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xena
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by xena

I'm amazed. No WW competition thread :noidea:
What do you think of the competition?
Do you think the winners were worthy?
Are there any other bikes you thought should have won?
Maybe new category's ?

What's your views folks ?
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Possibly a Vintage WW build thread and competition :)

Road and MTB Frames from the 90's and older. Lugged steel category.

Might be more interesting ?

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I would like to have seen a category for bikes that have tuned parts and custom/home made parts rather than bought WW bike's with standard parts. Originality and creativity.

We need real inspiration to keep the tunings and ideas flowing, for me this is a big part of what the site is/should be about.

It would be great to see some older/ vintage bikes.

Some of the bikes in the gallery I have seen for the first time. There are some great bikes on show.
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i think the neat thing is a highly tuned/customised bike did win. and a very weight weenie one at that. great story on that build and so i wonder how much that contributed.

i hope starbike got something out of it so it can happen again.

i also thought that the scott addict at like 4.5 kg would do better and that was really a highly tuned and skillful effort from the builder.
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by xena

I agree.
I hope the competition stays around and inspires WW's to push on a bit further.
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mrgray wrote:i think the neat thing is a highly tuned/customised bike did win. and a very weight weenie one at that. great story on that build and so i wonder how much that contributed.

i hope starbike got something out of it so it can happen again.

i also thought that the scott addict at like 4.5 kg would do better and that was really a highly tuned and skillful effort from the builder.



Maybe talking about my bike? :) if so thank you I appreciate the comment!! So many hours into the build.
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The best should not be the one with the most expensive components, it should be the most innovative re-worked bike IMO.

Personally i would probably die if i could see a super mechanical bike more than the electronic shifting bikes.

In some ways WW seems to execute all in weight savings. I would love to see more engineering.

I still have wet dreams about a super exclusive mechanical groupset.
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by mrgray

yes Kevosinn was talking about your bike! it was great following your thread and you've ended up with such a unique bike and so extraordinarily light!
Bobo S&S Steel Bike - 7.5 kg
Oltre XR2- 6.6 kg
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Thanks!! Much more to come. I've started to build frames now and they will be very unique with full custom layup. Stay tuned for that.
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@wheelsonfire, check the best of ww thread in the Introduce yourself forum. There's a few highly tuned bikes in there but a lot of people don't like how they look. It's on a completely different level to pull off a super tuned build that actually looks nice.

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Sorry for the possibly stupid question, but where does one go to see the competition winners?

BTW, I fully agree with those who feel that the winner should be a custom, tuned bike and not some mega-dollar build bought by someone whose weight-weenie-ism vision is limited to the width of their wallet and technical abilities to dialing the number of their LBS.

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by istigatrice

The winners were posted on the banner, but I think the starbike crew took it down... I'll see if I can get a list of the winners and post them here.

And congrats Kevosinn I love the level of detail and tuning that went into your build. I hope you continue to produce stunners like that :)
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Is there a link to the competition?

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by zev

x2, link?

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Go to: http://www.starbike.com/galleries/

And on the top orange banner, click "EVENT FINISHED", and the list of winners will drop down.

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