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Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2250 on: 15 October, 2015, 09:31:20 pm »
At Manor Park* Sation.  Not quite what you expect so far out in East London.

20150822_105821 by Andrij, on Flickr
* No, not Manor House, Manor Park, they're nowhere near each other!


Sooo much going on here.  Imperial College, London.

20150911_165443 by Andrij, on Flickr


Seen in Soho, a Soma mini-velo.

Soma mini-velo, spotted in Soho by Andrij, on Flickr
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spesh

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2251 on: 15 October, 2015, 09:42:02 pm »
Quote from: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 09:31:20 pm
At Manor Park* Sation.  Not quite what you expect so far out in East London.

20150822_105821 by Andrij, on Flickr
* No, not Manor House, Manor Park, they're nowhere near each other!

Oh, the buggers are everywhere - there are plenty of fauxies with colour-coordinated rims and chains in Pompey, never mind the ironic beards and pomaded quiffs.

"'ipsters, sah! Thahsahnds of 'em..."

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Sooo much going on here.  Imperial College, London.

20150911_165443 by Andrij, on Flickr

That would not look out of place on Yourbikehatesyou's Facebook page.  ;D

https://www.facebook.com/Yourbikehatesyou-244725472237310/
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Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2252 on: 15 October, 2015, 09:51:05 pm »
Quote from: spesh on 15 October, 2015, 09:42:02 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 09:31:20 pm
Sooo much going on here.  Imperial College, London.

20150911_165443 by Andrij, on Flickr

That would not look out of place on Yourbikehatesyou's Facebook page.  ;D

https://www.facebook.com/Yourbikehatesyou-244725472237310/

What a terrific page!  :thumbsup:
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Quote from: Basil on 10 September, 2016, 08:52:15 pm
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2253 on: 16 October, 2015, 10:10:34 am »
Quote from: spesh on 15 October, 2015, 09:42:02 pm
Quote from: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 09:31:20 pm
At Manor Park* Sation.  Not quite what you expect so far out in East London.

20150822_105821 by Andrij, on Flickr
* No, not Manor House, Manor Park, they're nowhere near each other!

Oh, the buggers are everywhere - there are plenty of fauxies with colour-coordinated rims and chains in Pompey, never mind the ironic beards and pomaded quiffs.

"'ipsters, sah! Thahsahnds of 'em..."

Surely the unexpected thing is that it has brakes. Two of them and they appear to function.
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Jakob W

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2254 on: 16 October, 2015, 06:54:08 pm »
Quote from: Andrij on 15 October, 2015, 09:31:20 pm

Sooo much going on here.  Imperial College, London.

20150911_165443 by Andrij, on Flickr

When I was there I had some mech eng mates that were into freak bikes and the like, but that's just nasty - I really hope that doesn't belong to one of the nation's future engineering superstars...
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Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2255 on: 16 October, 2015, 07:08:37 pm »
IIRC, taken along Prince Consort Road, between the Royal College of Music and Exhibition Road.  Checking maps, the MechEng building is nearby.
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Quote from: Basil on 10 September, 2016, 08:52:15 pm
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Jakob W

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2256 on: 17 October, 2015, 07:36:50 am »
Thank goodness - we can blame a miner...
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2257 on: 19 October, 2015, 09:38:38 am »
Had a brief play with one of these yesterday:


Got to be Gordon's by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

Attached to a soot frame hand-crufted by Mike Burrows.  Monoblade, monostay doubling as a chaincase, drum brakes.  Unsurprisingly it felt just like a bicycle.  It's off to Mike Nelthorpe to be prettificated which, Mr Burrows says, will double the mass of the bike due to the quantity of filler required to smooth things out.
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2258 on: 19 October, 2015, 02:19:28 pm »
HK and I visited a friend who has had a Burrows 'expensive Raleigh 20' (called a 1D perhaps) with carbon chaincase/ chainstay and drum brakes for quite a while. A lovely bit of kit but the single speed is quite limiting. A Pinion gearcase would be heavy but very nice.

