Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646322 times)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #775 on:** 21 February, 2011, 10:40:17 pm »

Quote from: MattH on 21 February, 2011, 05:41:20 pm

You're possible thinking of Reelights - 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.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #776 on:** 22 February, 2011, 10:17:56 am »

Quote from: iddu on 21 February, 2011, 10:03:06 pm

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You utter gits; that is either sheer arrogance or precision brilliance - couldn't get a gnat's bollox through there

Get a leaf stuck to the front tyre and you're straight over the bars on that

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #777 on:** 22 February, 2011, 10:21:48 am »

Or a buckled wheel or a damaged tyre or...

Wobbly John · « **Reply #778 on:** 22 February, 2011, 08:44:41 pm »

Pah. I filed a unicrown fork out like that to take the wheel on one of the scratch-built recumbents.

Zipperhead · « **Reply #779 on:** 26 February, 2011, 10:49:44 am »

Last night on the way home I saw a well dressed middle aged gentleman riding a red ordinary North across Battersea Bridge

steveindenmark · « **Reply #780 on:** 26 February, 2011, 08:19:37 pm »

Mine is a bit different

Steve

clarion · « **Reply #781 on:** 26 February, 2011, 08:49:24 pm »

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.

RJ · « **Reply #782 on:** 26 February, 2011, 10:04:21 pm »

A green Thorn triplet heading up the Grassmarket, lunchtime today.

DrMekon · « **Reply #783 on:** 28 February, 2011, 10:12:43 am »

A DeFietsFabriek FF16 outside Waitrose in Cambridge.

It's a huge cargotrike where the front wheels steer independently of the box. It's very, very wide. I can't imagine he can use many cyclepaths. I am guessing it was imported privately, as there's not been a UK distributor for them for ages.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #784 on:** 28 February, 2011, 11:13:44 am »

Quote from: clarion on 26 February, 2011, 08:49:24 pm

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.

Sonic is the name under which Helmut Berns (sp) used to build frames - he used to be based in Bikefix's loft. He's now just supplying components. I had a Sonic MTB for a while; on skinny slicks it was the lightest and fastest road-going bike I've ever owned; it was all XTR, carbon bars & stem, Ti seatpost, etc. etc. It was really a bit too small for me so I ended up selling it back to the original owner, who had been obliged to get rid of it to fund an n+1. Another mate has a Sonic TT bike with Mavic Zap transmission.

Wendy · « **Reply #785 on:** 28 February, 2011, 12:17:35 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 February, 2011, 11:13:44 am

I had a Sonic MTB for a while; on skinny slicks it was the lightest and fastest road-going bike I've ever owned;

WTF? An upright?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #786 on:** 28 February, 2011, 01:06:04 pm »

I haz more uprights than recumbents on the fleet right now although one of the uprights lacks such niceties as handlebars, a stem and a saddle.

Wendy · « **Reply #787 on:** 28 February, 2011, 02:28:04 pm »

Yeah, no worries on having and riding uprights, I like 'em too. But calling it the fastest road going bike you've ever owned?

Deano · « **Reply #788 on:** 01 March, 2011, 10:49:34 pm »

There was a quite lovely Jack Taylor Tour of Britain at the blood donation hall. The frame, forks and wheels were in good nick, but it definitely needed a bit of love, as the owner was using pipe lagging for bar tape.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #789 on:** 02 March, 2011, 12:11:29 am »

Oddly, I saw a Jack Taylor today, too. Attractive bright red colour, with odd two-way switchy-rotary looking gear levers. They were fixed just inboard of the brake levers, I think they were a modification to a frame made for d/t levers so it would be kind of STI-ish.

clarion · « **Reply #790 on:** 02 March, 2011, 09:53:54 am »

Nice.

I saw an older Colnago this morning. Eighties, perhaps, with a maroon frame and slightly rusty chromed forks. Curved forks, mind, so it was probably early eighties.

I also regularly see a woman on a bike I had assumed was a Gitane, but on closer inspection, the faded letters say 'Hirame'. 70s bike, I think, and not top end, but certainly a decent machine. I've never heard of the make, but someone might know about it.

Thanks for the info about Sonic, btw

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #791 on:** 02 March, 2011, 10:58:21 am »

Quote from: Wendy on 28 February, 2011, 02:28:04 pm

Yeah, no worries on having and riding uprights, I like 'em too. But calling it the fastest road going bike you've ever owned?

Certainly around town. I suspect one or two of the recumbents would have given it a hard time on a longer run, especially as the bars were about eight inches below the saddle, with all the consequent backache that this implies. On 35 mm Conti Avenues it weighed about 21 lbs and accelerated like a stabbed rat.

clarion · « **Reply #792 on:** 03 March, 2011, 10:04:59 am »

Yesterday, I rode with another Ridgeback Solo. there aren't many about. This one had gone the other direction from mine, being very stripped down but I was still faster

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #793 on:** 07 March, 2011, 12:29:01 am »

A Geoffrey Butler, couldn't see much other than it was black and shiny and whizzing down Park St (a hill).

A Chas Roberts, white and not so shiny, tried to ask the owner something about it but was dragged away by my son,

...who was amazed and slightly bewildered by the unicycle we saw this afternoon.

clarion · « **Reply #794 on:** 07 March, 2011, 09:25:17 am »

Two Croydon bikes away from hhome, then...

DrMekon · « **Reply #795 on:** 07 March, 2011, 10:22:51 am »

Saw a black FW Evans tourer this morning. The chap on it said he'd had it over 20 years, and planned to keep it "forever".

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #796 on:** 09 March, 2011, 03:18:38 pm »

And today a Harry Hall in a rather "striking" yellow and almost-fluorescent red/orange colour scheme. The delight of having my son's school next to a cycle track.

And not from Croydon this time!

Kim · « **Reply #797 on:** 09 March, 2011, 05:52:01 pm »

Spotted a small-wheeled cargo trike parked outside a shop in King's Heath. Didn't get a very good look at it, but that sort of thing's a rare sight around here.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #798 on:** 10 March, 2011, 11:58:34 am »

Oh yes, I forgot about the woman on the nice blue trike and the bloke on the black cargo bike, with the luggage bit in front. All seen in more or less the same place as the Harry Hall above. Must be a good place to hang out!

clarion · « **Reply #799 on:** 10 March, 2011, 12:07:19 pm »

This morning, I saw a cluster of bikes riding across the crossroads outside work. There was a woman on a trike with two children on rear-facing seats, and a girl and a boy (both very young) riding their own bikes under the woman's care.

It looked wonderful.

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