Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen

[clarion]

Sweet!

[longers]

I saw a BMX with a derailleur on being pushed up the hill in Stalybridge today. By the time I'd decided I was interested enough to go and see how it was set up I decided I wasn't interested enough to ride back up the hill.

I recognised the lad with it so will keep an eye out in future

[alexb]

There's a kid I've seen two or three times now who rides a low rider converted with an electric drive. I have to say he looks very cool and the bike is pretty zippy.

[Mr Larrington]

There's a chap here with a Pompino.  Not unusual in BRITAIN, but I suspect something of a rarity in USAnia

[clarion]

Saw one of our patients riding up to the surgery on a ?Mission trike.  As I watched, she pulled straight out of the Give Way and across the crossroads.  Showing no sign whatsoever of the hybrid rider on the main road, who did manage to manoeuvre round her...

[clarion]

I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.

[RJ]

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 ...

[Adrian]

I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.

Was it black and did it have wooden mudguards?

[geoff]

Kangaroobike outside Oriental Studies in Oxford today. Very like the one in the piccy

[Cudzoziemiec]

I love that. It's... family transport!

[DrMekon]

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 meant to be very good, but a couple of mates have "got by" with trail-gators, and they are less than 1/4 of the price.

FollowMe

I've ridden the Kangaroo bike. It was the first of many family thingies that we tried before ending up with what we have. The cabin is lovely for the kids, but it's the tippiest of all the trikes I've tried (Christiania / Zigo / Taga / Bakfiets.nl Cargotrike), and has a bit of  mind of it's own on cambered roads. When I say a bit, I mean I had to come to a complete stop because I thought I'd end up in the river. I do see one or two being used in anger, but mostly I see them pootling around the centre of Cambridge. 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.

[Cudzoziemiec]

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. 

[mark]

In Boulder, CO a few days ago, a fully faired recumbent, the fairing covered the rider's entire face and torso. The rider was climbing a fairly stiff grade in strong sunlight and 81 deg F/27 deg C temperatures, which couldn't have been too comfortable.

[clarion]

I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.

Was it black

Yes

and 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.

[Adrian]

I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.

Was it black

Yes

and 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.

The rider sounds like the same bloke. If you could take a closer look next time.

[clarion]

4/10 Must try harder

[Wobbly John]

2 Bakfiets - one at the Cavendish Physics labs, one on Jesus Green - though not that unusual - it was Cambridge.  

[clarion]

A several of Ti bikes on my commute this morning.

I regularly see a chap riding v quickly on a Litespeed Pisgah MTB.  Didn't see that this morning, but I did see a Litespeed Blade, another unidentified Litespeed and a Van Nicholas, which I think was an Amazon.

[Andrij]

[Gus]

I saw a Waw velomobile today, it came flying down the road.
It makes sense that it had the lights on in the middle of the day, my guess was it was going at +50 km/h on a flat road.

[clarion]

Cool.

The other day, I saw a Saxon steel bike on Borough High St.  Not seen one of those since about 1985.

Similarly, I saw a schoolkid in wandsworth yesterday (poor sod) on a red/yellow early 80s Raleigh.

Last week, close by, I saw another kid riding a red steel Langster to school

[Spikey]

This bike had very interesting gears. 2 gears, pedal forwards for high gear, pedal backwards for low gear.
The chain goes from the top of chainring round one sprocket as normal, then round a jockey wheel and backwards round a larger sporcket and back to bottom of chainring. I think the hub has 2 freewheels, 1  for each sporcket.

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!

[border-rider]

It was much discussed when Drew rode it on PBP, last time.

[Kim]

Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:



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...

[Adrian]

Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:

  Not that anyone would want to nick it...

Oh I don't know, someone might want to put it out of its misery.