I really like the Bianchi that Pantani was riding in the '98 tour. Celeste green and the yellow highlights seem iconic to me. Also the Eddy Merckx bike that has the logo in blue with frame color that I would describe as Molteni orange. That's been on my list for ages too.
The most beautiful roadbike on the word is the one that I'm riding, because it's mine and I can actually ride it. The second most beautiful bike on the planet is the bike I want to own. 😁
The GCN crew is particularly poor with anything Italian. Some of them cannot even pronounce Campagnolo or maglio, It is embarrassing really, especially for the ones who were professional cyclists.
@Ben Haywood nobody cares what you would do virtue signaller. Why don’t we all do and say everything wrong just so soy boys like you aren’t butt hurt?.... go lie down and have a nap petal. If you’re one of the perpetually offended, outraged and indignant melts roaming this earth, then maybe you shouldn’t have highlighted the gross error in the first place.... hypocrite!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but for me, the most beautiful bikes always have steel frames. Maybe not as functional but as a thing of beauty, they are yet to be bettered.
''the most beautiful bikes always have steel frames. Maybe not as functional but as a thing of beauty'' Steel is actually the most functional frame material. Dunno what you mean by functionality but steel is the most functional material you can use around the world for working/hauling bike, travel bike, commuting bike, city bike that gets abused and banged around like all around bikes often do. You can bend steel back to shape and weld it together relatively easy but you cant do the same with other materials, i say that is real functionality.
@@JH-fk8ow I'm on about racing bikes tour de France things like that. I was talking about the functionality within the context of the bikes being exhibited.
Funny, I just rode to an Italian ice-cream parlour in the Black Forest, sat down with a Milk-Shake (frappè), took a breath, looked up and saw the most beautiful and amazing bike I have ever seen in front of this café: a BMC SLR01 in bright red, no cables, the works. And then I remembered: it's my own. What a lucky guy I am!
Carbon maybe technically superior to steel but when it comes to beauty nothing beats a handmade steel bike. I really miss my OS Paramount made in Waterford. Custom paint, the first Durace STI and mavic tubulars.
I know there are some folk that think it resembles a bike crash, but I've always loved the look of the Paris Galibier. The Battaglin was achingly beautiful though.
I think Vitus and Alan framesets have to appear in that top, including the Colnago from Eddy Merckx (Molteni team years) . Elegance and colours that are easily to identificate nowdays...🤙🏽
Have a silver Alan record frame (1991) with Campy 1st edition C Record grouppo (Chorus 1st edition monoplaner brakes , record titanium pro fit pedals , smooth non scratching 2000 era record titanium hub skewers , three dog Campy freewheel , cinelli 1r stem and bars , black Regal saddle with copper rivets , silver Mavic tubular rims ) . Looks great. Gonna ride it till the day I die.
John Morrison it is a thing of beauty (mind you so are their other bikes and especially the porto fino). That frame is so beautiful it seems hard to know how best to finish the job off though-would love to see how people chose to spec it out.
Bob Jackson produced beautiful Hetchins frames with curved chainstays and seatstays (built in Leeds). There are so many unique designs that were made through the years, like the following : - One Off Moulton Special Titanium - Mecacyle Turbo Bonanza - Sablière - Colnago Carbitubo Pista - Cinetica Giotto - Colnago Brügelmann partly gold painted, with Campa Nuovo Record partly gold anodized (that was a daily bike, not a race bike). - Cinelli Laser - Corima Cougar - Bianchi C-4 Project - Moser Hour record bike (don't know the exact name) Cheers.
All the bikes you showed were indeed very nice, but you missed a major one (IMO) - any original bike make by Dario Pegoretti - not only were the bike beautifully finished, but some of his custom paint jobs were works of art! Good show - thanks
If i could only approve this more... there were hooligans who could ride a wheelie on one of these on our school playground for an entire recess period. Oh how I wanted to be them
Hey Manon, if you do a part two or three, could you mention the Vitus 979 (1986). As a young teenager I had the cut out from not sure what magazine hanging in my highschool locker. I could never afford one, so I stripped the paint off my Huffy and with the help of my best friend made it look identical.
