I used to want an Overbury's sooo much. The Cross Fell was cool, but the Pioneer was amazing!
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
A (foot powered) adult scooter with a larger front wheel (approx 20inches) and smaller back wheel.
Hase Pino - google it.I want one of those.
A (foot powered) adult scooter with a larger front wheel (approx 20inches) and smaller back wheel.
http://kickbike.com/
I saw a Overbury MTB in Bristol a few months ago - set up with Bullmoose bars* bars, mudguards and racks, a very upright riding position with lovely fillet brazed joints. A bit tatty now, but obviously a nice bit of kit back in the '80s.
*I think that's the right term - a one piece bar and stem combo, made from a vertical tube in the steerer with two angled tubes as the forward extension with a wide, sweeping handlebar.
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
I've just found my n+1. Where can I get a Recumbent conversion for my Brompton?
The other day in Edinburgh I saw a couple on a tandem pulling one of those trailer's for kids to sit in.
Nothing unusual there you say....except the back half of the tandem was a normal upright bike while the front half was a recumbent.
I've never seen or heard of that before. Wish I'd got a pic.
Hase Pino - google it. I've seen one in Hyde Park, I was chuffed, pity the riders were so unfriendly.
Not quite electric assist...
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2209486545_d7c7be3598.jpg)
A civilian version of the Kronan, a Swedish Army bike. I like the way it carries babies, not bombs
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/503753270_008578590e.jpg)
I've seen that one, was it the wife riding or the husband? The wife is American and very chatty. The husband English and not even remotely polite. The child is an obnoxious brat.
That's an old Velo solex (http://www.velosolex.co.uk/).
They still sell them here ::-) and they are quite funny to ride :D
G
The LBS (Fred Williams, Wolverhampton) have built a curious thing that has some kind of funny clutch hub and a really long chain that runs under the BB (hard to explain...) that allows you to pedal forwards and freewheel as usual, but if you pedal backwards, will also propel you forwards.
No real use, but interesting.
The LBS (Fred Williams, Wolverhampton) have built a curious thing that has some kind of funny clutch hub and a really long chain that runs under the BB (hard to explain...) that allows you to pedal forwards and freewheel as usual, but if you pedal backwards, will also propel you forwards.
No real use, but interesting.
Anything like this: clicky (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_rpopNdJsytc/RtMDgiVj1SI/AAAAAAAAAR0/YuWme7Z3gRc/P1030582.JPG)?
Edited wif apparently functional url...
Doesn't like hot linking. Copy and paste jpg URL.
Yep, was kinda like that I think. I seem to recall that the 'other' chain guide thing was more towards the bottom bracket though.
On the way home last Friday evening.
A Viscount Aerospace. In 'raspberry ripple' finish, typical late 70s / early 80s 24 inch frame or bigger. Tastefully upgraded with moden wheels and tyres, aero levers.
Lusted after one of those but they had a poor, unreliable pressed-in bottom bracket so went for the Falcon instead.
J
Continuing the folders theme:
Seen a few times in Sale on our commute: A white dahon folder emblazoned with the word Google in big letters.
Saw an unusual tandem today in Lund, but didn't get a photo :(
It had small wheels (brompton sized) and a frame made of thin bars (like a moulton). The odd thing was that this was a kiddie-front, with the kid (guess about 12 years old) having Raleigh Chopper-style handlebars to steer the rig with, and his mum stoking on the back.
At least I think the kid was steering and didn't just have dummy bars - I only got a brief glimpse as they were going the other way.
A lady on a beautifully painted blue custom Roberts yesterday. Eternity present from her husband. How cool is that!!
There is a guy in Gosport who rides an original Radius Dino
Retro - cool!
Less of a bike and more of a scooter (http://www.pawtrekker.com/viewproductbottom.asp?id=31&catsel=51) for err..... walking your dog...
Saw this today in Richmond Park. Any guesses as to what sort of bike this is?
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3540/3322751685_1d15a5c83d_o.jpg)
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It's a kickbike (although that's a generic term like bicycle).
One did PBP in 2003: http://www.machka.net/pbp/pbp/kickbike.jpg
I spotted an electric bike going up past my office window.
