Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646254 times)

Kim · « **Reply #2075 on:** 18 December, 2014, 02:10:59 pm »

Presumably if the riders on the tagalong put out more power than the one on the bike, you end up with an effect not dissimilar to braking with a heavy trailer. Whereas downhill, you end up with an effect like braking with a heavy trailer...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2076 on:** 18 December, 2014, 10:47:30 pm »

From what I've seen, the riders on the tagalong - the elder is about 8, maybe - regard pedalling as something you don't do when you're going uphill, because that's hard work.

Deano · « **Reply #2077 on:** 21 December, 2014, 08:04:24 pm »

Spotted on flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27047646@N00/15435515073/

aidan.f · « **Reply #2078 on:** 21 December, 2014, 08:49:33 pm »

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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.

SJS U+2 tandem trailer, we did once hook one up to a DF tandem trike, it was quite an awesome combination, 5 wheels 3 chains and four riders, actually very easy to handle and manoeuvre.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2079 on:** 22 December, 2014, 11:26:34 am »

Quote from: Deano on 21 December, 2014, 08:04:24 pm

Spotted on flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27047646@N00/15435515073/

So Wowbagger's using the new alias Wagner? I thought old Wilhelm Richard was a bit modern for him. Still, good way to get out with the grandchildren.

nikki · « **Reply #2080 on:** 22 December, 2014, 03:22:32 pm »

That Flickrstream is full of joy!

Jakob W · « **Reply #2081 on:** 23 December, 2014, 03:17:25 pm »

Yesterday evening: stealthy black frame with track bars and gears-inna-can on back pulled up beside me at lights. I squint at the badges on the head and down tubes: "Bob Jackson?" "Yes." "Nice."

And later a stealthy black old-school trike heading the other way with a well-patinated black-and-white carradice hanging down back.

hulver · « **Reply #2082 on:** 07 January, 2015, 02:45:36 pm »

Saw this thing in Germany over Christmas.

It was pretty big, but I think it looks bigger because of the fairly small wheels.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2083 on:** 07 January, 2015, 06:04:40 pm »

They look like 700c.

Paging Mr Raffe. Mr G. Raffe to the white courtesy telephone please . . .

jsabine · « **Reply #2084 on:** 08 January, 2015, 04:23:23 am »

They look similar in size to the other bike that's parked, which to my mind looks like it could be an MTB and have 26" (559) wheels. Skinny slicks for 559s if so.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2085 on:** 08 January, 2015, 10:48:40 am »

Perhaps they're 650B, the old French favourite.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2086 on:** 08 January, 2015, 11:28:23 am »

There was a red machine similar to that hanging up at the end of the ginnel down which Covent Garden Cycles used to lurk. I think it was a 29" frame and possibly a Bob Jackson.

clarion · « **Reply #2087 on:** 08 January, 2015, 12:18:23 pm »

That's right! I remember it.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2088 on:** 10 January, 2015, 10:39:27 am »

Interesting that the extra stays end on the seatstays rather than at the dropouts; I'd have thought it would put more of a bending moment on the seatstays.

JonBuoy · « **Reply #2089 on:** 29 January, 2015, 06:34:57 pm »

A Belfort Boris Bike

Guy · « **Reply #2090 on:** 02 February, 2015, 01:45:38 pm »

Chained to a post on Northbridge St yesterday afternoon was a tatty old silver MTB/Hybrid thingy. It had a KIA badge on the head tube and the words "THINK BEFORE YOU DRIVE" in red capitals on the down tube.

I didn't know KIA made bikes, but I think it wonderful that a car manufacturer can stick a warning against unnecessary car use on a bike

Kim · « **Reply #2091 on:** 02 February, 2015, 02:43:16 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 02 February, 2015, 01:45:38 pm

I didn't know KIA made bikes, but I think it wonderful that a car manufacturer can stick a warning against unnecessary car use on a bike

Maybe they should stick them on cars?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2092 on:** 02 February, 2015, 07:39:47 pm »

They have such signage plastered all over F1 circuits. As the message is flagged as "Bernie says..." the immediate reaction is, natch, the opposite.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2093 on:** 03 February, 2015, 10:01:34 am »

Quote from: aidan.f on 21 December, 2014, 08:49:33 pm

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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.
SJS U+2 tandem trailer, we did once hook one up to a DF tandem trike, it was quite an awesome combination, 5 wheels 3 chains and four riders, actually very easy to handle and manoeuvre.

I had a U+1. Awesome machine. The rack was a great piece of engineering. We had a wicker box (almost laundry chest sized) on it.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2094 on:** 16 February, 2015, 10:12:24 am »

Not unusual individually, but it was impressive to see a dozen tandems descending Coxgrove Hill at a variety of speeds from sedate to manic on Saturday, as I was going up.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2095 on:** 16 February, 2015, 12:19:29 pm »

Quote from: Guy on 02 February, 2015, 01:45:38 pm

Chained to a post on Northbridge St yesterday afternoon was a tatty old silver MTB/Hybrid thingy. It had a KIA badge on the head tube and the words "THINK BEFORE YOU DRIVE" in red capitals on the down tube.

I didn't know KIA made bikes, but I think it wonderful that a car manufacturer can stick a warning against unnecessary car use on a bike

Yup. Both Kia & Daewoo branded bikes in the noughties.

Kia used them as a carrot. Offering two with any of their MPVs.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2096 on:** 16 February, 2015, 12:44:41 pm »

This is a cheat, because I haven't seen it:

What's unusual about it is not so much the bike itself (though apparently it was built as a one-off, adapted from something(s) else) but where it is - in India. That it is even being discussed shows that Bangalore Bikers' Club is probably even less representative of Indian cycling as a whole than YACF is of British.

Kim · « **Reply #2097 on:** 17 February, 2015, 08:23:32 pm »

A total of 5 Bromptons (not including my own) over the course of about half an hour as I walked CrinklyLion and cubs to Mordor Central earlier. I've never seen that many in the wild (as opposed to on an organised ride, or in the local Brompton shop) in Middle Earth before.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2098 on:** 21 February, 2015, 09:57:53 am »

A Brompton with a child seat, fitted in an interesting arrangement - an L-shaped tube clamped to the main frame tube and the seat post, with the child seat between the seat and the bars. I didn't see whether the clamps had a QR arrangement; if so, I suppose you'd still have a reasonably portable bike with child-carrying capability.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #2099 on:** 21 February, 2015, 10:04:00 am »

Sounds like http://bikefix.co.uk/it-chair