Great selection but I think you could have added the Pirate's 1998 TDF Bianchi which to me remains the most beautiful bike I've seen in road cycling. Honorable mentions to La Vie Claire's 1986 carbon framed bikes, Big Ed's Colnago Mexico Hour Record bike (both as much for their historical significance as their looks), and almost any bike with Wilier's Ramato colour scheme and a top end Campagnolo groupset.
there are so many awesome steel frames. That Colnago Mexico would be on my list to own as would the De Rosa. You could just have a stable of italian steel
OH! You missed so many!. The Vitus aluminum with the raw smooth stay fittings. The Canondale black lightning. All black and oversized aluminum was so aggressive and sexy both of these early 1980's bikes caused me to drool cycling back in the day. And now there is nothing hotter than the Pinarello Dogma f12
I had a DeRosa SLX with Dura-Ace components and gave it to one of my best friends as birthday present. I love my Olmo Competition in red with absolut full Panto Campa Record Groupset, looks imho. better then any Colnago.
The 1982/83 Raleigh Record Ace in ice green. The mid-1980s Giubilato Cromovelato Corsa in ruby red lacquer. The Daccordi 50th Anniversary special in black. Almost anything by Mercian but particularly my 1979 KoM Racing, refinished by Mercian in 2020.
First three I wouldn’t thank you for, Fifty one is amazing and would love one, Nibalis bike is ok ( I’m thinking rapper lol) and the lotus should be mounted as a piece of art.
The first three are works of art and have that human hand drawn touch to their design . Modern bikes all have similar aerodynamic designs because they are most likely created using a computer program . I especially do NOt like the high rims that are so prevalent today . A good example of the contrast between a computer generated object and a hand drawn object are the cars from the fifties compared with the cars of today . The cars today all look similar while the cars of the fifties were drawn without limitations being imposed by a computer . The old italian double butted frames were pure art and like the narrator said , belong in a museum.
My Serotta Ottrott Custom (2012) still regularly gets stares and compliments from random folks and bike shop staff. It is a very rare bike in Canada, so i get lots of questions about it, which i am always happy to answer. It is not super flashy, although my white/red/carbon paint scheme is striking (when clean that is) but the bike has a sneaky beauty with the graceful curved chainstays and gorgeous titanium lugs - i still rate it as one of the most beautiful frames ever made. Love the channel!!
Could have put a Passoni, Sarto or Bastion in there. Those are also built to every customers spesification and looks awesome. In my opinion they look better than the FiftyOne Bikes. The favorite amongst these are the Battaglin.
Thanks Manon. They were some lovely bikes! My favourite from your list is Chris Boardman’s Lotus. (Of course..!) Take a look at Francesco Moser’s 1984 Hour Record Bike too...it had a smaller front wheel, curved seat tube, top tube, 16mm tubs etc. (it was pioneering/unorthodox looking and I think it’s a beauty...) 👍
For me all bikes are beautiful. The one that amazed me is Rose Pro SL. The black colored version is jaw dropping. From the ones you shown i say the 51.
I like that big rear wheeled bike used by Moser on his hour record run in the 1980s. And also the Pinarello Espada, Pinarello's answer to the dominant Lotus, with the Banesto paint.
nice list except for the Lotus bike. it's not road legal bike if i'm not mistaken. it's a track bike. this place coulda been given to another bike. but that's just me.
Bike Aesthetic Attributes 1. Horizontal Top Tube: always always Has to be horizontal . I understand sloping TTs allow for economical production for of ‘all sizes’ with less models, but sorry . Horizontal TT is mandatory. Many alloy and carbon bikes look cracking, but only with horizontal TTs. So from an aesthetics perspective, I’m not belligerently steel only - but subject to.... 2. Tight Geo, And proportional : a 56square size ; 100mm stem; Head tube with fist sized length (grab head tube with closed fist - should be a perfect fit between down and top tube ) Touring bikes can look good, but not razor sharp sexy like a tight Geo road/race bike. Also - Seat post ‘appropriate’ exposure .Not slammed, not orbiting out in space either 3. Steel (alloy and carbon tubes are necessarily oversized and ... well, ugly - or not as petite ). Refer to Geo comments above, but even when 1 and 2 above are satisfied, steel tubes almost always look ‘better’ If I had to pick one attribute - would have to say horizontal top tube .
The lotus confuses me to no end, i hate how it looks, but i also love how it looks. The Battaglin was my favourite though, i guess i've gotta give back my manly man card now.
What no Hetchins curly? Besides black&gold is cheesiest of cheesy colour combos unless it is a JPS-sponsored Lotus F1 car. Black&silver/chrome on the other hand is sublime.
