I used to want an Overbury's sooo much. The Cross Fell was cool, but the Pioneer was amazing!
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
A (foot powered) adult scooter with a larger front wheel (approx 20inches) and smaller back wheel.
Hase Pino - google it.I want one of those.
A (foot powered) adult scooter with a larger front wheel (approx 20inches) and smaller back wheel.
http://kickbike.com/
I saw a Overbury MTB in Bristol a few months ago - set up with Bullmoose bars* bars, mudguards and racks, a very upright riding position with lovely fillet brazed joints. A bit tatty now, but obviously a nice bit of kit back in the '80s.
*I think that's the right term - a one piece bar and stem combo, made from a vertical tube in the steerer with two angled tubes as the forward extension with a wide, sweeping handlebar.
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
I've just found my n+1. Where can I get a Recumbent conversion for my Brompton?
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
Hase Pino - google it. I've seen one in Hyde Park, I was chuffed, pity the riders were so unfriendly.
Not quite electric assist...
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2209486545_d7c7be3598.jpg)
A civilian version of the Kronan, a Swedish Army bike. I like the way it carries babies, not bombs
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/503753270_008578590e.jpg)
I've seen that one, was it the wife riding or the husband? The wife is American and very chatty. The husband English and not even remotely polite. The child is an obnoxious brat.
That's an old Velo solex (http://www.velosolex.co.uk/).
They still sell them here ::-) and they are quite funny to ride :D
G
The LBS (Fred Williams, Wolverhampton) have built a curious thing that has some kind of funny clutch hub and a really long chain that runs under the BB (hard to explain...) that allows you to pedal forwards and freewheel as usual, but if you pedal backwards, will also propel you forwards.
No real use, but interesting.
The LBS (Fred Williams, Wolverhampton) have built a curious thing that has some kind of funny clutch hub and a really long chain that runs under the BB (hard to explain...) that allows you to pedal forwards and freewheel as usual, but if you pedal backwards, will also propel you forwards.
No real use, but interesting.
Anything like this: clicky (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_rpopNdJsytc/RtMDgiVj1SI/AAAAAAAAAR0/YuWme7Z3gRc/P1030582.JPG)?
Edited wif apparently functional url...
Doesn't like hot linking. Copy and paste jpg URL.
Yep, was kinda like that I think. I seem to recall that the 'other' chain guide thing was more towards the bottom bracket though.
On the way home last Friday evening.
A Viscount Aerospace. In 'raspberry ripple' finish, typical late 70s / early 80s 24 inch frame or bigger. Tastefully upgraded with moden wheels and tyres, aero levers.
Lusted after one of those but they had a poor, unreliable pressed-in bottom bracket so went for the Falcon instead.
J
Continuing the folders theme:
Seen a few times in Sale on our commute: A white dahon folder emblazoned with the word Google in big letters.
Saw an unusual tandem today in Lund, but didn't get a photo :(
It had small wheels (brompton sized) and a frame made of thin bars (like a moulton). The odd thing was that this was a kiddie-front, with the kid (guess about 12 years old) having Raleigh Chopper-style handlebars to steer the rig with, and his mum stoking on the back.
At least I think the kid was steering and didn't just have dummy bars - I only got a brief glimpse as they were going the other way.
A lady on a beautifully painted blue custom Roberts yesterday. Eternity present from her husband. How cool is that!!
There is a guy in Gosport who rides an original Radius Dino
Retro - cool!
Less of a bike and more of a scooter (http://www.pawtrekker.com/viewproductbottom.asp?id=31&catsel=51) for err..... walking your dog...
Saw this today in Richmond Park. Any guesses as to what sort of bike this is?
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3540/3322751685_1d15a5c83d_o.jpg)
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It's a kickbike (although that's a generic term like bicycle).
One did PBP in 2003: http://www.machka.net/pbp/pbp/kickbike.jpg
I spotted an electric bike going up past my office window.
Made me realise that it's still an unusual sight, despite the big advances of the last few years.
TimH, that's very cool. Never been sure of the point of FGing the front seatpost, but it's cool nonetheless.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/3395397289_db25c4468d.jpg?v=0)
One of two Bates seen on the East Sussex CTC 50km run today.
Very tempting - whereabouts are they?
Yeah, it says mango on the side
Yeah, it says mango on the side
So why ain't it orange
...
She's complaining that her rear hasn't yet reached that state of Brooks Nirvana that we all aspire to.
On youtube, a duoquest:
YouTube - Duoquest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc6b94NdS6s)
I want!!!
Don't you know that you should adopt bikes abandoned by railways? ;DI couldn't fit it on the pushchair, and since the fence is about 10 feet high at that point, I have no idea how they got it over there, let alone how I could lever it out and get it back!
In the last week I've seen two shaft-driven bikes on my rides to and from work.
Saw two Stridas in the space of one fag break in Lambs Conduit Street last week.A friend has just imported several here.
Last weekend outside Unicorn Grocery in Manchester:Just to be pernickety, I'm sure bakfietsen is the plural, if you saw only one then it was a bakfiets. Hope you don't mind the correction.
a Bakfietsen!!! :o
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision (http://www.firstflightbikes.com/KirkPrecision.html)
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision (http://www.firstflightbikes.com/KirkPrecision.html)
Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision (http://www.firstflightbikes.com/KirkPrecision.html)
Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?
Riding the L2B? Not a chance.
He did recently raise the possibility of doing the next FNRttC on his Kirk. I think I shall give him a nudge...
A Windcheetah, with tailbox, at speed under St Alkmunds Way bridge, Derby, next to the river. And no, it wasn't mine. I was in the middle of the river at the time. (In a boat, obv.)
...an unusual rear end
That'd be a tallbike (http://www.tallbiketourbritain.com/).
:thumbsup:
ETA: Too slow...
Tallbike!
We saw one at the start of the Dunrun, but I don't think he rode it to the seaside ;)
Never heard of Lyons. Not on Classic Lightweights, either*. Interesting. Shame you don't have a photo.
* Who could have guessed that I would have this bookmarked? ;D
A beautiful, original (minus saddle) Vitus 979 Duralinox amongst a pile of nasty mongrel bikes on a Dr Bike held for yoof at a London estate community hall. Beautiful. I was tempted to offer £20 for it and the lad who owned it would probably have been delighted.
Vitus 979 Duralinox on velospace, the place for bikes (http://velospace.org/node/9480)
A beautiful, original (minus saddle) Vitus 979 Duralinox amongst a pile of nasty mongrel bikes on a Dr Bike held for yoof at a London estate community hall. Beautiful. I was tempted to offer £20 for it and the lad who owned it would probably have been delighted.Did you tell him how lovely it was?
Vitus 979 Duralinox on velospace, the place for bikes (http://velospace.org/node/9480)
...so I disturbed the 'no talking' etiquette (fortunately he didn't mind) as curiosity overcame me.
A couple of days ago, I saw that overtaking cars were giving a reasonable space to a cyclist they were passing. When I got to see what was happening, I realised that it was a Fire Officer on his commute, carrying what appeared to be a large holdall-style toolbag with a solid base slung across his back. At the bottom right hand end of this bag hung a bright yellow helmet.You see? They DO prevent you from being hit by cars!
It's a trombone, and he rides up to town regularly (for rehearsals? teaching? not sure).A student friend of mine transported his tuba on his back while riding. Quite a sight.
A couple of days ago, I saw that overtaking cars were giving a reasonable space to a cyclist they were passing. When I got to see what was happening, I realised that it was a Fire Officer on his commute, carrying what appeared to be a large holdall-style toolbag with a solid base slung across his back. At the bottom right hand end of this bag hung a bright yellow helmet.You see? They DO prevent you from being hit by cars!
A student friend of mine transported his tuba on his back while riding. Quite a sight.
[I don't know any other tuba players, so maybe they all cycle?]
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
Whilst locking my bike up outside the post office yesterday I saw on the adjacent stand a mountain bike sporting several "6x4" logos on the top tube. I started wondering what they were (brand? model? etc.) until I noticed the quad chainrings :o (and the 24-speed logo elsewhere on the frame).
I'd quite forgotten that such things once existed.
Spotted a Trikidoo yesterday ... Celeb pic below.
Unusual loads rather than bikes:
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
I spotted this one today
VANMOOF bicycles - Redesign of one of the iconic backbones of Dutch culture (http://www.vanmoof.com)
Looking on their site it have solar powered light.
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
...but only in stupidly small sizes, which is probably good otherwise I'd be very tempted!I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
That's exactly my thinking, and whilst I can see where Clarion is coming as regards the hub, I think the Alfine may be an acceptable compromise as regards keeping the cost down. My commuters end up getting rather shagged through heavy use in foul weather, spending £800+ on the hub alone is probably a bit excessive! (Actually probably £1000+ for a disc compatible one. :o)
The Carrera Subway 8 has straight handlebars, and I think I'd prefer to go back to drops for my next commuter. I need to find someone selling a plausibly acceptable steel frame. Singular are a possibility, although they're mostly out of stock at the moment.
I saw and tried An Itera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bicycle) yesterday, it was the most flexible and horrible bike I've ever ridden .
A shaft driven bike by Danish bicycle makers Viva.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/4187185544_099fdef66e.jpg)
This model seems to have been a special edition. Only 120 were made and this one was a little plaque stating that it was the 115th made.
A shaft driven bike by Danish bicycle makers Viva.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/4187185544_099fdef66e.jpg)
This model seems to have been a special edition. Only 120 were made and this one was a little plaque stating that it was the 115th made.
That picture is shot at my working place ???
It's the 'A' train... The Pompino's bottom backet is kaput, So I had to use the train / Bus to get to work and back.
The second was a beautiful Indian Rickshaw - fully decorated - near Wimbledon Park - my charge said "what's that shiny thing?" ;D
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4379523528_b5bb985844.jpg)
DF tadpole trike, if that's the right term. I've never seen anything like it before. Spotted in Newton.
Terrible things, but interesting.
Chain's a bit slack.
With a derailleur?! :o
A lot of late 80s early 90s MTBs rode like dogs.Chain's a bit slack.
With a derailleur?! :o
I know.
It's a Raleigh Dyna Tech, bonded construction!
The lady owner said it didn't ride very well.
You could buy the two Iteras at Re:Cycling in Elephant & Castle for spares ;D
Last night, there was a woman on a cool Hetchins in Wallington. :)
The sideways bike is different in many ways from a conventional diamond-framed bicycle. The rider controls direction by steering with both front and back handlebars. This means that the bicycle canmaneuvermanoeuvre effectively in congested conditions, weaving in and out of cars and performing tight turns. It also means that the rider can move the bike sideways, as the name suggests, such that the movement is perpendicular to the direction in which the frame points. Although this is possible, it is very difficult, as it is necessary for the rider to have extremely good balance and coordination.
I've met the chap, and had a go on his bike. It was fun!
Chain's a bit slack.
With a derailleur?! :o
Sutton CC have a lovely Stan Pike track bike that Superstoker rode to good effect. It's kept at Herne Hill, but I'd never heard of him before.
So it wasn't my eyes playing up when I saw it. Honestly there can only be one person doing this. So please do tell me that this was in London you found this.It is in Gloucester. A dark green Claud Butler.
What looked like a real old ordinary (i.e. not a mock-up) on top of a disused garage or motor factors on the main road south out of March, Cambs. I think it needs rescuing. I'd post a picture if I could, but I can't...
A Pacific Reach, seen in York. Quite fancied one, until the uk retailers told me the suspension isn't that durable.
Our bikes shared trainspace with a shiny stainless Moulton Pylon (http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/road/product/twin-pylon-8878) yesterday.
Brooks saddle and leather bar tape on bullhorns.
I saw a very unusual recumbent Delta Trike on the Baslow road going out of Sheffield this afternoon.
Really wide (about 1.5m) rear wheels spacing with a huge rear netted area for load carrying.
Not seen anything similar before!
Briefly glimpsed riding on Southend seafront. Poor quality grab from low res video footage:
I think it was one of these (http://www.ridelow.co.uk/20-chrome-classic-lowrider-bike-p-49.html?zenid=512108a6dfdbcd737b5c4796124742fb).
Gocycle - I saw one ride through Ely last week - looked nippy but noisy.A colleague reports that they are based in Shearline Engineering in Ely - Shearline were making so many components for them that they decided to move in. If Shearline's usual quality is applied, they will be made out of good bits.
How long was the bar under the tribars? Could it have been one of these (http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=11040) accessory bars that replaces a headset spacer?
(http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/images/products/11040thorn_l.jpg)
Gocycle - I saw one ride through Ely last week - looked nippy but noisy.A colleague reports that they are based in Shearline Engineering in Ely - Shearline were making so many components for them that they decided to move in. If Shearline's usual quality is applied, they will be made out of good bits.
Today, I spotted a fastish chap (well, as fast as me ;D ) on a beige Bianchi flat-barred singlespeed, wearing a retro h*lm*t like the two Wobblyjohn's got.
This is a rather nice bike.Agree with you, though it is rather sad to see such a good bicycle only locked with a cable lock, it will go walkies very soon.
(http://haigh.org/tout.jpg)
Agree with you, though it is rather sad to see such a good bicycle only locked with a cable lock, it will go walkies very soon.
A diver eh? Did he have one of those big brass helmets on?Doh :)
This one (http://brunobike.jp/700c_tour.html) Anyone know how much 77700Yen is? I'm guessing not cheap.
This one (http://brunobike.jp/700c_tour.html) Anyone know how much 77700Yen is? I'm guessing not cheap.
Small wheeled bikes are very popular in Japan & HK apparently, partly for riding on pavements :-\
Small wheeled bikes are very popular in Japan & HK apparently, partly for riding on pavements :-\
Legal in Japan, as in some other parts of the world. No need for :-\
went past a tandem moped today, I think it was one of these:
http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic-bikes-2/eysink-renata-tandem-moped.JPG
it'd broken down :)
No photo, but I saw what looked like an MTB version of a Kirk Precision this morning.
The frame was certainly a casting and it had 'magnesium' in decals on it.
Was I imagining this ?
That's the fella !
Thank you.
That's the fella !
Thank you.
Still doesn't mean you didn't imagine it though.
Unbadged fixer outside The Lamb last night. Looked like the frame was bamboo with the joints made by wrapping kit and kaboodle in carbon, but may just have been a poncey paint job.
There was a bike in the racks at work yesterday that had two top tubes, one below the other. It was a diamond frame and the tube underneath the "main" top tube was narrower with a slight curve. It wasn't a modern bike. I did take a closer look and made a note of the name that was embossed on the frame, but promptly forgot it :facepalm:
Any ideas? ???
ScalpedOvertook on the way to work this morning, a Giant Clip folding bike (http://www.fudgescyclestore.com/index.php?p=57837).
Not seen one before. I got stopped at the traffic lights, and it just caught up as they changed so got a second cahance for a quick look for a name on it as I wasn't sure what it was.
On this morning's Bike Week ride:
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/gordon1314/IMG_0690-1.jpg)
The guy who was riding it wasn't sure what it was - other than it is called C4 Joker and is Italian; he'd had it for years. Record brakes, Dura Ace drivetrain.
Any ideas?
A dreamslide (http://www.dreamslide.com/SITE/ENG/index.html) in the racks at work today. Does that qualify as a bike ???
A dreamslide (http://www.dreamslide.com/SITE/ENG/index.html) in the racks at work today. Does that qualify as a bike ???
A tandem coming up Burntwood Lane in Wandsworth today. It loooked fairly elderly with a mixte style back. The stoker was wearing a pretty dress and had a huge grin 8).
A tandem coming up Burntwood Lane in Wandsworth today. It loooked fairly elderly with a mixte style back. The stoker was wearing a pretty dress and had a huge grin 8).
There is something truly excellent about seeing ladies in pretty dresses enjoying a bike ride. It just screams "happy, laidback, sunny, warm days are here!", and brings a smile to my face :thumbsup:
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
Graeme Obree? Chris Boardman? Gethin Butler?
Am I being too literal??
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
Graeme Obree? Chris Boardman? Gethin Butler?
Am I being too literal??
A rider of that calibre certainly, and one who was very much associated with Mike Burrows in the mid 90s.
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
Graeme Obree? Chris Boardman? Gethin Butler?
Am I being too literal??
A rider of that calibre certainly, and one who was very much associated with Mike Burrows in the mid 90s.
Wilko?
You guys know that LeeW rode just over 300km in six hours recently, 187 miles? Didn't even make 1st place with that, either.
It's a Carlton of a similar vintage to mine or a bit earlier (late 70s, I'd guess) with the distinctive wrapround seatstay and slightly fancier lugs than mine.
I find brake levers work much more effectively when they are connected to the brakes.
I'm not much of an expert, but I don't think the forks are meant to be that shape.
... It bears a Brooks which appeared to have been laced at some time.
There was a bike in the racks at work yesterday that had two top tubes, one below the other. It was a diamond frame and the tube underneath the "main" top tube was narrower with a slight curve. It wasn't a modern bike. I did take a closer look and made a note of the name that was embossed on the frame, but promptly forgot it :facepalm:
Any ideas? ???
I may be imaging it, but I thought there was a German make (whose name escapes me) that makes a feature of the dual top tube.
