Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646240 times)

Tail End Charlie · « **Reply #1800 on:** 14 January, 2014, 05:30:59 pm »

Seen by my son in Newcastle City centre.

Edit. Turns out he didn't see it himself, but found the picture and sent it to me, and I assumed he'd seen it in the flesh.

Guy · « **Reply #1801 on:** 20 January, 2014, 12:44:53 pm »

Yesterday afternoon in Shefford I saw a red car with a big roofrack with a tandem trike on top.

That's only the second one I've ever seen in my 40-mumble years of existence!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1802 on:** 28 January, 2014, 01:59:54 pm »

Yesterday, two of the three bikes parked outside Mud Dock (LBS) were mixtes - the third was mine. One of them was a 'Jacques Anquetil' with attractively curved top tubes and a Huret mech on a three-speed block. It was orange.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1803 on:** 11 February, 2014, 12:50:17 pm »

A Mission Cycles step-thru trike with drive to both rear wheels and a leccy front hub (as well as an impressive basket on the back, an example of that under-utilised material in cycle building, namely timber). Chained up at the bottom of a "step" road, both yesterday and today but never seen it before.

clarion · « **Reply #1804 on:** 11 February, 2014, 12:58:30 pm »

Trikidoo yesterday with front childseat added, and a gaggle of (well, maybe two) small kids on their own bikes

Vince · « **Reply #1805 on:** 11 February, 2014, 03:02:57 pm »

A Brik Fiets

I couldn't get a picture of it, so from the manufacturer's web site...

clarion · « **Reply #1806 on:** 11 February, 2014, 04:07:36 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 11 February, 2014, 12:58:30 pm

Trikidoo yesterday with front childseat added, and a gaggle of (well, maybe two) small kids on their own bikes

I saw that Trikidoo this afternoon, heading out on the school run unladen

Helena Bonham-Carter uses one, btw.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1807 on:** 11 February, 2014, 07:20:21 pm »

Quote from: Wunja on 11 February, 2014, 03:02:57 pm

A Brik Fiets

I couldn't get a picture of it, so from the manufacturer's web site...

That is a lot of frame.

Woofage · « **Reply #1808 on:** 18 February, 2014, 11:37:14 am »

Pashley Guvnor.

IMG_20140218_100852 by pencyclist, on Flickr

Not a bike you see every day. At first I thought it was a vintage restoration as it certainly looks the part from a distance. Didn't think the frame was anything special for what these things cost.

Andrij · « **Reply #1809 on:** 18 February, 2014, 12:34:39 pm »

I thought those came only in black, or is that a respray?

Ian H · « **Reply #1810 on:** 23 February, 2014, 10:26:24 am »

Seen in Hay on Saturday.

Canardly · « **Reply #1811 on:** 23 February, 2014, 04:01:22 pm »

Chains a bit slack.......

Ian H · « **Reply #1812 on:** 23 February, 2014, 05:14:00 pm »

Quote from: Canardly on 23 February, 2014, 04:01:22 pm

Chains a bit slack.......

That took longer than I thought.

Pingu · « **Reply #1813 on:** 23 February, 2014, 09:25:46 pm »

Ruddy Norah, Never Ready lights

IMG_2711 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Gus · « **Reply #1814 on:** 24 February, 2014, 08:38:24 am »

Wow

looks like it's been hiding in a loft somewhere since the early '80's.
Just cleaned, pumped and lubed and back on the road.

Vince · « **Reply #1815 on:** 24 February, 2014, 09:00:55 am »

It's obviously never been ridden over a pothole as the lights appear to be intact.

You could probably buy a set of LED lights for the cost of the first battery replacement!

David Martin · « **Reply #1816 on:** 24 February, 2014, 09:35:41 am »

Even better would be to swap out the battery compartment and rear reflective part and put a puncture repair kit in along with a standard blinky rear light. And fettle a suitable LED into the front one.

Ruth · « **Reply #1817 on:** 24 February, 2014, 09:41:18 am »

The first battery replacement really won't be far away. Proper vintage that!

clarion · « **Reply #1818 on:** 24 February, 2014, 09:46:24 am »

I do know someone who fettled a rear Neverready into a motion alarm. It was a bit crude, though.

Jurek · « **Reply #1819 on:** 24 February, 2014, 11:55:24 am »

Doesn't Adrian OTP have a Never Ready which has been gutted, and it's innards replaced with LED kit on his verdigris bike?
Or did I imagine it?

Aside: My first job when I left college was with the design consultancy who were responsible for the last incarnation of the ER lights. David Crisp had a lot to answer for.... like using the same tooling for both the front and the rear, for the first time in the history of ER lights.
Comme ca:

clarion · « **Reply #1820 on:** 24 February, 2014, 12:10:08 pm »

Oh the hours of fun I've had with those brackets!

clarion · « **Reply #1821 on:** 24 February, 2014, 10:11:13 pm »

A Uri Geller folding bike

P2240009 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

Andrij · « **Reply #1822 on:** 25 February, 2014, 08:19:26 am »

It shouldn't need hinges - just concentrate and it should bend/fold on its own!

clarion · « **Reply #1823 on:** 25 February, 2014, 08:40:30 am »

It did look like it wouldn't need that much concentration to make it flex.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1824 on:** 25 February, 2014, 11:47:04 am »

Quote from: Jurek on 24 February, 2014, 11:55:24 am

Doesn't Adrian OTP have a Never Ready which has been gutted, and it's innards replaced with LED kit on his verdigris bike?
Or did I imagine it?

Aside: My first job when I left college was with the design consultancy who were responsible for the last incarnation of the ER lights. David Crisp had a lot to answer for.... like using the same tooling for both the front and the rear, for the first time in the history of ER lights.
Comme ca:

So I can blame you for my front light jumping off its bracket at the bottom of Park St! Those lights were good weight training on the way back up though, not that I appreciated it back then.

Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646240 times)

Tail End Charlie

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