BROL Bike of Year Awards

[Mark B]

OK, I don't get it.

Editors choice- Carbent Sea Dragon. Totally one dimensional, ho-hum high racer made from plastic. OK.

Peoples Choice- Raptobike lowracer. WTF? Nobody even has one and it wins bike of the year? It's just a shiny bauble, people! I think a lot of these people wouldn't know a 2x4 if you whacked them upside the head with it. Oh well, at least it's FWD.

I think Cruzbike got ripped off..... AGAIN!

Mark.

 

[JonB]

Mark B wrote: OK, I don't get it.

Editors choice- Carbent Sea Dragon. Totally one dimensional, ho-hum high racer made from plastic. OK.

Peoples Choice- Raptobike lowracer. WTF? Nobody even has one and it wins bike of the year? It's just a shiny bauble, people! I think a lot of these people wouldn't know a 2x4 if you whacked them upside the head with it. Oh well, at least it's FWD.

Mark, i thought you knew already. Nobody on BROL has any of the bikes that they talk about.

 

[Mark B]

JonB wrote:

Mark B wrote: OK, I don't get it.

Editors choice- Carbent Sea Dragon. Totally one dimensional, ho-hum high racer made from plastic. OK.

Peoples Choice- Raptobike lowracer. WTF? Nobody even has one and it wins bike of the year? It's just a shiny bauble, people! I think a lot of these people wouldn't know a 2x4 if you whacked them upside the head with it. Oh well, at least it's FWD.

Mark, i thought you knew already. Nobody on BROL has any of the bikes that they talk about.

:lol: :lol:

If I didn't know before, I do now!

Mark

 

[trapdoor2]

Yah, I was thinking the same thing...they voted for a FWD nobody's ever seen. Might as well have voted for an NME.

Still...it is a user "write in" vote, so the winners could have been anything.

 

[MrSteve]

Cruzbike will win....
with a newer, flashier model.
It ought to have a catchy name.
"Carbent" is pretty catchy, right? Right.

Call the new Cruzbke, "CarTire".
CarTire would be shorthand for, Carbon Titanium Racer, Elite.

Seriously, the winner does not matter to me, as a consumer.

My bike wins, in my heart.
:lol:

-Steve

 

[Mark B]

It's the shiny bauble syndrome. I never even heard of the bike until Dec., but it's been the subject of a lot of breeze on the forum, so I guess it has everybody's attention. I hope all the people that sucker into that bike like trying to gear up that 20" wheel and getting their leg hair caught in the pulley. :roll:

Mark

 

[WhiteSilvio]

trapdoor2 wrote: Might as well have voted for an NME.

Hi Marc,
Curiosity overcomes me and I put the fingers to the keys.
What is does NME stand for in this case?? (The only NME that I am aware of is New Musical Express, some sort of pop review magazine (out of the UK?))
Thanks,
John R.
PS The voting period didn't seem to last particularly long. Seemed shorter than last year.
It's a shame that there isn't a bicycle/recumbent equivalent of the UK "Top Gear" program. I couldn't imagine what a Jeremy Clarkson type would say if reviewing bikes. Mind you I couldn't see Jeremy riding any kind of self powered transport (That's what I reckon Jeremy would look like after 100m of riding.) Maybe Richard "the hamster" Hammond could be the test pilot. He successfully beat a car, boat, public transport in a race across London, on a comfort bicycle, and he managed it without getting killed!! .
Do you get "Top Gear" in the US?

 

[Doug Burton]

At this point, I think we'd just like to get our bike back.

 

[Gromit]

Hardtailcruzer wrote: At this point, I think we'd just like to get our bike back.

Doug, I guess that they're holding onto the Silvio because they must really like it.
Do you think that they're also keeping the Carbent Sea Dragon demonstrator as that's the "Editors Choice"? Therefore they must like that even more than the Silvio.

 

[trapdoor2]

WhiteSilvio wrote:

trapdoor2 wrote: Might as well have voted for an NME.

Hi Marc,
Curiosity overcomes me and I put the fingers to the keys.
What is does NME stand for in this case?? (The only NME that I am aware of is New Musical Express, some sort of pop review magazine (out of the UK?))

