Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 642070 times)

clarion · « **Reply #250 on:** 23 December, 2009, 02:55:58 pm »

Quote from: Steve GT on 23 December, 2009, 02:52:39 pm

It's the 'A' train... The Pompino's bottom backet is kaput, So I had to use the train / Bus to get to work and back.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qhK-zYfFsIY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/qhK-zYfFsIY&rel=1</a>

Bledlow · « **Reply #251 on:** 25 December, 2009, 07:32:16 pm »

Yesterday, locked up in central Reading - a dark green Kona Ute.

clarion · « **Reply #252 on:** 26 December, 2009, 02:54:18 am »

Passing through Brixton ~~yesterday~~ Christmas Eve, I spotted a BSA locked outside the station. Very distinctive headbadge

andrew_s · « **Reply #253 on:** 29 December, 2009, 12:26:11 am »

Not so much an unusual bike as an unusually kitted out touring bike.
Photo taken in Lerwick, and posted on a CTC discussion on touring luggage. This prompted someone to pm me saying he'd met the same bike on its way back from Portugal

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Wendy · « **Reply #254 on:** 29 December, 2009, 11:17:12 am »

Skanky!

TimO · « **Reply #255 on:** 29 December, 2009, 11:25:40 am »

I like the small leather bag (briefcase?) on the front.

andrew_s · « **Reply #256 on:** 29 December, 2009, 05:51:31 pm »

My interpretation was that it was a handbag, though apparently the rider was an elderly bloke.

Have you seen the supplementary wheels, a microscooter I think?

Zoidburg · « **Reply #257 on:** 29 December, 2009, 06:22:16 pm »

I think that bike crosses the line between "touring" and "being a homeless tramp with a bike".

Gus · « **Reply #258 on:** 30 December, 2009, 10:35:38 am »

I saw another Itera yesterday this time it was the kitchen blue model

That's 2 in 2 months, I thought these bikes was rare.

Sparky · « **Reply #259 on:** 04 January, 2010, 11:41:22 am »

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Butterfly · « **Reply #260 on:** 05 January, 2010, 03:25:22 pm »

Yesterday I saw 2 interesting set-ups. The first was on St. John's Hill in Battersea - a pavement cyclist leaning at an odd angle - it was only as the bus I was on was alongside that I could see the sidecar arrangement with his ladders on - maybe a window cleaner? The second was a beautiful Indian Rickshaw - fully decorated - near Wimbledon Park - my charge said "what's that shiny thing?"

Hilldodger · « **Reply #261 on:** 05 January, 2010, 04:47:10 pm »

Quote from: Butterfly on 05 January, 2010, 03:25:22 pm

The second was a beautiful Indian Rickshaw - fully decorated - near Wimbledon Park - my charge said "what's that shiny thing?"

To which I hope you said " a death trap" All the ones I've ever seen have been.

RJ · « **Reply #262 on:** 04 February, 2010, 02:03:52 pm »

A Bakfiets Cargobike (or more likely the long version) in the school playground this morning, with the box fully-faired (see here). As another parent said to me: "Those things are great, but they're built for the Netherlands, not Edinburgh!"

Salvatore · « **Reply #263 on:** 15 February, 2010, 08:23:26 pm »

I saw this ~~11-wheeler~~ 12-wheeler at a protest outside AWE Aldermaston today

Interesting brake blocks (and chocks).

DrMekon · « **Reply #264 on:** 22 February, 2010, 04:22:15 pm »

DF tadpole trike, if that's the right term. I've never seen anything like it before. Spotted in Newton.

citoyen · « **Reply #265 on:** 22 February, 2010, 04:37:35 pm »

Bonkers. What's steering like on one of those things?

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clarion · « **Reply #266 on:** 22 February, 2010, 04:39:26 pm »

Pretty good, generally. Someone on this forum has a partner with a nice example. Zipperhead & Charlotte both rode it on two wheels, ISTR

Not sure where Newton is, but they are generally known as Newton trikes - ISTR some connection with Roman Road Cycles (at Llanwrda)

EDIT: Linky for custom-built Newton trike, but that looks like a conversion

DrMekon · « **Reply #267 on:** 22 February, 2010, 05:55:43 pm »

Thanks for the link.

It was Newton, just south of Cambridge.

mike · « **Reply #268 on:** 22 February, 2010, 08:18:38 pm »

Lovely looking bike, that. It's ridden by a bloke called Steve who lived next door to me when he built it. The handling is pretty good but it took some getting used to (practicing missing potholes, mainly)

He'd never owned a car and used to commute to addenbrookes 20 miles each way on it all year round, aged about 60. I picked him up a couple of times as I drove past him on the way home.

He moved to Newton about 7 years ago because the distance and the hill up to Great Chishill was too much for him. He now drinks in the queens head, as most sensible people do at some point.

/local info.

clarion · « **Reply #269 on:** 02 March, 2010, 11:02:09 am »

Yesterday, I saw a shiny Schwinn Cruiser (Brooklands green & beige) at Walworth Road. Very cool, but it looked like a heavy beast to ride. I was glad to be on my Orbit.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #270 on:** 02 March, 2010, 11:23:37 am »

About five years ago when I was in Sofia, I saw an old guy riding around on a Raleigh Twenty type folding bike. The handlebars had been replaced with a leatherbound steering wheel and had the brakes and Sturmey shifter attached with union clips.

tiermat · « **Reply #271 on:** 03 March, 2010, 09:21:46 am »

Last night when I went to get my bike from the stands at work, a Holdsworth Mistral in a lovely green colour, wivva Brooks!!!

I stood drooling at it for a good mins

clarion · « **Reply #272 on:** 03 March, 2010, 09:35:23 am »

So there's another cyclist about

This morning, in Clapham, I saw an unusually big cruiser bike (second one this week - are they newly fashionable or summat). This was a real tank. I thought it might be a Pugsley, but, getting closer (as i rapidly did), I could see it wasn't the quality of a Surly frame. Big fat tyres, though - must have been scooter wheels on that thing. Rider seemed happy, so all is good

clarion · « **Reply #273 on:** 05 March, 2010, 02:21:27 pm »

In Southwark I saw a couple of advertising Broxes. They were parked near the Island Cafe last Friday, but this week, I saw one of the riders. My, he didn't look happy $:-\$

Martin109 · « **Reply #274 on:** 06 March, 2010, 12:46:20 pm »

Quote from: DrMekon on 22 February, 2010, 04:22:15 pm

DF tadpole trike, if that's the right term. I've never seen anything like it before. Spotted in Newton.

Strangely, that's probably a Newton trike!

Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 642070 times)

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