Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen  (Read 638146 times)

clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1300 on: 09 May, 2012, 01:13:45 pm »
No, I demur.  Torslanda commented on the forks.  I'm afraid ATBs are not within my area of knowledge for classic machinery ;D
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tiermat

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1301 on: 09 May, 2012, 01:16:58 pm »
OK, I couldn't remember if it was you or Tors.  My brain has been a little fried since sunday lunchtime, must have been the fall :D
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1302 on: 10 May, 2012, 02:59:01 pm »
Locked up in Broad Street, Reading yesterday: a Taarnby Arrow. Not unusual in itself (7 speed sensible commuter bike), & probably common enough in Denmark, but unusual here.

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Auntie Helen

  • 6 Wheels in Germany
Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1303 on: 11 May, 2012, 09:08:13 pm »
I like this Bianchi seen in Delft today

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itsbruce

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1304 on: 13 May, 2012, 05:56:18 pm »
At Herne Hill Velodrome, today:







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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1305 on: 13 May, 2012, 10:24:06 pm »
Those are very interesting and unusual.  :)

In mundane contrast, my spot today was a 70s Puch - with perhaps the last surviving example in the wild of a pre-Night Rider Ever Ready rear light! One of the old rectangular ones, so probably coeval with the bike. I confess I was unable to resist the temptation to test it - and it didn't work. Whether dead batteries, blown bulb, or batteries removed to use the space as a coin store (as someone I used to know did!) I can't say, but despite not functioning, it was there. I'd like to see one of the older, rounded corner designs though.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1306 on: 16 May, 2012, 10:56:02 am »
This morning, at the junction of Brixton/Streatham Hill and the South Circ, heading Northbound, I spotted a Cannondale Capo - singlespeed bike with drops but also electric assist in the front wheel (battery in bottle cage).  I think it's the most attractive of all electric bikes, and the one I'd choose if I needed one.
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Zipperhead

  • The cyclist formerly known as Big Helga
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1307 on: 17 May, 2012, 02:14:25 pm »
This morning in the City I saw a beautiful 753 Roy Thame, updated with a few modern bits (single speed etc.)

Lovely black and white paint job and lovely lugs.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1308 on: 19 May, 2012, 08:11:44 pm »
An Itera.

Almost adjacent to Bikefix, and it looks like it's not turned a wheel in a while, so I'll be surprised if this hasn't appeared upthread...


Andrij

  • Андрій
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1309 on: 19 May, 2012, 09:03:51 pm »
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1310 on: 19 May, 2012, 09:46:51 pm »
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.

That'll be autumn, will it?  :P

Andrij

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1311 on: 19 May, 2012, 10:29:28 pm »
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.

That'll be autumn, will it?  :P

I prefer the English, not Latin, word.  :P
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plum

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1312 on: 19 May, 2012, 10:40:21 pm »
I always thought 'fall' was American?

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1313 on: 19 May, 2012, 11:05:52 pm »
Is that the Swedish plastic bike that was supposed to be the last word in utility cycling circa 1980? (I'm talking about the Itera, not autumn or fall.)
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1314 on: 19 May, 2012, 11:38:01 pm »
I always thought 'fall' was American?

It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1315 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:04:35 am »
I always thought 'fall' was American?

It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).

I'm not sure that "pinched it off us" is completely fair, more looked after it and kept it safe.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1316 on: 20 May, 2012, 07:15:21 pm »
So I was eyeing up a rather nice, mostly black, BMC at the lights the other day and decided to look it up.

There are two possible candidates, an 11-speed belt-drive with black frame and black graphics, very plain, but quite classy. The BMC uc01
http://www.bmc-racing.com/int-en/bikes/2012/lifestyle/model/urbanchallenge%20/uc01/uc01_alfine_11.html
The UC01 doesn't seem to be available in this spec in the UK, so probably not this one then.

But I remembered it had red hubs and Easton-branded rims and was a bit flashier, so it must have been this one, the BMC mc01
http://www.bmc-racing.com/int-en/bikes/2012/lifestyle/model/masschallenge%20/mc01/standard.html

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bmc/masschallenge-mc01-team-spec-2012-single-speed-bike-ec031101
£4000!!!!! :o

jogler

  • mojo operandi
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1317 on: 20 May, 2012, 07:18:05 pm »
I always thought 'fall' was American?

It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).

I imagine the Pilgrim Fathers took it with them

Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1318 on: 20 May, 2012, 07:18:15 pm »
I should think that quite a few of the bikes we see out and about regularly are worth £4k or more.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1319 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:02:10 pm »
A very low, very sleek, blue, recumbent tandem.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1320 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:13:57 pm »
A very low, very sleek, blue, recumbent tandem.

Trike or bike?
Conventional or back-to-back?
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1321 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:15:08 pm »
Bike, both facing forward. Very low to the ground and going pretty fast.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1322 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:19:44 pm »
Now that is unusual.  :o

Not many recumbent bikes are painted blue.  :demon:
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1323 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:29:00 pm »
Oh, it was a very dark blue - almost black.  ;)
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #1324 on: 20 May, 2012, 10:57:29 pm »
An Itera.

Almost adjacent to Bikefix, and it looks like it's not turned a wheel in a while, so I'll be surprised if this hasn't appeared upthread...



Amazingly, I saw an Itera today - in a farmyard in Sussex. 

I also know where there are two for sale, should anyone want to pay waaaay over the odds for a complete piece of cack. ;D
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