Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 643633 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3000 on:** 30 December, 2021, 09:00:37 pm »

Heroic effort.

Pingu · « **Reply #3001 on:** 02 January, 2022, 03:57:06 pm »

IMG_9460_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3002 on:** 02 January, 2022, 05:45:20 pm »

Is this the "Look what Santa brought me" thread?

fd3 · « **Reply #3003 on:** 02 January, 2022, 07:12:59 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 30 December, 2021, 08:34:30 pm

Fixie, I hope?

Chain's a little

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #3004 on:** 02 January, 2022, 07:34:57 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 02 January, 2022, 03:57:06 pm

IMG_9460_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

You don’t see a lot of Stradas in the UK.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3005 on:** 03 January, 2022, 01:03:43 am »

You don’t see many VM's in the UK full stop. Also, I think it’s a carbon Quest — the words “carbon” and “Quest” written on the side in large friendly letters are a bit of a giveaway

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #3006 on:** 03 January, 2022, 06:02:20 am »

Oops yes, closed wheel boxes! Shocking error by me!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3007 on:** 03 January, 2022, 11:51:05 am »

What is the red projection on the right-hand side just below the mirror?

Pingu · « **Reply #3008 on:** 03 January, 2022, 11:57:18 am »

It looks like a light.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3009 on:** 03 January, 2022, 12:01:26 pm »

I thought that but it appears to be red and pointing forwards?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3010 on:** 03 January, 2022, 12:11:19 pm »

Frikkin' laser?

Pingu · « **Reply #3011 on:** 03 January, 2022, 12:12:12 pm »

The body's red, the lens is clear.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3012 on:** 03 January, 2022, 12:20:49 pm »

Ah. Need larger screen. Or sharper eyes.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #3013 on:** 03 January, 2022, 01:47:48 pm »

Maybe a camera?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3014 on:** 03 January, 2022, 04:50:31 pm »

I thought the black boxy object just above the right-hand mirror was a camera. Having viewed a full-size photo, I think it might be a GPS, and the object I was asking about is a light with a red body (but clear lens).

Kim · « **Reply #3015 on:** 03 January, 2022, 05:02:38 pm »

Looks like a Garmin Virb camera on the rider's right and a MTB-style conical-beam light with a red shell on the rider's left. The latter seems like an interesting decision.

Jaded · « **Reply #3016 on:** 03 January, 2022, 05:07:12 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 30 December, 2021, 08:34:30 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 30 December, 2021, 08:00:57 pm

A bike mill that doesn't actually power anything apart from imagination and fairies.

Fixie, I hope?

Yes, pedals spinning slowly...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3017 on:** 18 January, 2022, 06:40:52 pm »

A kick-bike. I think that's the term. Basically a kick-scooter with a 700c front wheel.

sam · « **Reply #3018 on:** 19 January, 2022, 01:55:17 pm »

Not seen in the wild, but at the Bicycle Museum of America (in my home state of Ohio) some years ago:

Ride 'em cowboy

Came with an alternate chainring for wimps

No more chainsuck

Conversation starter

For hardcore swingers

Not 100% sure about that seatpost, and those pretty swooping handlebars might have to be swapped, but otherwise this works for me right down to the toeclips

Rambler's delight

matthew · « **Reply #3019 on:** 19 January, 2022, 02:22:10 pm »

With no link between the rear wheels that sociable is going to need careful co-operation to prevent a circular argument.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #3020 on:** 20 January, 2022, 10:52:16 pm »

There are some cool designs in that museum.

That sociable tricycle is quite well designed for its purpose with a ‘side-entry’ frame.

I’m not sure I’d like to take a fast corner straddling a blue cow on wheels though.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3021 on:** 17 February, 2022, 05:55:23 pm »

Christmas is a distant memory, but I've just seen a basket-packing bike with coloured lights all over the front rack.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3022 on:** 07 March, 2022, 06:21:31 pm »

A yellow "banana" recumbent (which I've seen several times around) but this time, towing a small one-wheel trailer.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3023 on:** 17 March, 2022, 02:16:08 pm »

Anonymous 20/26 SWB recumbent, ASS, rack and panniers, piloted by a bloke who resembled a 2/3rds scale model of John McCoy*. Shot off down St Andrews Road E17 while I was sat at the bus stop.

* Ian Gillan's tame bass player:

JonBuoy · « **Reply #3024 on:** 17 March, 2022, 05:25:50 pm »

A triplet - sort of:

This was on the main road through the village 30 minutes ago. After I took the (rubbish) photo I pulled alongside and had a brief word. He said that he was going to pick up the kids.

Who needs an SUV?

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