Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen  (Read 636613 times)

clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1375 on: 09 July, 2012, 11:29:46 am »
I've never seen a classic tadpole trike with small front wheels that wasn't a delivery bike, but that definitely looks like a domestic one.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1376 on: 09 July, 2012, 12:50:19 pm »
Saw this Triumph earlier today:

...I couldn't tell whether the rims were alloy or steel, but there was no rust on them (they were shiny too!).

The rear rim looks like a stainless steel 'Westrick' - has braking surfaces for both rod & caliper brakes (and in the wet you probably need both).

I've got them on my tandem, but It uses hub brakes.  :smug:

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rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1377 on: 14 July, 2012, 10:44:17 am »
A 30-something bloke pushing a fixie around the magazine section of Sainsbury's.  It had the slackest chain I have ever seen outside FGG.  I was going to say something but he looked foreign.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1378 on: 15 July, 2012, 06:49:38 pm »
A whole load of interesting bikes at today's Carnivelo: a 1952 policeman's Raleigh with the widest Brooks saddle I've ever seen (a B196 apparently), a 1941 Hopper (pre-Elswick), a 50s curly Hetchins, a Freight 8 and a Bullit cargo bike, and these:




This is the "freight" compartment of the Freight 8 - I wanted to just curl up in it!

I also witnessed the conception of a new cargo bike: to be made by welding a shopping trolley into the chain stays of a small-wheeled folding bike!  :o
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1379 on: 15 July, 2012, 10:33:35 pm »
Saw the skeleton tandem and sw19cam also. Chuffed.
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tonycollinet

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1380 on: 15 July, 2012, 11:14:54 pm »
In April (you can tell, the sun is shining). An electrified Izip. To be fair it is parked at the bottom of a road that only goes up in two directions from there.




Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1381 on: 16 July, 2012, 03:45:20 pm »
Modified tandem recumbent in Barcelona.


Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1382 on: 16 July, 2012, 04:28:47 pm »
Saw the skeleton tandem and sw19cam also. Chuffed.
Does this mean you were in Brizzle on Sunday? What were you riding (a recumbent I presume) and wearing? Then I'll try to work out if I saw you!
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1383 on: 16 July, 2012, 04:48:22 pm »
No, Landahn.
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welshwheels

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1384 on: 16 July, 2012, 04:51:48 pm »
            seen a few times around swansea outside the uni  on this occasion . It looks like bloody hard work  :facepalm:
struggling up hills since 1981 !!!

Kim

  • Timelord
    • Fediverse
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1385 on: 16 July, 2012, 10:23:07 pm »
Presumably because the rocket engine hasn't been installed yet...

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1386 on: 16 July, 2012, 10:44:29 pm »
           

A Flevo bike  :D...



...with nitrous injection?  :o
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1387 on: 16 July, 2012, 10:46:37 pm »
I'm assuming that the marsupial on the rear rack is a clue to the need for bonkers amounts of water storage.

welshwheels

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1388 on: 17 July, 2012, 07:45:39 pm »
It's the front wheel drive i can't get my head around  :o
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Kim

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1389 on: 17 July, 2012, 08:08:34 pm »
FWD 'bents aren't uncommon.  It solves the usual chainline problems by exchanging them for some even more headache-inducing ones (depending on gearing), but can make a substantial weight saving.

The flevobike concept is particularly well suited to FWD, as the steering doesn't cause the wheel to foul the chain.

The trippy bit is how the hell you ride the thing in the first place.  I believe that once you've cracked that particular bit of voodoo, you can happily steer with your feet.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1390 on: 17 July, 2012, 08:49:59 pm »
It looks distinctly as if it's lost its mudguards. And as it has two brake levers but no rear brake, it must have lost its rear brake as well! Could be a dynohub at the front - or is it a hub brake? (in which case wheels are not original, which they might not be - rear looks like alloy on the photo and the front looks shiny like steel)
Raleigh, & perhaps other British firms, used to fit hub brakes to some bikes for export. When I worked in Utrecht I bought an old export-model Raleigh with hub brakes from a local second hand bike shop. It's what got me into cycling as an adult, after not having been on a bike for years
"A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Type-Writer Girl, 1897

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1391 on: 18 July, 2012, 10:05:45 am »
A Trikidoo.



Not exotic but nicely practical.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1392 on: 22 July, 2012, 08:20:10 pm »
A pair of Pacific folders. They fold into the bag at the back, which unfolds, IYSWIM, into about 25 x 25 x 90 cm or thereabouts. Engineering looks good on them, too. L/h one has the Shimano 2 speed kick gear, r/h is s/s



Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1393 on: 22 July, 2012, 08:30:39 pm »
Hmm....

*looks*

Pacific Carryme, they ever do a 3-wheeler!

I'd like to see one of these up-close.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1394 on: 22 July, 2012, 08:33:46 pm »
Isn't that a picture of a pair of roller skates?
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1395 on: 22 July, 2012, 11:09:20 pm »
A pair of Pacific folders. They fold into the bag at the back, which unfolds, IYSWIM, into about 25 x 25 x 90 cm or thereabouts. Engineering looks good on them, too. L/h one has the Shimano 2 speed kick gear, r/h is s/s




I saw them today, and you of course!
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1396 on: 31 July, 2012, 10:07:11 pm »
Interesting Graham Weigh

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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1397 on: 31 July, 2012, 10:08:23 pm »
Saddle-less Itera on Lamb's Conduit Street

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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1398 on: 31 July, 2012, 10:10:17 pm »
Raleigh Esquire with SA rear dyno-hub with (I think) three speeds, classic rounded fork crown and heron chainring:

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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1399 on: 31 July, 2012, 10:11:26 pm »
Near Red Lion Square:

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