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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #850 on: 16 April, 2011, 12:05:01 am »
A '70s Chopper in '70s purple, with '70s rust on its '70s steel mudguards, and a 3-speed twist-grip.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #851 on: 16 April, 2011, 10:18:23 am »
Twist grip? They just aren't right without the groin-catcher gear lever!

Are you sure it wasn't a poor condition modern one? Or was it a retrofitted shifter?

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #852 on: 16 April, 2011, 12:29:10 pm »
I think it was an original one with retro-fitted shifter, but I'll have to have a closer look if I see it again.
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #853 on: 16 April, 2011, 09:30:33 pm »
Thursday, there was a nice fixed parked outside work.  It was a large green Claud Butler of some vintage (old 'rings' headbadge), with a Brooks saddle.  Nicely done.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #854 on: 19 April, 2011, 11:10:43 pm »
A whole load of weird and wonderful machines at the BHPC meeting at Hillingdon on Sunday.

The only one that I photographed (badly) was this:



I think that it was the cunning use of exhaust clamps that really made it special:




There are loads of far better photographs of the event here.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #855 on: 19 April, 2011, 11:37:40 pm »


I think that it was the cunning use of exhaust clamps that really made it special:

I don't whether to ;D:o or  :facepalm: at that creation!

And I've just spotted the gear cable outers, held on to the frame with what looks like masking tape.

Should have used duct tape...  ;)
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #856 on: 20 April, 2011, 09:11:37 am »
That looks...interesting
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #857 on: 20 April, 2011, 10:28:35 pm »
A Trikidoo in Lambeth, with a couple of 'ducklings' on little bikes :thumbsup:

And, at Tooting Broadway, a Trax bike (no I dunno either).  It wasn't that that was most interesting.  Not even the punctured rear tyre.  More that the tyre bead was completely off the rim, and rubbing on the frame each side and fouling the brakes, and that it seemed the chap had been riding it around in this condition and was unconcerned :o

I also saw a chap in Balham on a smart classic road bike - sort of greeny-blue with chromed ends and an Italian-sounding name, and dripping with Campag Record.  I tried to remember the name, but, when I got to Tooting, i saw the clown with the tyre off, and I was a bit flabberbegasted.  Anyway, I've seen this fast chap once before.  He is extremely fit, and today was wearing a 'World Masters Championship' jersey.  Very cool.  I wanted to ride with him a bit longer, but he took a more marginal route across a congested Tooting Bec junction, and then I got stuck behind some cautious riders, so he was away. :-\

I must look out for him again and get what his bike is.
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itsbruce

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #858 on: 21 April, 2011, 01:08:21 am »
Just spotted a beautifully restored Flying Scot on Ebay.  Would have been much nicer to see it pass in the street, but hey.  It's a little too big for me, or I'd be raiding the piggy bank.
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #859 on: 21 April, 2011, 09:59:39 am »
I also saw a chap in Balham on a smart classic road bike - sort of greeny-blue with chromed ends and an Italian-sounding name, and dripping with Campag Record.  I tried to remember the name, but, when I got to Tooting, i saw the clown with the tyre off, and I was a bit flabberbegasted.  Anyway, I've seen this fast chap once before.  He is extremely fit, and today was wearing a 'World Masters Championship' jersey.  Very cool.  I wanted to ride with him a bit longer, but he took a more marginal route across a congested Tooting Bec junction, and then I got stuck behind some cautious riders, so he was away. :-\

I must look out for him again and get what his bike is.

I just remembered.  It was a Daccordi.
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itsbruce

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #860 on: 21 April, 2011, 11:04:56 am »

I just remembered.  It was a Daccordi.

Ah, yes.  I have my eye on a very nice Daccordi that's coming up in auction soon.  Mmm.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #861 on: 21 April, 2011, 01:56:13 pm »
I'm a big fan of moultons, but..


