Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646199 times)

Pingu · « **Reply #2300 on:** 10 March, 2016, 10:55:54 am »

That's bananas

fuzzy · « **Reply #2301 on:** 13 March, 2016, 09:25:12 pm »

Once again, sorry for the orientation-

An originl ball buster

Jurek · « **Reply #2302 on:** 14 March, 2016, 07:15:19 am »

Ball buster?
What about my cricked neck?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2303 on:** 14 March, 2016, 08:34:34 am »

Surely vertical is the correct and natural orientation for a Chopper?

Zipperhead · « **Reply #2304 on:** 14 March, 2016, 02:25:57 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 14 March, 2016, 08:34:34 am

Surely vertical is the correct and natural orientation for a Chopper?

It certainly is for my chopper.

IGMC.

Blodwyn Pig · « **Reply #2305 on:** 16 March, 2016, 06:35:46 pm »

a leathered up cannondale lefty

Pingu · « **Reply #2306 on:** 18 March, 2016, 11:08:39 pm »

Science bike

IMG_6412_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2307 on:** 20 March, 2016, 06:42:06 pm »

At tanhouse farm, Newdigate, The Boy and I spotted a bunch of older bikes, including:

A BSA heavy duty roadster.

And a (can't remember) but the owner said the frame was from the 1930s, while the natty Osgear wasa little later.

The riders were suitably attired in woolen cycling jerseys (Kenton RC was one of them) and a preponderance of knee britches.

Ruthie · « **Reply #2308 on:** 30 March, 2016, 02:57:28 pm »

I had some new shiny things delivered today, and this was the courier. The vehicle's name is Maximus.

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Maximus! by Ruth Irving, on Flickr][/img]

I asked the chap with the knees if his name was Decimus Meridius, but it isn't. He didn't seem to find that as funny as I did

You probly get lots of Maximuses in London and Mordor and suchlike. Not so many in Darlo though.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2309 on:** 30 March, 2016, 03:06:27 pm »

Maximuses or Maximi or whatever you want to call them – Maximus cycles – are made in Bath, so you can consider that a little bit of Cuban* sunshine under the grey skies of Co. Durham.

*Counties that Used to Be Avon.

Kim · « **Reply #2310 on:** 30 March, 2016, 06:25:38 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 30 March, 2016, 02:57:28 pm

You probly get lots of Maximuses in London and Mordor and suchlike.

*giggles*

I suspect that Brizzle or York are more likely habitats.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #2311 on:** 30 March, 2016, 08:34:40 pm »

I think there is a fair number of Maximi on pedicab duty in that there Lundun ton.

Kim · « **Reply #2312 on:** 30 March, 2016, 08:42:00 pm »

Quote from: LittleWheelsandBig on 30 March, 2016, 08:34:40 pm

I think there is a fair number of Maximi on pedicab duty in that there Lundun ton.

Well yes, but That London is big enough that it's got a fair number of pretty much anything.

It's the idea of cargo trikes in Birmingham that I found hilarious. I mean, there are a couple of privately-owned Babboes lurking in the Mosley-King[']s Heath lentil belt, but if you attempted to use one to deliver things in the city centre you'd probably get beaten up by irate motorists.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2313 on:** 31 March, 2016, 04:25:13 pm »

There is a cycle courier service in Brizzle but I've never seen a Maximus. And I've never heard of a Babboe, so Mordor is at least one up on us. I've seen a bloke on a bright orange cargo bike delivering stuff, not sure if he was with Velo Post though. Apart from that, a couple of box bikes and Christiana trikes, all used for kid deliveries, and that seems to be it.

Kim · « **Reply #2314 on:** 02 April, 2016, 12:26:37 am »

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2315 on:** 02 April, 2016, 08:39:14 am »

As much use as a... chocolate Alp?

Andrij · « **Reply #2316 on:** 02 April, 2016, 08:49:46 am »

An obvious fake - the real thing would have triangular 'tubes'.

Kim · « **Reply #2317 on:** 02 April, 2016, 01:37:45 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 02 April, 2016, 08:49:46 am

An obvious fake - the real thing would have triangular 'tubes'.

The proximity to Bournville is suspicious, too...

(Though googlepedia tells me they've all been borged by the Mega-Global Food Product Corporation of Northfield, USAnia. So maybe they phased out triangular frames at the same time.)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2318 on:** 06 April, 2016, 11:32:37 am »

Yesterday a Small Person on a BMX with a pair of huge mirrors shaped like rabbit ears, a piece of silver-painted cardboard tube strapped to the LH chainstay and a massive grin. I expect to see him on a MotoGP bike in ten years' time.

Andrij · « **Reply #2319 on:** 12 April, 2016, 10:15:08 am »

Man gets strangers to draw bicycles from memory then renders them in 3D.
http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2320 on:** 12 April, 2016, 11:36:21 am »

CDC?

Wobbly John special?

Help!

Modern bicycles are too complicated. Who really needs all those gears, those hydraulic disc brakes, clipless pedals and aero-profiled frame tubes? Who really needs brakes at all? Or frame tubes? Or pedals?

Kim · « **Reply #2321 on:** 12 April, 2016, 11:52:58 am »

I've played this game before. Most people who aren't regular fettlers of bicycles (or perhaps clever enough to design them from first principles when given the task) seem to have gaps in their awareness of how the things fit together. Interesting parallels with the sort of mistakes you find in young children's drawings.

Puts those cycle lane stencils in perspective anyway.

As for the 3D renderings, the next logical step is to create a computer game in which to simulate them. A kind of Kerbal Bike Program, as it were.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2322 on:** 12 April, 2016, 11:58:36 am »

Kerbal or Curveball?

tom_e · « **Reply #2323 on:** 12 April, 2016, 12:18:50 pm »

It's interesting - I've had to make a small cartoon bike drawing before. If you can't get much detail in, it works much better to entirely miss out many bits than it does to produce a blob of lines all on top of one another. Might see if I can find it again.

tom_e · « **Reply #2324 on:** 12 April, 2016, 12:27:00 pm »

And this all-wheel drive fatbike is just utterly awesome:

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