I was literally sick in my mouth when I saw Christy Harnett's bike at Lyng this past weekend. I tried searching for a picture of it but came up short. However I did find this, this is one of the TMC bikes(Harnetts main sponsor) from 2010 and they haven't changed in the two years that have passed. Anyways, how can you take a thing of beauty like this CRF250 and turn it into a complete abomination of a bike, I want to take a cheese grater to my eyes every single time I catch a glimpse of it. If mother Honda knew she was going to be giving birth to this, she would have binged on a cocktail of drink and drugs before getting to third base with a primark coat hanger. The graphics are just all kind of wrong, there's so many colours here, it just looks like Picasso parked the fudge on the bike (I take that back, a Picasso shit would actually be worth something). The TMC logo is just god awful, the text looks like the kind of thing you get on a Christmas card from someone who's decided to make their own on Microsoft Word, and the dog in the baseball cap?! WTF!? What is this 1992? (again I take that back, 1992 had more style than this.) Luckily they manage to scrape back some credibility by having a red seat with predominately black based graphics.* TMC cannot take all of the blame for this though, I'm going to point my one middle finger at Fox Racing too. That's right, you heard. This is blatantly based on some of the jazzy Fox clothing designs that have made them self present in the past few years. However, where as Fox is a credible company at the forefront of design and fashion with a good knowledge of what works on an aesthetic level, whoever designed this pretty much just has some kind of creative disability. How can i sum it up? You ever see that film Twins with Arnie and Danny Devito? Where one twin is built and ripped and a nice guy and the other is short fat and a loser? Yeah, that!
*Oh yeah I forgot, that looks shit too!
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