Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646130 times)

clarion · « **Reply #2050 on:** 09 November, 2014, 09:30:22 pm »

We saw two of those filled with drunken punters hurtling down Duke Street Hill towards Tooley Street.

TimO · « **Reply #2051 on:** 10 November, 2014, 01:08:21 pm »

It's not strictly speaking correct for this thread, but it seems like the most appropriate thread to use. Last thursday, when leaving work for the Dentist, I saw this guy going along Exhibition Road at around 2-30.

I gave up trying to decide how many offences he's committing (no single vehicle approval certificate, no insurance, no VED, no MOT ...) but it's certainly a relatively unusual sight, anywhere. I suspect you'd need to get new laws passed to make any sort of motorised unicycle legal in the UK (not dissimilar to the same sort of problems with a Segway).

delthebike · « **Reply #2052 on:** 10 November, 2014, 01:31:21 pm »

I parked my Brompton next to this Puch at the supermarket this morning. It says Clubman 6 on the top tube but Skyline on the down tube. Not sure what it is but it's a nice example and appears to have a spoke lock on the seat stay. A nice fixed project anyway and just my size!

Is it a spoke lock or something else?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2053 on:** 10 November, 2014, 01:33:23 pm »

TimO's sighting probably only yards from the very spot where one of my fellow PSOs got nicked in 1983. Riding helmetless on the pavement on an untaxed, un-MOT'd and uninsured VeloSolex. He didn't understand why Plod was so riled. Surely this was normal behaviour? Everybody does it in Paris...

Bledlow · « **Reply #2054 on:** 20 November, 2014, 01:25:07 pm »

A Cycles Bobet (as in Louison) frame turned into a fixie. Note the attempt at colour matching of the saddle, rear rim, & one valve cap. A pity about the fork.

Crappy phone picture in low light.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #2055 on:** 20 November, 2014, 10:48:04 pm »

A Chopper, in the wild, on Brixton Hill.

And then, going through Fort Neath, an unknown bike, no lights (but what the heck), being ridden in a very controlled wheelie. I spotted him around a hundred metres away, and watched him in my mirror for at least the same distance.

Karla · « **Reply #2056 on:** 20 November, 2014, 11:34:14 pm »

At the site where I work on Thursdays and Fridays, there's a simply gorgeous 90s Spesh Rockhopper: 7 speed gearing, Dia Compe Vs, a RockShox Indy and a paintjob that's almost too good to be true: has it really been offroad these past twenty years?

Don't mind me if I slip a pair of bolt croppers in my work bag ...

matthew · « **Reply #2057 on:** 21 November, 2014, 07:28:12 pm »

There is a new bike in the cage at work, Fred James frame, chromed forks, seat stays, and chain stays, baby blue head tube and band on the seat tube chrome head tube lugs. Otherwise the frame is baby pink. Looks gorgeous.l fortunately far too small for me.

mzjo · « **Reply #2058 on:** 21 November, 2014, 10:20:54 pm »

Quote from: delthebike on 10 November, 2014, 01:31:21 pm

I parked my Brompton next to this Puch at the supermarket this morning. It says Clubman 6 on the top tube but Skyline on the down tube. Not sure what it is but it's a nice example and appears to have a spoke lock on the seat stay. A nice fixed project anyway and just my size!

Is it a spoke lock or something else?

It is indeed a bike lock. My brother had one of those on the Puch Jungmeister he had to go to school in the early 70s. Didn't stop the bike getting pinched though (probably because he didn't use it). The Jungmeister was quite heavy, had quaint continental styling and used a Styria three speed that apparently was a copy of the Sturmey AW (I'm always surprised that they didn't use a Sachs hub).

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2059 on:** 30 November, 2014, 02:35:39 pm »

A fairly run-of-the-mill hybrid outside Pizza Hut at Tottenham Hale. Locked neatly to a Sheffield stand. Stand-frame and rear wheel-another rear wheel-front wheel. Eh

Pingu · « **Reply #2060 on:** 30 November, 2014, 10:42:44 pm »

Met someone on an Elliptigo today

Pingu · « **Reply #2061 on:** 07 December, 2014, 06:03:47 pm »

Yooniq:

IMG_4454 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Torslanda · « **Reply #2062 on:** 07 December, 2014, 07:06:23 pm »

My first thought was Cannondale Hooligan but the frame is wrong . . .

Moultonaught · « **Reply #2063 on:** 07 December, 2014, 07:09:21 pm »

given the number of stem spacers presumably it's a Thorn....

Oaky · « **Reply #2064 on:** 15 December, 2014, 09:36:43 am »

(sorry - no pictures) Saw a push-me-pull-you back to back recumbent tandem crossing the A12 near Hatfield Peverel yesterday, around 11am.

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #2065 on:** 15 December, 2014, 11:58:25 am »

Tippers_Kiwi saw it too and put a photo in 'have you been out today'

Tandem Rowing Bike, as below....

Kim · « **Reply #2066 on:** 15 December, 2014, 02:42:56 pm »

I've been trying to work the drivetrain out. Presumably it's string all the way down, and the ratchet/?gearing gubbins is all in that enormous hub...

Reg.T · « **Reply #2067 on:** 15 December, 2014, 05:12:55 pm »

The enormous hub is a spiral that the string pulls on. For more of a clue than that description affords, there's a video on how to change the string on the rowingbike website here

Kim · « **Reply #2068 on:** 15 December, 2014, 05:21:26 pm »

Ah, simple and effective!

Ruthie · « **Reply #2069 on:** 15 December, 2014, 07:43:56 pm »

That kind of reminds me of the swingboats we used to go on at the fair. But they're facing out instead of in.

SlowCoach · « **Reply #2070 on:** 17 December, 2014, 01:32:43 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 15 December, 2014, 07:43:56 pm

That kind of reminds me of the swingboats we used to go on at the fair. But they're facing out instead of in.

Perhaps we could call it a "Shuggy Boat Drive" (but then, I tend to find that no-one outside the North-East has heard of shuggy boats - what does the rest of the world call them?)

Reg.T · « **Reply #2071 on:** 17 December, 2014, 01:42:35 pm »

Dunno - what are they?

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #2072 on:** 17 December, 2014, 01:48:08 pm »

I got an interview of one of the crew of the tandem row bike before PBP 2007. I think they got to Brest before the drive cables gave problems and they packed. We also saw a solo row-bike a lot. He packed at a bar just before Mamers on the way back. He'd had cable problems, but he stopped because of strained abdominal muscles. I interviewed him as he had his first beer.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2073 on:** 17 December, 2014, 07:19:12 pm »

A solo Thijs rowing bike was the first darksider home on LEL 2009.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2074 on:** 18 December, 2014, 10:46:08 am »

A bog standard, ordinary Kona hybrid. But pulling two kids on a trike tagalong. Actually, it's not a trike cos it has two wheels, but they're both at the back. Together, the whole combination is like an articulated delta trike but with four wheels (three seats, two drive chains, and a humoungous plastic box above the rear axle). Quite outrageous, in a very good way. Unfortunately, when I saw them again yesterday, it turned out that morning they'd had a tip over - cos the front is a bike and the back is a trike, I guess the handling's a bit contrary, and it had tipped over going round a sharp corner up a steep hill. No damage or injuries though.