I'm not sure where to start..
17" wheels, so it's an old one with 'almost impossible to find' tyres.
can be split into 2 parts
pretty unique bars
front dynamo hub AND bottle dyno at the back
SA hub
is that a motorbike box on the back? looks heavy..

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #862 on: 21 April, 2011, 02:03:52 pm »
A 3-speed bike using a new SA, seen in Evans.

http://www.cooperbikes.com/T200-steelracingbike.html

It's a handsome bike. I particularly liked the down-tube lever for the hub gear. However:

Lacks mudguard eyes but has clearances for 35mm tyres. Actually, no braze-ons at all.

Brake levers are the little 2 finger jobs. ffs, it ain't a fixie, put some proper drop levers on it.

It costs over £900
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #863 on: 21 April, 2011, 05:45:45 pm »
A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring.  :)

And an upright trike with a big basket over the back axle, to which was fixed a number plate MAD 15 ON.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #864 on: 23 April, 2011, 09:47:16 pm »
Saw what would appear to be a Giant Revive today.   It looked a bit like a bent had sex with my Dahon -- never seen one like it.

 Rider looked happy, anyway. :)

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #865 on: 24 April, 2011, 11:56:04 am »
A full suspension trike (basically, a converted BSO) in Lowdham.

Also, the Lowdham Fixie King's ride, which was at the tasteful end of the fixie-fashion spectrum, and had the biggest flanges I've ever seen on a bike.  He was obviously intimidated by our fixed bikes, as we never got to see him - he naffed off while we were in the Co-Op.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #866 on: 24 April, 2011, 10:05:39 pm »
A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring.  :)
And another one yesterday!
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #867 on: 24 April, 2011, 10:06:25 pm »
A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring.  :)
And another one yesterday!

Cannondale Lefty.  I've never seen one.

clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #868 on: 26 April, 2011, 09:47:41 am »
I've seen a few Lefties (the fork, I mean ::-) ) in Londinium, but they still look odd.  Absolutely no reason from an engineering standpoint why they should nto be perfectly acceptable for ordinary riding, but they just look, well, odd.
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #869 on: 26 April, 2011, 09:54:35 am »
Yesterday, near Craven Arms, we saw a Strutt/Orbit Worksong, which I've never seen in the metal before.

We also saw a woman with a Longstaff solo, which looked to be a very large frame for her.  She did have long legs, but this was on the train, so we didn't get to see her riding it.

Loads and loads of bikes on the trains yesterday - probably seven from Craven Arms to Newport, an overfilled bike carriage (thanks to a very helpful guard :thumbsup: ) Newport to London, and even a good half dozen on our local train last night.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #870 on: 27 April, 2011, 11:00:53 pm »
A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring.  :)
And another one yesterday!

Cannondale Lefty.  I've never seen one.
Yep, Lefty was the name, though the guy I spoke to said Cannondale make a few models with the one-sided fork.

I think one reason it looks so odd is that the single tube extends to the top of the head tube and is attached to it by clamps at two points, like a motorcycle front end. That seems to emphasise the asymmetry.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #871 on: 02 May, 2011, 10:47:21 pm »
One of these (except all black), locked up outside Thornton's, Broad Street, Reading this morning -

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #872 on: 02 May, 2011, 11:38:30 pm »
Saw lots of unusual bikes today - a Redmount roller trike, Rainbow recumbent, Burrows 8freight, a triplet, lots of load-carrying bikes. All on the ride to Reach fair.

And, on return in Cambridge, a Kangaroo kiddie carrying trike, and a rather splendid rickshaw styled kiddie carrying trike.  :D
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iddu

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #873 on: 02 May, 2011, 11:40:13 pm »
Mmm - a breeding pair?



Guesses as to model & special feature?
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #874 on: 03 May, 2011, 12:32:00 am »
It's the ladies version of the Wobblebike - the special feature is that you bugger the chainring if you wobble it to the right.  ;D
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