http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=photos/2005/tech/news/feb21/roots


Yum.

ooh! pretty!

Yuk!

not nice!

Everyone ignored that when I posted on F+C this morning, now you've gone and stolen a thread off me! :-(

grim, only its mother could love a face like that

Suffering from terminal uglemia!
Blessed by the Goddess Troglodyti!

Kato....you know what I could say.....!

:)

it would look better if the middle bar was removed, looks funny with that 3rd bar.

Bet it's great to ride.... but that would be due to the fact that it's got Conti Vapors on it!

It's identical to the Newsboy they did a couple of years ago, really don't see the point. The straight XLM would be far nicer to ride and would look a hell of a lot more pleasant!

Definitely a face for radio. If it had a face :-)

This is not really about the "ride" it's more about "thing", that inquantifiable quality that some things just have that makes them cool

And a retro, Rohloff equipped, Merlin has "thing" coming out of every pore if you ask me!

"It's identical to the Newsboy they did a couple of years ago"

Nope. The Newsboy was contemporary geometry and retro styling. This is retro geometry and contemporary materials and components. Which quite possibly redefines "pointless" ;-)

"Kato....you know what I could say.....!"

lol

yup, I know ;-)

Well I'm sorry! I guess pointless to me means I wouldn't have one :-)

Sure they'll sell loads to rich buggers who just want to hang it in their living room!

The Newsboy used pretty contemporary stuff though, it was just straight 3al/2.5v Ti, with an XTR groupset, Manipou forks and 2 sets of wheels, which if i recall were Shimano hubs on Mavic X317's/Open Pro's. May be wrong though. Make that probably wrong though.

"Everyone ignored that when I posted on F+C this morning, now you've gone and stolen a thread off me! :-("

They were probably too busy taking 17 more pages to say hello to each other.

That's the beauty of this here forum format. You can start new threads to cover new topics of conversation, instead of ploughing everything into one enormous uber-thread that takes round the clock observation to keep up with. I'm surprised that no one has thought of it before.

"The Newsboy used pretty contemporary stuff though"

Oh aye. But the difference is that it had the angles and lengths of a modern bike, just done in curvy tubes. This thing is a replica of a Schwinn Excelsior, complete with slack angles and chainstays as long as the top tube ;-)

AAh, so the Newsboy looked crap but probably felt nice, this not only looks crap, it'll ride crap too :-)

I'm torn. I think it looks good but would probably ride like a dog,

BUT

Charlie has a point - Merlin + Rohloff = drool. If only they did it with modern angles & geometry for a 130mm fork and sold it as a complete bike for £10.50.

OK, I went too far, £10,500 more like.

Then that'd be the Newsboy then! Shame they don't make them anymore, and it only had a 100mm fork IIRC.