be a boy thing..
Its actually very pretty in the flesh, the pics on the website dont do it justice. It also looks like it can take a beatin without the greetin. Very pretty bike.
I have seen it in the flesh and am pretty sure it would clash
with every item of clothing I own. These things are important.
When I remember about them.
Nearly got a Cube in the summer but got the Genesis instead.
I have seen it in the flesh and am pretty sure it would clash with every item of clothing I own.
Well obviously one would have to buy a whole new co-ordinating wardrobe after one had bought the lovely bike. That's just common sense!
Funnily enough one of the ladies cycling tops I came away from the shop with would compliment the bike perfectly. If I put it on for the next visit (I'm sure I can fit into a size 10 - actually I once did years and years back which really annoyed my then other half, but that's a story for another day) do you think they'd let me take the bike out?
I wouldn't get it dirty.
Much.
Blimey. The things we learn on forums!
TBC's Surly has the most hugestifed tyres I've ever seen.
Id love a go on them! Tho maybe not for any great distance ;)
Hmm no, it looks like you would get the effect of riding on loose surfaces even without the loose surface bit.
Kaputnik "Well obviously one would have to buy a whole new co-ordinating wardrobe after one had bought the lovely bike."
Lol. An expensive bike that!
Anth "I'm sure I can fit into a size 10 - actually I once did years and years back"
24 years? :-O
Talking of expensive bikes -
"Peugeot have turned their hand to bikes"
Errm didn't Peugeot start off building bikes then turned their hand to cars? If so you can definitely tell the cycling heritage in their cars, mechanically sound but just don't press any electrics...
Anth "I'm sure I can fit into a size 10 - actually I once did years and years back"
"24 years? :-O"
11. Before I got buff.
Sorry. Missed out an 'a' there. 'A buff'. With it on my neck I couldn't get the top over my head...
Et voila, the Surly Pugsley with Endomorph tyres (at Aberlady Bay - he'd gone before I had a chance to speak to him - apparently he is known to TBC).
he does look a bit like one of my cartoons (in a good way! - CCists do it on the beach)...
wonder how long a punctured tube on that takes to re-inflate by hand!
Enough time to be washed away by the tide I'd imagine...
and I though k'nik was the only guy who matched his top to his bike!
"Cycle Guy: It’s £20,000, and I broke it"
It’s not the first motor-racing company to try designing a bike without preconceptions. Lotus built Chris Boardman’s 108 bike
I thought Mike Burrows designed it? Sorry to be pedantic but there's a difference between designing a bike and using your expertise working with carbon fibre to actually build the thing...
As Steveo says, Peugeot started life as a bike (and kitchen equipment) company. Sunbeam. BSA. Rover. Humber. And then there were these 2 crazy American guys who ran a bike shop in Kitty Hawk.
The Ibis Hakkalugi is a great looking bike. Far too good for my level of CX skills. There was a guy on one at the XC event at Meadowmill - he must have lapped me four or five times. But - hey - maybe it is all about the bike: I was on a borrowed Alu MTB with big fat tyres, he was on a carbon-framed skinny tyred CX thoroughbred - he had it much easier.
However, if I did get a XC-capable bike I'd be best getting something with a bit of light-touring/disc brake capability, so the Hakkalugi's out, really.
Luckily I got my road bike at TBC so, although the Cubes look good, I know I don't need one. And I know very little about MTBing, so wouldn't really know a lust-worthy one were it hanging on TBC's walls right in front of my nose. I'm sure TBC will see to sorting that out in due course though...
looks like the guy with the £20,000 bike could do with one of 'nik's cards...
The Surly Pugsley tyres run at a massive 10psi.
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