Just stumbled upon a picture of this tadpole trike with a child seat at the front. Looks like fun for rider and passenger.
Zigo Leader Carrier Biycle System (http://www.myzigo.com/)
There's a bike with a double top-tube regularly locked up near Brixton tube. Remembering this post in this thread, I took a pic. And here it is:That frame looks like bikes I've seen in India. The make would be something like Atlas or Safari, and it would be marketed as a super-strong model suitable for carrying heavy loads.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4776573623_db6a86c134.jpg)
Frame too faded and repainted to show a make. Sticker on the fender said Eastman but that doesn't have to mean anything.
A Raleigh, I think, with delta brakes and an odd frame arrangement with a horizontal top tube, standard rear triangle, but the downtube joined the seat tube quite high up.
It had a decal saying "Paris" in what looked to be quite a 70s or 80s font on the downtube, but doing a quick search for "Raleigh" and "paris" seems to only bring up step though frames.
Look for Paris Galibier, the stated intent was that the repositioned down tube acted as a torque tube. Traditionally the seat tube lug cracked.
Don't they belong in thread for mopeds?
Don't they belong in thread for mopeds?
Heading home past Edgbaston Cricket ground, yesterday, passed a recumbent heading the other way, possibly an Optima of some sort. I was on my newly eBayed tandem with my 6 year son stoking. The recumbent rider and I exchanged not-normal-bike-owners glances (a relative of the man-pushing-pram nod).
That was me on a HPV Streetmachine. :thumbsup:
I saw a Condor built Paris Galibier heading over Westminster Bridge on Tuesday evening.
I haz a 1971 Galaxy. ;)
I saw a very very very pretty Mercian yesterday. I don't often covet other people's bikes, mainly because most other people's bikes are much too big for me to contemplate as anything other than eye candy, but this one was teeny weeny and would probably have fitted.
Pretty.....
I saw a very very very pretty Mercian yesterday. I don't often covet other people's bikes, mainly because most other people's bikes are much too big for me to contemplate as anything other than eye candy, but this one was teeny weeny and would probably have fitted.
Pretty.....
Pale blue with a girl riding it?
This
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4853785580_fac6a88275_s.jpg)
Mrs Cudzo bought it about 4 years ago from the roof of a passing car - literally! - but it's been stored in the barn (whose doors you can see behind the bike now) for the last 3 years at least. That's why it's so dirty! The frame is in two separate halves, left and right, which have no direct contact with each other. The places where they join, such as BB shell and head tube, they are connected by plastic tubes. There's a lot of flex in that BB! The wheels are for tubeless tyres, and their solid plastic spokes rather cancel out the supposed comfort of the frame. Unfortunately the rear tubeless tyre disintegrated and I've had to replace it with what was to hand - a tubed tyre can be fitted - which is far too wide.
In another couple of days it should be fine, though.
I know the original image was a bit small, but I couldn't work out how to make it bigger. How did you do it?
Well, I'm out in Portland right now and saw an Il Pompino earlier today, that's a bike that has travelled!
Spotted a Trikidoo yesterday and today, in Harston. The lass on it appears to be using the A10 briefly to get her kiddies to school. Plastered in hi-viz stickers. She seemed very happy when I said I liked it. Looks more stable than a Pashley. Celeb pic below.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/19/article-0-02B9E37A00000578-449_468x580.jpg)
LA GAZZETTA DELLA BICI: ONLY in Portsmouth, The Cervelo Tricycle....... (http://www.lagazzettadellabici.com/2010/04/only-in-portsmouth-cervelo-tricycle.html)
Strictly speaking, it's not in Portsmouth - the only trikes you'll see in the south coast's equivalent of Mos Eisley are the illegitimate children of VW Beetles and custom chopper front ends.
I've actually seen this example of velocipedal wrongness parked outside Barreg Cycles in Fishbourne, and that's practically in Chichester...
I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.
An odd-but-stable-looking contraption doing a Trail-gator job of towing a laden child's bike, but looking like it was made out of a couple of half-BOB-Yaks - turning out of Chambers St onto South Bridge, northbound just after 5pm today ...That sounds like a Follow-Me "tandem". I asked velorution to supply me one, but after 3 phonecalls, I gave up and bought a trail-gator instead.
They are the second most popular weird kiddy carrying bike here. You are pretty much guaranteed to see a couple in the town centre on any Saturday.I guess Cambridge must be full of weird kiddies. :)
I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.
Was it black
and did it have wooden mudguards?
I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.
Was it black
YesQuoteand did it have wooden mudguards?
Didn't see. I was at the lights going the other way. The chap riding it was well turned out, though, with a hat on.
I took a (very) few pics today, especially of the rusty ancient 'French' effect bike complete with its PBP number attached. Needless to say it finished before me!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/bike005.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/bike004.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/bike003.jpg)
Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:
Not that anyone would want to nick it...
Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/20101005093_G.sized.jpg)
The first case of DUI bars I've seen in Brum, and the only time I've seen them combined with bar-end shifters, for the ultimate in ergonomic fail. The brakes being on the wrong sides is just the icing on the cake :)
The rear wheel was locked to the frame, and it was resting on its propstand. Not that anyone would want to nick it...
Hang on, has that got a suicide lever on one side only?
Hang on, has that got a suicide lever on one side only?
I think that's just an artefact of my taking-a-photo-while-pretending-to-read-a-text-message technique. You can see the top end of one on the left lever, the rest is I think just hidden from view. I certainly don't remember there only being one, though I was somewhat distracted by the comedy shifters.
Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/20101005093_G.sized.jpg)
The first case of DUI bars I've seen in Brum, and the only time I've seen them combined with bar-end shifters, for the ultimate in ergonomic fail. The brakes being on the wrong sides is just the icing on the cake :)
The rear wheel was locked to the frame, and it was resting on its propstand. Not that anyone would want to nick it...
Hang on, has that got a suicide lever on one side only?
Whilst out with the CrinklyPride yesterday, at the lunch stop (Blacksmiths Arms in Naburn) we saw a "The Duet", it wasn't until we were leaving that I worked out it attaches to a section on the back of a wheelchair, making it into a tandem trike.
Looked like the Economy one on here : The Go Anywhere Wheelchair Bicycle Tandem: The Duet (http://www.frankmobility.com/duetfeat.php)
Pretty damned cool if you ask me :)
Saw a fantastic combo on Saturday near Motspur Park. A recumbent tandem towing a double seater trike tagalong.
Spotted by Shepherds Bush Green. Cruiser, but with reversed forks, drop bars, and reserved brake levers, and bar ends. I think they're homemade butteryfly bars.Little Cudzo asked "Is that a motorbike?"
(http://www.pbase.com/gchong2426/image/129313490.jpg)
(http://www.pbase.com/gchong2426/image/129313490.jpg)
Yesterday I saw a Dursley Pedersen, the frame looked to be made out of stainless.
My $DEITY that must have twitchy handling with negative trail!
On a train from Haywards Heath to Lewes on Saturday, a Dahon folder with (I think) 24" wheels, fitted with Raceblades
spotted this week outside Holborn station in London
(http://www.ealingbikehub.co.uk/temp/IMAG0065.jpg)
all-in-one frame was novel together with BMX style handbar,
anyidea what it is?
spotted this week outside Holborn station in London
all-in-one frame was novel together with BMX style handbar,
anyidea what it is?
Anything like this? (http://www.epxbikes.com/OwnersForum/tabid/121/aff/1/aft/82/afv/topic/Default.aspx)
EPX (no longer in business) used to make C/F (mostly) off road frames in Oz.
They did do a road model called a Reef (but that had conventional (http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25168&sid=28244fef41b073af537af20bb92c12df) seat stays)
I passed a recumbent tricycle in Battersea Park, not so unusual you might say, except that this wasn't the typical tadpole layout, but had a single steering wheel and two wheels at the back.
Seemed to be one wheel (right) drive.
Didn't catch the manufacturer, underseat steering layout as well.
I passed a recumbent tricycle in Battersea Park, not so unusual you might say, except that this wasn't the typical tadpole layout, but had a single steering wheel and two wheels at the back.
Seemed to be one wheel (right) drive.
Didn't catch the manufacturer, underseat steering layout as well.
Probably a Kettweisel(http://www.bentrideronline.com/reviews/KettWiesel/KettWiesel.jpg)
... a couple of very wide green plastic box trailers (is that to do with some franchise or something?), ...
A Pashley pdq trike? That's that way round, isn't it?
I think Darwin's Deli signature colour is black.It was a Roberts :)
Yesterday, in the melee of the A24/A3, we saw something interesting. Not an interesting bike, particularly, just a high end hybrid (though not a Koga Miyata or a Toutterrain, or anything like that). Nor was the rider particularly interesting (unless you find young, attractive, fit cycling women attractive. Err....). No, the interesting thing was the pannier.
It read 'LONDON TO CAPETOWN' etc etc etc.
Butterfly pointed out that heading north on the A24 wasn't the best direction to choose. ;D
In fact, once I got to Clapham, I did wonder if heading North at all yesterday was worthwhile.
I passed a recumbent tricycle in Battersea Park, not so unusual you might say, except that this wasn't the typical tadpole layout, but had a single steering wheel and two wheels at the back.
Seemed to be one wheel (right) drive.
Didn't catch the manufacturer, underseat steering layout as well.
Probably a Kettweisel(http://www.bentrideronline.com/reviews/KettWiesel/KettWiesel.jpg)
I was hoping someone might take a guess at what it might have been. Unfortunately, probably not this, it had a much shorter wheelbase than the one in the pic. sort of regular bike length really.
Check my previous reply
Is this still describing the Kettweisel?
The Greenspeed Anura is also very similar...
I think Darwin's Deli signature colour is black.
You mean like this? London Daily Photo: The Pubcrawler (http://londondailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/09/pubcrawler.html)
(I have a load more photos if you are interested)
One of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp1G3JoGcZU)?
And smiles are unusual in London Grin
not that unusual in London, but a nice smile from innocent no. 4:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/bikes/P1010941.jpg)
Sounds like a Hase Pino (http://www.bike123.com/images/hase%20pino.jpg), but I'm curious about the fairing.
Sounds like a Hase Pino (http://www.bike123.com/images/hase%20pino.jpg), but I'm curious about the fairing.
And that was the Halls.
Sounds like a Hase Pino (http://www.bike123.com/images/hase%20pino.jpg), but I'm curious about the fairing.There was one of those - or something very similar - on the FNRttC.
I imagine that Kettweisel is Dutchlandish for Catweazle (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/catweaz.htm)? :)Except Kettwiesel (note correct way round for i and e) is a German company.
Ah, that reminds me. One thing I saw a couple of times in Berlin (but not, sadly, when I had my camera to hand) was cycling pubs. That is, some kind of covered float with a bar on it, where the customers sat facing the bar and pedalled while they drank, with a (presumably sober) staff member steering at the front. I'm guessing it was some kind of novelty service available for stag parties and the like. Wish I'd caught it on camera.I saw a pair of 'em in Düsseldorf in July
Ah, that reminds me. One thing I saw a couple of times in Berlin (but not, sadly, when I had my camera to hand) was cycling pubs. That is, some kind of covered float with a bar on it, where the customers sat facing the bar and pedalled while they drank, with a (presumably sober) staff member steering at the front. I'm guessing it was some kind of novelty service available for stag parties and the like. Wish I'd caught it on camera.I saw a pair of 'em in Düsseldorf in July
Hase = HarePino and Trets not in my exhaustive German dictionary although they might be Umgangssprache.
Lepus = Rabbit (Latin)
Wiesel = Weasel
Pino = ?
Trets = ?
Language | Translation |
Filipino | Refined |
Finish | Stack |
Galician | Pin |
Portuguese | Pin |
Dang! No animal link then. My theory hits a wall of FAILWell I always assumed there was some animal link because of Hase and Lepus so it's not just you!
Well, he bought it. And it's all my fault :)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5206027667_2f503ca282.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5206027667/)
Google Translate isn't a lot better assuming that they're German, but if you tell it to translate from Latin, it reckons that Trets is "Shall go through", which is interesting, and not entirely implausible. It still doesn't help with Pino however. It also suggests "Features" for Trets, if it's in Catalan, but that sounds less likely.
Well, he bought it. And it's all my fault :)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5206027667_2f503ca282.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5206027667/)
Is that one of those city bikes with the built in lights? What's it like as a bike (i.e. to ride etc)?
Mrs Torslanda, of the horned helmet and heavy metal breastplate, has just branded them thus: not bicycles, just pieces of tube welded together.
Possibly the most expensive BSOs on sale . . .
Sorte Jernherst Trike. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steering. For sale in a 'discount' cycle shop. Definitely going to try to get a test ride.
Sorte Jernherst Trike. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steering. For sale in a 'discount' cycle shop. Definitely going to try to get a test ride.That's absolutely barking (and could be absolutely inovative, if they've overcome the steering issues). DO report back.
Sorte Jernherst Trike. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steering. For sale in a 'discount' cycle shop. Definitely going to try to get a test ride.That's absolutely barking (and could be absolutely inovative, if they've overcome the steering issues). DO report back.
...or just lethal, if they haven't. :-\
Rear wheel steering is generally a bad idea. The only place I've ever seen it used successfully at speed (ie faster than a fork lift truck) was on ThrustSSC, and the Mini that they used to test the rear steering system on.
I've also seen rear wheel steer HPVs crash quite spectacularly!
On Friday's commute in to work, I saw a Kingcycle recumbent near Stockwell. It was a bit tired, but still cool. You almost never see 'bents in Sarf Lahndan.
A Raleigh Wayfarer by one of the boats moored in Bristol docks. Not a particularly interesting bike of itself, but the frame was the spit of the Hero Hawk I had in India.
In the bicycle park at work today I noticed a Kirk Revolution.Those are the pressed magnesium frames from around 1987-ish?
We know someone who has one (but much prefers to ride his Colnago) ;D
We know someone who has one (but much prefers to ride his Colnago) ;D
Has anyone actually seen it out and about?
Today in the bike park at work I saw a Pederson.Your bike park seems to be an interesting place! :D
Today in the bike park at work I saw a Pederson.Your bike park seems to be an interesting place! :D
Raleigh moved out of TI stable in 1987. The demise of Raleigh as a manufacturer was probably largely instigated by a disastrous project to computerise their production control systems (possibly something to do with a management consultant not understanding the Garbage In, Garbage Out principle).It was a gradual process, with stages separated by years, which suggests that it wasn't related to a single problem - just decades of bad management. Look at the Sturmey-Archer debacle.
I loved switching my lights on as I rode along :smug:
You're possible thinking of Reelights (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/reelight/sl120-uk-light-set-ec008392) - they are low powered "be seen by" LEDs, but with the advantage of relatively simple installation (unlike a hub dynamo), no slipping on the tyre when wet (tyre driven) or running out of power (batteries). There are various models and styles available, so the ones you've seen may not be identical to these.Yes, that looks like it, though I've also seen other, more rectangular, designs of lights powered by the same device. Absence of tyre slippage is an advantage which had, er, slipped my mind. TBH I don't think I've ever experienced it, but then it's a long time since I've used a dynamo.
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You utter gits; that (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5187296673_9805d634e6_b.jpg) is either sheer arrogance or precision brilliance - couldn't get a gnat's bollox through there ;)
At UCL today, we saw a bike decorated with mussel shells in the spokes.
Also rode with a chap who had a Sonic frame. Anyone know anything of this make? He said the framebuilder used to work near (above?) Bikefix on Lambs Conduit St, London.
I had a Sonic MTB for a while; on skinny slicks it was the lightest and fastest road-going bike I've ever owned;
Yeah, no worries on having and riding uprights, I like 'em too. But calling it the fastest road going bike you've ever owned?
Yes, that's right. Looked like a mummy-duck with her ducklings. I almost said 'mother', but I realised it could be a carer of some kind.Lovely, and a predictable but understandable shame, respectively. (Though quite how understandable it really is, I'm not sure, if you trust someone enough to leave them in sole charge of your small children.)
What Butterfly does with her charges tends to be delimited by the neuroses of various employers.
I can't work out quite what's what with that pedal-powered vehicle (I can't even see where the pedals are, though I presume there must be some!) but I like it nevertheless.
Someone at work has ridden in on a brand new turquoise & orange cruiser - Brookes saddle, Sturmey 5 speed & hub brakes.
Someone at work has ridden in on a brand new turquoise & orange cruiser - Brookes saddle, Sturmey 5 speed & hub brakes.
Saw another cruiser on the way home - red, white & chrome with a fake 'tank'.
A Boris Bike on Queenstown Road, going southward, which is kind of unusual, since all the docking stations would have been behind him at that point, and getting further away.
In glasgow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24775321@N02/5571949987/) the other day.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5571949987_8b3d4148de.jpg)
At Frosts the fishmongers (where we later bought a slightly disappointing sea bass & some entirely satisfactory whelks) this afternoon:
An Orange X-1 but with a rigid fork and an aluminium bar where the shock should have been.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5635537469_9ce7b53ba6.jpg)
I think that it was the cunning use of exhaust clamps that really made it special:
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.
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!
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!
Yep, Lefty was the name, though the guy I spoke to said Cannondale make a few models with the one-sided fork.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.