I personally have a soft spot for all Cinelli bikes and could have probably filled the entire list with classic Cinellis. But even the newer ones look really sexy.
come on guys, just cos a bike is historic, doesn't make it super nice. I'd say the top 6 beautiful bikes of all time have all been made in the last 6 years.
Thanks Manon and GCN for featuring the Arena 1981 on such a prestigious list!
I'd like to add Cinelli Laser as one of the most beautiful bikes of all time 😍
MrUbersven Ah, a man of culture I see! Good choice!
When I read your comment I intially thought, "pah, Cinelli - too obvious", then I googled Cinelli Laser, and was like "oh right, that Cinelli..."
I came to the comments to make that shout, there are some nice bikes in Manon's list but the Cinelli Laser is probably 2nd to the Lotus for me.
I like the slightly more ridiculous version of the Laser, the Rivoluzione Pista variant.
Nothing better than the paintwork on Colnago Masters from the late 90’s
I really like the Bianchi that Pantani was riding in the '98 tour. Celeste green and the yellow highlights seem iconic to me. Also the Eddy Merckx bike that has the logo in blue with frame color that I would describe as Molteni orange. That's been on my list for ages too.
The most beautiful roadbike on the word is the one that I'm riding, because it's mine and I can actually ride it.
The second most beautiful bike on the planet is the bike I want to own. 😁
spot on!!!
Unless you bought it from Toys R Us.
Si
Good reply. My frames are bespoke for me and built up by me also. 🚲😊
Perfect :) For me its the opposite, my bike is second most beautiful, most beautiful is the one I want to own.
"Oro" is Italian (and Spanish) for "Gold". I don't think it's "O.R.O". :-)
Don't let the team down GCN
Odd isn’t it how so called journalists know so little of what they spout 🤔🤔🤔
@@gedski100 I probably wouldn't be so rude about it, to be honest Ged.
The GCN crew is particularly poor with anything Italian. Some of them cannot even pronounce Campagnolo or maglio, It is embarrassing really, especially for the ones who were professional cyclists.
@Ben Haywood nobody cares what you would do virtue signaller. Why don’t we all do and say everything wrong just so soy boys like you aren’t butt hurt?.... go lie down and have a nap petal. If you’re one of the perpetually offended, outraged and indignant melts roaming this earth, then maybe you shouldn’t have highlighted the gross error in the first place.... hypocrite!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but for me, the most beautiful bikes always have steel frames. Maybe not as functional but as a thing of beauty, they are yet to be bettered.
''the most beautiful bikes always have steel frames. Maybe not as functional but as a thing of beauty''
Steel is actually the most functional frame material. Dunno what you mean by functionality but steel is the most functional material you can use around the world for working/hauling bike, travel bike, commuting bike, city bike that gets abused and banged around like all around bikes often do. You can bend steel back to shape and weld it together relatively easy but you cant do the same with other materials, i say that is real functionality.
@@JH-fk8ow I'm on about racing bikes tour de France things like that. I was talking about the functionality within the context of the bikes being exhibited.
I've ridden some uncomfortable lovelies in my puff, so I reckon beauty is in the arse of the rider.
Agreed 100% . If i had one of those bikes , i would hang it on a wall in my living room . absolutely stunning !!
Agreed, I have Carbon fibre, aluminum bikes but my favourite is my Colnago Master Olympic. It just feels alive when I'm riding it
Funny, I just rode to an Italian ice-cream parlour in the Black Forest, sat down with a Milk-Shake (frappè), took a breath, looked up and saw the most beautiful and amazing bike I have ever seen in front of this café: a BMC SLR01 in bright red, no cables, the works. And then I remembered: it's my own. What a lucky guy I am!
Not cool you braggart! My god i lusted after that bike, the one-page magazine ad copy truly did me in
Carbon maybe technically superior to steel but when it comes to beauty nothing beats a handmade steel bike.
I really miss my OS Paramount made in Waterford. Custom paint, the first Durace STI and mavic tubulars.
superior in how fast people get tired of them
wow, not one bike with dropped seatstays, or internally routed bar/stem/spacer junction.
i have to say, i'm impressed
O my, Manon and Jon as a presenter pair, we need to see that. Maybe for Six More of the Most Beautiful Road Bikes in the World.
Pegorretti, Sachs, Hurlow
One of the finest steel bikes ever made, and with a paint scheme that was incredible..... The Merckx MX-Leader with the Molteni paint scheme.
