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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2950 on: 02 May, 2021, 08:04:15 pm »
Hase Pino, on the bend at Forhill.  I didn't stop because I was mid-right-turn and it looked like one of the riders was inspecting a hedge.

And later on, an upright tandem slowly catching up with me in my mirror.  They turned off before overtaking.

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« Reply #2951 on: 03 May, 2021, 03:56:35 pm »
A Jorvik trike, must have been e assist possibly even just e as couldn't see if the captain was actually pedaling. They stopped to change passenger and pilot and we had a chat as my beloved but stupid dog decided to stand in the middle of the shared use path. They didn't mind and made a fuss of him. Wasnt as wide as I imagined (the trike not my dog) but seemed a good option as looked like one of the people on it had mobility issues

Edit and they're not as expensive as I thought they would be. Having seen e cargo bikes for 4k or more they trikes seem to start around 2k

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« Reply #2952 on: 10 May, 2021, 12:14:10 pm »
Every month or so I see a "well used" Pedersen locked up at my local Morrisons, but today I saw it out and about.
Was rather lovely to see, I think my wave and "nice bike" was received.

On the way back I saw a GT40 (or clone/kit there of) but that is for another thread.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2953 on: 17 May, 2021, 09:27:57 am »
Whilst walking in Sunningdale on Saturday afternoon I had to wait to cross the road as a Quest came by, an unexpected sight and allowed me to explain what we had just seen to my 8yr old nephew.

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« Reply #2954 on: 23 June, 2021, 06:37:19 pm »
A Jorvik trike, must have been e assist possibly even just e as couldn't see if the captain was actually pedaling. They stopped to change passenger and pilot and we had a chat as my beloved but stupid dog decided to stand in the middle of the shared use path. They didn't mind and made a fuss of him. Wasnt as wide as I imagined (the trike not my dog) but seemed a good option as looked like one of the people on it had mobility issues

Edit and they're not as expensive as I thought they would be. Having seen e cargo bikes for 4k or more they trikes seem to start around 2k
I recently saw a Jorvik trike in Cheltenham.  Awesome bit of kit, Mrs Tween liked muchly.  Had a look about it that said 'I'll go anywhere my rider damn well pleases, and do it without fuss'.  If Bentley made armoured personnel carriers they'd compare to a Humvee the way that Jorvik looked to shame a regular e-assist MTB.

Anyway, I came here to say...
A gentleman of a laid back disposition winding a tadpole trike up the short rise out of Lower Lydbrook towards Kerne Bridge.  No idea what type, my knowledge of such things is close to nil. I waved, don't think he saw.

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2955 on: 09 July, 2021, 03:44:38 pm »
At the weekend in Watlington, a WW2 scramble bike. Not motocross, the sort of scramble that got pilots to their Spitfires. The bike was an upright Raleigh with a 32cc petrol-drive two-strike engine driving the front wheel. Thre motor had an Italian sounding name but given the use, it presumably wasn't Italian. The whole thing was road legal, in that it was registered, taxed (presumably zero rated for age) and insured as a motorcycle.
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« Reply #2956 on: 15 July, 2021, 02:58:59 pm »
saw a fella going up Farringdon road two weeks ago in a kind of a wheelchair/bike, he clearly has something very wrong with his legs, powering the bike with handlebars like cranks, it did not look mechanically efficient at all, respek.

and a long time a go a wild looking fella going like the clappers with only one arm, quite alarming until you worked out what was wrong

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« Reply #2957 on: 17 July, 2021, 10:36:34 pm »
Forgot to mention the Elliptigo a couple of weeks ago and today a Velombile on the outskirts of Furryboottoon.

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« Reply #2958 on: 17 July, 2021, 11:50:34 pm »
Thinks: has Andy Harrington aka Scotch Andy* got a velomobile these days?  He certainly hails from that part of the world.

* to distinguish him from Andy Harrington aka English Andy, of course
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« Reply #2959 on: 18 July, 2021, 12:05:51 am »
Thinks: has Andy Harrington aka Scotch Andy* got a velomobile these days?  He certainly hails from that part of the world.

* to distinguish him from Andy Harrington aka English Andy, of course

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2960 on: 03 August, 2021, 03:12:51 pm »
I’ve just seen a full size Ordinary go past on the main road in town. It looked ‘modern’ though the handlebar did seem to be a moustache style. 

I was waiting to pull out of the carpark so couldn’t get a picture.  :(
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2961 on: 25 August, 2021, 09:22:26 pm »
A small wheeled bike with drop bars in the Moulton style, but with a much simpler conventional frame. Non folding. Ring any bells?

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2962 on: 25 August, 2021, 11:39:57 pm »
^Minivelo?
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« Reply #2963 on: 26 August, 2021, 10:39:11 am »
Giant Escape Mini One ?


Edited to get the name right
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« Reply #2964 on: 26 August, 2021, 12:04:51 pm »
Orange velomobile outside Nottingham Trent Uni last night

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« Reply #2965 on: 26 August, 2021, 01:35:01 pm »
Giant Escape Mini One ?


Edited to get the name right

Yes! It had a more interesting frame than the average minivelo.

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« Reply #2966 on: 31 August, 2021, 06:41:59 am »
A bakfiets on the Bristol-Bath railway path.  A guy was using it to collect blackberries.  That's a lot of crumbles.
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« Reply #2967 on: 06 September, 2021, 04:13:01 pm »
Hybrid-type frame, with a name suggesting provenance from or near Alibaba. Flat bars. Clip-on rear mudguard, slightly askew. Kick stand on the chain stay. And tri-spoke wheels.
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« Reply #2968 on: 06 September, 2021, 06:44:44 pm »
Amazon sell that kind of thing - https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=eurobike

GCN did a hill climb on one of the road bikes
https://youtu.be/HoFWEvvi9VM

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2969 on: 06 September, 2021, 07:03:24 pm »
The one I saw was more like this

but with flat bars and a Chinese-ish name. It was the wheels that really made it.
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« Reply #2970 on: 12 September, 2021, 06:55:35 pm »
Our local little discount toy shop that normally has a row of dodgy secondhand BSOs outside suddenly has stock of brand new bikes. How so in this time of global shortage?

They're Turkish city bikes with rod brakes front and rear!

https://bisan.com.tr/bisikletler/roadstar-classic-bayan

For anyone on here who thinks Bowden cables were a technological leap too far.

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2971 on: 12 September, 2021, 09:01:43 pm »
And I'm sure there are a few that do! Interesting (maybe) that so many of their bike-part words seem to be derived from French.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2972 on: 12 September, 2021, 09:26:06 pm »
Lots, at the Tom Simpson memorial ride today. BB’s and Fignon’s Raleighs, Simpson’s Carlton and Ullrich’s Pinarello. Lots of lovely racing machines up to a century old.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2973 on: 13 September, 2021, 11:30:37 am »
Saracens. Loads of them. No idea why but for the last couple of weeks I've noticed a huge amount of bikes from the saracen brand from dirt bikes to a full susser outside our local German supermarket to several that look pretty old

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« Reply #2974 on: 13 September, 2021, 11:34:57 am »
The sentries report Saracens to the southwest.  Thousands of 'em!

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