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American Jonathan Page on one of the course's many unrideable hills.

Stybar, Van Paassen take GVA opener in Namur 2010

But the summer-like conditions extended only so far, as a week of rain in Belgium turned an already challenging course — featuring a series of steep, technical descents and often unrideable climbs — into a course that many racers described as one of the hardest they had seen.

Stybar, Van Paassen take GVA opener in Namur 2010

Clearly, this was unrideable, and I would have to loosen the lock nut and adjust it.

BSNYC Product Review: Walmart's Mongoose Cachet "Fixed-Speed" Bicycle BikeSnobNYC 2010

What material will become the 'crabon fribé of unrideable bikes' for dentists?

Heat-Addled: Cooler Heads Will Prevail BikeSnobNYC 2010

Unfortunately, not all designer bicycles do what they're supposed to do which is convey a rider, and another reader has forwarded me these bicycle "sculptures" made of "DuPont™ Corian®," which I guess is the carbon fribé of unrideable bikes:

Heat-Addled: Cooler Heads Will Prevail BikeSnobNYC 2010

Of course, it could be that Urban Velo simply received a better specimen than I did, but then again theirs was technically unrideable since it arrived with the wrong seatpost:

BSNYC Friday Flugelhorn Lesson! BikeSnobNYC 2010

In an age of pedigree axes and unrideable bikes, the absurd ingenuity you'll find on Craigslist seems quaint and charming in comparison.

Heat-Addled: Cooler Heads Will Prevail BikeSnobNYC 2010

Allegra used to be owned by Carolyn, a self-absorbed rider, not even a real horsewoman, who took the high-strung Thoroughbred and ratcheted up the hysteria until the mare was almost unrideable.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Deleted scene — Kate and Allegra 2009

Is this advantage cancelled out by the fact that damage to the derailleur could render the bike unrideable?

Contradictions: Contemplating the Mysteries of Cycling BikeSnobNYC 2008

These officers knew that Grant was so gifted on horseback that he had been commanded to give a special equestrian jumping demonstration at his West Point graduation and that he'd broken a supposedly unrideable wild mustang while in Corpus Christi, saddling the horse and galloping across the plains for hours until it stopped trying to buck him off and calmly consented to his commands.

'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848' 2008