Pleased to see a Battaglin on the list!
I know there are some folk that think it resembles a bike crash, but I've always loved the look of the Paris Galibier.
The Battaglin was achingly beautiful though.
Manon, I'm your BIGGEST fan!
Pegoretti, Bastion, Firefly. Those are some beautiful bikes.
More of these! Do top five bikes of each decade, or top five bikes of each iconic brand. I could watch this all day now ... till we have racing again.
That Arena 1981 is something else.
Manon, you and Ollie seem to be doing all of the heavy lifting for GCN these days. Love you content!
Solid comment not sexist or patronizing, and highlighting something unspoken but now very clear, thank you
I think Vitus and Alan framesets have to appear in that top, including the Colnago from Eddy Merckx (Molteni team years) . Elegance and colours that are easily to identificate nowdays...🤙🏽
Have a silver Alan record frame (1991) with Campy 1st edition C Record grouppo (Chorus 1st edition monoplaner brakes , record titanium pro fit pedals , smooth non scratching 2000 era record titanium hub skewers , three dog Campy freewheel , cinelli 1r stem and bars , black Regal saddle with copper rivets , silver Mavic tubular rims ) . Looks great. Gonna ride it till the day I die.
Half of the bikes are steel frames... Sweeeeeet!
I miss a titanium jewel...
Real bikes are made of metal! 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
But carbon is cool too!
Its you Manon, the most beautiful GCN presenter 😍
To be fair, she hasn't got much competition, does she?
The first 3 shown my favorites
Bloody hell, that Battaglin arena made me feel all funny inside.....
Yeah me too,, I almost started crying 😢, lol
Would love to see the finished bike, such a beautiful frame
John Morrison it is a thing of beauty (mind you so are their other bikes and especially the porto fino). That frame is so beautiful it seems hard to know how best to finish the job off though-would love to see how people chose to spec it out.
@@blaireasdon Jon Cannings showed it in an earlier tech episode at an bike expo. Shouldn't be too hard to look up.
That’s the one
Bob Jackson produced beautiful Hetchins frames with curved chainstays and seatstays (built in Leeds).
There are so many unique designs that were made through the years, like the following :
- One Off Moulton Special Titanium
- Mecacyle Turbo Bonanza
- Sablière
- Colnago Carbitubo Pista
- Cinetica Giotto
- Colnago Brügelmann partly gold painted, with Campa Nuovo Record partly gold anodized (that was a daily bike, not a race bike).
- Cinelli Laser
- Corima Cougar
- Bianchi C-4 Project
- Moser Hour record bike (don't know the exact name)
Cheers.
I gotta agree.. but I should mention that I own a Hetchins Magnum Opus built by Bob Jackson! :-) Lovely bike with a wonderful ride.
Anything by Dario Pegoretti.
He's the only artist that could put TWO or MORE bikes on this list!
All the bikes you showed were indeed very nice, but you missed a major one (IMO) - any original bike make by Dario Pegoretti - not only were the bike beautifully finished, but some of his custom paint jobs were works of art! Good show - thanks
Arguably a very good shortlist
Yeahh The battaglin. Portofino😍😍😍😍😍is my dream bike
Jon cannings mention number 1
maybe most of the above mentioned are from Mr. Canning's Attic...
Some superb bikes there, but where’s the Raleigh Chopper in burnt orange?
If i could only approve this more... there were hooligans who could ride a wheelie on one of these on our school playground for an entire recess period. Oh how I wanted to be them
For me one of the most beautiful bike in the world is Bianchi Specialissima Pantani Edition 😍
Carbon bikes blaah. Colnago master and arabesque are gorgeous. Beautiful lug work with 4+ colors from the factory. Awesome
Nice job as ever Manon. Really growing into the role
Manon is one of the 6 most beautiful women in the world.
Rob English and Julie Ann Pedalino, their work is next level.
This was a great presentation, love to see more . KB.
Well done Manon! This is an epic great video. Thank you very much!!!!!
Fifty Seven. It seems like "Rolls Royce" in cycling industry.
As a collector ,,,looking for Colnago Mexico for awhile,,,,, I was there in 1972 when Eduardo Merckx broke the record.....
