Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen  (Read 638010 times)

Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2725 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:03:39 pm »
A 'tandem' unicycle.

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2726 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:06:34 pm »

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2727 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:11:24 pm »
Did they ever reach the stage of not hanging onto the rail? Impressive work just to reach that level in any case.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2728 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:14:39 pm »
Wouldn't a sociable unicycle work better? Though function is clearly very much secondary to rad-/silliness here...

Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2729 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:17:28 pm »
Here's another.



Spotted on giphy.com, tagged #unicycle.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2730 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:19:19 pm »
Here's another.



Spotted on giphy.com, tagged #unicycle.
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LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2731 on: 02 December, 2018, 07:24:25 pm »
Cranks in phase seems to work better for tandem unicycles.
Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2732 on: 28 December, 2018, 11:32:14 am »

Nice homemade skirt/luggage guard. Shame about the tyre and general air of dilapidation.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2733 on: 28 December, 2018, 11:32:59 am »


Let's build it!
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Torslanda

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2734 on: 28 December, 2018, 11:46:02 am »
I think Nikki's doing just that . . .
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Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2735 on: 28 December, 2018, 11:50:35 am »
I think nikki's is more of a double-diamond, isn't it? This one's more of a reverse-delta...
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SoreTween

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2736 on: 29 December, 2018, 09:31:42 am »

Nice homemade skirt/luggage guard. Shame about the tyre and general air of dilapidation.
That rear mech is dilapidated with a capital f.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2737 on: 01 January, 2019, 06:24:16 pm »
The odd thing is there used to be a decent Boardman locked to the railings in the same spot. Appeared and disappeared at times consistent with commuting. And for the last few weeks that has taken its place (but not moving at all, obviously).
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2738 on: 01 January, 2019, 08:43:07 pm »
In the window of Swindon Cycle Care, which is actually in Purton, on Saturday evening I spied a Pedersen.
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cygnet

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2739 on: 04 January, 2019, 12:19:19 pm »
A Lime hire e-bike in central London
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2740 on: 12 January, 2019, 10:36:07 pm »
Interesting new mobility aid alongside the assortment of wheelchairs and mobility scooters at the RAF museum, Cosford:


Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2741 on: 12 January, 2019, 11:02:17 pm »
How the hell does that curved head-tube work??????
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2742 on: 12 January, 2019, 11:15:55 pm »
There's some sort of flimsy linkage down through the middle to connect to the track rods, but I didn't get a proper look at the steerer.  The tiny rear wheel seems like an interesting decision, too.

ETA: Found this video.  I see grub screws on the head tube...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/3JBP2cejzp0&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/3JBP2cejzp0&rel=1</a>
https://youtu.be/3JBP2cejzp0

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2743 on: 13 January, 2019, 06:55:01 am »
Seems like a civilised (and more attractive) version of a racerunner, which can look quite ungainly without anybody on it and takes up a lot of room.
http://www.racerunning.org/FrontPage/?id=15

I imagine that the small back wheel fits into the black bracket in the middle of the front crossbeam and reduces the overall size in use and when folded.
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Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2744 on: 15 January, 2019, 08:33:25 am »
Last night, a Santandar cycle being piloted by a deliveroo rider.
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Pingu

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2745 on: 19 January, 2019, 07:56:02 pm »
Not the bike, the carrier. For a snowboard?


IMG_2394_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

ETA: ah-ha!

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2746 on: 28 January, 2019, 02:26:05 pm »
A Kingcycle with yellow tail box, drafting an EAPC hybrid up the Gloucester Rd at other people's commute o'clock this morning.
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2747 on: 28 January, 2019, 03:46:47 pm »

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2748 on: 28 January, 2019, 05:54:24 pm »

Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2749 on: 28 January, 2019, 06:00:07 pm »
It has to be, given the general impracticality of putting a mechanical drivetrain in there.  Other issues left as an exercise for the reader, but the whole thing comes across as one of those design student creations which has escaped into the real world:  https://neofold.com/

File under not-road-legal vehicles that have wheels and are faster than walking.