Tony also showed me an ex-Dutch national team motorpace bike with an enormous drilled Campag ring and a beautiful chrome Carlton with headclip headset, Airlite hubs, Chater-Lea cranks and inch pitch block chain. The Carlton is just about my size and I'd love to take it around a proper velodrome at speed, after gluing on a couple of reliable tyres!
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matthew

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2259 on: 23 October, 2015, 06:23:59 pm »
Was surprised to see a delta recumbent trike in town today while I was out shopping. Turned out to be a Hase ridden by a gent with cerebral palsy and therefore one side stronger than the other.

His comments were that he can break the seat frame as he is stronger on one side than the other and that because the rear axle is tilted to match the camber of the wheels it twists the chain and therefore eats them.
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paul851

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2260 on: 23 October, 2015, 07:59:07 pm »
My youngest on his new trike supplied by Cyclists Fighting Cancer He's been hammered by the side effects of one of his chemo drugs , so much so that they have had to reduce the dose as he was totally unable to walk for the first 5 months of treatment .


Paul
 
theraplay by Paul Markey, on Flickr
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woollypigs

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2261 on: 23 October, 2015, 09:13:25 pm »
Brilliant :)

BTW great hat :)
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2262 on: 23 October, 2015, 09:42:58 pm »
I was thinking the same about the hat!
Have heard of Cyclists Fighting Cancer before, though can't remember quite where, so it's good to see them in action.
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Ruthie

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2263 on: 23 October, 2015, 09:47:47 pm »
Great picture!

Somebody needs a pirate flag.
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Vince

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2264 on: 24 October, 2015, 10:31:45 am »
A great picture and what a worthwhile cause.
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Speshact

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2265 on: 24 October, 2015, 08:30:43 pm »
I've just put some pictures on my blog from today's Veteran-Cycle Club 60th Anniversary Autumn Cavalcade in Southwark http://kenningtonpob.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/the-veteran-cycle-club-60th-anniversary.html
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2266 on: 25 October, 2015, 07:36:34 pm »
On today's ride I saw someone on an upwrongular tricycle up ahead.  Except when I caught up, it turned out to be a miniature horse & cart.   :facepalm:

This is even sillier than my usual trick of spotting people riding in the saddle on BMXes and thinking they're on a recumbent.
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menthel

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2267 on: 26 October, 2015, 01:23:26 pm »
Quote from: marcusjb on 07 September, 2015, 04:18:58 pm
Crossing Putney Bridge - I then stopped to take photos as he sedately rode up New Kings Road.  He stopped for photos (including me taking a couple with his camera). 

No real reason seemed to be the concept behind the machine.  But a little bit of fabulous to cheer up a Monday:



See him every so often going through Wimbledon, last time was on Queens Road a couple of weeks ago.
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Ruthie

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2268 on: 27 October, 2015, 06:57:39 pm »
What a gorgeous spectacle!
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Ruthie

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2269 on: 28 October, 2015, 09:17:03 pm »
Northwest Highlands 2015 001 by Ruth Irving, on Flickr

I liked this bike because it's so obviously fit for purpose, and exactly what its owner needs.  Also, nice cycling helmet.
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madcow

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2270 on: 28 October, 2015, 11:26:59 pm »
The three pics on this page all capture what two wheels can do for us all and there's not a piece of lycra in sight.
Paul - best wishes to your little lad. He's obviously dead chuffed to be on his bike and let's hope that cheers him up a bit as he's been through the wringer by the sound of it.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2271 on: 01 November, 2015, 07:16:18 am »
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2272 on: 02 November, 2015, 05:01:59 pm »
Quote from: Ruthie on 28 October, 2015, 09:17:03 pm
I liked this bike because it's so obviously fit for purpose, and exactly what its owner needs.  Also, nice cycling helmet.
Yes. It's the antithesis of cycling and the epitome of transport.

Or the antitome and the thesis, or something.
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Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2273 on: 03 November, 2015, 08:25:36 pm »
Levocyclette Terrot - online, not in the flesh.

Teaser pic:
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Quote from: Basil on 10 September, 2016, 08:52:15 pm
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2274 on: 03 November, 2015, 09:22:22 pm »
I think that wins the cake for however they said pensée bleu ciel back in 1905.
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