Bike porn: Knotted, have a towel ready for the drool...

[Zen]

What good is the internet if you don't get a little porn now and then?
Tam knows the best sites

[KnottedYet]

(I'm almost ashamed to admit how many times I've come back to this thread to look at those pictures. )

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

We all have different tastes. Though I can admire the work involved, that engraved bike is not something I would want at all. It reminds me of one of those gaudy embossed Western style horse saddles meant for parades or something. Just not my style.
I like plainer lugs on steel bikes, too. I've seen really fancy lugs with curly Q shapes that I find just too fussy and frilly.

I have a couple of beautiful banjos with very elaborate mother of pearl engravings. When I play them people always comment on them. When I play my plain banjos I feel a bit more comfortable, like I am connected with them, and I think people listen to my playing more instead of ogling my banjo.

I can admire all the hard work though. I do wonder though whether that tubing was actually human hand engraved, or machine engraved using a template that automatically follows a pre-programmed design pattern.

[mimitabby]

I'd like it better if the engraved parts were enameled. I just don't care for grey/silver with no accents.

[Bad JuJu]

I'm with Lisa on this one. Gee that's some gorgeous work, but it's a little foofy for my taste. On the other hand, just look at those beautiful welds at the head tube and bottom bracket--yum!

[Zen]

The parade saddle is accurate. That's exactly the way the site describes it.
Even without seeing the details I think it's a sharp looking bike.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The parade saddle is accurate. That's exactly the way the site describes it.

Oh that's funny- I didn't even read that when I looked at the pictures!

A friend of ours who lives 2 blocks from us makes engraved old fashioned muzzle loader rifles. He does the kind of freely imaginative engraving I really love:

http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BR-nosecapClose.jpg

http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BCCheeksideClose.jpg

http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BR-sideplateClose.jpg

http://www.tcurran.com/Images/BR-front-sightClose.jpg

http://www.tcurran.com/index.htm

Maybe if i get rich one day I can hire Tom to engrave me a steel bike with wild meadow plants and crickets and birds, like those I pass on my bike rides every day!