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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #525 on: 05 August, 2010, 10:20:24 am »
There's a firm in China that makes "imitation Stridas" (they're actually a little bit smaller and have some detail design changes) in pink, quite likely they also do white.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #526 on: 06 August, 2010, 07:07:09 am »
Well, I'm out in Portland right now and saw an Il Pompino earlier today, that's a bike that has travelled!

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #527 on: 06 August, 2010, 09:27:02 am »
Well, I'm out in Portland right now and saw an Il Pompino earlier today, that's a bike that has travelled!

Someone turned up to spectate at Battle Mountain with a Pomp last year - quite possibly the same person!  He was impressed when I told him I knew the bloke who owns the only Ti Pompino in captivity 8)
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citoyen

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #528 on: 08 August, 2010, 06:48:53 pm »
A pair of knitted bikes...



In Whitstable yesterday. One had a label on it with the words "I heart knitstable"

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #529 on: 08 August, 2010, 06:56:29 pm »
Near Newbury: Dad taking son for a ride.  Son on cheapo MTB.  Dad on TT bike WITH pointy helmet AND actually using the tri-bars.

Bastard!
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #530 on: 08 August, 2010, 09:22:46 pm »
I rode today with a wonderful lady who was riding her Les Rigden.

When we were stopped in Hadlow, we saw a group of riders go past, which included a Raleigh with rod brakes and a Pedersen! :thumbsup:

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #531 on: 09 August, 2010, 09:43:14 am »
Wheelchair-sidecar bicycle.

At a friend's wedding. The groom was the pilot, and the bride the passenger.

Didn't get a picture, but I'm sure some will turn up; I'll post one then.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #532 on: 12 August, 2010, 11:38:10 pm »
A tricycle-mounted hotdog stall. CMOT Dibbler has indeed moved with the times. ;D
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #533 on: 17 August, 2010, 07:19:12 pm »
Georgia was not a good place for bikes, because of the state of the roads and the state of the drivers, this one stood out.



Now this may not look much, after all it is only a single speed/fixie, albeit russian (Name reads "Aist" in English" but.....

I saw this in Georgia, in Shatili, a village at the @rsehole of beyond, at the end of a track that took 4 hours to drive about 50K in a 4x4. There is no through road. It is cut off 7 months of the year (a bulldozer had to clear the way through a 4 meter snowdrift on the way). One way up to these houses is along a 20% gradient, the other a 40%.

Hardcore or what?

(Please note, no slack in the chain)

This is the view of the houses http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/oUgh3zV4Cm4CFWQog2OW8g?feat=directlink and this is part of the reason for going, a cluste of houses that have stood virtually unchanged for 1,300 years http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/B83PfvqJhYDefXIuiL_-eg?feat=directlink

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #534 on: 17 August, 2010, 07:39:34 pm »
Amazing. The houses, not the bike. Though I dare say the rider is pretty impressive.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #535 on: 05 September, 2010, 10:15:56 pm »
Possibly the VERY best bike at the London Skyride

Yes, they were pulling.



Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #536 on: 05 September, 2010, 10:23:09 pm »
LA GAZZETTA DELLA BICI: ONLY in Portsmouth, The Cervelo Tricycle.......

Strictly speaking, it's not in Portsmouth - the only trikes you'll see in the south coast's equivalent of Mos Eisley are the illegitimate children of VW Beetles and custom chopper front ends.

I've actually seen this example of velocipedal wrongness parked outside Barreg Cycles in Fishbourne, and that's practically in Chichester...
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #537 on: 05 September, 2010, 10:25:35 pm »
Can't find a link to the bikes, but saw a Landscape tandem outside the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge yesterday with drop bars, 700c wheels, skinny tyres, and discs the size of dinner plates. Immense. There were loads of tandems about, so I wonder if there was a tandem club event on.

Re: Interesting or unusual bikes you have spotted recently
« Reply #538 on: 09 September, 2010, 01:35:38 pm »
Spotted a Trikidoo yesterday and today, in Harston. The lass on it appears to be using the A10 briefly to get her kiddies to school. Plastered in hi-viz stickers. She seemed very happy when I said I liked it. Looks more stable than a Pashley. Celeb pic below.



Well, I read through this thread last night, and I'd never heard of these, and lo and behold, I think I saw my first one of these on my way into work this morning!
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #539 on: 09 September, 2010, 01:37:46 pm »
I saw a Christiania-style kid-carrying trike near Kennington yesterday.  In convoy with another child on a bike.  Blocked the cycle lane rather, but in a good cause. :thumbsup:
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #540 on: 09 September, 2010, 01:55:21 pm »
I saw a Trikidoo in Corsham this morning too.  :)   I've seen it around once or twice before.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #541 on: 09 September, 2010, 02:19:26 pm »
Yesterday in a bike shop in Lublin, a old, lugged steel, road frame which was noteable simply for having an old-style, cyrillic and most-likely Soviet name, МИНСК in some bold black-edged white "3D-effect" font. Wasn't able to ask anything about it because as soon as I'd noticed it, it was carried out by a woman who'd brought it in for something or other.
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« Reply #542 on: 11 September, 2010, 07:40:46 pm »

Spotted around the corner from Leadenhall Market a few months ago.  (Yes, I'm quite behind in sorting out my photographs.)
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #543 on: 11 September, 2010, 07:46:04 pm »
Possibly a respray when they couldn't be bothered to source the full transfer set.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #544 on: 11 September, 2010, 07:53:56 pm »
LA GAZZETTA DELLA BICI: ONLY in Portsmouth, The Cervelo Tricycle.......

Strictly speaking, it's not in Portsmouth - the only trikes you'll see in the south coast's equivalent of Mos Eisley are the illegitimate children of VW Beetles and custom chopper front ends.

I've actually seen this example of velocipedal wrongness parked outside Barreg Cycles in Fishbourne, and that's practically in Chichester...

As a resident of Pompey, I'd have to agree....

I go past Barreg fairly often, never seen that particular abomination.

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #545 on: 13 September, 2010, 01:32:44 pm »
Slightly OT (the bikes aren't unusual), I just saw two Boris bikes being wheeled up the pavement on Kingsway by a pair of young ladies wearing tutus.
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #546 on: 13 September, 2010, 02:35:01 pm »
Saw a Bullit cargo bike in Ken Gardens yesterday, the owner was using it to carry his two dogs around.  :thumbsup:
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #547 on: 13 September, 2010, 09:12:29 pm »
For a second time, I saw someone riding a lowrider in Mitcham.  I think they must be commuting on it. 

Last week, I saw a guy (quite a small chap) wearing building/rigging clothes riding a Chopper which had had it's apehangers replaced by some BMX bars.  A very unusual position.  And quite speedy, too.
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clarion

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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #548 on: 14 September, 2010, 10:01:52 pm »
I was passed by a Banana!

A Raleigh-Banana team replica (probably one of the 501 ones)
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Re: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen
« Reply #549 on: 15 September, 2010, 07:08:10 pm »
Freddie Grub with SA 4-speed hub (calm down, 'zilla ;) )

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