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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1225 on: 30 March, 2012, 10:02:27 am »
Near Brockwell Park, I came up behind a young man on what looked like an interesting bike.  I noticed the centrepulls first, then saw the brown paintwork.  It was a Carlton of some kind.  maybe not top of the range, but certainly a nice looker (or, rather, would be if the paintwork weren't so battered*).  I wonder if the chap had any idea what he was riding?
Carlton Corsair I expect.  531 plain guage, just outside my price range when I started riding in the late 60s.  As you said, nothing special.

clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1226 on: 30 March, 2012, 10:04:47 am »
That's plausible.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1227 on: 30 March, 2012, 10:13:18 am »
I saw a lovely wooden bike in Brockwell Park yesterday. It looked nice and had a cyo :-)
Maybe made by these people?

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1228 on: 30 March, 2012, 04:27:26 pm »
I don't think so, it was more rounded.
*goes to investigate*

It was one of these :) Very lovely.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1229 on: 30 March, 2012, 04:52:48 pm »
When I visited the LBS (I know, maybe doesn't count) I saw a TT bike, made by blue, in a diminutive size, all carbon bling with Di2.

Saw it again about 5 minutes ago as I was going back towards the LBS, being ridden by a guy dressed in what I can only assume is not his usual TT gear of jeans, sweat shirt, helmet and backpack.

ETA: just had a look, it was one of these:  http://www.rideblue.com/triadslle.php
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1230 on: 30 March, 2012, 04:55:12 pm »
That backpack is a shoddy way of riding.He needs some panniers & racks on that blueblingthing :demon:

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1231 on: 30 March, 2012, 04:57:04 pm »
And mudguards.

I had a peek at how much they cost.

Are you sitting down?

$12,000!!!!  :o :o :o
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1232 on: 30 March, 2012, 04:58:29 pm »
that's a lorra £ for some mudgaurds :o

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1233 on: 30 March, 2012, 05:00:43 pm »
Hahaha :)

Srsly, though, $12k for a bike, he could have bought a car for that....

<gets the feeling he is on the wrong forum :) >
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1234 on: 30 March, 2012, 05:09:50 pm »
Or a titanium tandem. :D With S and S couplings :thumbsup:

ETA missed the $ - see, it's a bargain really!
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1235 on: 30 March, 2012, 07:02:47 pm »
.

ETA: just had a look, it was one of these:  http://www.rideblue.com/triadslle.php

Aaaarrrgghhh!!! My eyes!  My eyes!  They can't handle the ugly.

I need to sit down and look at Eddie Merckx' Molteni bike and Colnago Masters for a while....
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1236 on: 31 March, 2012, 11:34:21 am »
I don't think so, it was more rounded.
*goes to investigate*

It was one of these :) Very lovely.

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1237 on: 01 April, 2012, 10:06:21 am »
I don't think so, it was more rounded.
*goes to investigate*

It was one of these :) Very lovely.
I've got to admit those do look nicer than the ones I saw. It's the roundiness.

On Friday I saw a bike with no down tube but two parallel top tubes, named 'Swinger'. I presume it was a folder, but maybe it was a wobble bike! Then a cargo bike with huge tubular and wooden platform between the (small) front wheel and (low) bb. These were both on Critical Mass - I wasn't, I just happened to coincide with it, on foot coming back from shopping.

Yesterday, a pair of Pedersens. Modern ones but I don't know which iteration.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1238 on: 01 April, 2012, 06:29:25 pm »
An AS Gillott on the ride yesterday.  And a TJ Quick - see below:

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1239 on: 02 April, 2012, 08:16:28 am »
I saw a Gillott on Saturday too! A yellow one which a girl was locking up on Gloucester Road, presumably while she went shopping or cakerisationing in one of the little cafes there. It was a bit tatty and I didn't get time to see any of the components but it looked a quality frame.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1240 on: 02 April, 2012, 08:35:33 am »
A Rather Large and very very yellow flat-barred rohloff-ed tourer, complete with 4 ortlieb panniers and a carradice barbag and a couple of fair sized stuff sacks, at Ribblehead station yesterday.  No obvious badging so I don't know what it was but it did look extraordinarily purposeful as well as being really quite spectacularly yellow.  And big.  Slightly too tall to fit in the rubbish Northern Trains bike space and the long wheelbase meant getting it round the stupid awkward corner to the bike space wasn't feasible with its panniers on.  We worked it out in the end, and Valencia even got to share a bungee with it - the tart.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1241 on: 02 April, 2012, 08:55:22 am »
Two yoof on MTB bikes overtook me uphill at great speed yesterday, powered by small petrol engines. They were delighted! ;D
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1242 on: 04 April, 2012, 03:18:59 pm »
A Bob Jackson trike being riden along Crowstone Road.

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1243 on: 04 April, 2012, 08:31:34 pm »

He had to get off to lift this over the curb. Always impressed when I see a real work horse of a bike like this.  (In Tel Aviv)

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1244 on: 04 April, 2012, 10:17:40 pm »
Went out with the Retrobike crowd yesterday - about 45 classic early 90's mountain bikes, being used as intended - being riden on singletrack.  :smug:

At least 5 Kleins:



A few Orange Aluminium O's

Parkpre's

Rocky mountains

AMP research B4 with experimental forks (like Girvins only stranger   :o)

and lots more.

<has a major nostalgia moment>  8)
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1245 on: 04 April, 2012, 10:36:15 pm »
I saw a Bickerton being ridden (on the pavement) this morning.

There can't be that many still surviving, fewer still being ridden.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1246 on: 04 April, 2012, 10:44:06 pm »
<has a major nostalgia moment>  8)

It's a good job I didn't post pics of the Klein Mantra with Lawwill leader forks...

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1247 on: 04 April, 2012, 11:00:15 pm »
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It's a good job I didn't post pics of the Klein Mantra with Lawwill leader forks...

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It's an interesting example of a couple of developmental blind alleys though. IIRC, leading link and parallelogram forks were less prone to dive under braking, but they were very limited in the amount of travel they could offer before getting too cumbersome. And there are good reasons why URTs are only found on supermarket/motor factor-sourced "bike-shaped objects" these days.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1248 on: 05 April, 2012, 01:54:52 pm »
Just seen a vicar on a Raptobike:o
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1249 on: 05 April, 2012, 03:29:35 pm »
Nice orange Harry Quinn fixed or as in Streatham this morning.
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