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N1ck doesn't like it. He's entitled to his [wrong] opinion.
I just picture myself riding this thing over the post apocalyptic ruins of a city, without even having to get out of the saddle.
..oh, and I'm wearing robot pants when I do it.
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It's a clusterfuck of design cues from Mountain Bike Action circa 1992, to be sure, but at least the bent CCM cruiser-style top tube and bent seat tube form a unified theme with the Thomson layback post, and it gets bonus points for actually making that ghastly Thomson work on a bicycle - any bicycle.
I see a lot of Merlin influence, harkening back to the Newsboy (that predated the Retrotec and the entire neo-classic aesthetic), and that Michelin-airbagged suspension bike with the wacky girder fork.
All it needs are elevated chainstays and a set of Scott AT-3's.
Nice neo-retro up in hea: http://bb.nsmb.com/showthread.php?t=93190
Also, I want Robocop-printed tights.
Whoa!
That Skidtown frame is hot. Any pics of it built?
I never did like the Merlin Newsboy. Something abbout the downtube pissed me off.
Also, I thought the layback Thompson looked good on Alan's riced out KHS track.
here it is finished....
although I don't like it either....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bikeportland/408399510/
okay.. NOW its a clusterfuck.
It looked better raw.
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