My guess is that they fold - the rear triangle rotating about the vertical section of seattube just in front of the bottom bracket.
Sounds like a Trikke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trikke).
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.
The second bike had a top tube but no down tube. ???
Any ideas?
The second bike had a top tube but no down tube. ???
Any ideas?
Some kind of folder, like a Swissbike? (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/montague/swissbike-paratrooper-2011-folding-mountain-bike-ec027630)
The second bike had a top tube but no down tube. ???
There's the Paris Galibier (http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/paris2.html), of course.
saw this in Itally in '05 whilst on hols in VW camper.
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/DSC00801.jpg)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/DSC00800.jpg)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/DSC00799.jpg)
Saw a GoCycle today. First I've seen.
motorbikes...
Saw this Schwinn cruiser on Coldharbour Lane on Sunday:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2735/5849703887_79c6717877_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5849703887/)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2713/5850298158_aa5b693c57_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5850298158/)
So, who's wine red penny was that leaning up against the lamp-post by the Pince Albert last night?
A bike like a trandem, but with four not three riders on the telly this evening in a news item about population increasing.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.
Cudzoziemiec, was that museum the new one in Bristol by any chance? I must pay it a visit some time.
That's a Foska jersey. Is that your auction then?Since the same message is appearing in practically every thread, perhaps it should be a 'Spam' jersey instead ...
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
... And the CD was skipping dreadfully. ...
And the CD was skipping dreadfully.
To save money & effort & get better sound quality? Not in this particular case, but consider me & Mrs B: our car came with a CD player. It works. We have lots of CDs.And the CD was skipping dreadfully.
In a world of MP3 players, why would anyone still be using CDs in a mobile setting?
Beatrix has nothing to fear from this device. And the owner's taste in music is nowhere near as good as our Valiant's ;D
Last night, by the former Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, I saw a more mature chap on a red Pinarello fixed. Nice looking machine.
He was interested in my 'One Less Car' sticker.
Last night, by the former Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, I saw a more mature chap on a red Pinarello fixed. Nice looking machine.
He was interested in my 'One Less Car' sticker.
Shouldn't that be "One Fewer Car ;D
Nah, one car less. The big gorilla is both grammatically and aesthetically correct.
I'm not a gorilla, I'm a crested black macaque monkey, and there's no such thing as correct grammer or spelling in the monkey world. :P ;)
I'm not a gorilla, I'm a crested black macaque monkey, and there's no such thing as correct grammer or spelling in the monkey world. :P ;)
Written any plays lately ;D
Is DynaTech as a Raleigh sub-brand still in existence? There was one outside the Pubbe last night. The lugged aluminium frame looked a bit old-skool but on the other hand it has ten-speed Campag gearing.
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
That is a shame because it would suit you. Perhaps if you were to sell a couple of other bikes?
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
That is a shame because it would suit you. Perhaps if you were tosell a couple of other bikesquit smoking?
Here's an idea you may not have tried. If you give up the fags, Mr R would be sure to let you buy a new bike... ;)
Not all Pedersens require sit up and beg positions. A friend has done 350-ish miles in a 24 hr TT on a modern Pedersen a decade or so ago.
Today I saw a Greenspeed tandem trike, ridden (driven?) by teamonster of our parish. Lovely machine!
...and a bakfiets, but with a wicker basket.
Then Trevor Innes on his personal Innesenti trike at HPC.
Especially not one which has the same name as a US brand - IBEX.To save money & effort & get better sound quality? Not in this particular case, but consider me & Mrs B: our car came with a CD player. It works. We have lots of CDs.And the CD was skipping dreadfully.
In a world of MP3 players, why would anyone still be using CDs in a mobile setting?
Back to the topic: a decent-looking & appropriately spotless MTB, black with a red & white badge incorporating the Swiss flag, of a brand I'd never heard of, & apparently sold by a shop in Luzern. Locked up outside Thornton's (for the moment - not shut yet) in Reading.
I'd never seen a Swiss MTB before.
Couple of days running I've seen a guy on a Buckley-Saxon fixed. Never heard of them, but turns out it was a bike shop in Castle Hedingham, Essex. The frame doesn't seem anything particularly special, but is a decently-made club rider's bike.
Couple of days running I've seen a guy on a Buckley-Saxon fixed. Never heard of them, but turns out it was a bike shop in Castle Hedingham, Essex. The frame doesn't seem anything particularly special, but is a decently-made club rider's bike.
I've seen him as well (it's unlikely that there's more than one of them in London)
A very rare Cleland http://www.james-walters.net/cleland/geoff-apps.html (http://www.james-walters.net/cleland/geoff-apps.html) on the Leicester Critical Mass ride last night :thumbsup:Off-roaders designed with mudguards as standard - very British! (or should that be simply, appropriate to a rainy climate?)
If the rider had a close-cropped white beard/moustache, then I know them very well indeed.Didn't notice, to be honest - was too busy trying to keep pedalling whilst doing a double take :)
Saw an interesting one on the way home this evening - a bike, with a wheelchair attached in a motorbike+sidecar type arrangement - looked to be propelled by the rider alone. ...
That's the one.Saw an interesting one on the way home this evening - a bike, with a wheelchair attached in a motorbike+sidecar type arrangement - looked to be propelled by the rider alone. ...
This (http://mobile.yorkadvertiser.co.uk/news/9096689.Side_by_side_on_a_bicycle_made_for_two/) one ?
Those are the people I know.They were going downhill - or about as downhill as it gets round here (I passed them roughly halfway between the bridge over the A64 and the side entrance to the college near the traffic lights). Initially I was more impressed with how stable it seemed, but that was before I saw how the wheelchair was attached to the rest of the bike.
I'm surprised at your 'moving at quite a lick' comment; Paul was originally struggling a bit on the bike. He has hardly done any cycling in his life. Being the 'motor' on the rig means he's pedalling double adult weight.
I'll send a message on facebook to them, telling them they had been spotted out on the outfit. They'll be chuffed.It was different enough to make me double-take and almost forget I was riding without gears, plus I like to see a good 'engineering solution' every now and again ;)
Spotted returning from the bikecheck at PBP:
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6086/6089016669_d83e9f1627_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6089016669/)
Lokks as if it could be. Very similar to the Hotta:
DIY frame?
DIY frame?No, it's a Corima Fox.
We've just had one of these early Dahon folders donated (http://www.icollector.com/images/1151/15240/15240_0264_1_lg.jpg)
A Pace MTB. Unusual square-section frame tubes, other than seat tube and head tube, but including the stays. Very shiny, polished aluminium I guess, though it was so shiny it could almost have been stainless steel!
In Kennington the night before last (forgot to mention it before, sorry), there was a shiny Cannondale singlespeed with shiny Campag Delta brakes.
He didn't stop. ;D
I saw a pedal powered pineapple on the A23 from Brixton today. A quick google and it turns out to be owned by someone I know!
http://www.bosi.webeden.co.uk/#/pedal-powered-pineapple/4531733934
There was one at the Blackfriars protest last week. I wonder if it was the same one.
Other than that, saw lots of fixies, lots of Bicing bikes (Barca's Boris Bikes) and another type of hire bike, which was BRIGHT orange....:thumbsup:
Minivelos are pretty common in the Far East. I'm not surprised they are showing up in Europe too.He says it takes up less room and is easier to walk around when parked indoors. I'm not sure that makes sense, as IME what makes a bike awkward in such situations is the sticky-out bits, ie bars and pedals, rather than wheels. It does make sense that it's easier to transport in a train, bus or car, though.
http://somafab.blogspot.com/2011/02/mini-velo-has-arrived.html?m=1
Spotted today at the start of my commute home in Ely, an Ainimal (http://www.airnimal.eu/Chameleon/) running fixed :D
M5 was also on the badge, or rather transfer on the "top tube". I think it said something like Speedmaster CityMate by M5, or maybe it was M5 CityMate by Speedmaster. Perhaps Speedmaster is a shop that sells them?Saw it again today, being pushed up Ninetree Hill. Didn't think to ask the owner about the Speedmaster name though.
Saw this outside work today. No idea what it was, just had to take a quick snap.
(http://richardpriddy.co.uk/IMAG0122.jpg)
Minivelos are pretty common in the Far East. I'm not surprised they are showing up in Europe too.
http://somafab.blogspot.com/2011/02/mini-velo-has-arrived.html?m=1
Spotted today at the start of my commute home in Ely, an Ainimal (http://www.airnimal.eu/Chameleon/) running fixed :D
I suspect he had riden from the station, so had come from Cambridge or that London.
Spotted today at the start of my commute home in Ely, an Ainimal (http://www.airnimal.eu/Chameleon/) running fixed :D
I suspect he had riden from the station, so had come from Cambridge or that London.
...and now he's selling it on Ebay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Airnimal-Chameleon-Ultra-2009-Ultegra-fixed-gear-folding-bicycle-/200684960679?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item2eb9c17ba7).
Saw a guy on a nondescript looking mountain bike wearing an unobtanium Reevu helmet earlier. It wasn't rower40.The problem being that you can't follow him to steal it, as he'll be watching you behind him. So you'll just have to wait for him to leave his bike unattended, affix an unobtrusive tracking device, and then find out where he lives.
Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
Payphone also added a train brake and pad, which he rigged with a brass tractor pedal he won in a poker match.Even their gambling is eccentric in Leftpondia!
And he even appears to have a Brooks saddle.Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
A pulsejet bike can never be wrong :D
Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
A pulsejet bike can never be wrong :D
Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
A pulsejet bike can never be wrong :D
But a turbojet is much more compact, and can be constructed from a car turbocharger (available from your friendly neighbourhood car breaker).
design (http://www.salvatoreaiello.com/main.shtml)
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4t-o7XY6M) kind of thing can be built. ;D
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
I like that!
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
I like that!
'Ingenious rack'
'Thanks'
'Design it yourself?'
'Yeah'
'I'm impressed.'
The entirety of the conversation I had with a fellow commuter near Newington Butts. The bike in question was a deep shiny maroon with chromed lugs. Because the rider was a tall chap, it was of double top-tube design, with double seat stays. The rack was an integrated one, colour coded with the rest of the frame, brazed to the lower seat stays, coming around the higher ones to form a rectangle of narrow tubing with semi-circular ends and wires gridded across. There was an extra pair of rack stays brazed to the rear dropouts. Very stylish and distinctive.
Isn't it? I wonder now if he built the whole thing himself - perhaps with the help of our Bicycle Repair Man?He did tell me that he had built it, that much I do recall.
..... a French postie's bike.
Right how to describe this. (I wish I had had a camera with me but sods law prevails.) large white van in traffic jam. Mounted vertically at rear is a trike (sort of). The trike has handlebars, MTB type brake levers and a triangular large frame supporting a fabric seating arrangement I think stretched across the frame. This was at least five times larger than a normal 'seat' surface area. Around the perimeter of the 'bike' is a rail which is a bit a like a bumper car protector. All the wheels and 'bike' are within this boundary. To the rear and underside of the large triangular 'seating' area are two metal pads which appear to be for standing on. I have no idea what this BSO is for, but it sure looked interesting. If only I had my phone with me........
DO NOT TOUCH
(http://webringjustice.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cw.jpg?w=500&h=333)
One of these:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6911526571_4ba5a6ed0b_o.jpg)
Hanging on the wall in Corridori Cycle Sport (http://www.corridori.co.uk/) where I took tea this afternoon.
£12k a pop :o.
This morning, I saw two recumbents. One was orange (can you tell I'm an expert? :-[ ) and we saw that just off Brixton Hill. The second I saw at St George's Circus, and I think ot was going towards Blackfriars. It was flying a Jamaican flag.
This morning, I saw two recumbents. One was orange (can you tell I'm an expert? :-[ ) and we saw that just off Brixton Hill. The second I saw at St George's Circus, and I think ot was going towards Blackfriars. It was flying a Jamaican flag.
I see her around a lot, I think her name is Denise and she does or used to do some of the route marking for the Dunwich Dynamo.
It's a green bike from memory.
In Terence Conman's shop.
Interesting? Unusual? You decide. Don't even think of the price, it will hurt.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tNiSbkunIrc/T2uaER-dQtI/AAAAAAAAgUM/WW3pe41IZac/s800/S0180518.jpg)
Near Brockwell Park, I came up behind a young man on what looked like an interesting bike. I noticed the centrepulls first, then saw the brown paintwork. It was a Carlton of some kind. maybe not top of the range, but certainly a nice looker (or, rather, would be if the paintwork weren't so battered*). I wonder if the chap had any idea what he was riding?Carlton Corsair I expect. 531 plain guage, just outside my price range when I started riding in the late 60s. As you said, nothing special.
I saw a lovely wooden bike in Brockwell Park yesterday. It looked nice and had a cyo :-)Maybe made by these people? (http://flatframesystems.com/)
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ETA: just had a look, it was one of these: http://www.rideblue.com/triadslle.php
I don't think so, it was more rounded.
*goes to investigate*
It was one of these (http://www.renovobikes.com/) :) Very lovely.
I don't think so, it was more rounded.I've got to admit those do look nicer than the ones I saw. It's the roundiness.
*goes to investigate*
It was one of these (http://www.renovobikes.com/) :) Very lovely.
Went out with the Retrobike (http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/) crowd yesterday - about 45 classic early 90's mountain bikes, being used as intended - being riden on singletrack. :smug:
At least 5 Kleins:
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn137/GA2G/Klein-Green.jpg)
A few Orange Aluminium O's
Parkpre's
Rocky mountains
AMP research B4 with experimental forks (like Girvins only stranger :o)
and lots more.
<has a major nostalgia moment> 8)
<has a major nostalgia moment> 8)
It's a good job I didn't post pics of the Klein Mantra with Lawwill leader forks...(click to show/hide)(click to show/hide)
:demon:
A friend of mine is frequently seen on his Colnago mtb.
In 1999 I lived in France where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. The bike shop over the border in Switzerland had a Colnago MTB. I'd never seen one and was tempted for the novelty value but my wallet saw sense.A friend of mine is frequently seen on his Colnago mtb.
Still with a Campagnolo groupset on it? They had a very brief flirtation with making MTB components.
It's not every day that you see a BMX bike fitted with a luggage rack and panniers, but someone round my way has one.
A friend of mine is frequently seen on his Colnago mtb.
Still with a Campagnolo groupset on it? They had a very brief flirtation with making MTB components.
My mate Nigel (notorious Nigel (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/4821964.Scooter_driver_in_court_after_one_too_many/?ref=eb)) once fitted gears to his BMX. But then he got bored with that, so he fitted a motor instead. It was scary as fuck to ride.
dclem says...
10:02am Thu 31 Dec 09
I think a nomination for the "Best of Darlington" awards is in order.
Very brief search:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_two_1886.jpgIs that the White House in the background? :o
Very brief search:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_two_1886.jpgIs that the White House in the background? :o
Wherever it is, the woman doesn't look very happy to be photographed awheel.
Not an interesting or unusual bike, but an interesting and unusual mudguard. Yes, mudguard. Well, mudguard fixing in fact. It was simply wedged between BB and chainstay bridge, then tied above the brake bridge with baler twine and jubilee clip, and finally had more twine running from the holes that normally receive the stays up to the saddle rails. As you can imagine, there was oodles of clearance all the way round - so much that I wonder if it really could have been an effective mudguard, but it was certainly eye-catching.
There appears to be a rather bling Colnago with a distinct lack of mudguards in the Den.Does it have a wet owner?
It is a rather nice Colnago, isn't it?Not as nice as a Master Pista X Light (http://bricklanebikes.co.uk/posts/57) but still very nice. Just don't tell him I said that
<snip>....Although I don't think there has ever been a bike with so few spokes in the Den before!
ISTR Wobbly John knew something about this last time it was mentioned
Last week (but the rider looked regular), outside the Crown at Pantygelli (http://www.thecrownatpantygelli.com/) - a Hetchins, mainly black, with a Sturmey-Archer 4-speed hub (the shifter is about the only useful identifying feature to have come out on the photo I grabbed)
I was rather put out that I was not the only person riding a rod-braked bike to the Buck in Maunby. ;DThat's pretty common on Indian bikes - perhaps you saw an Atlas, Safari or Hercules!
I didn't recognise the headbadge on the other bike, but it was also notable for its double top tube.
I rode the Elswick through central London in the rain, and home. I was an interesting experience. :o
Yesterday, whilst at the pub we saw a Pace RC-100 complete with Mahura brakes and age appropraite rigid forks, in yellow. My only disappointment with it was that it was the ano-grey colour and not the red one.
Yesterday, whilst at the pub we saw a Pace RC-100 complete with Mahura brakes and age appropraite rigid forks, in yellow. My only disappointment with it was that it was the ano-grey colour and not the red one.
The RC100 was only available in grey. Anodising was introduced with the RC200
/nerd mode off
I have a very complete RC100s sitting in the loft which I must clean up and seel to someone who could use it at some point.
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.
That'll be autumn, will it? :P
I always thought 'fall' was American?
I always thought 'fall' was American?
It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).
I always thought 'fall' was American?
It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).
A very low, very sleek, blue, recumbent tandem.
An Itera.
