8 Bikes from the Howard Street Dual

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 There’s not a Surly there because it’s not a Wednesday.

 BURN THAT POLYGON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 @RedBurn: After it's burned make sure the ashes are well spread.

 Ben Moore’s bike is sexy af

 Only a few riders figured out if your seat is slammed why not drop a pound and cables and run a real DS setup. Dropper post for DS ???????

 @RedBurn: Agree

 @fecalmaster: they are ok with you only if you fix the DS setup then do the revesre jod while they are drinking some beers watching you lost your time i guess

 I'd sell a kidney for that murdered out Cotic Rocket.

 @RedBurn: What the hell is that thing?

 @migkab: MY BAD, Polygon is in fact Aluminium, but would say the paint is still toxic

 @aljoburr: are you serious about not having fun in replacement for some dirty ground?

 @aljoburr: downvoted because im a grammar nazi

 @RedBurn: Before it breeds!!!!!!

 Haha so true!

 420

 they took a front triangle and then another slightly smaller front triangle, turned upside down and put it on the back of the first one

 @c1c51: equal and opposite opposing forces!

 @c1c51: Ahah Ben Cathro owns that one

 Hmmm.... maybe Canfield?

 Did a quick search but couldn't find anything about it. Looks like the 1st gen Race Face Next,alu with carbon inserts.

 @nozes: I am thinking AC cranks but can't prove it.

 @nozes: they had a 5 bolt spider though if Im not mistaken.

 @mhoshal: They look like,but obviously aren't the same.

 ah, shoe polished.

 The Cotics look long compared to the other bikes.

 I think challenging is the word to describe the Polygon.

 @DJ-24: the cotic looks so much better than the rest. So clean and I’m loving the thin tubes.

 The Orange looks nice in terms of paint and parts, but I've always felt like their welds make their bikes look like Frankenstein's monster.

 @rezrov: they look the same as all the welds on the bikes featured (apart from the carbon one).

 @rezrov: orange welds look very good on their normal tubed frames,it’s frames like the alpine,five etc that look a bit agricultural but then its way harder to weld thin sheeted aluminium folded to make their box section stuff. I own a five and the welds are fine but you can’t get the lovely stacked type weld on that kind of frame.

 @mikelee: Yeah I'm talking mostly about their FS bikes, rather than the hardtail. The Crush just reminded me of their FS bikes.

@fatduke: The Crush is the only alloy bike that has that extra chunk welded between the headtube and downtube. That's typically only seen on steel bikes, and doesn't look very elegant on an alloy bike, imo.

 @mikelee: I bet Karl Nicolai could.

 @mikelee: Yes dude, that's the magic of steel. You're british, at least you are sensitive to that. I own a Stanton Switchback, such a great machine, and when I look at Starling, BTR, Kingdom Bike and so on, I can confess that I am a big fan of british bikes. God save steel bikes!!!!

 @rezrov: fair point

 I'm out of the loop- what's the purpose of a frame shifter??

 @SeanC1: for barspinss bro

 @SeanC1: if you set them up right you can shift with your heel you can mount one too a bottle cage hole if you cut off the bar band on an old shifter it fits perfect I made one in 09 for bars spins and tailwhips

 @loganflores: but then no room for a bottle

 @maxlombardy: Of course there is, on the handlebar.

 @sambosuda: but it's running single speed by the looks of it??

 @maxlombardy: why would you want a water bottle on a bike like this

 @nfontanella: The more airtime you're getting, the more important it is to stay hydrated during those longer flights.

I recall a cool picture of Sam Hill taking a tear-off from his goggles mid flight. Now that bottle cages have become all the rage, I want to see pictures of people taking sips whilst airborne.

 @silverfox101010: look closer... it’d a DH drivetrain.

 @nfontanella: Not a water bottle but a bottle full of beer would be nice?

 @vinay: seen that Kerr vs. beer video?

 solid reference

 Oh hell yes!
www.anothermag.com/design-living/9953/glorious-photographs-of-art-nouveau-architecture

10 points to Gryffindor

 Yeah but too flouro, some dark pastel shades = bang on.

