One of the owners of my favorite bicycle road racing sites, PezCyclingNews.com, is also a big MotoGP fan, as evidenced by the custom paint he's had done on a variety of Kuota carbon bikes:
(http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos/tech/kuota/kuducrepsol.jpg)
More photos of the Casey Stoner tribute bike at:
http://pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=6159&status=True (http://pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=6159&status=True)
Or the Hayden Repsol paint job at:
http://pezcyclingnews.com/default.asp?pg=fullstory&id=5278 (http://pezcyclingnews.com/default.asp?pg=fullstory&id=5278)
And this single shot of a Kuota in Rossi's livery:
(http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos/tech/m5/m5m1.jpg)
Not as fast as the bikes that inspired them, maybe, but I'd throw a leg over any of them regardless!
Not a bike bike fan, but that's pretty cool! [thumbsup]
very cool
I dig the wrap job on the bars of the Repsol bike.
I also love the idea of promoting Marlboro on your pedal bike. [laugh]
sac
What's the deal with the seat up so high? I mean, hell, it's ABOVE the bars...
Quote from: NAKID on August 03, 2008, 06:51:48 PM
What's the deal with the seat up so high? I mean, hell, it's ABOVE the bars...
Aerodynamics, [thumbsup]
(http://www.whoa.org/charities/BooksfortheBarrios/prints/LanceArmstrong1hr.jpg)
Quote from: SacDuc on August 03, 2008, 06:40:10 PM
I also love the idea of promoting Marlboro on your pedal bike. [laugh]
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-smoking4-2008aug04,0,6389304.story
Quote from: NAKID on August 03, 2008, 06:51:48 PM
What's the deal with the seat up so high? I mean, hell, it's ABOVE the bars...
Mostly euro-fashion, though typically a road race bike will have some drop from seat to bars -- mine would drop from 5 cm (measured down from a long carpenters level on the seat) in the winter when I was putzing around doing long base mileage to around 7-8 cm during race season. Just eyeballing it, I'd guess those bikes are in the 8-10 cm range, as is the one Armstrong's riding naked in the rain. ??? A very big, radical drop in the 15 cm plus range looks really cool, but is hard to ride with a whole lot of power -- and you'll often notice that the bar tape on those bikes is dirty and worn on the bar tops but almost pristine down in the drops.