Has anyone else seen the horrific Fuji/Obey in the Rathbone Place Evans? It's pretty disgusting and incredibly overpriced. Kinda funky stem though.

Saw one in Waterloo Cut Evans- vomit worthy.

Do you mean this one???? i like it.

God, i would say that was a little harsh. What makes you want to be sick about that bike?

I've thought it looked awesome from the day I saw it! There's only a few gold bits, it's no different to any other HHSB!

looks alright, im not a fan of gold, but colours can be changed

I think if the gold was chrome it'd look pretty sweet. Just take the decals off, too, and it'll look nice.

Sure it's a little gangsta, but it isn't so bad I'd vomit on it. It's a darn sight better looking than some so called custom jobbies i've seen touted around the interwangle.
Each to their own though.

gromit worthy

I quite like it too, although if I rode it about I'd feel like a bit of a tit.

I like my bike's reasonably understated. My friend Amy has way too much gold Nitto on her bike for my likening, But it does suit her and the bike.

the bikes ok but the guy that probably paid someone to design it for him isnt, hes such a dickhead that by proxy the bike turns shit, so on second thought the bike is a load of wank.

errr... wha?

it's not a custom job. http://fujibikes.com/2008/bikes.asp?id=419

bit overpriced, but i don't mind it.

Actually I love it, it's just not exactly ridable being in the sense of how easily it would get nicked just for having some shiny gold part (I assumed it's not real gold).

fuck off to chrome, that just make all the kids with guns and knifes want one.

The frame looks a bit naff - the rear triangle is a bit lax for a 'track' bike. I thought it was just a standard fuji track frame with gold bits thrown on - It's slightly more worthy of its price now that I know it's a proper lugged jobby.

Still a bit daft because the frame itself is probably made from the same steel that a fuji track is, and for the exuberant pricetag you could get yourself a nice bike. The groupo is nicely exclusive though - at least they didn't just chuck on a nitto groupset with messenger zen/RD cranks.

Sorry- to clarify:

I saw this in Waterloo Cut Evans and thought that the design was not for me. Other people may like it, possibly even love it.

Personally I am not a big fan of the colour scheme.

I wanna get me one of these instead!

i know its not a custom job. i meant that shepard fairy probably didnt even do the design himself, since most of the stuff he makes is done by others in his company he probably subdivided this as well.

So?

He's gone the way of Marc Ecko, and gone all 'legit' (not that he really wasn't already). This is no different really to the puma/carhart bikes. Except that it is far more appealing than either of those!

shit's dope.

seriously though, i think it's well done, and i usually hate gold anything.

nah its different because of the content of their work, i know its stupid to hate people for "selling out" or what ever and we could go about it all night, but the fact is marc eko's work was about "getting up" and carhart is a brand. where as fariy is a cock who creates loads of anti-capitalist anti-govt work (full of plagiarized and copied stuff which is art in its own right, without recognizing any of the original artists) then does campaign adverts for the next president of america and other less than savory characters like coke, nike and record companies, and now hes trying to make a quick buck on the latest trend, and the end product doesn't even look that nice.

Like this you mean ;) ?

Hey BMMF
Do you know the location of the above Carlton?

i have to say i like it

The page says Gerry Shields Cycles in Manchester.

Yeah. At least the front matches the back with that one. Looks like you might be able to fit 27" wheels on it as well maybe?

Didn't marc ecko graffiti on air force one?

You shouldn't get so angry about stuff like that. I wouldn't be too surprised if Shephard Fairy, if that's his real name, set out from the get-go to make money from anti-capitalism. Cos he knows that young/trendy people think it's cool.

Cynicism rocks.

nah that whole air force one was a fake set up by him to create publicity. with fairy i dont know if he had honest intension's or not, but he keeps on trying to defend his actions as if there is nothing wrong with pasting up images of people who fought for civil liberties whilst at the same time making adverts for a company which those who were fighting for civil liberties called for a boycott of. that to me smacks of hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy? You don't say. :P

It's all about money.

The bike looks awesome for an off the peg. How much are these going for anyhoo? I guess the thing is that by the time you've tweaked it enough to make it your own you could have spent the cash on something no one else could put together - and isn't that most of the fun? Is for me.

£750 ish too much

It really isn't a bad bike, just the price is ott. Forget what it represents and its quite a tidy bike. To the majority of people who see bikes as just bikes... this will be a nice bike that they will enjoy until they read this thread and seed a little bit of uncertainty. I'd recommend doing as you will & not caring about people that vomit when they see the bike

has anyone seen the new O9( langsters? they fucking hideous. Tokyo, Las Vegas, San Fran (not bad actually) ny and seattle again. only mentioning this cause the gold bits on the vegas and they look like rubbish.

I thought the original 09 Langsters look nice.

they release a new version of the NY and Seattle one in different graphic?

No, £9,000 is too much*







*the gold Charge Plug.