Almost adjacent to Bikefix, and it looks like it's not turned a wheel in a while, so I'll be surprised if this hasn't appeared upthread...
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7228652180_d7a9f2d957_b.jpg)
I should think that quite a few of the bikes we see out and about regularly are worth £4k or more.
Merged with Metalastik in 1955
I saw two more handcycles in RP that evening - this time on the road crossing the park from Robin Hood Gate to Ham Gate.
This morning, I saw a Specialized StreetStomper - evidently a hybrid model, trading on the success of the StumpJumper and RockHopper. Pretty rare, I think, though not desperately exciting of itself. What was interesting was the horizontal dropouts, part of which was blanked off in the drive side only. I've never seen this before, and can't think what the purpose might have been.
Fixing puncture on my daughter's town bike last night - noticed the tyres; "John Bull tyres".
*How* old are the tyres on that bike? They are falling to pieces.
No. The early indexed mechs had quite strict restrictions on the relative locations of cassette and rear mech. Horizontal dropouts allowed too much deviation, so the driveside mold (cast dropouts) were modified to fix where the axle was located. The other horizontal dropout was not similarly modified because it allowed the wheel to be cocked to compensation for slight differences in chainstay length/ dropout position (manufacturing tolerances).
Proper pump pegs :thumbsup:
A fairly ordinary mountain-bikey hybrid - pulling a tag-along tandem trike! Empty, evidently returning from school.Probably a U+2
Mscharly got strong legs from pedalling. She could push me along all by herself when she was 5.woh! :thumbsup:
Dawes ?Lady Galaxy at KX
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0558.jpg)
Wait - what? Downtube levers, sure
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0560.jpg)
But STIs as well? :o
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0559.jpg)
And the stem, wherever it comes from, is ugly IMO.
Saw this Triumph earlier today:
...I couldn't tell whether the rims were alloy or steel, but there was no rust on them (they were shiny too!).
Saw the skeleton tandem and sw19cam also. Chuffed.Does this mean you were in Brizzle on Sunday? What were you riding (a recumbent I presume) and wearing? Then I'll try to work out if I saw you!
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It looks distinctly as if it's lost its mudguards. And as it has two brake levers but no rear brake, it must have lost its rear brake as well! Could be a dynohub at the front - or is it a hub brake? (in which case wheels are not original, which they might not be - rear looks like alloy on the photo and the front looks shiny like steel)Raleigh, & perhaps other British firms, used to fit hub brakes to some bikes for export. When I worked in Utrecht I bought an old export-model Raleigh with hub brakes from a local second hand bike shop. It's what got me into cycling as an adult, after not having been on a bike for years
A pair of Pacific folders. They fold into the bag at the back, which unfolds, IYSWIM, into about 25 x 25 x 90 cm or thereabouts. Engineering looks good on them, too. L/h one has the Shimano 2 speed kick gear, r/h is s/s
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nkiNX5dkREU/UAxQzROeXGI/AAAAAAAAiFc/-Vn8ZqXsjT0/s800/S0221242.jpg)
Interesting Graham Weigh
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0698.jpg)
OMFG how much more Nathan Barley can you get? Fixie (probably ss) overgrown BMXs :facepalm:One's collection of bikes is incomplete without one, so that is one addiction cured.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0675.jpg)
Saddle-less Itera on Lamb's Conduit StreetDoesn't that belong in the dead BSO thread?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0697.jpg)
Saddle-less Itera on Lamb's Conduit StreetDoesn't that belong in the dead BSO thread?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0697.jpg)
We have a potential winner, but I think only Fab Foodie has a photo of it. Parked outside Paolo's Cafe in Acton yesterday, and a real one-off.
This one:
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Sainsburys, North Cheam:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0685.jpg)
Closer to a motorbike, I'd have said - but interesting however you class it.
While wandering over to a local pizza restaurant in Stockholm last night, I came across this creation:I didn't know Dali did bicycles.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7924598652_91c42c8a5a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/)
IMG_0446 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
???
While wandering over to a local pizza restaurant in Stockholm last night, I came across this creation:I reckon it's a low stepover - I've heard of one before but never seen one - for people who can do a pedalling motion but can't use a normal or standard tep through frame (?lateral hip immobility)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7924598652_91c42c8a5a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/)
IMG_0446 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
???
Probably not him - this person was very very lean. Not rugby playing build at all.On way home last night I was overtaken by someone very tall riding a mountainbike. They managed an impressive turn of knots.
What was unusual was the amount of seatpost. Well over 2 feet of seatpost showing out of frame. The frame looked like a kiddies bike under this bloke.
You're from Yorkshire, was it Steve Bainbridge? Ex-British Lions rugby player, although he lives a bit further north than that these days. I've ridden with him and for someone 6'6 he has an impressive turn of speed on a roadified mountainbike (the only thing that can withstand his weight and strength).
ISTR a freakishly tall (6'11" ish) German guy who works/worked at the Computer Science department - you could easily spot which bike was his as it had several yards of seatpost showing. Depending on where you saw him it could have been him (or I could just be talking complete bollocks)Probably not him - this person was very very lean. Not rugby playing build at all.On way home last night I was overtaken by someone very tall riding a mountainbike. They managed an impressive turn of knots.
What was unusual was the amount of seatpost. Well over 2 feet of seatpost showing out of frame. The frame looked like a kiddies bike under this bloke.
You're from Yorkshire, was it Steve Bainbridge? Ex-British Lions rugby player, although he lives a bit further north than that these days. I've ridden with him and for someone 6'6 he has an impressive turn of speed on a roadified mountainbike (the only thing that can withstand his weight and strength).
While wandering over to a local pizza restaurant in Stockholm last night, I came across this creation:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7924598652_91c42c8a5a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/)
IMG_0446 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
???
http://www.frankmobility.com/duetfeat.php
If only I'd had a camera with me . . .
'Hirondelle' on the down tube in fancy script. Very elaborate lugs, lovingly lined. Reynolds 525 transfer on the seat tube, & Reynolds transfers on the forks. Smallish wheels, but looked as if built for bigger: loadsa clearance. Fattish tyres. Braze-ons for everything, including pump. Rohloff speedhub, 14 gears. Proper eccentric bottom bracket. Rohloff grip shifter held on bullhorn (cut down drops?) bars vertically with cable ties. Canti bosses, only front set used (brake lever on front right end of bar): no rear brake. Bars mounted on aheadset, behind steerer tube. Anonymous rack with no light fixing plate, & Cateye LD600 held on with two strips of insulating tape, covering part of the light.
A bizarre mixture of the sublime & the utterly crap. Broad Street, Reading, this afternoon.
How about a two-wheel drive bicycle (http://www.bikecommuters.com/2012/09/18/interbike-2012-tretta-2wd-assist-bicycle/)? Hope prospective owners like chain cleaning...
Previously mentioned odd mixture. Does anyone have any idea who made the frame?
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0508.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0509.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0510.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0511.jpg)
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Very fancy lugs, eh?
No visible brakes
No visible brakes
There's a reaction arm for a (presumably) back-pedal brake on the chainstay.
Still not-road-legal though. What braking opportunities are there if the chain snaps? With full mudguards, the push-shoe-onto-tyre option is not available.No visible brakes
There's a reaction arm for a (presumably) back-pedal brake on the chainstay.
Well spotted. Still intrigued by this bike - will do some more digging as displacement activity later today.
Bike still there this morning, but in a different spot (one that I usually use >:( ). Couldn't tell if it had been ridden or the owner just moved it.
Still not-road-legal though.
Still not-road-legal though.
Not in the UK. But the light mounted on the left side of the fork shows that it wasn't designed for the UK.
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Still not-road-legal though.
Not in the UK. But the light mounted on the left side of the fork shows that it wasn't designed for the UK.
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Incorrect, you need two independent brakes in Denmark too. rules where changed around 10 years ago. But if you have a bike/frame from before that date one brake is enough.
So when I cycled around Copenhagen in the 1980s on a borrowed bike with only a back-pedal brake, it was legal, then?
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Incorrect, you need two independent brakes in Denmark too. rules where changed around 10 years ago. But if you have a bike/frame from before that date one brake is enough.
So when I cycled around Copenhagen in the 1980s on a borrowed bike with only a back-pedal brake, it was legal, then?
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Incorrect, you need two independent brakes in Denmark too. rules where changed around 10 years ago. But if you have a bike/frame from before that date one brake is enough.
A pity. I hated it.
A Moulton New Series Speed, complete with Rohloff, belt drive, carbon cranks & seatpost, left unlocked against a tree outside our local pub.
The saddle was an interesting contrast to the rest of the bike.
A brief "how much?" discussion decided on about £15k, though a post-return google leads me to suspect this may be an overestimate (the double pylon separable is the expensive one). Anyway, more than John's Blackbird.
For both legs you'd need a stepperbike:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY1Te5TYJ9E
Would that be the guy with one massively muscular leg?
He would do 2 or 3 pushes with one leg, then do a very neat little shuffle and then the same on the other side. His shoes were looking very second-hand by the finish.
It seemed like every time I went to get on my bike to leave a checkpoint, the kickbike was parked next to it. It seemed like most of a day before I got away from Alpo for good. He was bloody fast downhill. I was just faster downhill than him, but there was very little in it. Crouching below the handlebars really cut down his frontal area.
He would do 2 or 3 pushes with one leg, then do a very neat little shuffle and then the same on the other side. His shoes were looking very second-hand by the finish.
It seemed like every time I went to get on my bike to leave a checkpoint, the kickbike was parked next to it. It seemed like most of a day before I got away from Alpo for good. He was bloody fast downhill. I was just faster downhill than him, but there was very little in it. Crouching below the handlebars really cut down his frontal area.
I caught him on Roc Trevezel, but he was arriving at St Quentin just before me. Didn't he get into the kickbike as summer training for speed-skating?
It's a Kickbike (http://www.kickbike.com/). At the TdF Depart in London, they had a Kickbike demonstration race.
On my way home, as I was unlocking my bike in Epsom, a chap on an orange bike passed me. I then dropped my mitts and faffed a bit, but caught him up before the first roundabout on the A24. Steel frame (not an expensive one), flat bars, aged rider. But hey - fixed gear! Smallish chainring, but a shiny Miche hub, and he was riding not fast, but well. I stuck with him for a while, enjoying his enjoyment of riding his bike, then sprinted across the lanes to where I needed to turn right.
Oh hi! Yes, I hadn't clocked that the sprocket was that small, but your smooth cadence should have told me it was something of that order. Sorry for referring to you as 'aged' now :-[
I'll forgive you as you also referred to me riding well :) At least all those years on the bike have not been wasted! Well spotted for the fixed gear and Miche hub btw. It's relatively new as the old one wore out, hence still clean.
I was going to pass you as I caught up, but there was a car passing, and then I spotted the bike and I fancied taking a bit to have a closer look as we rode. What is that frame, by the way? Is it a Holdsworth (hence the orange)?
Probably - I bought it second-hand about nine years ago and honestly can't remember. It was resprayed that colour because I liked it rather than being authentic and was done by Mario Vaz who used to run their paint shop, I believe, so it probably was actual Holdsworth team colour.
I was on a Ridgeback Romany. And I don't ride through Epsom very often, though it's not far away. In fact, it was unusual for me to be on the A24 at all, so very lucky to see you in all!
Hope to see you again, though. :thumbsup:
Absolutely - and stay safe out there.
Parked behind the Colston Hall about an hour ago, a Thanet. Frame some variety of mixte, with a single top tube sloping down from the head bearings continuing as two slender stays to the rear drop out, but an additional 'down tube' consisting of two slim tubes running horizontally from the bottom of the head tube to the point on the seat tube where the top tube and 'mixte stays' cross it. The braking and transmission was really odd though. Both hub and rod brakes front and rear with the rod brakes seeming to be an addition - the front was made out of a length of copper water or gas pipe and the rear used a large spring which looked like it might have been more at home on a kickstand or holding a door closed. The gearing was an SA 3-speed but also antiquated 2-speed derailleurs front and rear. The chainrings had a fearsome difference. The derailleurs were operated by antique-looking short brass levers running in guides on the top tube. At some point the rear derailleur cable had broken and rather than replace it, it had been joined using a brass electrical wire connector! There was a hub dynamo connected to a large circular (hemispherical in fact) front light but no switching in evidence and there were brackets for battery lights front and rear as well as a modern Accor adjustable stem. Needless to say the whole ensemble was topped off by a tattered Carradice. Clearly a long-loved, much-bodged product of eccentricity. :D
He would do 2 or 3 pushes with one leg, then do a very neat little shuffle and then the same on the other side. His shoes were looking very second-hand by the finish.There's a youtube video here which features him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqZ_JfWyrE
I googled it and found that Mr Stone lives in Bristol and Thanet had a shop here.Parked behind the Colston Hall about an hour ago, a Thanet. Frame some variety of mixte, with a single top tube sloping down from the head bearings continuing as two slender stays to the rear drop out, but an additional 'down tube' consisting of two slim tubes running horizontally from the bottom of the head tube to the point on the seat tube where the top tube and 'mixte stays' cross it. The braking and transmission was really odd though. Both hub and rod brakes front and rear with the rod brakes seeming to be an addition - the front was made out of a length of copper water or gas pipe and the rear used a large spring which looked like it might have been more at home on a kickstand or holding a door closed. The gearing was an SA 3-speed but also antiquated 2-speed derailleurs front and rear. The chainrings had a fearsome difference. The derailleurs were operated by antique-looking short brass levers running in guides on the top tube. At some point the rear derailleur cable had broken and rather than replace it, it had been joined using a brass electrical wire connector! There was a hub dynamo connected to a large circular (hemispherical in fact) front light but no switching in evidence and there were brackets for battery lights front and rear as well as a modern Accor adjustable stem. Needless to say the whole ensemble was topped off by a tattered Carradice. Clearly a long-loved, much-bodged product of eccentricity. :D
You need to get sight of Hilary Stone's history of Thanet (I had a copy, but I don't have any idea where it is). There is mention of a customer called "Nutkin" who had some unorthodox (even by Thanet's standards) frames built by said firm.
Mr. Hilary Stone, editor of Cycling Plus magazine & vintage expert, has published a booklet, "Ease with Elegance"http://classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Thanet_home.htm
which charts the history of Thanet and offers illustrations
and analysis of this unusual marque.
It is available for £8 sterling plus £5 airmail
postage. Checks must be in Pounds Sterling.
Send to:
Hilary Stone
32 Heyford Avenue,
Bristol BS5 6UE England.
In Oxford today.Is it just me, or does that have a weird optical illusion effect whereby the rear wheel appears about 10cm closer than the front wheel?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/218k6hhqii3bstn/2012-12-15%2013.30.50.jpg
Curious frame design; a sort of trussed cross frame.
mrkwr otp
mrkwr is a forumite who went on a ride with me and a few others on Saturday. His Gazelle is a racy road bike (I didn't know till I saw it that Gazelle made anything other than the sort of practical round town bike in the photo you posted).mrkwr otp
??? ??? help, what you mean?
There have been several bike makers called Gazelle and more than 1 in the Netherlands.I didn't know that. I can only find one mentioned on Wiki, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazelle_(bicycle)) which says that Royal Dutch Gazelle is now owned by the same company as Cervelo - but that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't others, of course.
mrkwr is a forumite who went on a ride with me and a few others on Saturday. His Gazelle is a racy road bike (I didn't know till I saw it that Gazelle made anything other than the sort of practical round town bike in the photo you posted).mrkwr otp
??? ??? help, what you mean?
I saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
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And one from the AMS four-wheeled menagerie.
I saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
I think Reynolds 520 is cromoly. The 501 (also cromoly) frames they did were actually quite good if theey were the butted tubeset - same thickness and tensile strength as 531.
Without pictures I refuse to believe you have a bike that is pinker than the Mercian :PI saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
I think Reynolds 520 is cromoly. The 501 (also cromoly) frames they did were actually quite good if theey were the butted tubeset - same thickness and tensile strength as 531.
Reinvestigation reveals it is indeed 501 butted. And gorgeous lugwork, hidden under the PINK paint.
I see this every day, mainly because it is towed by my trike ;D
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Nigel
Hi Alexb, it is a Hasebike Trets trailer trike, pop the front wheel off and connect it as a trailer to back axle.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMG_5882.jpg)
Kim, there is an adult version of the Trets, that is if the Trets is too small when fully extended. The adult version is the Hasebike Kettwisel, if you look through this link, you will see that it can be attached directly to the rear of another Kett, or like the Trets you use a bar to attach it to the rear of an upright or tadpole trike.
Tow Bar: Follow me!
Lame name, fine piece of equipment: with the Tow Bar, even standard bikes can be used as towing vehicles for the KETTWIESEL - with a safety bonus: the integrated overrun brake works automatically. When the towing bike brakes, the KETTWIESEL brakes.
At long last.Without pictures I refuse to believe you have a bike that is pinker than the Mercian :PI saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
I think Reynolds 520 is cromoly. The 501 (also cromoly) frames they did were actually quite good if theey were the butted tubeset - same thickness and tensile strength as 531.
Reinvestigation reveals it is indeed 501 butted. And gorgeous lugwork, hidden under the PINK paint.
At long last.