Made me realise that it's still an unusual sight, despite the big advances of the last few years.
TimH, that's very cool. Never been sure of the point of FGing the front seatpost, but it's cool nonetheless.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/3395397289_db25c4468d.jpg?v=0)
One of two Bates seen on the East Sussex CTC 50km run today.
Very tempting - whereabouts are they?
Yeah, it says mango on the side
Yeah, it says mango on the side
So why ain't it orange
...
She's complaining that her rear hasn't yet reached that state of Brooks Nirvana that we all aspire to.
On youtube, a duoquest:
YouTube - Duoquest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc6b94NdS6s)
I want!!!
Don't you know that you should adopt bikes abandoned by railways? ;DI couldn't fit it on the pushchair, and since the fence is about 10 feet high at that point, I have no idea how they got it over there, let alone how I could lever it out and get it back!
In the last week I've seen two shaft-driven bikes on my rides to and from work.
Saw two Stridas in the space of one fag break in Lambs Conduit Street last week.A friend has just imported several here.
Last weekend outside Unicorn Grocery in Manchester:Just to be pernickety, I'm sure bakfietsen is the plural, if you saw only one then it was a bakfiets. Hope you don't mind the correction.
a Bakfietsen!!! :o
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision (http://www.firstflightbikes.com/KirkPrecision.html)
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision (http://www.firstflightbikes.com/KirkPrecision.html)
Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?
I saw someone riding the L2B today on a Kirk Precision (http://www.firstflightbikes.com/KirkPrecision.html)
Did he, by chance, have a bandaged knee?
Riding the L2B? Not a chance.
He did recently raise the possibility of doing the next FNRttC on his Kirk. I think I shall give him a nudge...
A Windcheetah, with tailbox, at speed under St Alkmunds Way bridge, Derby, next to the river. And no, it wasn't mine. I was in the middle of the river at the time. (In a boat, obv.)
...an unusual rear end
That'd be a tallbike (http://www.tallbiketourbritain.com/).
:thumbsup:
ETA: Too slow...
Tallbike!
We saw one at the start of the Dunrun, but I don't think he rode it to the seaside ;)
Never heard of Lyons. Not on Classic Lightweights, either*. Interesting. Shame you don't have a photo.
* Who could have guessed that I would have this bookmarked? ;D
A beautiful, original (minus saddle) Vitus 979 Duralinox amongst a pile of nasty mongrel bikes on a Dr Bike held for yoof at a London estate community hall. Beautiful. I was tempted to offer £20 for it and the lad who owned it would probably have been delighted.
Vitus 979 Duralinox on velospace, the place for bikes (http://velospace.org/node/9480)
A beautiful, original (minus saddle) Vitus 979 Duralinox amongst a pile of nasty mongrel bikes on a Dr Bike held for yoof at a London estate community hall. Beautiful. I was tempted to offer £20 for it and the lad who owned it would probably have been delighted.Did you tell him how lovely it was?
Vitus 979 Duralinox on velospace, the place for bikes (http://velospace.org/node/9480)
...so I disturbed the 'no talking' etiquette (fortunately he didn't mind) as curiosity overcame me.
A couple of days ago, I saw that overtaking cars were giving a reasonable space to a cyclist they were passing. When I got to see what was happening, I realised that it was a Fire Officer on his commute, carrying what appeared to be a large holdall-style toolbag with a solid base slung across his back. At the bottom right hand end of this bag hung a bright yellow helmet.You see? They DO prevent you from being hit by cars!
It's a trombone, and he rides up to town regularly (for rehearsals? teaching? not sure).A student friend of mine transported his tuba on his back while riding. Quite a sight.
A couple of days ago, I saw that overtaking cars were giving a reasonable space to a cyclist they were passing. When I got to see what was happening, I realised that it was a Fire Officer on his commute, carrying what appeared to be a large holdall-style toolbag with a solid base slung across his back. At the bottom right hand end of this bag hung a bright yellow helmet.You see? They DO prevent you from being hit by cars!
A student friend of mine transported his tuba on his back while riding. Quite a sight.
[I don't know any other tuba players, so maybe they all cycle?]
