Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 641938 times)

tatanab · « **Reply #2525 on:** 22 January, 2017, 02:56:13 pm »

Quote from: aidan.f on 21 January, 2017, 08:27:10 pm

old, pre 1966

Pre by a long way. More like 1930s. As for a beast to ride, frames of this sort of geometry is where many of us started our tandem riding. I had 3 of them in the 1970s, an E.H Carter, a Sun Wasp and a Claud Butler Silver Ace. They are perfectly fine, but just like slack angled solo machines of the time it feels to us as if you have to start turning into a corner a fortnight before you get there. In 1981 I had a custom tandem frame built with modern geometry - a revelation.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #2526 on:** 22 January, 2017, 05:12:12 pm »

Definitely it should be saved. It is a cool piece of kit.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2527 on:** 22 January, 2017, 07:09:16 pm »

It's very interesting, regardless of whether it's actual decent to ride.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2528 on:** 22 January, 2017, 07:11:11 pm »

A Schwinn Stingray. Modern one, with V-brakes and stuff. Chain stays at least as long as the James tandem. "Easy rider" styling. Bloke riding it looked a bit like Denis Hopper too! Said he'd had a lot of trouble with it.

cygnet · « **Reply #2529 on:** 24 January, 2017, 01:32:51 pm »

What on googling appears to have been a milk bike
https://www.milkbikes.com/#/rda/
Drop bars, disc brakes, dyno hub, hub gears and a belt drive. Looked ideal to replace my stolen commuter bike until I saw the price.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2530 on:** 26 January, 2017, 01:46:35 am »

Quote from: PhilO on 22 January, 2017, 07:56:59 am

Quote from: Torslanda on 21 January, 2017, 10:34:43 pm
Needs a frame builder to sort it out.

That's a design feature. Note "Detachable top bar..." In the advert.
[Apologies if you comment was tongue-in-cheek.]

It certainly looks an interesting machine...

Didn't look at the advert so I'll rephrase that. Put 20 stone of me on the stoker's saddle and in very short order it will need a frame builder to sort it out.

Interesting in a 'i can't believe it folded up so easily on the first pothole we hit' kind of way?

The strongest structure in engineering is a triangle. That's a hinge.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2531 on:** 30 January, 2017, 03:56:45 pm »

Somebody's serious about shopping. Seen outside Sainsbury's.

phil653 · « **Reply #2532 on:** 30 January, 2017, 04:00:11 pm »

But not so serious about chain lube.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2533 on:** 03 February, 2017, 09:54:58 pm »

So what else is new?

Menawhile, today on the East Lancs Road* between Swinton & Worsley, a cargo bike (with the platform/box behind the rider - otherwise no details) last seen disappearing under the M60 towards Walkden.

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #2534 on:** 05 March, 2017, 05:31:25 pm »

A remarkable ape-hanger, easy-rider style bicycle with elongated frame to accommodate the bars. Gawd knows how it got rounds corners but it looked cool.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2535 on:** 03 April, 2017, 09:23:49 pm »

A proper, early-1990s, Marin MTB, the sort with matt black paint but fluorescent orange highlights. I've often searched fleaBay for one of these or a Kona of the same era, but goodness knows what happened to them all.

PeteB99 · « **Reply #2536 on:** 04 April, 2017, 10:15:55 am »

They're all slowly composting in the back of peoples sheds awaiting the day when they'll be demoted to landfill.

I've got a 1991 Saracen (from when Saracen still made decent bikes) which will probably become an Ebike this summer.

clarion · « **Reply #2537 on:** 10 April, 2017, 03:19:36 pm »

A Thompson tandem in the bikeshed at work. Interestingly, though it has Thompson transfers, it has Orbit markings at the top of the seatstay.

The shed also includes a Mercian in trad garb with incongruously flashy deep v wheels, a shiny Holdsworth, several electric bikes (a lot of Brighton is up an 'ill), and a handful of fancy roadbikes.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2538 on:** 11 April, 2017, 06:13:06 pm »

When I was a Penniless Student Oaf a flatmate had a tourer which, IIRC, was badged both Orbit and "Parker-Thompson".

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2539 on:** 17 April, 2017, 05:47:22 pm »

Mini-fat bikes (semi-skimmed?) are a thing:

I expect having tyres wider than your feet makes for easy balance and low-speed manoeuvrability.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2540 on:** 17 April, 2017, 05:50:13 pm »

And an ordinary bike but with an interesting gizmo in its rear wheel. Monkey Electric. Presumably some sort of dynamo? Or is it a motor?It doesn't seem to be actually connected electrically to the hub, it's just clipped on. In fact it's not connected to anything.

Sergeant Pluck · « **Reply #2541 on:** 17 April, 2017, 05:55:01 pm »

It’s the battery holder for those LED lights that you see on rims / spokes.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2542 on:** 17 April, 2017, 06:04:31 pm »

I am enlightened.* There weren't actually any of those lights in the wheel at the time I saw it though. Thanks.

*Taxi!

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #2543 on:** 20 April, 2017, 07:23:32 am »

Tall bike record attempt falls short, but Cuban will try again

Not wearing a ~~helmet~~ parachute?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2544 on:** 01 May, 2017, 07:02:01 pm »

Diana's bike is bobbins.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2545 on:** 11 May, 2017, 07:26:15 pm »

Yes, that's a three-part stem. I guess this kind of thing is inevitable if you try to make a BMX fit a grown up.

Close up:

Could just get a Thorn!

DuncanM · « **Reply #2546 on:** 12 May, 2017, 10:34:57 am »

This is a "spotted on the internet", but it's a really curious bike with some interesting features, so I thought I'd post it here:
http://retrorides.proboards.com/post/2314539

The fork is this:

Any suggestions as to who would make something with such a fork, or what the rear brakes are?
Cheers
Duncan

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #2547 on:** 12 May, 2017, 10:46:11 am »

It is a variation on a triple plate fork crown (fairly cheap to manufacture) but I don't know which manufacturer did that style.

tatanab · « **Reply #2548 on:** 12 May, 2017, 11:16:52 am »

Quote from: DuncanM on 12 May, 2017, 10:34:57 am

or what the rear brakes are?

It is a Lion brake from the 1930s. I have failed to easily find any internet information but have a picture in a book which describes it as "low end".

rogerzilla · « **Reply #2549 on:** 30 May, 2017, 03:30:12 pm »

A full-sus BSO with only one front wheel nut