Laydeez and gennelmen, I give you
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The PINK bike.
At the weekend, we went to Whitstable. Enticed by old maps, we wandered into a shop onthe beach. Hanging up, there was an old tandem. The owner told us it was a Freddie Grubb, and he rode it a couple of times each summer. It had a Cyclo-style gear, and cantilever brakes, which he surmised had been added later, as had the fork. I think he was right about that. The rear wheel had a fixed sprocket on the other side.That'll be Bruce Williams you spoke to then. He's a keen cyclist and a good friend of mine. He potters around on a Bickerton folder.
On an adjacent wall, there was a fine solo machine, which he told us was a Hobbs. Very nice indeed. I think Butterfly has at least one photo, but it was in a dark shop against the light.
Hase tandem with the front half having a bucket seat, seems to have a seat belt:Is it just my eyes or can others see an absence of front pedals?
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/259/hase1.jpg)
The saddle looks like a Spa.
Moulton F coming off Tooting Common and disappearing into the mist...
One of the bicycles I saw on my ride home earlier in the week rally caught my eye - it was the seat stays. Pulled up next to the cyclist at a set of lights, saw he was riding a red Harry Quinn (don't see many of those about) which looked a bit ... big. Asked the rider the size. 28"! :o That would explain why the seat stays caught my attention.
I pass this most mornings on my commute:That is fantastic, I want. D'you reckon I could paint the bike one colour and then get that effect with tape or does it really need a proper two colour paint job?
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Uj2ElvUBjKs/UXgmdbUfRhI/AAAAAAAACCg/WNKzEKAB23g/s720/P1040022.JPG)
Ham, Pave.cc get a mention in today's Sunday Telegraph, in the Style magazine...
Great turning circle and it counts as a wheelchair so can be used on buses, trains etc.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8557/8757686574_335a2cece1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109958@N08/8757686574/)
Bamboo bike (http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109958@N08/8757686574/) by madcow99 (http://www.flickr.com/people/16109958@N08/), on Flickr
Home made? bamboo bike, seen in downtown Vancouver last week.
Currently have this in the workshop for a service. It belongs to the mother of one of the Olympic, Team GB. :smug:
Can you guess what it is?
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/moultonsix_zps713ccfd7.jpg)
Hint: the original yellow paint is showing through in places
Yep, it's a rare 'F' frame Moulton speed six. :D
There's not infrequently a yellow 'bent parked up at school. I scalped the rider (who appeared to be wearing a skirt and flip flops!) as I went along Fulford road on my way to the work but when I stopped to do phone-related stuff a few minutes later she passed me again so, since I had the phone in my hand, I got a snap.Your photos make York look like Poland!!! :o Apart from the bent and the trike, that is. I think it's the chestnuts, the birches and the brick paving with a line on it.
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I also saw a chap on a orange Yuba Mundo with an extremely rattly plastic box on the front and the rack padded for use as a seat. I suspect it is a pedal powered school bus. No pic of that one.
Then on the way back at the end of the day
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Hand cranked trike.
{size=1pt}Yep, it's a rare 'F' frame Moulton speed six.{/size} :D
An outrageously wild guess....a very early ICE 'bent trike?
There's not infrequently a yellow 'bent parked up at school. I scalped the rider (who appeared to be wearing a skirt and flip flops!)
The last couple of times I have taken TLD to her swimming lessons there has been a bakfiets parked outside the swimming pool.
Not too odd in Cambridge or other parts of the flatlands, but this is in Northallerton!
What - wear a skirt & flip-flops?There's not infrequently a yellow 'bent parked up at school. I scalped the rider (who appeared to be wearing a skirt and flip flops!)
:o When Charlotte first introduced me to the dark side, that was exactly the sort of thing she warned me never to do.
A little round up from my recent trip to Italy.
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Finally one for Wobbly John!
That last lot make me wonder if Italy is a real country, or a place which has modelled itself on a Hollywood image? !!!
That last lot make me wonder if Italy is a real country, or a place which has modelled itself on a Hollywood image? !!!
On the commute yesterday morning (via Stratford into the City) I kept encountering a cyclist on a rather interesting machine. it appeared to be titanium, but couldn't make out the brand as it had no labels. It had disc brakes front and rear (cf forks). So far, uncommon, but not that unusual. Except he was running a belt-driven Alfine hub. Definitely not your average commuting machine. And he was fast! Even at 35kph I couldn't quite catch him.At the show at Excel there was one like that on the velorution stand. It was a Van Nicholas :)
What's the name on the Caygill's TT, clarion? I can't make it out on my phone.
What's the name on the Caygill's TT, clarion? I can't make it out on my phone.
Paul Wensley
In Stockwell, I saw an orange cargo bike with a step through frame and quite square tubing. Shorter than a Yuba Mundo or that sort of thing. More like a Mamabike.
Didn't have a chance to get a photo, but the nearest I've found from a quick online search is here (http://www.photographersdirect.com/buyers/stockphoto.asp?imageid=932357)
On the one I saw, the down tube went to around half-way down the seat tube, so more like a triangle than in the picture above.
I followed a Brompton with a Rohloff today, pretty impressive hub for such a small bike!There's no kill like overkill ...
Spotted in Brugge - a bamboo bike:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7345/9400520342_0ce26f1fce.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/natnot/9400520342/)
Spotted in Brugge - a bamboo bike:It looks from the photo like a lugged frame with lugs made from duck tape. Now, I know there are few uses to which this cannot be put, but that would be pushing it a bit.
Spotted in Brugge - a bamboo bike:It looks from the photo like a lugged frame with lugs made from duck tape. Now, I know there are few uses to which this cannot be put, but that would be pushing it a bit.
Pooh.Spotted in Brugge - a bamboo bike:It looks from the photo like a lugged frame with lugs made from duck tape. Now, I know there are few uses to which this cannot be put, but that would be pushing it a bit.
It may look like duct tape, but epoxy resin soaked hemp is the normal way the bike is built - sort of a natural carbon fibre (apart from the resin).
Blink and you miss it. Mr Darwin must be watching with interest..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22604267
Saw a Bullitt on Moinday near Guys Hospital. And a woman yesterday calmly cycling up Denmark Hill with a bairn in the bucket of her trike - possibly a Christiania, I'm not sure. I think she must have had a good low range of gears, or was very fit.A pity it was a trike. You'd have had some good alliteration going if it had been a bike.
It seems to say "Critical mass" in English on the panniers. Evidently euro-tourers!
Two days ago in the woods
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I love the Ahearne flask :P
Love those Flying Gates (not just cause Baines was a Bradford firm). And TJ (Trevor Jarvis) is based near my parents' house.saw one the other day in a rather fetching dark bluey purple with gold lug lining. Nice!
Really really want one.
But...
but...
but...
...that colour scheme! :o
think it was, y' know hanging waiting for the right photo op. ;)Two days ago in the woods
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I love the Ahearne flask :P
Bit irresponsible just to leave it there ( :facepalm:).
Is it my eyesight or is the front brake missing a brake pad?
Genuine courier. Snapped with the sun in my eyes, so sorry I clipped the front wheel.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/10250148683_42e37bc577.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10250148683/)
P9170306 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10250148683/) by TJ Clarion (http://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
Genuine courier. Snapped with the sun in my eyes, so sorry I clipped the front wheel.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/10250148683_42e37bc577.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10250148683/)
No pic unfortunately, but today in Reigate a splendid child carrying bike. Big high rise handle bars with baby seat between them, facing the rider. Frame made of "substantial" tubing inna continental stylee.
I saw a cargobike about a month ago, I couldn't really figure out what brand it was.
Now I know :
http://vimeo.com/79972861 (http://vimeo.com/79972861)
Don't really know if I like the concept with tilting bikes. :-\
Judging by the angle of the cable outer, i suspect the inner isn't connected anything.Is it my eyesight or is the front brake missing a brake pad?
Genuine courier. Snapped with the sun in my eyes, so sorry I clipped the front wheel.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/10250148683_42e37bc577.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10250148683/)
P9170306 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10250148683/) by TJ Clarion (http://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
What effect is tilting going to have on a load that's liquid or granular?
I haven't ridden a trike since I was about 5, which I guess is fairly typical, and can't really grok how any of it handles now. If it were a regular, upright, delta trike, then I'd know I was relearning something, if it were a tadpole I'd be wondering if it would handle in the same way as a delta, but if it were leaning then the bike-like-ness might be helpful or might totally double-cross-disconnect-confuse me.
A trike (delta or tadpole) handles the way you think it will handle - turn the bars, it...tips over? ;)
A trike (delta or tadpole) handles the way you think it will handle - turn the bars, it...tips over? ;)
A trike (delta or tadpole) handles the way you think it will handle - turn the bars, it...tips over? ;)
Homes in on the nearest Worst Thing To Ride Into, in my experience. Curb, nettles, parked bikes, guy ropes, whatever. It's uncanny.
A trike (delta or tadpole) handles the way you think it will handle - turn the bars, it...tips over? ;)
Homes in on the nearest Worst Thing To Ride Into, in my experience. Curb, nettles, parked bikes, guy ropes, whatever. It's uncanny.
Always fun to watch an experienced cyclist have their first go on a racing barrow! :D
I don't usually follow this thread and really can't look back through all of it to see, so sorry if this has come up before.Was it somewhere flat?
http://www.sculltrek.sk/index.php?lang=en&sekcia=video
An unusual hybrid crossing Southwark Bridge Road this morning. It looked like a normal hydroformed aluminium hybrid, but had a cable downtube. I've seen that on old racing bikes (can't recall the names now), but not on modern bikes.
There's a fairly unusual bike on Ebay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121244604813) at the moment...
:o
There's a fairly unusual bike on Ebay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121244604813) at the moment...
:o
BB recycled from a washing machine
chain & tyres recycled from Emperor's clothes?
But it was a 'normal' bike following a machine whose rider was absolutely prone on his/her (couldn't tell!) back, as if in bed - with no pillow - and cranking with hands. Wow.
Trikidoo yesterday with front childseat added, and a gaggle of (well, maybe two) small kids on their own bikes :thumbsup:
A Brik FietsThat is a lot of frame.
I couldn't get a picture of it, so from the manufacturer's web site...
(http://www.brikfietsen.nl/files/01-BRIK-Sec-men-olijfgroen.jpg)
Chains a bit slack.......
Doesn't Adrian OTP have a Never Ready which has been gutted, and it's innards replaced with LED kit on his verdigris bike?So I can blame you for my front light jumping off its bracket at the bottom of Park St! Those lights were good weight training on the way back up though, not that I appreciated it back then.
Or did I imagine it?
Aside: My first job when I left college was with the design consultancy who were responsible for the last incarnation of the ER lights. David Crisp had a lot to answer for.... like using the same tooling for both the front and the rear, for the first time in the history of ER lights.
Comme ca:
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Today in Aberdeen:
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IMG_20131219_112611 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/11450501805/) by Ron Lowe (http://www.flickr.com/people/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
Yes, those are wooden handlebars.
Fashioned from a length of old broom-handle, and varnished it looks like.
Two Raleigh Choppers on Critical Mass earlier. Ridiculous.I'd say it was a good place for them and they were good bikes for that occasion. Fun bikes for not too serious cycling.
Whilst riding down the Northsea cycle path I saw a confused tandem coming the other way. The front was recumbent and the rear upright. I'm not sure if it was steered from the front or the back.
Whilst riding down the Northsea cycle path I saw a confused tandem coming the other way. The front was recumbent and the rear upright. I'm not sure if it was steered from the front or the back.
Sounds like a Hase Pino. Tim Hall has one and they are steered from the rear.
Had a very nice chat with a dog owner about his 60s Moulton this evening. Ten quid off Freecycle. He reckons it has one original tyre. Four speed Sturmey.
Saw a bike with boingy forks and drop bars being propelled along Kingston Road this evening. May have been a 29er with new bars but can't be sure!
Is a half recumbent tandem a Pino Hase type of construction?I had to look that up.
Yes - one rider upright, one recumbent.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7085/14020337141_1ec07d4c3a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nmVTLH)P4250065 (https://flic.kr/p/nmVTLH) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on FlickrDo you have any idea what's going on here? From what I can find out, the Barclays sponsorship runs till next year, so it can't be that.
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Do you have any idea what's going on here? From what I can find out, the Barclays sponsorship runs till next year, so it can't be that.
It would be interesting seeing the TdF raced on London Hire Bikes.
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Do you have any idea what's going on here? From what I can find out, the Barclays sponsorship runs till next year, so it can't be that.
I believe they're a special TdF edition. I was similarly perplexed until (I think) I saw something about the TdF on one of them. Then again, I could easily have dreamed this.
They were on the Burma Road 100 yesterday. I never spoke to the rider as I was on the 200.
Seen out in/on the Essex lanes while (I was) on the Great EscapeJohn Davis's Pentacycle out on a Chelmsford CTC ride.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2898/14029094707_fc64b5d35b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nnGM6e)Pentacycle (https://flic.kr/p/nnGM6e) by Alcedoatthis (https://www.flickr.com/people/65361243@N04/), on Flickr
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I've seen this lady around Five Ways a couple of times.
There appears to be some sort of electric assist, but after thanking me for liking her bike, she peddled off before I could ask her anything about it.
(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/155722865.jpg)I'd be surprised if a Quest weighs 45kg, more like 35 when full of tools 'n stuff. They're pretty lightweight usually.
(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/155722866.jpg)
This tadpole joined us on our 300k trot last Sunday. It weighs 45 kilos and the guy was practically chain-smoking.
I had to keep resisting the urge to holler "W-i-i-i-i-l-s-o-o-o-n -!" à la Tom Hanks in Castaway.
The trike is a Velomobiel Quest (http://www.velomobiel.nl/quest/).
There were handcycles zooming by, and a one armed chap on an upright. Looked like a time trial.There was a triathlon, the elite athletes were on the tellybox.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2937/14418830501_bfec61293b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nY9gXT)P6140046 (https://flic.kr/p/nY9gXT) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on FlickrWith the chap on the right dressed as a 1940s schoolboy to match?
The Sun rod braked roadster with us on the ride yesterday.
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Interesting brakes on the front
Spotted an electricified Brompton this afternoon - because of the accereration without pedalling.
It looks as if the motor was in the front wheel, with the Magictm enclosed within the Brompton front bag.
BTW, I understand that Ely has the highest % Brompton ownership in the UK :o (according to Cambs County Cycling officer).
rear brake is a miche the front brake is a set of squigly initials I can't make out and the words 'titanium components'
rear brake is a miche the front brake is a set of squigly initials I can't make out and the words 'titanium components'
Going by looking at the full-sized image in your Photobucket, it's a TRP R960, and the brake shoes on the example you photographed are mounted the wrong way round.
http://www.trpbrakes.com/category.php?productid=1010&catid=183&subcat=0
Well, seen online. Small wheels, but fat tyres.What is this golf thing of which you speak?
http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2014/07/feel-golf-course-full-cyclists/
Sky is currently various shades of dark blue, bordering on black. No surprise, considering it's now nearly tomorrow.Touche ;)
As for 'golf', it is a waste of time and effort superimposed on a mis-use of space. But I have friends who partake in such activities, and also occasionally ride bikes, so when I saw the link it caught my eye.
Well, seen online. Small wheels, but fat tyres.
http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2014/07/feel-golf-course-full-cyclists/
“People are looking for a fun way to play golf. This is fabulous, it’s a great way to get a workout,” spokeswoman Nancy Dickens said.This seems to be an admission that golf as it is usually played is not fun.
Well, seen online. Small wheels, but fat tyres.
http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2014/07/feel-golf-course-full-cyclists/Quote“People are looking for a fun way to play golf. This is fabulous, it’s a great way to get a workout,” spokeswoman Nancy Dickens said.This seems to be an admission that golf as it is usually played is not fun.
Sky is currently various shades of dark blue, bordering on black. No surprise, considering it's now nearly tomorrow.
As for 'golf', it is a waste of time and effort superimposed on a mis-use of space. But I have friends who partake in such activities, and also occasionally ride bikes, so when I saw the link it caught my eye.
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That looks highly civilised. As long as you don't tussle over the steering!Only the left-hand bars (coz it's foreign) are connected to the steering.
Good to see they've got a flag though, that must be almost invisible on the road...
Do I detect a trace of electrickery, also?
I'd overlooked the link :-[
The mudguards could be a neat idea to keep you dry without the weight and aerodynamic drag of normal mudguards - as long as they work - except they swap aero drag for friction and the bike doesn't really seem to be designed with aerodynamics and weight as priorities. Innovative for certain.
Weehoo:
Unusual things about this Litespeed, in the corridor of the Battle Mountain Super 8, unclude mudguards, rack, lights, mirror, Hamsterskins and a custom lip-balm holder...
I think I'd have have wanted rather better all round vision for HPC. Nice to see though.
Unusual things about this Litespeed, in the corridor of the Battle Mountain Super 8, unclude mudguards, rack, lights, mirror, Hamsterskins and a custom lip-balm holder...
