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Trek Project One competition: the shortlist
Well we've stroked our chins and looked at nearly 6,000 different bike designs, and in the end it's come down to this. 25 designs that made it through the initial cull, then the subsequent weighing-this-one-against-that-one discussions to finally land on the shortlist as the best* of the bunch.
Some people have clearly missed their vocation, getting quite a few designs into the long list, but we've picked 25 different designers for the final cut. And one of these bikes dun gone get made. We'll be opening voting next week so you can pick your favourites.
In the mean time, have a scroll through them and tell us which one you like best. If you want to take the time to tell us that we're a bunch of colour-blind morons that wouldn't know a beautiful bike from a hole in the ground, that's fine too. In fact, we demand it.
*yes, we know yours was better.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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my designs - so cruelly and tastelessly rejected by the judges - like Darren's, reflected a number of deep and meaningful concepts, drawing inspiration from a well of cultural and historical reference and pursuing a post-industrial-neo-revisionist-rococo-punk-aesthetic that appealed both to the mainstream and the bleeding edge taste while simultaneously shifting, rotating, destroying and reconstructing the paradigm, thinking in 4 dimensions spatially relative to the box, exploring new avenues, challenging norms and asking the question "if I actually won, could I sell this on eBay?"
On the surface it might have just looked black with red bits but frankly, it's just as well it wasn't picked because you philistines clearly aren't ready for that amount of design genius yet.
Tour de David?
Totally agree with u I think these bikes where picked by a blind person. I see most of them don't have Force on them so I think they went with the cheapest designs they could find. Shocking and you run bike website. Good job you don't run a bike design company. Got any pink tassels to go with the pink handle bar tape. Oh and how about a little ringing bell on there to. Disappointing choices to say it nicely.
You're not in art college now, Dazza. No-one cares
I agree, one of my designs had this combination too, but my other design got picked instead.
Nice one JonSP!, thanks for that (where's your design then?).
not that I've designed it knowing i have some Rapha gift vouchers burning a hole in my pocket from christmas...
damned if you do, damned if you don't then. Plus ça change, etc and so on
You might not, and I'm fine with that, but some people don't know or recognise why the design has flashes of pink on an Italian flag coloured frame. It shows that some thought beyond 'that looks pretty' has taken place, as all design should be!
The link is obvious. The reason behind the design less so. Most people probably don't realise that you are Italian
21 and 26
26 is my favorite
how do you look, im sure im going mad!
A mixed bag, to say the least...
My shortlist is 17, 18 & 22 (looks like my old Trek 800 MTB from when I were a lad!)
And the winner of the Ghedebrav Seal of Approval is...
18! Working the understated pink, I like it.
Seconded
I'm not usually a fan of flames but 9 I quite like. Also 12 for some reason which makes me worry about my taste in colours...
sulk
Flames, really? I dislike all the ones with flames, and the rest have mostly disgusting colour combinations, except for the one (number 16 I think) with the dark blue frameset/logo, and black everything else. That was nice. I think I had designed a very similar one, then thought "eh fuck it" and discarded it.
#20 definately the best
mine not there - no surprise though, as the task was rather like putting a pig in lipstick, as i think the gallery confirms....
gareth mathews 19 or Darren Collard 21 (and obviously mine which is mysteriously not there)
If that is pink post and italian bike then yeah those are cool... wait for it... but not as cool as mine were!
Never win owt!
i think no 18 is my fav...
# 15 is a near complete copy of my CAAD10. I appreciate the compliment!
christ, some of those are absolutely hideous ...
aww my understated little purple number made the cut, how cool. Looking at it again, i can honestly say i still love it. Good luck everyone.
If I had a gun to my head then it'd be number 14, but I'm left with the expression "you can't polish a turd" ringing in my ears, maybe it was the available colour palette?
Seems I wasn't the only one thinking that then!
My designs would have looked so much better with colour-co-ordinated graphics on deep section rims!
hehehe
Hopes crushed and dreams of a new career in tatters
+1 #9 for standing out.
Right, so I noticed that loads of those on the shortlist have the deeper section wheels with customisable graphics colours. I couldn't seem to make any bikes fit within the price limit with these wheels. Anyone else find that? Are all the bikes on the shortlist definitely within the budget?
The Aura 5 wheelset and Shimano 105 did keep it within budget, at least when I entered initially before deciding I'd rather deck the bike out in a scheme and components that wouldn't force me to stick it on e-bay and buy something I'd actually want to ride. Apparently though, components were not part of the criteria for judging as long as it came in within the £3,200 budget - it was the frame scheme. Looking at the majority of those though, I wish some of the £11,000 designs that had been entered had made the final shortlist, complete with SRM and Aeolus 9 wheels. There was a rather delightful Penny Farthing in there too.
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