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bomberboy11

Monkey
Jul 15, 2005
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At a computer...duh
Here's the latest abomination I've seen. I think we need to devote this entire thread to people finding pictures of the weird crap that we find off that website. This will henceforth be known as the "Pinkbike Creation Thread".

 

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
13,959
35
bomberboy11 said:
Here's the latest abomination I've seen. I think we need to devote this entire thread to people finding pictures of the weird crap that we find off that website. This will henceforth be known as the "Pinkbike Creation Thread".

That's a stock Specialized model. The 2007 "Ass Cobra".
 

gemini2k

Turbo Monkey
Jul 31, 2005
3,526
117
San Francisco
wait, but that gives it more travel, isn't a bike only as good as the amount of travel it has? just like back in the day more gears meant a better bike?
 

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
13,959
35
The best thing about that bike is the 80mm stack of headset spacers.

You know, so the handle bars will be high enough.

:rofl:
 

DHS

Friendly Neighborhood Pool Boy
Apr 23, 2002
5,094
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Sand, CA
also the pink zip tie on the fork leg. he's been using 11inches so far it looks like. joy
 

sixsixtysix

Monkey
Mar 6, 2005
152
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Hell
I can just imagine the phone call...

"Hello, Specialized customer service...."

"Hi, I was just riding along, and rode over a pothole and the rear linkage of my bike snapped... Thats covered under warranty right...?"

:redhot:

The person who did that deserves to ride this with that shock instead



That way when it breaks it only cost $69 to replace.... Not counting the lives of all the sweatshop workers it took to make it.

And since were on topic of terrible Pinkbike rides, I'll continue the trend. Gimme a motor and were going huckin! Get er Done!

 

gemini2k

Turbo Monkey
Jul 31, 2005
3,526
117
San Francisco
WHAT is with those fork bumpers? Is the new trend to add a pound of rubber to the top of your fork or something? Are the hucking and crashing that hard so they need 6 inches of rubber to pad the top tube?
 

-dustin

boring
Jun 10, 2002
7,155
1
austin
consensus says "Canadians like Super Monsters way too much."

when are we going to see Team Transcend sporting the Super Monsters on their Ms. Isles?
 

monkeyboy424

Turbo Monkey
Mar 19, 2002
1,483
2
Place
in past years i would have thought that those bikes were savage...


now i cant believe that marzo has sold more then one of those things...
 

S.K.C.

Turbo Monkey
Feb 28, 2005
4,096
25
Pa. / North Jersey
O.K. - I have to get in on this one:

This seems to be a popular trend:




... take a bike, ANY bike and put the longest Marzocchi you can find on it.

I don't get it either.:think:
 

klunky

Turbo Monkey
Oct 17, 2003
1,078
6
Scotland
I suspect they were all sold in the first 2 weeks of release.

People probably thought "whoah thats loads of travel, they would rock on my new steed"

Fitted them and thought "WTF"
 

sam_little

Monkey
May 18, 2003
783
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Portland, OR
Perhaps they all run them with a metric buttload of sag and a soft spring. The wheel would never have to leave the ground... not even on a sizeable double.
 

BuddhaRoadkill

I suck at Tool
Feb 15, 2004
988
0
Chintimini Bog
For the sake of my sanity, could someone post a pic of a monster/super monster being used appropriately? :confused:




*Slap* <-- That's for the peeps who were about to post a motorcycle. ;)
 

BigMike

BrokenbikeMike
Jul 29, 2003
8,931
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Montgomery county MD
so......... how do these people just take off the top crown and run down the stancions so that whats supposed to be in the top, is in the bottom?!?

how do they not just instantly disentigrate?
 

black noise

Turbo Monkey
Dec 31, 2004
1,032
0
Santa Cruz
BigMike said:
so......... how do these people just take off the top crown and run down the stancions so that whats supposed to be in the top, is in the bottom?!?

how do they not just instantly disentigrate?
They would. It looks like it is only for display, you notice that you never see any riding pics of that setup.
 

ito

Mr. Schwinn Effing Armstrong
Oct 3, 2003
1,709
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Avoiding the nine to five
BigMike said:
so......... how do these people just take off the top crown and run down the stancions so that whats supposed to be in the top, is in the bottom?!?

how do they not just instantly disentigrate?

One would assume that it is for the sake of the photo and a good laugh.

The Ito