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Adrian · « **Reply #150 on:** 21 June, 2009, 10:38:16 pm »

I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision

Andrij · « **Reply #151 on:** 21 June, 2009, 11:41:17 pm »

Quote from: Adrian on 21 June, 2009, 10:38:16 pm

I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision

Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?

Adrian · « **Reply #152 on:** 22 June, 2009, 07:09:42 am »

Quote from: Andrij on 21 June, 2009, 11:41:17 pm

Quote from: Adrian on 21 June, 2009, 10:38:16 pm
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision

Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?

Riding the L2B? Not a chance.

Andrij · « **Reply #153 on:** 22 June, 2009, 08:54:51 am »

Quote from: Adrian on 22 June, 2009, 07:09:42 am

Quote from: Andrij on 21 June, 2009, 11:41:17 pm
Quote from: Adrian on 21 June, 2009, 10:38:16 pm
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision

Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?

Riding the L2B? Not a chance.

He did recently raise the possibility of doing the next FNRttC on his Kirk. I think I shall give him a nudge...

Adrian · « **Reply #154 on:** 22 June, 2009, 07:54:20 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 22 June, 2009, 08:54:51 am

He did recently raise the possibility of doing the next FNRttC on his Kirk. I think I shall give him a nudge...

Good idea, although I think that he is keener that someone else should ride it.

Wendy · « **Reply #155 on:** 26 June, 2009, 09:07:27 pm »

A gocycle in Hyde Park, as seen on the latest Velovision cover.

Andrij · « **Reply #156 on:** 28 June, 2009, 08:44:14 pm »

Yesterday outside Tesco in Becton I saw an ADAC Winora folding bike. Can't quite figure out how it folds but I plan to do some more googling.

rower40 · « **Reply #157 on:** 10 July, 2009, 12:10:02 pm »

Thread bump! (I had to look on the second page to find it $:-\$ )

A Windcheetah, with tailbox, at speed under St Alkmunds Way bridge, Derby, next to the river. And no, it wasn't mine. I was in the middle of the river at the time. (In a boat, obv.)

mike · « **Reply #158 on:** 10 July, 2009, 12:29:14 pm »

the bike wasnt that notable, but Michael Hutchison, UK TT supremo was riding it. In Jeans. Probably going much faster than I was, lycra'd up in the opposite direction through Harston.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #159 on:** 10 July, 2009, 07:50:34 pm »

Quote from: rower40 on 10 July, 2009, 12:10:02 pm

A Windcheetah, with tailbox, at speed under St Alkmunds Way bridge, Derby, next to the river. And no, it wasn't mine. I was in the middle of the river at the time. (In a boat, obv.)

There's likely to be a lot of strange bikes about in Derby this weekend - It's Hilldodger's Big Cycle Weekend and CycleChat get-together.

robbo6 · « **Reply #160 on:** 11 July, 2009, 09:22:29 pm »

An old Rudge lightweight roadster, Coventry headbadge so pre-1936, with small diameter bottom bracket, hubs and headset.

Deano · « **Reply #161 on:** 12 July, 2009, 11:16:22 pm »

Spotted in Freiburg im Breisgau. I didn't have time to linger, cos it started raining, but I loved the blinging wheels

clarion · « **Reply #162 on:** 14 July, 2009, 08:42:28 pm »

On top of a car approaching E&C along New Kent Road, I saw a load trike made from a basic full-susser welded to a wide flat frame behind.

her_welshness · « **Reply #163 on:** 23 July, 2009, 11:18:41 am »

One cyclist, all in fluorescent yellow flew past me on his green racer on London Bridge. He had one leg. Fitter than anything on that bridge today.

David Martin · « **Reply #164 on:** 23 July, 2009, 01:35:24 pm »

Damien Hirst | The Bikes of Stages | Trek Bikes

I don't think I can add more..

ed_o_brain · « **Reply #165 on:** 23 July, 2009, 02:51:10 pm »

Freight 8

Paul Smith SRCC · « **Reply #166 on:** 23 July, 2009, 06:58:10 pm »

Cliff still does a few frames, here he is with Louisa (not on a Cliff Shrubb)

Cliff has made some unusual frames in his time including one that broke the

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/BmpxJWAJbFM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/BmpxJWAJbFM&rel=1</a> was done behind a car, the frame built by Cliff Shrubb , maximum speed 110mph, gear so large that he had to be towed behind the car to get the gear going

Cliff still owns the bike as he never got paid for it, although he has not got a clue where it is, or who now has it, as he never got it back! More recently he has made a fixed with an unusual rear end

Paul_Smith
www.corridori.co.uk

clarion · « **Reply #167 on:** 23 July, 2009, 08:20:54 pm »

Looks very similar to the BJ Rohloff rear end. Exactly what I want to use on the commuter project I keep bleating about and don't get closer to

DuncanM · « **Reply #168 on:** 24 July, 2009, 08:21:50 am »

It might be mundane compared to the others on this thread, but I saw a rather nice De Rosa today just outside Cirencester...

PhilO · « **Reply #169 on:** 24 July, 2009, 08:41:07 am »

Quote

...an unusual rear end

That's quite a common arrangement on MTBs (See Kona Explosif, Orange P7, Voodoo Wanga, etc), mainly because it's difficult (but not impossible) to use disk brakes with anything other than vertical dropouts. It makes a lot of sense for fixed+mudguards too, I'd have thought.

her_welshness · « **Reply #170 on:** 27 July, 2009, 10:06:53 am »

Saw one dude sitting on a red bike frame on top of another red bike frame with wheels (poor description) but he must have been about 12 foot in the air. I gave him the old

and cried out 'Love it'. Is there a name for this sort of amazing bicycle set-up?

clarion · « **Reply #171 on:** 27 July, 2009, 10:08:49 am »

Tallbike!

We saw one at the start of the Dunrun, but I don't think he rode it to the seaside

PhilO · « **Reply #172 on:** 27 July, 2009, 10:09:46 am »

That'd be a tallbike.

ETA: Too slow...

clarion · « **Reply #173 on:** 27 July, 2009, 10:11:40 am »

Less dramatic, but interesting, I saw a Villiers Velo bike frame today. Surprisingly, it was not built into a retro tourer, but a full-on fakenger machine.

Oh - and if the rider of that machine is reading, stop at red lights, would you? I realise that the only way you could keep up with an asthmatic fat old bloke on a tourer was to run every set from Balham to Kennington, but I think you've pissed off a record number of pedestrians who might have expected to cross the road in safety.

Still, nice frame.

clarion · « **Reply #174 on:** 27 July, 2009, 10:12:01 am »

Quote from: PhilO on 27 July, 2009, 10:09:46 am

That'd be a tallbike.

ETA: Too slow...

..but more helpful

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