Every bike should have one, though I must confess to making do with jersey pockets on upwrongs... :thumbsup:
It was a flat-barred BSO onto which he had fastened slightly curved bar ends that were mounted facing almost straight up. Onto the curved ends of those, he had bolted another pair. He was thus riding sitting bolt upright and steering with his hands on the ends of two not-entirely-rigid levers and almost two feet away from his brake levers, which were still on the bars. If I see it again, I will try for a photo.
Yesterday, at T*sco, an abomination, which the rather scruffy fag-smoker proceeded to ride the wrong way round the car park.
It was a flat-barred BSO onto which he had fastened slightly curved bar ends that were mounted facing almost straight up. Onto the curved ends of those, he had bolted another pair. He was thus riding sitting bolt upright and steering with his hands on the ends of two not-entirely-rigid levers and almost two feet away from his brake levers, which were still on the bars. If I see it again, I will try for a photo.
Nope, Horley Te*co. Dear gods it was a piece of shit.
And an advantage(?) over a traditional tandem is that each rider can choose their own gear. Looks like they have to coordinate braking too, which could be interesting.
Interesting commuter choice
of squared tubed loveliness spotted at the station this morning
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Interesting commuter choice
of squared tubed loveliness spotted at the station this morning
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/westywagen/DSC_0195_zpsg2457sdo.jpg)
If that Pace was mine, I'd place the D-lock through the rear triangle and wheel, just below the brakes (which maximises filling the space inside the 'D' to protect against levering it open) , and use the cable lock to secure the front wheel to the D-lock.
Oh, and I would take the seat pack with me if it's holding my tools and spare tube/s as well.
I parked my Brompton next to this Puch at the supermarket this morning. It says Clubman 6 on the top tube but Skyline on the down tube. Not sure what it is but it's a nice example and appears to have a spoke lock on the seat stay. A nice fixed project anyway and just my size! ;)
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Is it a spoke lock or something else? ???
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That kind of reminds me of the swingboats we used to go on at the fair. But they're facing out instead of in.
But pulling two kids on a trike tagalong. Actually, it's not a trike cos it has two wheels, but they're both at the back. Together, the whole combination is like an articulated delta trike but with four wheels (three seats, two drive chains, and a humoungous plastic box above the rear axle). Quite outrageous, in a very good way.SJS U+2 tandem trailer, we did once hook one up to a DF tandem trike, it was quite an awesome combination, 5 wheels 3 chains and four riders, actually very easy to handle and manoeuvre.
Spotted on flickr:So Wowbagger's using the new alias Wagner? I thought old Wilhelm Richard was a bit modern for him. Still, good way to get out with the grandchildren.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27047646@N00/15435515073/
I didn't know KIA made bikes, but I think it wonderful that a car manufacturer can stick a warning against unnecessary car use on a bike :thumbsup:
I had a U+1. Awesome machine. The rack was a great piece of engineering. We had a wicker box (almost laundry chest sized) on it.QuoteBut pulling two kids on a trike tagalong. Actually, it's not a trike cos it has two wheels, but they're both at the back. Together, the whole combination is like an articulated delta trike but with four wheels (three seats, two drive chains, and a humoungous plastic box above the rear axle). Quite outrageous, in a very good way.SJS U+2 tandem trailer, we did once hook one up to a DF tandem trike, it was quite an awesome combination, 5 wheels 3 chains and four riders, actually very easy to handle and manoeuvre.
Chained to a post on Northbridge St yesterday afternoon was a tatty old silver MTB/Hybrid thingy. It had a KIA badge on the head tube and the words "THINK BEFORE YOU DRIVE" in red capitals on the down tube.
I didn't know KIA made bikes, but I think it wonderful that a car manufacturer can stick a warning against unnecessary car use on a bike :thumbsup:
Two grand bike, Poundland lock.
A Thorn Me'n'u2 ?
two (empty at the time) child seats at the front with adult pilot at rear.
One of these?
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7207/6946941938_2d53ef1b29_b.jpg)
Where's that? John's Bikes? The red somewhat Moultonish one looks like something I'd like to see but probably not ride.
Where's that? John's Bikes? The red somewhat Moultonish one looks like something I'd like to see but probably not ride.Today's picture was taken in Cadence in Bath (near the RUH).
That's where I got my Spacehopper - good shop!Where's that? John's Bikes? The red somewhat Moultonish one looks like something I'd like to see but probably not ride.Today's picture was taken in Cadence in Bath (near the RUH).
Yeah, well, as I said, somewhat -ish. A little bit, sort of, kind of thing, more or less but less than more?Where's that? John's Bikes? The red somewhat Moultonish one looks like something I'd like to see but probably not ride.
My bold: Heresy! ;D It hasn't got any suspension....
I'll restore cosmic balance with the below: Mrs Moultonaught's steed:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/westywagen/moulton_zps0aacb334.jpg)
for any Moulton purists the 'tail' was docked before we bought it...
How do you convert a Mountain BSO into a Cargo BSO on a budget?Shame it's not fixed. Just imagine how many points that would be worth on a Bristol v Hackney ride!
- Replace the back wheel with a small wheel
- Remove rear brake and mount rack and bin to it
- Add rack and wire stationery tray to the front
- Convert to SS (not sure why, but why not!)
- Replace rear suspension with extended fixed hardware to allow for the smaller wheel
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56557612/IMG_20150404_142146252.jpg)
Sorted!
That's nice. I didn't think the Moulton Speed had the extended cross bar, or did it get the Speed designation because of the lacking?
I'll restore cosmic balance with the below: Mrs Moultonaught's steed:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/westywagen/moulton_zps0aacb334.jpg)
for any Moulton purists the 'tail' was docked before we bought it...
That's nice. I didn't think the Moulton Speed had the extended cross bar, or did it get the Speed designation because of the lacking?
I'll restore cosmic balance with the below: Mrs Moultonaught's steed:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/westywagen/moulton_zps0aacb334.jpg)
for any Moulton purists the 'tail' was docked before we bought it...
I will get another Moulton one day (or get the missing parts to make the back wheel and rack I have into a full bike)!
Presumably the single-speed conversion is because 14" WSOs are only available in single speed.A rear mech would likely drag on the ground when you turn right.
Isn't that what King Arthur will ride back on, when he comes to save England etc etc?
Isn't that what King Arthur will ride back on, when he comes to save England etc etc?
:thumbsup:Isn't that what King Arthur will ride back on, when he comes to save England etc etc?
Explains Bryan Ferry's cycling habit too...
Yup. Special edition (http://www.raleigh.co.uk/Company/News/?item=/2014/08/14/new-raleigh-chopper-evokes-golden-era-of-motor-sport/) that's supposed to evoke the golden era of Formula 1 (but manages to evoke a JPS Capri).
Spotted in transition at Mountain Mayhem 2013
(http://www.fettle.cc/yacfImages/konaRust_bike.jpg)
(http://www.fettle.cc/yacfImages/konaRust_seatTube.JPG)
I lurve the way the clamp-on items have been refitted perfectly
(http://www.fettle.cc/yacfImages/konaRust_rBrake.JPG)
(http://www.fettle.cc/yacfImages/konaRust_headTube.JPG)
(http://www.fettle.cc/yacfImages/konaRust_chainset.JPG)
And the shiniest rear mech in the world
(http://www.fettle.cc/yacfImages/konaRust_rMech.JPG)
I'm pretty sure it's a Kona, the owner only had chance to tell me the rust took a few months to form naturally outside. The build was clearly a labour of love...
No pics sadly, but I saw a Kirk Precision MTB at Poole Harbour on Saturday.
My first geared bike was a dull-green Grubb 8) - 531, half-chrome forks, SA 3-speed and flat bars.
Unfortunately a small frame, so I grew out of it by about age 13 or 14. </sigh>
A convoy of 5 recumbent - nay, horizontal! -handcyclists between Long Marston & Wingrave in leafy Bucks. And it looked very like there was one solo, and two tandems! They should have had "convoi exceptionnel" plates!! I'd always assume that the cranks would be conventional - 180 degree opposed - but all these had 0 degree separation between left and right "pedal"
There are two main styles of handcycles. One is the fully reclined, more aerodynamic type that doesn't require any torso movement (useful for riders who don't have that option). The second has the rider more upright, closer to a wheelchair position, which allows the rider to use their torso muscles for extra power, at the expense of greater wind resistance. An image search for "handcycle racing" will show both types pretty quickly.
Interested to see that Japanese utility bikes, Mamachari (short for Mama's chariot), are being imported by an east London shop:Noah (who owns the shop) is great.
http://mamachari.co.uk (http://mamachari.co.uk)
Have ridden these in Japan, very practical, with a nurses lock built in (the sort that projects a bar into the wheel).
One of these in Gunners Park, Shoebury.
http://www.greyp.com/gallery
Very not legal - goes up to 70kph, apparently, and the website claims a battery range of 120km on an 80 minute charge.
Zoinks! The Blue Thunder model appears to have twin front discs – that's more than most small motorbikes!
At Manor Park* Sation. Not quite what you expect so far out in East London.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5734/22200666045_966147d227_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zPNdye)
20150822_105821 (https://flic.kr/p/zPNdye) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
* No, not Manor House, Manor Park, they're nowhere near each other!
Sooo much going on here. Imperial College, London.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5643/22210997021_a5cdbaef3f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zQHaAv)
20150911_165443 (https://flic.kr/p/zQHaAv) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
Sooo much going on here. Imperial College, London.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5643/22210997021_a5cdbaef3f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zQHaAv)
20150911_165443 (https://flic.kr/p/zQHaAv) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
That would not look out of place on Yourbikehatesyou's Facebook page. ;D
https://www.facebook.com/Yourbikehatesyou-244725472237310/
Surely the unexpected thing is that it has brakes. Two of them and they appear to function.At Manor Park* Sation. Not quite what you expect so far out in East London.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5734/22200666045_966147d227_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zPNdye)
20150822_105821 (https://flic.kr/p/zPNdye) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
* No, not Manor House, Manor Park, they're nowhere near each other!
Oh, the buggers are everywhere - there are plenty of fauxies with colour-coordinated rims and chains in Pompey, never mind the ironic beards and pomaded quiffs.
"'ipsters, sah! Thahsahnds of 'em..."
Sooo much going on here. Imperial College, London.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5643/22210997021_a5cdbaef3f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zQHaAv)
20150911_165443 (https://flic.kr/p/zQHaAv) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr
Crossing Putney Bridge - I then stopped to take photos as he sedately rode up New Kings Road. He stopped for photos (including me taking a couple with his camera).
No real reason seemed to be the concept behind the machine. But a little bit of fabulous to cheer up a Monday:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COTgfElWgAA-9Hu.jpg:large)
I liked this bike because it's so obviously fit for purpose, and exactly what its owner needs. Also, nice cycling helmet.Yes. It's the antithesis of cycling and the epitome of transport.
Five Interesting Tandems (https://www.freedating.co.uk/articles/5-unromantically-tricky-tandem-bicycles.html)The tandem unicycle is a wonderfully bonkers idea.
Five Interesting Tandems (https://www.freedating.co.uk/articles/5-unromantically-tricky-tandem-bicycles.html)
Of the two I much prefer the Raleigh . . .
. . . as for the other, file under 'It'll never catch on!'
Five Interesting Tandems (https://www.freedating.co.uk/articles/5-unromantically-tricky-tandem-bicycles.html)
I remember, long ago, a fast-looking tandem where the stoker sat in front, facing backwards. Presumably it was intended that their back should act as a fairing. ???
Of the two I much prefer the Raleigh . . .I remember my neighbour had a sixteen when I was a kid.
. . . as for the other, file under 'It'll never catch on!'
Yesterday, as I was on my way to the tip, I spied a Idai-alike walking bike thingy. Strange to see it out here...
What's with the breadboard and wires on that Carlton?Front light? It looks like an LED to me.
Is it a suicide bomb bike?
Surely vertical is the correct and natural orientation for a Chopper?
You probly get lots of Maximuses in London and Mordor and suchlike.
I think there is a fair number of Maximi on pedicab duty in that there Lundun ton.
An obvious fake - the real thing would have triangular 'tubes'.
Unless the chain wraps round the chain wheel (how ??), I predict quite a bit of chain slip.
I saw that image last week on WeTransfer's opening page, it intrigued me to the point that I took a screen grab of it.
Something not quite right about it in a CGI kind of way - never mind the mechanics of it....
The website it comes from
http://www.gianlucagimini.it
Is that of a designer, who's work appears to be CGI heavy.
Just sayin'.......
Man gets strangers to draw bicycles from memory then renders them in 3D.
http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html
:o
From the same designer....
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1718/26411119592_3744996feb_b.jpg)
Chained to a post on Northbridge St yesterday afternoon was a tatty old silver MTB/Hybrid thingy. It had a KIA badge on the head tube and the words "THINK BEFORE YOU DRIVE" in red capitals on the down tube.
I didn't know KIA made bikes, but I think it wonderful that a car manufacturer can stick a warning against unnecessary car use on a bike :thumbsup:
Today, for a little while, I got to play with this beastie-
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7712/26272754133_c5a3e70503_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/G2CJtx)Photo0267 (https://flic.kr/p/G2CJtx) by fuzzy4130 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/59790646@N05/), on Flickr
From the same designer....
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1718/26411119592_3744996feb_b.jpg)
How long will that head tube remain attached to the rest of the bike if the rider is so foolish as to use the front brake :facepalm: Although given that the brake levers occupy a different time zone from the handlebar grips perhaps that's less of an issue than might be supposed.
Today, for a little while, I got to play with this beastie-
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7712/26272754133_c5a3e70503_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/G2CJtx)Photo0267 (https://flic.kr/p/G2CJtx) by fuzzy4130 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/59790646@N05/), on Flickr
Had a go on one of those at York last year. It does wicked endos. Sadly there weren't any Sands Of Doom to hand to really test it out on.
From the same designer....
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1718/26411119592_3744996feb_b.jpg)
How long will that head tube remain attached to the rest of the bike if the rider is so foolish as to use the front brake :facepalm: Although given that the brake levers occupy a different time zone from the handlebar grips perhaps that's less of an issue than might be supposed.
S'funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing m'self young Larrers.
Actually, what the hell's happened the the chain stays!!?
Methinks you haven't read the article?
They are 3D renderings of bicycles based on people's drawings-from-memory of what a bicycle looks like (it turns out that people are surprisingly bad at remembering how a bicycle fits together). For once it's not designer cluelessness that's at fault.
SCIENCE: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/~rlawson/cycleweb.html
Today, for a little while, I got to play with this beastie-
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7712/26272754133_c5a3e70503_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/G2CJtx)Photo0267 (https://flic.kr/p/G2CJtx) by fuzzy4130 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/59790646@N05/), on Flickr
Had a go on one of those at York last year. It does wicked endos. Sadly there weren't any Sands Of Doom to hand to really test it out on.
My chum Mr Hill has one, which he brought to Battle Mountain last year. Wasted on the motel car park...
A chrome Carlton track bike with Airlite hubs, Chater Lea cranks and inch pitch block chain. Seen in my garage after a friend said he was running out of storage room and thrust it upon me.Bottom bracket height should be fine, probably 6 1/2 cranks, if so all ok. New tyres will be needed, old rubber goes hard, and therefore slippy. The late Bob Maitland fitted some lovingly kept Dunlops for a Manchester vets worlds, and promptly slid down the banking every time he got off the cote.
Now interested as to whether it meets the specification for the Olympic velodrome, which might lead to riding there.
A chrome Carlton track bike with Airlite hubs, Chater Lea cranks and inch pitch block chain. Seen in my garage after a friend said he was running out of storage room and thrust it upon me.Bottom bracket height should be fine, probably 6 1/2 cranks, if so all ok. New tyres will be needed, old rubber goes hard, and therefore slippy. The late Bob Maitland fitted some lovingly kept Dunlops for a Manchester vets worlds, and promptly slid down the banking every time he got off the cote.
Now interested as to whether it meets the specification for the Olympic velodrome, which might lead to riding there.
A chrome Carlton track bike with Airlite hubs, Chater Lea cranks and inch pitch block chain. Seen in my garage after a friend said he was running out of storage room and thrust it upon me.Bottom bracket height should be fine, probably 6 1/2 cranks, if so all ok. New tyres will be needed, old rubber goes hard, and therefore slippy. The late Bob Maitland fitted some lovingly kept Dunlops for a Manchester vets worlds, and promptly slid down the banking every time he got off the cote.
Now interested as to whether it meets the specification for the Olympic velodrome, which might lead to riding there.
New tyres were on the cards anyway but point noted.
It seems that the Lee Valley velodrome has specific requirements regarding tyres (e.g. no Michelins) and even get upset about cogs on double-sided hubs. https://ebookings.leevalleypark.org.uk/docs/track-clothing-spec.pdf The accreditation process seems very drawn out, particularly if you can't get to sessions during a working week.
I saw a Circe Helios on Monday, with dad and little daughter aboard. The first I've seen in the wild, I think, other than Butterfly and Nye's (which doesn't count as "wild" really, but certainly real life!)We saw one on Friday in Henleaze, perhaps the same one.
I saw one in Richmond Park last week. Matching jerseys for mum and dad, kid in a kiddy seat and a trailer with a mahoosive hard case box on it. Very cool.I saw a Circe Helios on Monday, with dad and little daughter aboard. The first I've seen in the wild, I think, other than Butterfly and Nye's (which doesn't count as "wild" really, but certainly real life!)We saw one on Friday in Henleaze, perhaps the same one.
