while it is true that i own a couple bikes so cool that grown Nipponese bicycle enthusiasts will throw themselves to the ground and weep with joy for just having seen them, i am a man that believes not only in redemption on the wheel, but retribution. hence, for a portion of the year i ride this horrid monstrosity - call it a form of bike ascetiscm . . . . bordering on bike self-flaggelation.
yes, those are aero-bars ( albeit very small ones ), and even more disturbing, those are an ancient set of powercranks mounted down there on the noodle-like bottom bracket of this poor old vitus. speaking of which, while it is made of aluminum and would by elemental nature normally deserve scorn and ridicule - it avoids that by having been ridden by sean kelly - if your aluminum bike was ridden by sean kelly, go ahaed and give it a pass - otherwise . . . . . . . .
anyway, i dare anybody to come up with a bike more vile than this collection of weirdness. living down there amongst the spiders and cobwebs of the Count-TmonT-Cristo isolation cell it serves as my torture device. it does feature 2 redeeming qualities, however. find them in the blurry photo, and i can get you a professional grade spork for a prize.
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美しい日本の自転車どこですか？
My amateur eye see the following:
frame pump, in case you break down in the middle of nowhere.
what kind of bottle cages are those?
rollers look nice, not really part of the bike..
the "seat fang", obviously added by a crafty guy that rides rollers next to the microwave and has a stash of spaghetti-O's cans. there better be a microwave, cold spaghetti-O's would just be wrong.
all that said, I bet it's really the unmentioned shifters or brakes or something.
-jwm
As much as I view aluminium as substandard for frame construction, at least it's lugged. Plus the Sean Kelly connection will always get it a pass in my eyes.
Unless it's found out that Sean Kelly roller skis.
JWM is declared the winner of genuine Corrections Industry Approved spork, for his kwik ID of the ( matching ) silca frame pump.
also present we see a nuovo downtube shifter ( only one ), and less obvious, a set of hubs from a super record group, in 36 hole pattern, not that unproven trendy 32 hole . . . . . . .
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