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Torslanda

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2625 on: 02 July, 2018, 11:15:26 am »
Looked at that and wondered if anyone survived the crash!
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2626 on: 02 July, 2018, 11:16:27 am »
It does rather look like someone's ridden an old mountain bike into a Silly Sustrans Gate™ at full pelt...
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cycleman

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2627 on: 02 July, 2018, 08:09:44 pm »
He says it handles pretty well and it looked OK as he rode towards me a long the towpath yesterday  :)
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2628 on: 02 July, 2018, 11:49:05 pm »
Well, if it works it's all good.   :thumbsup:  I imagine it rides a bit like that USS upwrong contraption of Wobbly John's that I rode at Mildenhall some years ago.   

I'm still trying to get my head around the geometry... must be quite an upright riding position, given the steep seat back, and the low BB.  But the pedals look quite close to the seat, which leaves me wondering how they get a foot down.
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cycleman

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2629 on: 03 July, 2018, 09:17:15 am »
I am hoping that he will join us hear on the forum so you can ask him about it . he is thinking of building a trike next  :)
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rafletcher

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2630 on: 03 July, 2018, 02:16:33 pm »
Yesterday morning in Long Marston in Bucks, a recumbent e-bike with a rear hub motor, doing around 35kph.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2631 on: 03 July, 2018, 05:03:35 pm »
I'm in Zell am See.  Lots of bikes here.  A Klein MTB yesterday, lots of e-things and, today, a guy riding an unassisted MTB up the Schmittenstrasse (2km of 1 in 7-ish) while wheeling another, cheap and heavy, MTB.  Chapeau!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2632 on: 11 July, 2018, 12:44:44 pm »
A bloke in a wheelchair with the usual two large 'pushing' wheels at the back but without the little front wheels, instead of which it had a hand-cranked steerable trike front wheel, also electric drive. Looked like quite a nifty transport solution though presumably too cumbersome for indoor use.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2633 on: 19 July, 2018, 07:39:28 pm »
A Rudge roadster. Okay, that's neither interesting nor unusual other than being fairly old, but what made it... erm, interesting... was that in addition to being sensibly locked, having a well-oiled chain and seeming rust-free, so obviously in use, the front rod brake ended in metal brake block holders – with no blocks – and the rear brake rod terminated in... a break in the rod. And it definitely didn't have a back-pedal brake, and I very much doubt it was fixed. So no brakes at all.  ::-)
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Moose57

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2634 on: 20 July, 2018, 10:43:21 pm »


Just started putting this together for a friend, a Norman Cyle from Ashford in Kent. Decided to do a light resto on it but wondered if any one else has come accross them?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2635 on: 24 July, 2018, 06:55:41 pm »
On the towpath of the K&A on Saturday, an electric fat bike. It was h.u.g.e.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2636 on: 27 July, 2018, 07:03:14 pm »
Box-front bikes and trikes specifically for child-carrying seem to be getting quite popular. The new one I saw today was Winther brand, like a slicker Christiania tadpole, but the front section resembled a commercial dual buggy. Ran on hamsters, of course.
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2637 on: 28 July, 2018, 12:05:00 am »
This is undoubtedly good news for all those children who would otherwise be wedged between a child seat and a rucksack.   :hand:
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cycleman

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2638 on: 28 July, 2018, 07:16:38 am »
4 what looked like street machines heading towards slough in Eton high street  :)
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2639 on: 28 July, 2018, 10:26:17 am »
A wheel, with tyre attached.  Single-speed, no wheel nuts.  Not locked forlornly to a Sheffield stand but just lying in the road between two parked cars.  No other evidence of bicycle activity. ???
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2640 on: 28 July, 2018, 10:49:25 am »
A friend claims to have seen a French family on a triplet recumbent* with a child trailer and two children on solos.  On a UK campsite.

*I googled and found nothing like it, just one where the rear stoker faces backwards.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2641 on: 29 July, 2018, 09:57:47 am »
Never seen a triplet recumbent, although there was the joke comedy machine that Jean-Charles Gosselin built as a protest against the high entry fees for the 1999 World Championships in Interlaken.  Prone rider at the front, upright one in the middle and recumbent at the back.  All operating the same cranks :o

My chum Barney is scheming a scheme to convert his double-decker recumbent into a triple, but mercifully that hasn't happened yet.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2642 on: 29 July, 2018, 12:11:44 pm »
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 July, 2018, 09:57:47 am
Never seen a triplet recumbent, although there was the joke comedy machine that Jean-Charles Gosselin built as a protest against the high entry fees for the 1999 World Championships in Interlaken.  Prone rider at the front, upright one in the middle and recumbent at the back.  All operating the same cranks :o
Ridden by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie?
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TimO

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2643 on: 04 August, 2018, 10:01:19 pm »


I haven't seen this personally, but it was in a YouTube video by "Colin Furze", it's The Bicycle of Springs.  One for Wobbly John, I think !

The Bicycle of Springs, on YouTube  (broken link tidied up)
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Torslanda

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2644 on: 05 August, 2018, 09:57:54 am »
He lives with his mum, right...?
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

TimO

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2645 on: 05 August, 2018, 02:09:15 pm »
Quote from: Torslanda on 05 August, 2018, 09:57:54 am
He lives with his mum, right...?

Well, even if he is, he can probably afford to do otherwise.  With that many people following his YouTube account, the bottom estimate of his income from that alone is £2000 a month, and it could be up to 15 times more. :o
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fuzzy

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2646 on: 08 August, 2018, 08:48:32 pm »
Came into the shop for a bit of TLC the other day. Hadn't seen one for yonks. The chrome ws in great shape (possibly redone).

IMG_0029 by Matt Langridge, on Flickr
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matthew

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2647 on: 09 August, 2018, 03:19:36 pm »
I think I can count it as a bike....

This morning I saw an Eliptigo in Bracknell proceeding from the direction of the Coppid Beech Hotel towards Wokingham.
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Torslanda

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2648 on: 09 August, 2018, 03:53:55 pm »
 . . . in an orderly fashion, M'lud!
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

mr_brooks

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #2649 on: 09 August, 2018, 07:49:39 pm »
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