Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646181 times)

Reg.T · « **Reply #1775 on:** 05 December, 2013, 09:46:55 am »

Quote from: Basil on 05 December, 2013, 08:52:36 am

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.

http://www.sculltrek.sk/index.php?lang=en&sekcia=video

Was it somewhere flat?

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #1776 on:** 05 December, 2013, 11:00:58 am »

Quote from: clarion on 05 December, 2013, 09:02:38 am

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.

Slingshot or Puma.

clarion · « **Reply #1777 on:** 05 December, 2013, 11:03:12 am »

That kind of thing, yes, but with a curved top tube.

Rhys W · « **Reply #1778 on:** 14 December, 2013, 11:22:02 pm »

Saw a bloke on a red Dursley Pedersen this morning going through Ffynnon Tâf, he turned off just as we caught up with him but I shouted "nice bike!" and he turned his head, surprised but appreciative. Anybody who rides something out of the mainstream is to be encouraged imo.

Kim · « **Reply #1779 on:** 14 December, 2013, 11:27:33 pm »

Saw a bloke riding a Moulton this morning while clarion was busy taking a photo of half a dead BSO in the bushes...

Feanor · « **Reply #1780 on:** 19 December, 2013, 02:22:08 pm »

Today in Aberdeen:

IMG_20131219_112611 by Ron Lowe, on Flickr

Yes, those are wooden handlebars.
Fashioned from a length of old broom-handle, and varnished it looks like.

clarion · « **Reply #1781 on:** 19 December, 2013, 04:03:29 pm »

Rather nicer bars, IMHO:

PC122797 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

I think it's a Roberts

and a Carlton with an unusual saddle position:

PC122785 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

clarion · « **Reply #1782 on:** 19 December, 2013, 04:04:43 pm »

Plus a project on display in a window:

PC122775 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

PC122776 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

clarion · « **Reply #1783 on:** 30 December, 2013, 11:58:19 am »

Two of a great many Bromptons present yesterday:

PC293011 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

clarion · « **Reply #1784 on:** 30 December, 2013, 12:00:06 pm »

Vernon didn't bring his Woodrup Chimaera, sadly, but he did bring another interesting bike - his Trevor Jarvis Flying Gate:

PC293001 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

PC293002 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

Jurek · « **Reply #1785 on:** 30 December, 2013, 12:02:03 pm »

I did wonder who's the 'gate was, when I saw it outside.
Now that I know it comes of little surprise

clarion · « **Reply #1786 on:** 30 December, 2013, 12:13:33 pm »

When I spotted it, I leapt up and, as far as I am able, I dashed outside to see it.

Kim · « **Reply #1787 on:** 31 December, 2013, 12:58:36 am »

I can't quite work this one out...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1788 on:** 31 December, 2013, 10:20:12 am »

Sobviou sinnit! Child sits in child seat and pedals. Adult sits on saddle and hand cranks the front wheel. Family tandem, 4x4 (or rather 2x2).

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #1789 on:** 07 January, 2014, 11:21:59 pm »

I spotted a fatbike earlier.

(Riding up a pedestrian/cycle bridge, which I always walk because of the steps!)

Wobbly John · « **Reply #1790 on:** 07 January, 2014, 11:34:10 pm »

There's a fairly unusual bike on Ebay at the moment...

Tomsk · « **Reply #1791 on:** 08 January, 2014, 10:07:17 am »

Quote from: Wobbly John on 07 January, 2014, 11:34:10 pm

There's a fairly unusual bike on Ebay at the moment...

....and if converted back into a washing machine, I could win the Turner Prize

Oaky · « **Reply #1792 on:** 08 January, 2014, 10:13:57 am »

Quote from: Wobbly John on 07 January, 2014, 11:34:10 pm

There's a fairly unusual bike on Ebay at the moment...

Chain's a bit...

Reg.T · « **Reply #1793 on:** 08 January, 2014, 11:40:05 am »

BB recycled from a washing machine
chain recycled from Emperor's clothes?

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #1794 on:** 08 January, 2014, 11:49:04 am »

Actually it is the Mike Burrows machine, not 'Old Faithful', and the bottom bracket uses a custom narrow width but standard design. Obree almost never rode it again after failing to get the Hour Record on it.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #1795 on:** 08 January, 2014, 12:43:18 pm »

Quote from: Reg.T on 08 January, 2014, 11:40:05 am

BB recycled from a washing machine
chain & tyres recycled from Emperor's clothes?

FTFY

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1796 on:** 09 January, 2014, 07:17:41 pm »

A hand-cranked recumbent. When I first saw it coming towards me, I thought it and the vertical bike behind it - and I say vertical because the recumbent was 100% horizontal - were one thing: either a trike or a bike with a two-wheel trailer. 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.

Kim · « **Reply #1797 on:** 10 January, 2014, 01:15:58 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 09 January, 2014, 07:17:41 pm

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.

'Prone' as understood by darksiders is the opposite of recumbent, and means lying on your front. For example, Graeme Obree's latest creation.

I have awesome respect for anyone who rides a hand-cranked cycle. They're bloody hard work. Not surprised they want to be as aero as possible (although it's equally possible they could have a good spinal reason for such a riding position).

Reg.T · « **Reply #1798 on:** 10 January, 2014, 07:11:54 am »

Supine, then.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1799 on:** 10 January, 2014, 10:16:23 am »

Inversely prostrate.

I knew as I wrote it that prone wasn't quite right, but unfortunately my brayne didn't send me the word supine.