Shiny and perfect or ugly and functional?

Lhatch4

Fat Chance Fan
There are some truly beautiful bike builds on this site but do you take them on a trail? I like perfectly restored bikes too but I really love my ugly 1997 santa cruz heckler. It rides great and I don't worry about scratching it. I want to see other ugly trail bikes.
 

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Shiny? When I set out on a ride.

Functional? Must be.

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He said ugly.

Leaning against an open door here :D

Ugly and dysfunctional do you? It's got worse since this pic but that would be too much. A hoot to ride.

 
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There is more than enough ugliness in this world, I wanted to provide a little beauty.
 
Oh, this sure is the thread for me.
I have several very purposeful and functional bikes.

There is my Klein Mantra, for example. For rough stuff (rough for my taste, that is)


And my go to bike for everything. The Ibis Szasbo. In its current configuration it even has a rather modern Magura O24U- air fork, a Spinergy Spox wheelset and 9speed drivetrain.







And of course my special "I don't care if you steal it, I even use it for the beach"-bike. I call it "the Frankenmoser"






 
The Rudy I'm building looks pretty shiny and matching at the moment, but it won't stay looking like that for long!
 
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Ooh....err...Sir. Nice! :shock:

Have to get a pic of my dirty Torus up (that doesn't sound right..does it! :facepalm: )

NeilM":3ubrzai5 said:
Shiny? When I set out on a ride.

Functional? Must be.

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