 I'm a big fan of art nouveau, this bike unfortunately doesn't look anything like that. Looks are subjective but to me it just looks like a confused mess. Like someone's first go at making a frame, then bumping into the limiting design parameters of manufacturing and trying to figure out how to make it work, completely ignoring form in the process. Sorry.

Beautiful organic lines= Ibis Mojo. Still not art nouveau though.

 @justwan-naride:
"Beautiful organic lines= Ibis Mojo" - I know, right!
www.pinkbike.com/photo/15643269

 that polygon equals art nouveau minus all those organic lines..?

 Which Josh? Ratboys stem looks like a brown Burgtech Mk2 to match the bars (www.pinkbike.com/photo/15680275) and Loosedogs looks like a truvativ descendant.

 Aagro: as per the single loop you can but it makes the shift pull much harder on your thumb and if the spin goes a little too much it try's pulling the cable housing which shifts the chain onto the next easiest gear mid air I got it too work on some old large freeride bikes but every once in a while this happend so I chopped it back down to normal.

 It does look like he has SRAM everything on this bike.

 This is actually josh lewis's bike...

 There was a Ti Stanton hardtail there, which was a thing of absolute beauty. Definitely should have been included here.

 @malv173:

The one off Ti 4X bike they made a few years back? That was stunning

 @christiaan: Looking at the current frames, I think it must have been. A sweet looking bike indeed.

 Vanilla hardtail.

 Yea. I figure it's because you don't need high gears for slalom or jibbin.

 Go watch Wheel Love. they've basically made the 5010 into a bmx bike for gnarly stuff, no climbing. wanna do that with my old bronson frame.

 I think Josh said that it's because alu holds up better to being slammed into sharp rocks.

 @N-60: No that's cause Rats eats carbon...

 @N-60: It's funny he said that, because Santa Cruz would like you to believe the exact opposite.

But if anyone would know it'd be Josh, certified rock slammer.

 Remember 'play bikes' Yeeaah I memberrrrrrrr

 @sosburn: Link?

 @filmdrew: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9s2YY3g2r0 copy paste that shit mang. 28 minutes of gnar.

 They don't have a US distributor but Ed will ship his bikes worldwide if asked, best bet is to email him to get an idea of cost.

 @jase111171: not the case. Designed by Ed in Sheffield

 @miketizzle: I stand corrected then,it's just I was considering one,then I read a back to back comparison review with the bird Aeris,and it said the airdrop frames was just out of a generic Taiwanese factory frame design.Then the frames on the webpage were actually different ftom the ones being sold.(Cable Routing)So I just thought something isn't quite right.I saw Ed and the boys at Lady Canning once,but the cables under the BB,zipped tied to the ISCG mount,looked awful,put me off,Sure there great bikes,and the I know the Lads have a good customer rep.I opted for the Aeris in the end,which is a shame,cos I would have preferred to support the local guys.Ill try and find the article and post it up.

 It’s a pretty informal race, I doubt anybody is bringing a specific bike or making many changes they’re just using their everyday mess around bike - hence Josh Lewis having a downtube mounted shifter.

 Yeah I've def raced with a dropper all the time, cause it was just part of my bike. Plus, you can ride back up to the top easier and save your legs.

 probably not, he was racing in Chile on Fox like 2 weeks ago. maybe just a leftover parts bike.

 They are stock Metrics with black stanchions. Not sure they ever made production. Richard is our Marketing guy and he got these from the X Fusion USA office a year or so back before it closed.

 @cotic-bikes: they look good. I want a 27.5+ metric. Xfusion are nice forks

 Looking that way and since he made the move away from Fox as helmet and kit sponsor. No ENVE wheels either, just Santa Cruz own Carbon hoops.

 For slopestyle bikes so you can have gears, but stil barspin or tailwhip, and loose has one just because he sends it

 @rkats: yep, only any use to riders who barely change gear, choose a gear then use it for the whole run.

 They cover up the hole where the front mech would go.

 @ltayls: what is ‘front mech’?