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A Klein mountain bike in orange, mostly. I swear it had a hinge in the middle. Did Klein make a folder?
Flat terrain presumably. The first hint of up around here and they're walking . . .
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_8781.jpg)"It's for audax- I couldn't risk a low spoke count"
Saw this at Tesco this morning.Is it an electric bike? Is it a moped? No, it's the latest prototype high-mobility reconnaissance battlefield vehicle from the MoD!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4HnqCia4HoI/V0wHOg7415I/AAAAAAAAJvU/7smrA-lgjiYsUeTf5oCUjmV4HGwanB-LwCCo/s720/p5303336.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zjesdETJEQ4/V0wHPYYFCWI/AAAAAAAAJvU/9n-yVCf7lxYSmdW-rum5yiGp8LTqaeelwCCo/s720/p5303337.jpg)
A2B Octave.
A double top tube machine (one above the other as opposed to side by side) with moustache type bars with a pilot wearing an cap and a Molteini jersey. Seen at about 6:45 p.m. yesterday as I exited The Wee Waif in Charvill
(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t207/andrew_sw/Copenhagen_Dursley_zpsynynmbtf.jpg)
Sunday, on the A836 a bit east of Bettyhill, going into a brisk headwind.
A Copenhagen Dursley, with a Pinion gearbox (failed to ask whether 12 or 18-speed), belt drive, hydraulic discs and dynohub.
Clever child seat extension. No idea if it effects folding though,
Just remembered that a couple of weeks ago on the Border Raid audax I saw a Velomobile-type thing somewhere near Penrith.
Milan SL velomobile in darkest Derbyshire today but since I know the owner anyway it probably doesn't count.
I love the Dutch. It's the gaffer tape and brand new Schwalbes that I liked.It's not there at the moment! ;D
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160831/55d0217b259613180881434928527aa4.jpg)
I love the Dutch. It's the gaffer tape and brand new Schwalbes that I liked.It's not there at the moment! ;D
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160831/55d0217b259613180881434928527aa4.jpg)
(Currently enjoying a coffee in Wassenaar)
What I really like is the knitting around the frame tubes.I love the Dutch. It's the gaffer tape and brand new Schwalbes that I liked.It's not there at the moment! ;D
(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160831/55d0217b259613180881434928527aa4.jpg)
(Currently enjoying a coffee in Wassenaar)
Splendid observational skills. Best coffee I had there was in the first ice cream van on the beach. Delicious!
I saw a chap with his Chopper in his hand at London Bridge this morning.
My grate frend Mr Woolrich made something similar out of half a Bickerton many years ago.
My grate frend Mr Woolrich made something similar out of half a Bickerton many years ago.
My grate frend Mr Woolrich made something similar out of half a Bickerton many years ago.
That sounds amazing - are there any photos?
My grate frend Mr Woolrich made something similar out of half a Bickerton many years ago.
Intentionally?
Google, TimO and yacf to the rescue:
...
Neat. How does the steering work on that ? Are the handlebars operating like a tiller ?
...
(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/HPV/Album1/Image03_128.jpg)
Being ridden by a younger, slimmer and rather less hairy Mr Larrington.
This IHPVA thing's just a cover for a tall people convention, isn't it?
Rear wheel steering, front wheel drive, cargo trike, tadpole config.
Ted Wood track bike in a Belgian bike shop:
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8042/29827082266_34fda706dc_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MrHAp5)
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8705/29593074493_49910e5142_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M63f3i)
PA090081 (https://flic.kr/p/M63f3i) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr. Double-decker recumbent tandem. No, I don't know why.
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.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5621/30319522582_feba9a638f_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NcetKm)Chopper ! (https://flic.kr/p/NcetKm) by sg310 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/24775321@N02/), on Flickr
Strewth. I struggle to think of a set of circumstances where that would be my choice of ride.
That front hub doesn't look very Amish :)
Strewth. I struggle to think of a set of circumstances where that would be my choice of ride.
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.
Are they charging it from that lamppost?Perhaps via a solar panel? :D
They look like something assembled from a box of scraps in a junkyard.
I think it looks quite good. But then I also think Nokon cables, which according to road.cc are one of the nine most bad-ass components you can put on your bike, (http://road.cc/content/buyers-guide/212866-9-components-make-your-bike-look-badass) look like they belong on a Thorn with 10" of spacers on the steerer.They look designed to collect dirt to me.
They look designed to collect dirt to me.
Actually the only thing on that entire list that looks 'badass' to me is the trpbrake.
Interestingly (FSVO interesting) the last time I encountered a BikeE was outside Birmingham Town Hall.
Probably a dark-side discussion, but few match this for getting double-takes.Linky no worky.
(http://cruzbike.com/forum/attachments/bike-reclined-jpg.3532/)
Needs a frame builder to sort it out.
old, pre 1966Pre by a long way. More like 1930s. As for a beast to ride, frames of this sort of geometry is where many of us started our tandem riding. I had 3 of them in the 1970s, an E.H Carter, a Sun Wasp and a Claud Butler Silver Ace. They are perfectly fine, but just like slack angled solo machines of the time it feels to us as if you have to start turning into a corner a fortnight before you get there. In 1981 I had a custom tandem frame built with modern geometry - a revelation.
Needs a frame builder to sort it out.
That's a design feature. Note "Detachable top bar..." In the advert.
[Apologies if you comment was tongue-in-cheek.]
It certainly looks an interesting machine...
or what the rear brakes are?It is a Lion brake from the 1930s. I have failed to easily find any internet information but have a picture in a book which describes it as "low end".
A full-sus BSO with only one front wheel nut :o
In a week, I'll be using it to transport a (live) beehive through London.
Chance of a spectacular Darwin awardIn a week, I'll be using it to transport a (live) beehive through London.
What could *possibly* go wrong? :D
The Brox has a rear differential gear (and a clutch). Not a traditional layout.
What could *possibly* go wrong? :DChance of a spectacular Darwin award
I survivedWhat could *possibly* go wrong? :DChance of a spectacular Darwin award
A good ratchet strap around the hive will keep it together, and a polystyrene bung in the front door will keep the bees inside. Should be fairly safe as long as the bung stays put!
How about the bees? :)About a dozen managed to escape the hive into the mesh wrapping, in transit but nobody was stung and most of them found their way back into the hive once unwrapped and in place. I'm sure the jolts of the trip worried the hive some, but they seem to be reoriented and calm now.
(http://malin.me.uk/IMG_0109.JPG)
This has been left unused, and unlocked at work for 3 months now.
I reported it to business protection, with the same lack of response as when a company vehicle nearly ran me off the road.
Today I saw a sensibly dressed man riding a reasonable Trek hybrid with the forks on backwards :o . How is it that he's not noticed that his bike looks different to every other bike in Oxford (and that the V brakes are on the back of his forks)?
I didn't see it but Dr Miss R did. Can anyone identify what it is?
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4307/35887970871_a2386aaeb3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WFieqt)35838160822_ac6df17f11_o (https://flic.kr/p/WFieqt) by Russell Wiles (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156615223@N02/), on Flickr
Half a dozen Gocycles belting towards Kingston high street at a rate of knots Wednesday evening. I'd not seen a multiple of them before.
https://gocycle.com
Imagines normally motorized morons 'being green' taking flat pack wardrobes home, balanced precariously ACROSS the bike...
A nice Airnimal on the train this morning, with a custom paint job
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/979/28357718778_311a99dfc5_c.jpg)
Errmm...
I see! Being used with Vs makes it look all the odder though!
Never seen a triplet recumbent, although there was the joke comedy machine that Jean-Charles Gosselin built as a protest against the high entry fees for the 1999 World Championships in Interlaken. Prone rider at the front, upright one in the middle and recumbent at the back. All operating the same cranks :oRidden by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie?
He lives with his mum, right...?
. . . in an orderly fashion, M'lud!
A friend claims to have seen a French family on a triplet recumbent* with a child trailer and two children on solos. On a UK campsite.
*I googled and found nothing like it, just one where the rear stoker faces backwards.
A Brompton e-bike.
Could this be the ultimate city bike?
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/851/43046288625_edb98915c1.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28zRtU6)Fika time for police in Stockholm, Sweden (https://flic.kr/p/28zRtU6) by J C-B (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jcb1973/), on Flickr
electric unicycle
My initial thought was of the traditional kind with a hub motor fitted, which would seem to be a way of getting to the faceplant a heck of a lot faster...
On a social ride today, with a local group, a Redmount Roller recumbent trike. (if you were at Mildenhall cyling festival, you may have seen it there)I rode on one of them on a test ride years ago. I recall it having a frightening amount of brake steer :)
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My initial thought was of the traditional kind with a hub motor fitted, which would seem to be a way of getting to the faceplant a heck of a lot faster...
My initial thought was of the traditional kind with a hub motor fitted, which would seem to be a way of getting to the faceplant a heck of a lot faster...
The ever-inventive Justin Lemire-Elmore has that sorted (http://www.ebikes.ca/news/say-what/). :o
Girl on a pink sort of mixte frame, obviously rescued from somewhere and resprayed. Singlespeed and Deep V rims. Common sort of thing in London but not out here in mouth-breathing, Brexit-voting yokeldom.My bold.
My daughters said she had a nice bottom. I was looking at the bike.
In the centre of town, a chap on what looked to be a homebrew-painted MTB(SO?). So far, so normal, but it was the full-face MTB helmet, leathers, and hi-viz vest, along with the moped plastic tailbox mounted to a seatpost beam rack that really caught the eye.
They would have fitted the aesthetic (which is: lost your motorcycle license?), but alas, no.
In the centre of town, a chap on what looked to be a homebrew-painted MTB(SO?). So far, so normal, but it was the full-face MTB helmet, leathers, and hi-viz vest, along with the moped plastic tailbox mounted to a seatpost beam rack that really caught the eye.
Could be that he was returning to his place of abode or labour in the miles of urban sprawl following a Sunday night microadventure?
Could be that he was returning to his place of abode or labour in the miles of urban sprawl following a Sunday night microadventure?
The thought had occurred, but the rucksack looked too small - and the bike too clean - for this to be the end of an adventure.
Chap on a dutch cargo bike this am in Salford. Child in the frontcargo section and small child pedalling along behind.
Chap on a dutch cargo bike this am in Salford. Child in the frontcargo section and small child pedalling along behind.
I've seen a dutch cargo in Salford before. Looked surprisingly maneuverable.
Gut reaction. 6 months of commuting, covered in shite and the biggest ever rejected warranty claim...
Only in the web, but it is original
https://www.ceramicspeed.com/en/driven/
Gut reaction. 6 months of commuting, covered in shite and the biggest ever rejected warranty claim...
I was having similar thoughts. Fully enclose it in an oilbath or something, and it might work.
In the dim & distant past ISTR someone - possibly Bob Dixon or maybe his Mikeness - saying that the real difficulty was in making a shaft that would withstand the torque generated by the average human. He explained it as the 'instantaneous load' being much higher than even automotive transmission components could withstand. The driveshaft appears to be a carbon fibre tube. There might be some wonder science employed in its construction . . .
Block size is (semi) independent of cubic capacity - it's literally about how big the block is. You can get 400ci small blocks and 350ci big blocks. Big blocks have a higher ceiling in terms of capacity and are much heavier though. The original Shelby Cobra 427 used a big block. The engine probably weighed twice as much as the rest of the car (and the passengers).In the dim & distant past ISTR someone - possibly Bob Dixon or maybe his Mikeness - saying that the real difficulty was in making a shaft that would withstand the torque generated by the average human. He explained it as the 'instantaneous load' being much higher than even automotive transmission components could withstand. The driveshaft appears to be a carbon fibre tube. There might be some wonder science employed in its construction . . .
My e-chum Bill, who is a big strong lad, noted that even an average human engine can generate as much torque as a small-block V8*. Quite what makes a V8 block "small" is debatable but the cutoff seems to be somewhere north of 6 litres.
* he's USAnian
All together now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA
https://youtu.be/TFCuE5rHbPA
(OT: what are the Liverpool hire scheme bikes like to ride? I noticed they all use shaft drive, and wondered how they held up under typical (ab)use...)
(OT: what are the Liverpool hire scheme bikes like to ride? I noticed they all use shaft drive, and wondered how they held up under typical (ab)use...)
The shaft-drive Mobikes (that I've ridden in That London, and That Berlin) have a single, very low gear so you have to spin at 150 rpm to go anywhere. This must greatly limit the amount of torque you can put through the shaft.
(Second generation Mobikes that use chain drives and 3-speed IGH are more common now, or at least were until Mobike retreated to a pointlessly small operating area in London)
Do you know who it was? Was he a Brit?
A 'tandem' unicycle.Witchcraft!
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Here's another.Troublemaker.
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Spotted on giphy.com, tagged #unicycle.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4882/45774813484_ab9b77aeb8_c.jpg)That rear mech is dilapidated with a capital f.
Nice homemade skirt/luggage guard. Shame about the tyre and general air of dilapidation.
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2019_01_25_11_30_04.sized.jpg)'Slectric! :o
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.
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.
My bold.
This. Very much so.
£956.13?
I don't think so.
How many attempts have there been at all-electric drivetrains? Folding utility bikes might be one application where they just might make sense, especially if you can add a small battery for e-assist.
The efficiency gets you if you rely on human power alone, but as you say, that's not such a problem if it's an e-assist bike anyway. It's something that would be interesting to play with, as you effectively get a software-defined CVT. And no exposed oily bits.
I suspect the compelling argument against it is that you can make it even more mechanically simple by swapping the genset at the cranks for a simple sensor and adding a bit more battery capacity instead.
Which makes me wonder in a rules-lawyery kind of way: is a vehicle with a 250W motor and cranks that aren't connected to anything but a pedal sensor, a road-legal bicycle?
How many attempts have there been at all-electric drivetrains? Folding utility bikes might be one application where they just might make sense, especially if you can add a small battery for e-assist.
The efficiency gets you if you rely on human power alone, but as you say, that's not such a problem if it's an e-assist bike anyway. It's something that would be interesting to play with, as you effectively get a software-defined CVT. And no exposed oily bits.
I suspect the compelling argument against it is that you can make it even more mechanically simple by swapping the genset at the cranks for a simple sensor and adding a bit more battery capacity instead.
Biplane handlebars.
Wrong on so many levels.
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Wrong on so many levels.
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the pipe lagging and duct tape concealing the S&S coupler on the toptubeThat part could well be rider protection. My left knee & ankle orbit in very weird 3 or possibly 4 dimensional arcs. A permanent bruise on my inner thigh is one result and at the moment I have a sore patch on my calf resulting from chafing on some new water bottles. The latter will stop once I've worn the mould lines smooth. Frame bags, especially velcro attached are an absolute no-no. If I had S&S couplings on a bike I would most certainly need to protect myself from them in a manner such as this.
Riding our canal towpath on one of those would be interesting, especially on the bits where it's ~1m wide.
Path whereon I met a 4-wheel "tandem"* coming the other way on Thursday, sedately pedalled by a collection of old bones on side-by-side saddles. Fortunately there was a verge wide enough for them to panic onto. I might take a life jacket next time I go that way.
* it can't really be a tandem because tandem (from the Latin for eventually) means one behind the other. Periugum mightn't be a bad alternative, with overtones of being yoked together.
The pedant subsides, for the nonce.
Riding our canal towpath on one of those would be interesting, especially on the bits where it's ~1m wide.
Path whereon I met a 4-wheel "tandem"* coming the other way on Thursday, sedately pedalled by a collection of old bones on side-by-side saddles. Fortunately there was a verge wide enough for them to panic onto. I might take a life jacket next time I go that way.
* it can't really be a tandem because tandem (from the Latin for eventually) means one behind the other. Periugum mightn't be a bad alternative, with overtones of being yoked together.
The pedant subsides, for the nonce.
A second pedant notes that the correct term for such a side-by-side vee-hickle is a sociable, at least in English As She Is Spoke.
Couple of tadpole trikes descending Col de Chioulha southbound.Upright or recumbent? Upright tadpoles are rare indeed, so if you saw a couple that is probably your quota for a few years.
Isn't Denali mountainous? I want to know what this guy's thighs are like!
Isn't Denali mountainous? I want to know what this guy's thighs are like!
Denali itself is the highest mountain in North Leftpondia but you can't ride a bike up it ;D The road from Fairbanks south to the Denali National Park isn't that lumpy, but to get there from Deadhorse there's the small matter of the Dalton Highway, wot is about 400 miles of mostly dirt and crossing a near-5,000 foot pass and many other lumps too before you get to the not-at-all-flat Elliott Highway for another hundred-odd miles to Fairbanks.
With a hat tip to Wobly John, this got it's inaugural ride yesterday:
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Noice going down hill and around corners, not so good for pedalling (that's right crank at 6 o'clock, left knee on left pedal). Will have to try a super long seatpost, although I imagine that'll take it into tall swing bike territory and that could get interesting.