Hey Manon, if you do a part two or three, could you mention the Vitus 979 (1986). As a young teenager I had the cut out from not sure what magazine hanging in my highschool locker. I could never afford one, so I stripped the paint off my Huffy and with the help of my best friend made it look identical.
these posh elbow patches in red leather are acutally a throwback to the 1965 lotus 25 driven by jim clark which had a red leather steering wheel
Some nice choices. Would like to add the 2008 Orbea Orca to the list. One of the first carbon bikes trying not to look like a tubed steel frame
Great selection but I think you could have added the Pirate's 1998 TDF Bianchi which to me remains the most beautiful bike I've seen in road cycling. Honorable mentions to La Vie Claire's 1986 carbon framed bikes, Big Ed's Colnago Mexico Hour Record bike (both as much for their historical significance as their looks), and almost any bike with Wilier's Ramato colour scheme and a top end Campagnolo groupset.
Awwwww....not enough time to drool over that lotus! And the GOLD!💰💰💛💛
No Cinelli Laser? To me it is one of the most beautiful and iconic bikes.
there are so many awesome steel frames. That Colnago Mexico would be on my list to own as would the De Rosa. You could just have a stable of italian steel
Colossi 5, that thing is a work of beauty!
Jeez, just a heap of colourful name dropping. The lady is far to young to know of GOOD looking bikes . For me the Curly Hetchins , lug work exquisite.
I think the most handsome bike on the peloton was the venge pro sagan mirror edition and the venge 7x
OH! You missed so many!. The Vitus aluminum with the raw smooth stay fittings. The Canondale black lightning. All black and oversized aluminum was so aggressive and sexy both of these early 1980's bikes caused me to drool cycling back in the day. And now there is nothing hotter than the Pinarello Dogma f12
I love steel, but the Vitus 992 frame really has never been topped in beauty.
I had a DeRosa SLX with Dura-Ace components and gave it to one of my best friends as birthday present. I love my Olmo Competition in red with absolut full Panto Campa Record Groupset, looks imho. better then any Colnago.
r0mpastompa I used to ride with a guy that had a De Rosa slx in black chrome with Dura Ace. Beautiful bike!
As an engineer, I find the Lotus to be the most beautiful of the entire lot.
As an engineer, I find it the ugliest.
Hard to enjoy the beautiful bikes when the video is max 720p. Higher resolution videos would be great.
The 1982/83 Raleigh Record Ace in ice green.
The mid-1980s Giubilato Cromovelato Corsa in ruby red lacquer.
The Daccordi 50th Anniversary special in black.
Almost anything by Mercian but particularly my 1979 KoM Racing, refinished by Mercian in 2020.
Hitchens bike amazing lug work
No Bianchi there?? Tsk tsk
First three I wouldn’t thank you for, Fifty one is amazing and would love one, Nibalis bike is ok ( I’m thinking rapper lol) and the lotus should be mounted as a piece of art.
We miss Jon!
Manon does a good job too. We miss Jon too
It was a nice surprise, Manon's mention of Jon. Now we need to see him surprise all of us, perhaps as Ollie is admiring his bike on the wall.
"Vitus 992" is the best
The first three are works of art and have that human hand drawn touch to their design .
Modern bikes all have similar aerodynamic designs because they are most likely created using a computer program . I especially do NOt like the high rims that are so prevalent today .
A good example of the contrast between a computer generated object and a hand drawn object are the cars from the fifties compared with the cars of today .
The cars today all look similar while the cars of the fifties were drawn without limitations being imposed by a computer .
The old italian double butted frames were pure art and like the narrator said , belong in a museum.
Next up: 6 of the most beautiful Road Bikers in the World. 💖
My Serotta Ottrott Custom (2012) still regularly gets stares and compliments from random folks and bike shop staff. It is a very rare bike in Canada, so i get lots of questions about it, which i am always happy to answer. It is not super flashy, although my white/red/carbon paint scheme is striking (when clean that is) but the bike has a sneaky beauty with the graceful curved chainstays and gorgeous titanium lugs - i still rate it as one of the most beautiful frames ever made. Love the channel!!
Wilier Ramato 😍😍 awesome bike ever!
I had a Colnago Mexico. In addition to looking real nice, it was the best handling bike I ever rode.
Bianchi Oltre XR4 - pure style, performance and beauty
Could have put a Passoni, Sarto or Bastion in there.
Those are also built to every customers spesification and looks awesome.
In my opinion they look better than the FiftyOne Bikes.
The favorite amongst these are the Battaglin.
