Author Topic: Interesting and Unusual Bikes You've Seen (Read 646324 times)

sg37409 · « **Reply #2475 on:** 19 October, 2016, 10:49:04 pm »

Chopper ! by sg310, on Flickr

hatler · « **Reply #2476 on:** 19 October, 2016, 10:53:19 pm »

Strewth. I struggle to think of a set of circumstances where that would be my choice of ride.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2477 on:** 20 October, 2016, 01:03:04 am »

Quote from: sg37409 on 19 October, 2016, 10:49:04 pm

Chopper ! by sg310, on Flickr

That is **SO** cool.

sg37409 · « **Reply #2478 on:** 20 October, 2016, 09:03:53 am »

Yeah, I liked it too !. Twin discs at the front too

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2479 on:** 20 October, 2016, 09:16:22 am »

I've seen something similar but without so many lights made of plywood taking part in Critical Mass in Bristol. I was just walking along the street when they rode past so didn't get a good look at it, but it was a similar shape and plywood. So they can be ridden, even if more for ostentation than transportation. However, I do wonder if sg37409's example isn't meant as street art?

Kim · « **Reply #2480 on:** 20 October, 2016, 01:44:38 pm »

There's a guy in Birmingham who rides around on something slightly less ornate with similar geometry. But then we also have someone who rides around on the back half of a BMX...

Andrij · « **Reply #2481 on:** 21 October, 2016, 03:53:39 am »

Quote from: hatler on 19 October, 2016, 10:53:19 pm

Strewth. I struggle to think of a set of circumstances where that would be my choice of ride.

PBP? I've been told it's mostly flat.

hatler · « **Reply #2482 on:** 21 October, 2016, 08:45:34 am »

Andrij · « **Reply #2483 on:** 21 October, 2016, 03:01:35 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 18 October, 2016, 07:54:29 pm

That front hub doesn't look very Amish

There were a few other English there, so I assume it belongs to one of them.

This was pretty much standard for the Amish we saw on bicycles (and there were quite a few of them):

DSC_0952.NEF by Andrij, on Flickr

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2484 on:** 21 October, 2016, 03:04:04 pm »

Isn't that a deleted scene from Call the Midwife?

Pingu · « **Reply #2485 on:** 23 October, 2016, 11:20:17 pm »

Quote from: hatler on 19 October, 2016, 10:53:19 pm

Strewth. I struggle to think of a set of circumstances where that would be my choice of ride.

Going to the local craft beer bar, shirley?

Jasmine · « **Reply #2486 on:** 24 October, 2016, 01:33:45 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 18 October, 2016, 10:00:49 pm

Also some sort of electric unicycle, like a one-wheeled Segway. I assume some sort of gyroscopic stability gadget as the rider didn't appear to be doing any of the usual hip-swivelling and shimmytastic Stuffs that normally go with unicycle progress.

A solowheel? - see http://www.solowheel.com/

My sister-in-law has one. She rides it to work (in Portland). I've tried it and can confirm it's an acquired skill.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2487 on:** 24 October, 2016, 03:10:24 pm »

Don't think it was one of they as I'm pretty sure the one I saw had some sort of handlebar arrangement, no doubt for indispensible hipster accessories. Only got a brief sighting as it was going the opposite way while I was mired in traffic, and it was dark.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2488 on:** 26 October, 2016, 01:10:57 pm »

There's a whole assortment of unicycles and unicyclers on this Singletrack article
http://singletrackworld.com/2016/10/wtf-muni-cycling-electric-unicycles/
including electric, self-balancing ones, but those don't have handlebars. The electric ones actually make mountain unicycling seem pretty reasonable.

cygnet · « **Reply #2489 on:** 28 October, 2016, 06:50:33 pm »

A recumbent tandem tadpole trike, coming out of Southwark Park this morning
Had a http://fietser.be/ decal on it.

fuzzy · « **Reply #2490 on:** 31 October, 2016, 01:39:16 pm »

In't workshop yesterday was an early Specialized Stumpjumper (orange in colour) and a Raleigh hard tail with a lugged Ti frame.

Andrij · « **Reply #2491 on:** 31 October, 2016, 06:22:07 pm »

A 'car-go' trike.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2492 on:** 01 November, 2016, 01:00:00 pm »

It appears to be a wheelchair-fronted tandem with electric assist.

mattc · « **Reply #2493 on:** 01 November, 2016, 01:55:09 pm »

Are they charging it from that lamppost?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2494 on:** 01 November, 2016, 02:17:50 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 01 November, 2016, 01:55:09 pm

Are they charging it from that lamppost?

Perhaps via a solar panel?

Pingu · « **Reply #2495 on:** 13 November, 2016, 03:51:14 pm »

Bloody cyclists clogging up the roads.

IMG_7723_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2496 on:** 30 November, 2016, 12:59:11 am »

I aten't seen a BikeE

since forever but a woman rocked up and parked one outside Islington Town Hall this evening.

Kim · « **Reply #2497 on:** 30 November, 2016, 02:22:30 pm »

Interestingly (FSVO interesting) the last time I encountered a BikeE was outside Birmingham Town Hall.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2498 on:** 30 November, 2016, 02:37:53 pm »

They look like something assembled from a box of scraps in a junkyard.

Kim · « **Reply #2499 on:** 30 November, 2016, 02:42:03 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly on 30 November, 2016, 02:37:53 pm

They look like something assembled from a box of scraps in a junkyard.

They ride like ...well, not quite that bad.

(Actually they're dead easy to ride. This style of bike is the next logical step in the evolution of the traditional city bike: Rubbish performance, but comfortable, easy to mount and good at stop-start riding. The problem is that nobody's really worked out how to make them non-fugly.)

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