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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #925 on: 14 June, 2011, 11:16:32 pm »
Saw a GoCycle today. First I've seen.

Apparently they are currently out of production while problems with the design are sorted.

The local factory what makes them has a whole section mothballed.
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Wowbagger

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #926 on: 15 June, 2011, 10:26:14 pm »
Off topic possibly, but I overtook a very impressive looking Swiss-registered Honda Goldwing this morning, complete with matching side car and trailer, all in a rather attractive metallic purple.

Rather like this:
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #927 on: 16 June, 2011, 10:20:13 am »
motorbikes...

Off this topic, perhaps - but on this topic   ;)
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itsbruce

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #928 on: 20 June, 2011, 12:49:54 am »
Saw this Schwinn cruiser on Coldharbour Lane on Sunday:



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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #929 on: 20 June, 2011, 08:07:23 am »
A bicycle with a sidecar platform being ridden down to Brighton yesterday. The passenger standing next to the rider like Queen Boudicca.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #930 on: 20 June, 2011, 09:14:12 am »
Didn't see that one, but there was a wide selection of interesting bikes heading south from London yesterday.

I saw a Giant semi-recumbent, and commented to Butterfly that that was the first 'bent I had seen.  At that moment, a Streetmachine went by...
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #931 on: 20 June, 2011, 10:13:46 am »
Saw this Schwinn cruiser on Coldharbour Lane on Sunday:





I see him most mornings coming across Tooting Bec, quite a cool looking bike. Young kid, maybe 15-16.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #932 on: 20 June, 2011, 10:53:20 am »
I want that for a FNRttC Brighton edition
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #933 on: 20 June, 2011, 08:18:20 pm »
looks like it has a heiznsman electric motor on the front wheel
the slower you go the more you see

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #934 on: 20 June, 2011, 09:07:28 pm »
It's certainly a tad over tyred at the rear  :facepalm:

clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #935 on: 21 June, 2011, 07:00:12 pm »
Yellow Shorter lo-pro with tt bars and disc wheels at Wandsworth gyratory heading west.  A3?

Edit: I really didn't envy him his discs in the wind.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #936 on: 21 June, 2011, 11:56:54 pm »
A rather nice Bob Jackson fixed on the A202 queens road this evening.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #937 on: 24 June, 2011, 10:05:27 am »
So, who's wine red penny was that leaning up against the lamp-post by the Pince Albert last night?

Zipperhead

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #938 on: 24 June, 2011, 04:01:31 pm »
So, who's wine red penny was that leaning up against the lamp-post by the Pince Albert last night?

I've seen that one a few times around Battersea. I don't recognise the rider, it's nice though.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #939 on: 24 June, 2011, 06:35:41 pm »
There's a Kona Ute parked outside my hotel in Toronto most days with homemade wooden tandem kids' seat and leather double saddle bags. Had a nice chat with it's owner one morning

AndyK

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #940 on: 25 June, 2011, 04:50:02 pm »
Saw a nice Bike Friday with drops, and all panniered up today.

RJ

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #941 on: 28 June, 2011, 09:54:28 pm »
A 1953* (I asked) Flying Scot getting off the train at Perth

* - well, the frame anyway  ;)

RJ

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #942 on: 30 June, 2011, 08:30:15 pm »
Oh yes - a Pedersen at the farmers' market last Saturday ...

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #943 on: 30 June, 2011, 08:55:03 pm »
Off-road with GO50 on Tuesday, we met a MTB unicyclist at the Leith Hill tower, just by Personal Hygiene bomb-hole.

Phat 29er wheel with a Magura hydraulic rim brake with the lever under his saddle.  Big lad (6ft 6ins+) with German/Dutch accent who was pleased to allow one of the girls to sit on it to have her photo taken.   Mind you, she is mad that 'un!

No pix. I'm afraid. :-\
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #944 on: 30 June, 2011, 10:21:52 pm »
A 1950 Thanet fixed with curious front brake a bit like cantis but not quite, a 1920's roadster of forgotten make adapted for use by a geologist, a tiny blue and white kid's bike (ridden by a 2 yo. without stabilisers) from 1945, and an 1892 penny.

However, this is slightly cheating as they were all in a museum.  :D
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #945 on: 30 June, 2011, 10:31:20 pm »
Been in Belgium today so it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Lots of everyday bike just being ridden.

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #946 on: 30 June, 2011, 10:38:26 pm »
A bike like a trandem, but with four not three riders on the telly this evening in a news item about population increasing.

Cudzoziemiec, was that museum the new one in Bristol by any chance?  I must pay it a visit some time.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #947 on: 30 June, 2011, 10:46:16 pm »
An immaculate Moulton Mk3 racing down Vauxhall Bridge Road last night.  I didn't get to see much detail he was going so fast.

clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #948 on: 30 June, 2011, 10:54:43 pm »
Ah.  I saw a woman on a beautiful blue Moulton F frame in IIRC Clapham last week.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #949 on: 30 June, 2011, 11:20:50 pm »
A bike like a trandem, but with four not three riders on the telly this evening in a news item about population increasing.

Cudzoziemiec, was that museum the new one in Bristol by any chance?  I must pay it a visit some time.
Yes, M-Shed, down on the floating harbour. It's very interesting, all of it. The bikes are on the ground floor. The Thanet was certainly made in Bristol, I'm not sure about the others.
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