Colnago C40/50/64, Serotta Ottrot, Pinarello Prince SL, Wiggins Hour bike.
Thanks Manon. They were some lovely bikes!
My favourite from your list is Chris Boardman’s Lotus. (Of course..!)
Take a look at Francesco Moser’s 1984 Hour Record Bike too...it had a smaller front wheel, curved seat tube, top tube, 16mm tubs etc. (it was pioneering/unorthodox looking and I think it’s a beauty...) 👍
I'm a big fan of Colnagos and De Rosas... but also I'd add Festka, and the Canyon Aeroad Kraftwerk edition, that bike is awesome.
Colnago! Great choice
Lauf True Grit! What a Fork!
Great list. Zipp 2001 TT should be here imo.
I have a golden Ciocc and it is so gorgeous. How about Cinelli super corsa. Or what about a vintage Bianchi? So many more to list.
Pink and white Serrota Colorado
And don't forget one of the most beautiful presenters in the world. 😊
For me all bikes are beautiful. The one that amazed me is Rose Pro SL. The black colored version is jaw dropping.
From the ones you shown i say the 51.
And Fifty One bikes made a Tribute bike to Battaglin's 1987 frame as ridden by Stephen Roche in his famous triple year.
cool list. Currently the Cinelli Zegato takes it for me
cinelli.it/en/prodotti/nemo-zagato-2/
I like that big rear wheeled bike used by Moser on his hour record run in the 1980s. And also the Pinarello Espada, Pinarello's answer to the dominant Lotus, with the Banesto paint.
I think the Master Light with its clever shaped tubes and multi color paint was much nicer than the Mexico.
The most beautiful bike for me is my Restomod Gravelbike based on a 30 year old, hand soldered Enik Frame. 😊
cool, I didn’t know there is a bike named Enik.
but soldered? you mean fillet brazed?
Love that fact that most are classically shaped frames.
nice list except for the Lotus bike. it's not road legal bike if i'm not mistaken. it's a track bike. this place coulda been given to another bike. but that's just me.
The original Dogma was the Sophia Loren of bikes. Of all the beauties out there, nothing looked quite like the Dogma.
Bike Aesthetic Attributes
1. Horizontal Top Tube: always always Has to be horizontal . I understand sloping TTs allow for economical production for of ‘all sizes’ with less models, but sorry . Horizontal TT is mandatory. Many alloy and carbon bikes look cracking, but only with horizontal TTs. So from an aesthetics perspective, I’m not belligerently steel only - but subject to....
2. Tight Geo, And proportional : a 56square size ; 100mm stem; Head tube with fist sized length (grab head tube with closed fist - should be a perfect fit between down and top tube ) Touring bikes can look good, but not razor sharp sexy like a tight Geo road/race bike. Also - Seat post ‘appropriate’ exposure .Not slammed, not orbiting out in space either
3. Steel (alloy and carbon tubes are necessarily oversized and ... well, ugly - or not as petite ). Refer to Geo comments above, but even when 1 and 2 above are satisfied, steel tubes almost always look ‘better’
If I had to pick one attribute - would have to say horizontal top tube .
Bahrain McLaren race bike this year is also beautiful
Prova bikes are absolutely gorgeous. Check them out.
The lotus confuses me to no end, i hate how it looks, but i also love how it looks.
The Battaglin was my favourite though, i guess i've gotta give back my manly man card now.
I know. I feel the same way about the Lotus. Another bike that makes me feel that way is the Look 795 Aerolight.
Officials Battaglin pink chromovelato. Awesome 👏
Fantastic stuff
Instructions not clear Manon looks better than any of the bikes shown on the list.
"No, you're breath taking" or "no, you're beautiful!"
Beautiful bikes do not necessarily have to be vintage...there are modern designs like the trek madone which in my view is superb
Lotus👌
What no Hetchins curly?
Besides black&gold is cheesiest of cheesy colour combos unless it is a JPS-sponsored Lotus F1 car. Black&silver/chrome on the other hand is sublime.
I personally have a soft spot for all Cinelli bikes and could have probably filled the entire list with classic Cinellis. But even the newer ones look really sexy.
come on guys, just cos a bike is historic, doesn't make it super nice. I'd say the top 6 beautiful bikes of all time have all been made in the last 6 years.
I'd say bastion, vitus 991, and the caminade caminargent, one of the first aluminum bikes