Author Topic: The weirdest bike in your work bike shed... (Read 5415 times)

rogerzilla · « **on:** 17 May, 2008, 09:38:30 pm »

I nominate a GT singlespeed MTB with disc brakes and a big, wide Brooks B17!

Wobbly John · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 May, 2008, 11:07:31 pm »

... is usually mine.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2 on:** 17 May, 2008, 11:12:16 pm »

The only bike is mine...poor thing must be getting lonely under the stairs.
On the plus side I don't have to fight anyone to get in the shower!

Cunobelin · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 May, 2008, 08:00:04 am »

Quote from: Wobbly John on 17 May, 2008, 11:07:31 pm

... is usually mine.

Same here!

Usually one of the recumbents or folders.

gonzo · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 May, 2008, 09:14:05 am »

Back at rolls royce, there was a bike with over a foot of spacers. I imagine the owner wasn't a sprinter!

Cunobelin · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 May, 2008, 10:34:58 am »

Quote from: gonzo on 18 May, 2008, 09:14:05 am

Back at rolls royce, there was a bike with over a foot of spacers. I imagine the owner wasn't a sprinter!

I've only got 8"

gonzo · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 May, 2008, 10:42:31 am »

It wasn't you was it?

alecstilleyedye · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 May, 2008, 03:08:30 pm »

until recently, a full carbon framed spesh tarmac pro, with a rusty chain.

bobajobrob · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 May, 2008, 03:11:17 pm »

A TT bike, a few hybrids, a tourer and a fixed gear hack (that would be mine). Nothing out of the ordinary.

Craig · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 May, 2008, 03:27:46 pm »

A Specialized Langster, with the frame completely covered in black duct tape. Which just makes it look like an expensive bike that has been disguised...
Or a Specialized Rockhopper (I think), with front suspension, discs etc and thin slick tyres. It just looks wrong.
Or a proper German tourer style bike, with butterfly bars and dynamo lights etc.

Plus the usual mix of hybrids/city bikes/old school racers/cheap mountain bikes. Including a few with hub gears or dynamos, and a few fixies/singlespeeds.

gonzo · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 May, 2008, 03:56:17 pm »

Quote from: alecstilleyedye on 18 May, 2008, 03:08:30 pm

until recently, a full carbon framed spesh tarmac pro, with a rusty chain.

Did someone happen to accidentally cut off someone else's chain and then subsequently 'drop' another chain on?

It was keeping you awake at night right?

miguel · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 May, 2008, 04:54:58 pm »

Where do I start? A Conference bike, a Circle Cycle, a Zem, a sofa cycle, various hand-crank chairs, a Pacific 2rider, a sideby side 'Dual', Buddy bike, assorted tricycles, mini bikes, micro bikes, mini tandems, micro tandems, two pedal-backwards-to-go-forwards bikes, three wobbly wheel bikes, three junior pennies, four mini pennies, an itera plastic bike, twenty one brand new assorted Bromptons, a Sinclair A-Bike, two Mini Moultons, Burrow's Amsterdam prototype, a Halfway, a strida, three Maximus rickshaws, several assorted recumbents, several Giant Revives, trailers of all descriptions, choppers, cruisers, twenty kids KMXes in various states of disrepair and four pedal powered dodgems. And they'll all be at the show!

www.getcyclingshow.info

Jakob · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 May, 2008, 05:07:17 pm »

Ours got mostly MTB/Hybrids, with the most stand-out bike being mine.

Palinurus · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 May, 2008, 05:54:58 pm »

The green, brakeless, BMX at the moment (still trying to work out who on site might ride that, there's a guy in the kitchen who's a likely candidate)

If that isn't there then my TT bike, on those days when I'm racing/ training after work.

Not very weird really.

bomber · « **Reply #14 on:** 18 May, 2008, 06:00:32 pm »

Nothing weird. Nothing cheap mind. One of my co workers rides an Iron Horse sunday team;

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #15 on:** 19 May, 2008, 09:59:48 am »

Deffo mine, as everything else in there is a BSO.

Greenbank · « **Reply #16 on:** 19 May, 2008, 10:04:31 am »

A Felt Scythe Cruiser.

No idea who it belongs to, but it must handle like a P.I.G.

nuttycyclist · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 May, 2008, 04:09:43 pm »

Somebody does a commute in the opposite direction to me on one of those. I see it at least once a week.

PrettyBoyTim · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 May, 2008, 05:56:46 pm »

Not exactly in our bike shed, but outside our work someone has been locking up an orange tandem with a carryfreedom trailer still attached...

Valiant · « **Reply #19 on:** 20 May, 2008, 10:07:33 am »

My trike probably, also known as my sun lounger and smoking chair lol.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 May, 2008, 02:01:03 pm »

There's only ever 3 bikes at work. Two are standard Indian roadsters, of "Flying Pigeon" type, cept they're actually Hero or Atlas - both out of the same factory anyway! The other is mine, which is rather like a schoolboy bike - swept back bars, big comfy saddle, and for a bit of cool(?) whitewall tyres. I couldn't face hauling the full 25kg around, but didn't want anything too showy that I'd be afraid to leave around, so that's what I got.

So, er, none of them's unusual.

drossall · « **Reply #21 on:** 20 May, 2008, 06:20:05 pm »

There's usually one that hasn't been ridden anywhere for months (plus all the ones that do get used of course). And there's an electric bike as well.

andygates · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 May, 2008, 07:16:48 pm »

bobajobrob · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 May, 2008, 07:18:07 pm »

Quote from: andygates on 20 May, 2008, 07:16:48 pm

I was waiting for that

geoff · « **Reply #24 on:** 20 May, 2008, 07:18:21 pm »

Amongst the scores of bikes around the University Offices these days there's a christiania bike - one of the ones for carrying kids.

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