NME isn't an acronym...it is meant to be pronounced. Challenge bikes produced just a few for the racing crowd. http://www.challenge-ligfietsen.nl/html/index.php?taal=fr&selectie=nme

Quote: PS The voting period didn't seem to last particularly long. Seemed shorter than last year.
It's a shame that there isn't a bicycle/recumbent equivalent of the UK "Top Gear" program. I couldn't imagine what a Jeremy Clarkson type would say if reviewing bikes. Mind you I couldn't see Jeremy riding any kind of self powered transport (That's what I reckon Jeremy would look like after 100m of riding.) Maybe Richard "the hamster" Hammond could be the test pilot. He successfully beat a car, boat, public transport in a race across London, on a comfort bicycle, and he managed it without getting killed!! .
Do you get "Top Gear" in the US?

Yes! One of my favourite programs. Hammond would do. Neither Jeremy nor James could get past a few feet...though James might do well on a trike, though he would get lost. Who would be "The Stig"?

 

[JonB]

Quote: Yes! One of my favourite programs. Hammond would do. Neither Jeremy nor James could get past a few feet...though James might do well on a trike, though he would get lost. Who would be "The Stig"?

That would obviously be Mark in his powerranger suit

 

[Mark B]

JonB wrote:

trapdoor2 wrote: Do you get "Top Gear" in the US?

Yes! One of my favourite programs. Hammond would do. Neither Jeremy nor James could get past a few feet...though James might do well on a trike, though he would get lost. Who would be "The Stig"?

That would obviously be Mark in his powerranger suit[/QUOTE]

:lol: :lol: The Powerranger suit! I almost forgot, but you had to go and remind me. Pity that classic bit of humor wend down the drain in the great Dark Lord Debacle, along with over four hundred of my posts in the same threads as DL's that were removed when he was expunged... Not that I care about the post count, mind you.... I'm thinking about the many words of wisdom and priceless advice offered that will be lost forever to the casual reader, the lurker, that may be too shy to re-ask those questions. Yes, like the great library in Alexandria, all this ancient wisdom is lost forever. :roll:

But..... NEVER, EVER doubt the mighty morphin' Power Rangers!!!

Mark

 

[WhiteSilvio]

trapdoor2 wrote: NME isn't an acronym...it is meant to be pronounced. Challenge bikes produced just a few for the racing crowd. http://www.challenge-ligfietsen.nl/html/index.php?taal=fr&selectie=nme

Okay, now I understand. I've seen the Challenge NME before, guess I forgot what it was called. (Challenge even have a little explanation about NME.)

Quote: Yes! One of my favourite programs. Hammond would do. Neither Jeremy nor James could get past a few feet...though James might do well on a trike, though he would get lost. Yes I agree, Captain Slow might just get lost, slowly, or be working out something really useful about the trike, like the variation in the number of times the spokes past a particular point. Who would be "The Stig"?

Now it would need to be someone with a reputation. How about Lance? (Not that I'm saying you don't have a reputation Mark!) Or maybe one of the motorcycle guys with talent; they all seem to cycle as part of their training, someone like Troy Bayliss (World SuperBike champion), he's retiring from racing, but will still to testing for Ducati and needs to keep fit.
Or, back in the cycling world, Fabian Cancellara. He'd have to be reprogrammed to ride recumbents but I think the result would be worth it. (He'd have to be someone to give the one hour record a shake on a Silvio?)
Do you think "the Stig" should still be "the Stig" or would some other title be more appropriate?? I can't decide.(A local bicycle show here in Oz did a send up of Top Gear when testing 26" vs 29" MTBs. They had "the Stink" doing the testing. (if memory serves me right) But they went further and replaced the Top Gear team with the MythBuster crew, complete with glasses and goatees and silly hats and all. Well I thought it was pretty amusing )

John R, aka WS

 

[trapdoor2]

Considering "The Stig" supposedly comes from the F1 arena (or something like it), I would think one would select someone from the TDF or perhaps the Battle Mountain HPV arena to become "The Recumbent Stig" (some say he has no bum...and that he sleeps hanging from the rafters!). I recall them testing lorries and having a rather portly Stig show up to do a lorry-drifting sequence...much fun.

So, perhaps Levi or Basso but I would really like to see someone like Sam Whittingham or Damjan Zabovnik ensconced in a 16lb Silvio (dressed in white spandex with the Stig's helmet, of course) and blasting around a velodrome or even Top Gear's track.