Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646130 times)

matthew · « **Reply #2450 on:** 24 September, 2016, 10:36:32 am »

then they had put in some significant miles as well because I was near Bracknell.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2451 on:** 24 September, 2016, 10:54:44 am »

I didnt' get a photo, and it was jammed in racks of bikes.

Rear wheel steering, front wheel drive, cargo trike, tadpole config.

TimO · « **Reply #2452 on:** 25 September, 2016, 11:31:17 am »

Quote from: mrcharly on 24 September, 2016, 10:54:44 am

Rear wheel steering, front wheel drive, cargo trike, tadpole config.

It's a cargo trike, so I suppose that the owner never gets too enthusiastic about speed !

I remember seeing a quite spectacular crash at a BHPC event, with a rear wheel steering trike, where he thought he'd solved the problems with that configuration. He walked away, but not without dripping some blood.

Deano · « **Reply #2453 on:** 25 September, 2016, 11:36:38 am »

Ted Wood track bike in a Belgian bike shop:

ElyDave · « **Reply #2454 on:** 26 September, 2016, 01:06:13 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 25 September, 2016, 11:36:38 am

Ted Wood track bike in a Belgian bike shop:

That reminds me, I need to dig out my Stokholm photos

Deano · « **Reply #2455 on:** 28 September, 2016, 07:00:13 pm »

New bike in the work sheds!

Dunno where to start with this - I'd love to imagine it was the result of a conversation with a bike shop starting "I'd like a practical bike to ride to work which must take mudguards".

You don't see many of those sets of wheels with Gatorskins on them, and I assume the massive set of spacers under the stem are so the owner can have a quiet game of draughts during an idle moment.

I'm guessing it's a knock-off, as not many owners of genuine Pinarellos would adjust the lettering to read ELPORNO. Otherwise I'd send the photos to Pinarello and demand that they come and rescue this bike from a life of menial servitude.

Joe.B · « **Reply #2456 on:** 28 September, 2016, 10:28:31 pm »

very odd to see a bike like that, set up like that.

TimC · « **Reply #2457 on:** 30 September, 2016, 12:13:24 pm »

That is bizarre. I'd guess the wheels are fake too, and 105 and that saddle and bars on such a bike? I have never seen a steerer set so high!

ETA: Deffo fake wheels - Ultra Twos are tubular only, and there ain't no Hamsterskintubs made yet!

cycleman · « **Reply #2458 on:** 30 September, 2016, 07:07:31 pm »

I was heading East from colnbrook this afternoon and saw a burrows Barrow ( windcheater ) recumbent trike heading in the other direction

Paul · « **Reply #2459 on:** 30 September, 2016, 07:18:46 pm »

Not sure they count as interesting or unusual in themselves, but there's suddenly a lot of new carbon in the bike sheds. 3 new ones in as many weeks, the flashiest being a Trek Domane 105-equipped, hydraulic disc braked thing in the blackest of blacks. Not pitch black, but Disaster Area black.

They're not really my cup of tea, but it's a great thing, all this cycling.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2460 on:** 07 October, 2016, 03:22:09 pm »

Neither interesting nor unusual as a bike but interesting, unusual, encouraging and to be encouraged that someone chose to do London to Brighton on a shopping bike with basket.

Unless, of course, it was Hummers. He has form for that sort of thing.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2461 on:** 09 October, 2016, 11:02:12 pm »

PA090081 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr. Double-decker recumbent tandem. No, I don't know why.

PA090083 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr. Miles Kingsbury with his new Shiny - first QuattroVelo in BRITAIN.

PA090089 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr. Unusual to see a streamliner like Neil Hood's Ristretto on a velodrome...

Karla · « **Reply #2462 on:** 09 October, 2016, 11:17:55 pm »

Spotted today in York: a yellow Thorn triplet. Anyone we know?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2463 on:** 10 October, 2016, 02:00:25 pm »

An acquaintance of mine owned one; if it had a childback and was made for people with very short legs then it was probably her.

Kim · « **Reply #2464 on:** 10 October, 2016, 02:05:40 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 09 October, 2016, 11:02:12 pm

PA090081 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr. Double-decker recumbent tandem. No, I don't know why.

Well I suppose it's easier to transport than the more sensible arrangements.

Karla · « **Reply #2465 on:** 10 October, 2016, 04:34:07 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly on 10 October, 2016, 02:00:25 pm

An acquaintance of mine owned one; if it had a childback and was made for people with very short legs then it was probably her.

That's the one.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2466 on:** 14 October, 2016, 03:38:19 pm »

Are Raleigh titanium Dyna-Techs interesting and/or unusual? Not sure I've seen one on the road (or in this case parked up outside Walsall Art Gallery) before. I'm ignorant of MTBs, but it looked to have original paint and period-correct-ish parts, apart from the forks, which looked modern.

Joe.B · « **Reply #2467 on:** 15 October, 2016, 11:52:36 pm »

Not too sure whether this belongs under Interesting and Unusual Bikes or Interesting and Unusual Boaty Things.

20161015_162036 by Joe.Audax, on Flickr

TimO · « **Reply #2468 on:** 16 October, 2016, 10:38:38 am »

Not so much the bike, as the Suicide Levers, which are unusual to see on a bike during an FNRttC. I had hoped they had died out some decades ago.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2469 on:** 18 October, 2016, 10:01:21 am »

Also "Not so much the bike" but the wheels; a tandem with 28-spoke bladed wheels. Not racing.

Andrij · « **Reply #2470 on:** 18 October, 2016, 03:58:56 pm »

Spotted last week at a farmer's market in Amish country.

DSC_0967.NEF by Andrij, on Flickr

Kim · « **Reply #2471 on:** 18 October, 2016, 07:54:29 pm »

That front hub doesn't look very Amish

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2472 on:** 18 October, 2016, 10:00:49 pm »

A Perfectly Good Gentleman's Mountain Bicycle bizarrely equipped with a 20" front wheel

Also some sort of electric unicycle, like a one-wheeled Segway. I assume some sort of gyroscopic stability gadget as the rider didn't appear to be doing any of the usual hip-swivelling and shimmytastic Stuffs that normally go with unicycle progress.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2473 on:** 19 October, 2016, 10:37:50 am »

As Kim said, I thought electric power was not allowed for the Amish.

A one-wheeled Segway opens up a whole new boulevard of nightmares. People will be riding them round Tesco's soon.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2474 on:** 19 October, 2016, 11:29:21 am »

I saw one of those in Brum the other week; the chap did loomike he could be an extra in the matrix, with his black coat flapping in the wind behind him. As with segways and hoverboards my immediate thought was 'I really hope the gyro control system is triply redundant...'

Yesterday in Walsall, a twofer: a Gazelle Chamonix city bike parked up at the supermarket, in Dutch ORANGE. It had a Cycle Heaven dealer sticker, so had found its way down from York somehow, and seemed to have had the suspension fork replaced with a rigid. The other thing I noticed was that it had unusual wheels in that the spoke holes aren't evenly spaced around the rim, but rather in groups of two; I presume this is just for aesthetics.

Then on the way home I was caught by the chap on the bike I've often admired when I've seen him go by when I've been on foot; we only had about a minute to chat as he got me as I was turning into my street, but we exchanged mutual appreciation of our bikes; I was on the bakfiets, and I saw that his bike had a belt drive and hub gear to go with the SS/Ti(?) frame, purple anodised bits, and well-worn Carradice on the back.