I need a DH bike.
I’d be adding a gravel race bike with solid road manners. The head says the new Grail makes a lot of sense (frame storage, fenders, bag integration, value!), but at the end of the day it’s a damn Canyon and absolutely none of the paint options look good at all:
So the heart would prefer an Allied Echo, and since we’re in fantasy land I’ll pick the most ludicrous and expensive paint/build option, DARK NEBULA:
I apologize. When I posted my first bike, I was in fantasy land … a cool fat bike that I have very little use for, an no need for.
But the spirit of the thread is to be as unreasonable as possible. So I should have left earth’s orbit. A mistake I will now correct …
Passoni Cicloprato
The Look is seriously tempting me to break my “I don’t need a new bike” philosophy. So beautiful.
The latest Dream Build (BMC Teammachine R): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVa6AOt-K3g
This one:
It’s invisible, so I don’t have to explain the presence of another bike in the garage…
(Every time I see one of those, I wonder what tortured engineering brought about those things. Just the whole face planting thing would seem to have driven people away from that design in the planning stages. Wow… And the first actual BSO that resembles today’s bikes was called the ‘Safety’? Amazing.)
One that didn’t get away: