Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646205 times)

canny colin · « **Reply #2175 on:** 15 June, 2015, 05:42:17 pm »

www.exigobikes.co.uk exigothunder Strange GT bikes copy !!!

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #2176 on:** 15 June, 2015, 07:09:07 pm »

That Sturmey hub could be an S2C, which incorporates a brake and 2 gears.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2177 on:** 23 June, 2015, 01:45:25 pm »

Forgot my phone so no photo. In York on Sunday chained up in Goodramgate I saw a very neglected Woodrup obviously being used as a hack.
Looked like an 80s frame 531 with Campagnola gears and brakes and a Cinelli stem. The paintwork was all chipped and there was rust on the frame and forks as well. The chain was so rusty and dry I was amazed it worked. I assume that the current owner has no idea what they have.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2178 on:** 24 June, 2015, 10:40:17 am »

Coincidentally, I saw a Woodrup this morning. Couldn't say anything more about it except that it's black and, er, has Woodrup written in white letters on the downtube. Being ridden down the hill past the Royal Infirmary.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2179 on:** 25 June, 2015, 10:57:47 am »

And today an Overbury's road bike, probably 1980s, blue with child seat.

Man of the Mountains · « **Reply #2180 on:** 28 June, 2015, 10:15:48 pm »

Spotted in transition at Mountain Mayhem 2013

I lurve the way the clamp-on items have been refitted perfectly

And the shiniest rear mech in the world

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...

Andrij · « **Reply #2181 on:** 29 June, 2015, 11:27:31 am »

Had a quick look online, but couldn't find anything on this tandem I spotted on Saturday's ride:

clarion · « **Reply #2182 on:** 29 June, 2015, 01:12:00 pm »

Isn't that what King Arthur will ride back on, when he comes to save England etc etc?

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2183 on:** 29 June, 2015, 01:26:00 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 29 June, 2015, 01:12:00 pm

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...

Andrij · « **Reply #2184 on:** 29 June, 2015, 01:29:01 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 29 June, 2015, 01:12:00 pm

Isn't that what King Arthur will ride back on, when he comes to save England etc etc?

As Captain or Stoker?

clarion · « **Reply #2185 on:** 29 June, 2015, 01:33:05 pm »

Quote from: Tim Hall on 29 June, 2015, 01:26:00 pm

Quote from: clarion on 29 June, 2015, 01:12:00 pm
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...

clarion · « **Reply #2186 on:** 08 July, 2015, 04:16:29 pm »

Shaft drive seen in Covent Garden. Frame was a Biomega, with unusual square profile tubing:

P7040057 by TJ Clarion, on Flickr

Could be one of these:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/reviews/bike-reviews/biomega-copenhagen-first-ride

pcolbeck · « **Reply #2187 on:** 08 July, 2015, 04:39:04 pm »

I love the idea of that. Simple and compact. Once they put it on a diet I might be tempted. Surely someone with good materials technology experience can lighten that shaft assembly, what are they using brass ?

clarion · « **Reply #2188 on:** 08 July, 2015, 05:02:08 pm »

Tis a bit agricultural, isn't it? I'm sure better shaft drive can be developed, but it will take a lot of investment (which isn't going to come from low sales), and it'll never match the efficiency of a belt drive or a chain :/

hatler · « **Reply #2189 on:** 08 July, 2015, 05:31:56 pm »

Yup, there's two right angle changes of drive there which means it can never be as efficient as a conventional chain driven system.

Kim · « **Reply #2190 on:** 08 July, 2015, 07:41:25 pm »

Raleigh Chopper, in suspiciously good condition, being loitered on by an oik outside a newsagent.

They're not making new CSOs something, are they?

jsabine · « **Reply #2191 on:** 09 July, 2015, 12:30:21 am »

Yup. Special edition that's supposed to evoke the golden era of Formula 1 (but manages to evoke a JPS Capri).

Kim · « **Reply #2192 on:** 09 July, 2015, 12:34:57 am »

Quote from: jsabine on 09 July, 2015, 12:30:21 am

Yup. Special edition that's supposed to evoke the golden era of Formula 1 (but manages to evoke a JPS Capri).

Ah. Not those colours, but googling around it could well have been the 2004 re-release.

jsabine · « **Reply #2193 on:** 09 July, 2015, 12:56:51 am »

Aye - they've done a Beano one and all sorts ...

tiermat · « **Reply #2194 on:** 09 July, 2015, 08:38:31 am »

Trying to capture the greying pound, aren't they? Instead of buying a soft-top sports car your averge midlife crisis bloke buys a Raleigh Chopper...

Sign of the times, innit?

hatler · « **Reply #2195 on:** 09 July, 2015, 09:22:53 am »

No pics sadly, but I saw a Kirk Precision MTB at Poole Harbour on Saturday.

Efrogwr · « **Reply #2196 on:** 09 July, 2015, 10:29:17 am »

Quote from: Man of the Mountains on 28 June, 2015, 10:15:48 pm

Spotted in transition at Mountain Mayhem 2013

I lurve the way the clamp-on items have been refitted perfectly

And the shiniest rear mech in the world

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...

So am I; the seat tube mounted brake cable guide is the type that Kona fitted.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2197 on:** 10 July, 2015, 11:51:58 am »

Quote from: hatler on 09 July, 2015, 09:22:53 am

No pics sadly, but I saw a Kirk Precision MTB at Poole Harbour on Saturday.

Kirk. Salt. Bad idea.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2198 on:** 10 July, 2015, 01:45:45 pm »

It didn't look unusual, not that I got much of a look at it, but a Freddie Grubb.

Reg.T · « **Reply #2199 on:** 10 July, 2015, 09:23:05 pm »

My first geared bike was a dull-green Grubb

- 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>