Presumably not this guy...
https://youtu.be/OTkob_0B2oc
One of these fuglies came into the shop for work on the brakes today
https://www.motoparilla.it/italian-e-bike/carbon-mimetica-part-1/
I dunno about work on the brakes. This thing hit all the branches as it fell out of the ugly tree. Big, heavy, flexible as fuck and very pointless. The one we had in today had a quad light set up on the bars as well. I don't know how much the whole rig cost but some folk have more money than sense or taste.
I note he has dangly cables which make Cycleman's look positively well tidied.
I note he has dangly cables which make Cycleman's look positively well tidied.
At least they're bowden cables, rather than anything electrical. Bet they're good at collecting foliage.
We supply groupsets and advice to a fettler of bamboo bikes.
We supply groupsets and advice to a fettler of bamboo bikes.
"Next time try metal"? ;D
Bamboo framed bike outside Stirchley library.I didn't know Stirchley had a library, and I lived there for a couple of years.
Hopefully this won't end up in the Sh!te Courier thread.
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IMG_4084_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2hsECxi) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Spotted an interesting one earlier: I was passed by a muggle-looking cyclist (flat pedals, civvy shoes, hi-vis jacket under rucksack, waterproof trousers) going well on some kind of hybrid. Then I spotted the belt drive and gave it a bit more effort to try to satisfy my curiosity.... Large grey rear hub that I didn't recognise as a Rohloff, Alfine or Nexus, but might have passed for an older NuVinci if you squint (it was bigger and less shiny than the Sturmey-Archer hubs). There was a black bottle in the one cage on the downtube, so if that was a battery, it was a fairly stealth one. Just the two brake cables at the handlebars, didn't spot an obvious eBike console (though I only caught up for a second at some traffic lights before we went different ways, so didn't get a good look at the controls).
???
My gut instinct says some sort of stealth-ninja e-bike, in which case kudos to the manufacturer for commuter-oriented minimalism.
How about this one.
Belt drive, bottle battery, two cables, no handlebar controls.
https://www.gtech.co.uk/ebikes/ebike-sport.html
Ice cream update: Henley Ice Cream appear to be operating some sort of self-service ice cream dispensary out of the (presumed) owner's front garden in Ullenhall. I'll slow down and get a proper look next time.
Someone just went by my window effortlessly riding a unicycle. It looked very simple.
I was just strolling back from the bakery and saw a three-wheeled device which turned out to be basically a wheelchair minus its little front wheels and a chunky front wheel attached. Electric assist in the front wheel, I think. And a dog on a lead attached to the contraption. I'm not sure if the chair detached or was permanently part of the trike, though I think probably the latter. Whether the dog pulls the trike or the trike pulls the dog is hard to say as they were heading down a big hill at the time.Back when I used to work in Woking I used to see a 3rd wheel chained up to the downpipe outside the front of a small office building. It had 'pedals', it had one wheel, it had odd bracketry and a very strangely shaped frame. Obviously some kind of bike but what on earth?. I could not for the life of me figure out what it was. Until, of course, one day I saw it attached to the front of the owners wheelchair hand cranked and progressing well towards Horsell.
Anyway, I came here to post this (https://mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/auction-dates/vehicles/15369-new-entry-quadracycle):
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It looks heavy and uncomfortable and yet I find myself strangely taken by it.
An ordinary in Uxbridge High Street today. Ridden by a young woman in modern clothing, flashing rear lights (didn't see the front), looked like a modern build rather than antique, apparently being ridden as a means of transport rather than for leisure. Rider slowed right down before the pelican crossing at red to avoid a stop and restart.
I suppose it's a way of minimising the chances of a SMIDSY!
Jungnickel?An ordinary in Uxbridge High Street today. Ridden by a young woman in modern clothing, flashing rear lights (didn't see the front), looked like a modern build rather than antique, apparently being ridden as a means of transport rather than for leisure. Rider slowed right down before the pelican crossing at red to avoid a stop and restart.
I suppose it's a way of minimising the chances of a SMIDSY!
Possibly Kat (NOTP).
An ordinary in Uxbridge High Street today. [...]
I suppose it's a way of minimising the chances of a SMIDSY!
Yes.Jungnickel?An ordinary in Uxbridge High Street today. Ridden by a young woman in modern clothing, flashing rear lights (didn't see the front), looked like a modern build rather than antique, apparently being ridden as a means of transport rather than for leisure. Rider slowed right down before the pelican crossing at red to avoid a stop and restart.
I suppose it's a way of minimising the chances of a SMIDSY!
Possibly Kat (NOTP).
Hase Pino and Circe Morpheus are the common ones.
A guy riding a mountain bike down Charing Cross Road with a normal size front wheel and a 16 or 20 inch rear wheel. The derailleur was close to dragging on the ground. It actually looked quite fun.
Between Fishbourne & Bosham today, head-on it looked like a wheelchair being pushed by an upright bike. The apparent distance between the pilot and the lady in the wheelchair seemed small - so some form of trike ? I suspect you could feel quite exposed at the front.
https://www.specialbikesuk.com/duet maybe
Is that a ZEM? http://www.zembikes.com/
When we did Cyclemagic events, we were lent a 4 seater one by the predecessors of 'Get cycling' but had to haul it from Abbey park, throught the centre of Leicester, and out to near the race-course - one drivechain was 'stuck in top and the other in bottom, and I think the front drivetrains wern't working at all - so most of the time only one person (out of the four on board) was doing all the work.
A Brompton with a Suspiciously Large front hub. Closer examination showed it to be an official Brompton E conversion. I'm guessing the battery was in the bar bag, on account of the wires going in there.
Among the huge numbers of bikes on the Bristol-Bath Railway Path today – I've never seen it anywhere near so busy – was a family group of dad on a 90s mtb, little girl on a Frog or something similar, and boy on a trail-gator thing – seat, pedals, back wheel, no front wheel, hitches on to back of dad's bike – but this one was recumbent! First I've seen.
Among the huge numbers of bikes on the Bristol-Bath Railway Path today – I've never seen it anywhere near so busy – was a family group of dad on a 90s mtb, little girl on a Frog or something similar, and boy on a trail-gator thing – seat, pedals, back wheel, no front wheel, hitches on to back of dad's bike – but this one was recumbent! First I've seen.
Cool. Closest thing I've come across is the Hase Trets which is a child-sized delta trike that can have the front wheel replaced with a hitch to make it a trailer, erm, bike. (Does that make the usual kind a trailer-unicycle?)
Was it the WeeHoo Igo? https://www.weehoo.co.uk/Don't think it was that, and the kid looked a bit bigger than those. Good suggestion though!
I've seen a couple of them in use.
Double-track two-wheeler would describe it ; but dicycle is neater!Among the huge numbers of bikes on the Bristol-Bath Railway Path today – I've never seen it anywhere near so busy – was a family group of dad on a 90s mtb, little girl on a Frog or something similar, and boy on a trail-gator thing – seat, pedals, back wheel, no front wheel, hitches on to back of dad's bike – but this one was recumbent! First I've seen.
Cool. Closest thing I've come across is the Hase Trets which is a child-sized delta trike that can have the front wheel replaced with a hitch to make it a trailer, erm, bike. (Does that make the usual kind a trailer-unicycle?)
I've come across the term 'Dicycle' to differentiate a vehicle with two wheels side-by-side from a bicycle with wheels front and rear. Abbreviating in the normal way would create all sorts of confusion, I fear.
Back in the century before last it was a toss-up whether dicycle or bicycle would become the accepted term for yer average bike.Was it the WeeHoo Igo? https://www.weehoo.co.uk/Don't think it was that, and the kid looked a bit bigger than those. Good suggestion though!
I've seen a couple of them in use.Double-track two-wheeler would describe it ; but dicycle is neater!Among the huge numbers of bikes on the Bristol-Bath Railway Path today – I've never seen it anywhere near so busy – was a family group of dad on a 90s mtb, little girl on a Frog or something similar, and boy on a trail-gator thing – seat, pedals, back wheel, no front wheel, hitches on to back of dad's bike – but this one was recumbent! First I've seen.
Cool. Closest thing I've come across is the Hase Trets which is a child-sized delta trike that can have the front wheel replaced with a hitch to make it a trailer, erm, bike. (Does that make the usual kind a trailer-unicycle?)
I've come across the term 'Dicycle' to differentiate a vehicle with two wheels side-by-side from a bicycle with wheels front and rear. Abbreviating in the normal way would create all sorts of confusion, I fear.
You could buy plain-gauge 531 in gert big long lengths back in the Olden Days - the main chassis tubes of the pedal car we built over the winter of 1982-3 must have been at least 2 metres long. Butted would have been a different matter.
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 issuesI 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.
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
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
Giant Escape Mini One ?
Edited to get the name right
The sentries report Saracens to the southwest. Thousands of 'em!
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Trying to figure out how that steers ???it will steer just fine. Imagine the stem is in its usual position on a long head tube and nobody would see a problem. I have a small wheeler with a 130mm stem and it is fine. Long stem needed to try to get a reasonable riding position. I would certainly want to push the saddle backwards on the bike pictured.
Looks like they've blurred out a rear number plate, which makes me think it might be a Cedric Lynch 'leccy motorcycle.
Not sure if this belongs here or The Dark Side...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-49393998
The stem is similar to the Mezzo folding bike from about 20 years ago.I have, and still love, a Mezzo.
I used to have a Daewoo which had a very compact frame and did the handlebars more elegantly with a long curved stem that had a quick release from the steerer tube to ‘fold’ the bike.
Definitely rendered.
By someone withgoodnot that good rendering skills, but poor knowledge of mechanics/engineering.
With the improbable front wheel spoking, that is just rendered, rather than reality.
With the improbable front wheel spoking, that is just rendered, rather than reality.
Such wheels exist and work in reality (https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/a/9084). They put much larger than normal twisting forces through the hub, so may not work for long.
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A bike mill that doesn't actually power anything apart from imagination and fairies.
Fixie, I hope?Chain's a little
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A bike mill that doesn't actually power anything apart from imagination and fairies.
Fixie, I hope?
Good U-tube on "The Car-Replacement Bicycle (the bakfiets)" here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA&ab_channel=NotJustBikes
Good U-tube on "The Car-Replacement Bicycle (the bakfiets)" here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA&ab_channel=NotJustBikes
I watched that earlier. I thought the child's eye view of the back of the car seat was a particularly powerful message.
Like one of the commenters, I realised that I can remember minute details of my parents' cars upholstery from when I was a child. I also mostly remember landmarks (bridges, interesting streetlights, fences, buildings with unusual roofs) from above eye level on certain routes.
When I'll die, I want ...The late Barry Mason was transported to his funeral service on a bicycle hearse towed by his son.(click to show/hide)
So the scout troop I am part of raises funds by selling donated second hand bikes with the higher quality / collectable / special bikes being ebayed. They are serviced and parts are scrounged where required. Anyway this time round the service team were on the ball because they recognised that a Kirk Magnesium framed bike ha seen donated. I will have to take a closer look this evening.His Leggship has one of those as a built up bike.
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Out on the MTB today and got chatting to the owner of this retro-tastic machine:
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Front suspension, hydraulic brakes, carbon wheels...
Out on the MTB today and got chatting to the owner of this retro-tastic machine:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53001130413_a959e00826_c.jpg)
Front suspension, hydraulic brakes, carbon wheels...
That bike would have probably given me feelings shall we say as a young lad
During my recent week in the Swiss Alps a couple of events crossed over with us that saw some pretty cool bikes coming through. All E-Bike but riggged up with what looked to be very home 'bodged' on the go charging via solar panel set ups. I took a few pics and thought some might find these of interest,
Spotted yesterday. Just...so many questions. ??? Name seems appropriate, though.It almost looks AI generated...
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Spotted yesterday. Just...so many questions. ??? Name seems appropriate, though.
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Spotted yesterday. Just...so many questions. ??? Name seems appropriate, though.
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Morbid curiosity got the better of me and I flexed my search engine-fu. This... thing... is sold by Cobra Bikes in Mordor:
https://www.cobrabikes.co.uk/collections/road
https://www.cobrabikes.co.uk/collections/road/products/cb-gl004w-26-inch-27-speed-carbon-steel-frame-road-bike
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.cobrabikes.co.uk
Whether it is worth even its sale price of £263 is an exercise left for the reader...
With all respect, may I suggest that you read the link again? The frame and forks are not made from carbon fibre composite, but "carbon steel" (gas pipe, to all intents and purposes).No, no.
It almost looks AI generated...
Morbid curiosity got the better of me and I flexed my search engine-fu. This... thing... is sold by Cobra Bikes in Mordor:
https://www.cobrabikes.co.uk/collections/road
https://www.cobrabikes.co.uk/collections/road/products/cb-gl004w-26-inch-27-speed-carbon-steel-frame-road-bike
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.cobrabikes.co.uk
Whether it is worth even its sale price of £263 is an exercise left for the reader...
Whereas I saw a Tommasini Tecno hand built Italian bike this morning
https://tommasinibicycle.com/tommasini-tecno-2/ (https://tommasinibicycle.com/tommasini-tecno-2/)
In shades of purple and silver. Absolutely gorgeous and full mechanical Campag
It’s had parts replaced over the years
The bike has been altered to carry out a trade of some description .. see the left hand
Pedal and stay…
Would it give clearance to attach an old-style sidecar?That was my guess too.
On Friday I saw what is probably the most unusual pedal cycle I've ever seen.I saw it again yesterday, in the same place, and can now add an eight feature.
Firstly, a recumbent.
Secondly, a trike.
Thirdly, a delta layout rather than the more common tadpole.
Fourthly, and this is where it gets interesting, front wheel drive.
Fifthly, a fixie.
Sixthly, not just a fixie but pedals fixed directly to the front hub, penny farthing style. But with a much smaller wheel, so a gear of about 26".
Seventhly, just for completeness, the world's largest headlight (looked like a spotlight from a rally car) mounted on top of a small wooden box.
Cycling to work today and passed a guy on what looked like a decent commuter bike. Looked at frame and was a univega which haven't heard of for a few years
On Friday I saw what is probably the most unusual pedal cycle I've ever seen.I saw it again yesterday, in the same place, and can now add an eight feature.
Firstly, a recumbent.
Secondly, a trike.
Thirdly, a delta layout rather than the more common tadpole.
Fourthly, and this is where it gets interesting, front wheel drive.
Fifthly, a fixie.
Sixthly, not just a fixie but pedals fixed directly to the front hub, penny farthing style. But with a much smaller wheel, so a gear of about 26".
Seventhly, just for completeness, the world's largest headlight (looked like a spotlight from a rally car) mounted on top of a small wooden box.
Eighthly, and we seem to be entering "just because we can" with this one, it has rear wheel steering. The front wheel is fixed in all senses (other than rotationally – I presume!). The steering is "leveraged" so that when you turn the under-seat bars to the left, the rear wheels turn to the right and you turn left.
That it's parked on the street in the same place a few days before New Year and on NYD makes me wonder who it belongs to. A local resident would be the obvious guess, but I've never seen it there before. So maybe a nearby employee who went out with colleagues on a New Year's lash and is going to ride it home, presumably, today. The two nearest businesses are Alpkit, who I'm sure have facilities for staff to keep bikes in, and a mistake agent... Could also be someone visiting nearby for Christmas-New Year, of course.
On Friday I saw what is probably the most unusual pedal cycle I've ever seen.I saw it again yesterday, in the same place, and can now add an eight feature.
Firstly, a recumbent.
Secondly, a trike.
Thirdly, a delta layout rather than the more common tadpole.
Fourthly, and this is where it gets interesting, front wheel drive.
Fifthly, a fixie.
Sixthly, not just a fixie but pedals fixed directly to the front hub, penny farthing style. But with a much smaller wheel, so a gear of about 26".
Seventhly, just for completeness, the world's largest headlight (looked like a spotlight from a rally car) mounted on top of a small wooden box.
Eighthly, and we seem to be entering "just because we can" with this one, it has rear wheel steering. The front wheel is fixed in all senses (other than rotationally – I presume!). The steering is "leveraged" so that when you turn the under-seat bars to the left, the rear wheels turn to the right and you turn left.
That it's parked on the street in the same place a few days before New Year and on NYD makes me wonder who it belongs to. A local resident would be the obvious guess, but I've never seen it there before. So maybe a nearby employee who went out with colleagues on a New Year's lash and is going to ride it home, presumably, today. The two nearest businesses are Alpkit, who I'm sure have facilities for staff to keep bikes in, and a mistake agent... Could also be someone visiting nearby for Christmas-New Year, of course.
As it is fixed I guess the rider could turn it into a 'more normal' rear wheel drive, front steering recumbent tadpole trike with the cunning use of a mirror to see where they are going.
Cycling to work today and passed a guy on what looked like a decent commuter bike. Looked at frame and was a univega which haven't heard of for a few years
Last Sunday, cycling with the local CTC group heading out of Chichester, we passed someone on an Ordinary bike. As in a Penny-Farthing. Not sure I'd be going that fast on such a contraption knowing the potholes around here. But he got a Chapeau from me.
Yesterday, a motorized pedal cycle. A small petrol engine bolted to the downtube and driving either the cranks or back wheel (it went past behind me from a side road so I didn't get a good look). Not sure why someone would go for this rather than an electric conversion, but hey.