I am really bored doing paper work, so let us see who can come up with the ugliest bike to ever have existed!

I will start

The paperclip bike, without a doubt.

tempted to say the marin alchemist.. but that's probably a bit mean.

WHyte PRST4 thing, hang on….

Any most other full sussers made by marin probably

But it makes up for it in performance…

Wheres all the blind riders with the Orange 5 nomination? 😉

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Dango – admittedely the seat post is a w£$k but other than that surely the Zinn looks like the silouette of most XC/Train bikes currently available?

any of those road bikes plastered in logos, gaudy paint jobs & deep section wheels with MASSIVE writing on them

I quite like simple road bikes' lines (even like the planet-x ones) but logos almost always ruin them

I dont know if this is so ugly its beautiful, or if its just so ugly.

any softride bike

any slingshot bike, I couldve done better in my shed

what a waste of XTR..

The Last Prophecy

Dango – admittedely the seat post is a w£$k but other than that surely the Zinn looks like the silouette of most XC/Train bikes currently available?

What 300mm long stems and a 26 in the front and a 29 in the rear

Spotted in Morzine, last month….

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WTF is that saddle?!?! AND 2 steering dampers?!?! WTF????LOL!!!!! OMG!?!?!

loving the homebrew steering damper :-)!

I think the 24" rear wheel is to counterract an overlong shock

possibly

Bloke in Morzine has realised his mistakes, gone to the opticians – but it's shut! Bummer.

Bloke in Morzine has realised his mistakes, gone to the opticians – but it's shut! Bummer.

That road has a very, very slight up-slope on it. He couldn't even ride it along there….
We were in a cafe opposite. It made my day!

I'm having trouble keeping my lunch down

Anything ridden by SinglespeedStu apart from his BlackSheep of course 😉

Lol, there are some absolutely minging crates there.

Great !, keep'em coming.

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Solo

come on you all know I win this hands down

and if thats not good enough the first protoype was even worse shame i cant find any pics of it

Hey; that whyte's lovely – just like mine 🙂

I suspect that make me biased though.

any slingshot bike, I couldve done better in my shed

Ugly as they are, Slingshots ride really well!!!

i think you will find i may be slightly bias I own two,,, and had a lot to do with it's birth

Ugly as they are, Slingshots ride really well!!!

Though that's not really the point on this thread.

I've just noticed the STEM on the Softride bike…!

YIKES!!

@ade – really ? I lusted after a PRST from the moment I saw the one hanging up in Bike '99 with PROTOTYPE across the frame – I finally got hold of a brand new one a month or so ago – the last one ATB sales had; I'm led to believe 🙂 – They'd run out of forks; so mine came with some from a JW-4

i was on that stand at bike 99 lurking with the prototype chatting do punters ,,, I still have the very first prototype,,, well half of it hanging in my garage the forks were made of 1.5" by 3/4" box aluminium cut and shut ,, it left two tyre tracks in the mud even when ridden in a straight line,, but the front end still worked better than telescopic forks

No paperclip yet!!

I probably had a chat to you then 🙂 If I remember correctly; it was paired with the Maximum Mountain Bike stand; I won the Marin courtesy of the Downhill Mountain Bike Arcade Game / competition thingie that was there – happy days !