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
Whilst locking my bike up outside the post office yesterday I saw on the adjacent stand a mountain bike sporting several "6x4" logos on the top tube. I started wondering what they were (brand? model? etc.) until I noticed the quad chainrings :o (and the 24-speed logo elsewhere on the frame).
I'd quite forgotten that such things once existed.
Spotted a Trikidoo yesterday ... Celeb pic below.
Unusual loads rather than bikes:
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
I spotted this one today
VANMOOF bicycles - Redesign of one of the iconic backbones of Dutch culture (http://www.vanmoof.com)
Looking on their site it have solar powered light.
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
Spotted an interesting bike yesterday. I've seen a couple of commuting bikes with drop bars & discs, and thought that was a pretty good combination. But I think they were both hybrid conversions, or Roadrats.
The one last night was a Marin Toscana. Checking it out on the Marin website shows a v-brake model. But I wonder if this might be the way forward for commuters.
Historical note: The first hybrids were such as the original Orbit Frontier, which was basically a rigid forked (there were no other types) MTB with randonneur bars.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
Kona Dew Drop also has discs and drop bars, very cheap too at the moment from Wiggle.
...but only in stupidly small sizes, which is probably good otherwise I'd be very tempted!I'm rather taken by the possibilities of hub gears, discs and a dynamo hub - a modded Alfine hubbed MTB would be a fantastic commuter.
That's exactly my thinking, and whilst I can see where Clarion is coming as regards the hub, I think the Alfine may be an acceptable compromise as regards keeping the cost down. My commuters end up getting rather shagged through heavy use in foul weather, spending £800+ on the hub alone is probably a bit excessive! (Actually probably £1000+ for a disc compatible one. :o)
The Carrera Subway 8 has straight handlebars, and I think I'd prefer to go back to drops for my next commuter. I need to find someone selling a plausibly acceptable steel frame. Singular are a possibility, although they're mostly out of stock at the moment.
I saw and tried An Itera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_bicycle) yesterday, it was the most flexible and horrible bike I've ever ridden .
A shaft driven bike by Danish bicycle makers Viva.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/4187185544_099fdef66e.jpg)
This model seems to have been a special edition. Only 120 were made and this one was a little plaque stating that it was the 115th made.
A shaft driven bike by Danish bicycle makers Viva.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2529/4187185544_099fdef66e.jpg)
This model seems to have been a special edition. Only 120 were made and this one was a little plaque stating that it was the 115th made.
That picture is shot at my working place ???
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.
The second was a beautiful Indian Rickshaw - fully decorated - near Wimbledon Park - my charge said "what's that shiny thing?" ;D
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4379523528_b5bb985844.jpg)
DF tadpole trike, if that's the right term. I've never seen anything like it before. Spotted in Newton.
Terrible things, but interesting.
Chain's a bit slack.
With a derailleur?! :o
A lot of late 80s early 90s MTBs rode like dogs.Chain's a bit slack.
With a derailleur?! :o
I know.
It's a Raleigh Dyna Tech, bonded construction!
The lady owner said it didn't ride very well.
You could buy the two Iteras at Re:Cycling in Elephant & Castle for spares ;D
Last night, there was a woman on a cool Hetchins in Wallington. :)
The sideways bike is different in many ways from a conventional diamond-framed bicycle. The rider controls direction by steering with both front and back handlebars. This means that the bicycle canmaneuvermanoeuvre effectively in congested conditions, weaving in and out of cars and performing tight turns. It also means that the rider can move the bike sideways, as the name suggests, such that the movement is perpendicular to the direction in which the frame points. Although this is possible, it is very difficult, as it is necessary for the rider to have extremely good balance and coordination.
I've met the chap, and had a go on his bike. It was fun!
Chain's a bit slack.
With a derailleur?! :o
Sutton CC have a lovely Stan Pike track bike that Superstoker rode to good effect. It's kept at Herne Hill, but I'd never heard of him before.
So it wasn't my eyes playing up when I saw it. Honestly there can only be one person doing this. So please do tell me that this was in London you found this.It is in Gloucester. A dark green Claud Butler.
What looked like a real old ordinary (i.e. not a mock-up) on top of a disused garage or motor factors on the main road south out of March, Cambs. I think it needs rescuing. I'd post a picture if I could, but I can't...
A Pacific Reach, seen in York. Quite fancied one, until the uk retailers told me the suspension isn't that durable.
Our bikes shared trainspace with a shiny stainless Moulton Pylon (http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/bikes/road/product/twin-pylon-8878) yesterday.
Brooks saddle and leather bar tape on bullhorns.
I saw a very unusual recumbent Delta Trike on the Baslow road going out of Sheffield this afternoon.
Really wide (about 1.5m) rear wheels spacing with a huge rear netted area for load carrying.
Not seen anything similar before!
Briefly glimpsed riding on Southend seafront. Poor quality grab from low res video footage:
I think it was one of these (http://www.ridelow.co.uk/20-chrome-classic-lowrider-bike-p-49.html?zenid=512108a6dfdbcd737b5c4796124742fb).
Gocycle - I saw one ride through Ely last week - looked nippy but noisy.A colleague reports that they are based in Shearline Engineering in Ely - Shearline were making so many components for them that they decided to move in. If Shearline's usual quality is applied, they will be made out of good bits.
How long was the bar under the tribars? Could it have been one of these (http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=11040) accessory bars that replaces a headset spacer?
(http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/images/products/11040thorn_l.jpg)
Gocycle - I saw one ride through Ely last week - looked nippy but noisy.A colleague reports that they are based in Shearline Engineering in Ely - Shearline were making so many components for them that they decided to move in. If Shearline's usual quality is applied, they will be made out of good bits.
Today, I spotted a fastish chap (well, as fast as me ;D ) on a beige Bianchi flat-barred singlespeed, wearing a retro h*lm*t like the two Wobblyjohn's got.
This is a rather nice bike.Agree with you, though it is rather sad to see such a good bicycle only locked with a cable lock, it will go walkies very soon.
(http://haigh.org/tout.jpg)
Agree with you, though it is rather sad to see such a good bicycle only locked with a cable lock, it will go walkies very soon.
A diver eh? Did he have one of those big brass helmets on?Doh :)
This one (http://brunobike.jp/700c_tour.html) Anyone know how much 77700Yen is? I'm guessing not cheap.
This one (http://brunobike.jp/700c_tour.html) Anyone know how much 77700Yen is? I'm guessing not cheap.
Small wheeled bikes are very popular in Japan & HK apparently, partly for riding on pavements :-\
Small wheeled bikes are very popular in Japan & HK apparently, partly for riding on pavements :-\
Legal in Japan, as in some other parts of the world. No need for :-\
went past a tandem moped today, I think it was one of these:
http://motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic-bikes-2/eysink-renata-tandem-moped.JPG
it'd broken down :)
No photo, but I saw what looked like an MTB version of a Kirk Precision this morning.
The frame was certainly a casting and it had 'magnesium' in decals on it.
Was I imagining this ?
That's the fella !
Thank you.
That's the fella !
Thank you.
Still doesn't mean you didn't imagine it though.
Unbadged fixer outside The Lamb last night. Looked like the frame was bamboo with the joints made by wrapping kit and kaboodle in carbon, but may just have been a poncey paint job.
There was a bike in the racks at work yesterday that had two top tubes, one below the other. It was a diamond frame and the tube underneath the "main" top tube was narrower with a slight curve. It wasn't a modern bike. I did take a closer look and made a note of the name that was embossed on the frame, but promptly forgot it :facepalm:
Any ideas? ???
ScalpedOvertook on the way to work this morning, a Giant Clip folding bike (http://www.fudgescyclestore.com/index.php?p=57837).
Not seen one before. I got stopped at the traffic lights, and it just caught up as they changed so got a second cahance for a quick look for a name on it as I wasn't sure what it was.
On this morning's Bike Week ride:
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/gordon1314/IMG_0690-1.jpg)
The guy who was riding it wasn't sure what it was - other than it is called C4 Joker and is Italian; he'd had it for years. Record brakes, Dura Ace drivetrain.
Any ideas?
A dreamslide (http://www.dreamslide.com/SITE/ENG/index.html) in the racks at work today. Does that qualify as a bike ???
A dreamslide (http://www.dreamslide.com/SITE/ENG/index.html) in the racks at work today. Does that qualify as a bike ???
A tandem coming up Burntwood Lane in Wandsworth today. It loooked fairly elderly with a mixte style back. The stoker was wearing a pretty dress and had a huge grin 8).
A tandem coming up Burntwood Lane in Wandsworth today. It loooked fairly elderly with a mixte style back. The stoker was wearing a pretty dress and had a huge grin 8).
There is something truly excellent about seeing ladies in pretty dresses enjoying a bike ride. It just screams "happy, laidback, sunny, warm days are here!", and brings a smile to my face :thumbsup:
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
Graeme Obree? Chris Boardman? Gethin Butler?
Am I being too literal??
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
Graeme Obree? Chris Boardman? Gethin Butler?
Am I being too literal??
A rider of that calibre certainly, and one who was very much associated with Mike Burrows in the mid 90s.
It should be possible to guess who rides a bike like this as a general purpose hack.
Graeme Obree? Chris Boardman? Gethin Butler?
Am I being too literal??
A rider of that calibre certainly, and one who was very much associated with Mike Burrows in the mid 90s.
Wilko?
You guys know that LeeW rode just over 300km in six hours recently, 187 miles? Didn't even make 1st place with that, either.
It's a Carlton of a similar vintage to mine or a bit earlier (late 70s, I'd guess) with the distinctive wrapround seatstay and slightly fancier lugs than mine.
I find brake levers work much more effectively when they are connected to the brakes.
I'm not much of an expert, but I don't think the forks are meant to be that shape.
... It bears a Brooks which appeared to have been laced at some time.
There was a bike in the racks at work yesterday that had two top tubes, one below the other. It was a diamond frame and the tube underneath the "main" top tube was narrower with a slight curve. It wasn't a modern bike. I did take a closer look and made a note of the name that was embossed on the frame, but promptly forgot it :facepalm:
Any ideas? ???
I may be imaging it, but I thought there was a German make (whose name escapes me) that makes a feature of the dual top tube.
Just stumbled upon a picture of this tadpole trike with a child seat at the front. Looks like fun for rider and passenger.
Zigo Leader Carrier Biycle System (http://www.myzigo.com/)
There's a bike with a double top-tube regularly locked up near Brixton tube. Remembering this post in this thread, I took a pic. And here it is:That frame looks like bikes I've seen in India. The make would be something like Atlas or Safari, and it would be marketed as a super-strong model suitable for carrying heavy loads.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4776573623_db6a86c134.jpg)
Frame too faded and repainted to show a make. Sticker on the fender said Eastman but that doesn't have to mean anything.
A Raleigh, I think, with delta brakes and an odd frame arrangement with a horizontal top tube, standard rear triangle, but the downtube joined the seat tube quite high up.
It had a decal saying "Paris" in what looked to be quite a 70s or 80s font on the downtube, but doing a quick search for "Raleigh" and "paris" seems to only bring up step though frames.
Look for Paris Galibier, the stated intent was that the repositioned down tube acted as a torque tube. Traditionally the seat tube lug cracked.
Don't they belong in thread for mopeds?
Don't they belong in thread for mopeds?
Heading home past Edgbaston Cricket ground, yesterday, passed a recumbent heading the other way, possibly an Optima of some sort. I was on my newly eBayed tandem with my 6 year son stoking. The recumbent rider and I exchanged not-normal-bike-owners glances (a relative of the man-pushing-pram nod).
That was me on a HPV Streetmachine. :thumbsup:
I saw a Condor built Paris Galibier heading over Westminster Bridge on Tuesday evening.
I haz a 1971 Galaxy. ;)
I saw a very very very pretty Mercian yesterday. I don't often covet other people's bikes, mainly because most other people's bikes are much too big for me to contemplate as anything other than eye candy, but this one was teeny weeny and would probably have fitted.
Pretty.....
I saw a very very very pretty Mercian yesterday. I don't often covet other people's bikes, mainly because most other people's bikes are much too big for me to contemplate as anything other than eye candy, but this one was teeny weeny and would probably have fitted.
Pretty.....
Pale blue with a girl riding it?
This
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4853785580_fac6a88275_s.jpg)
Mrs Cudzo bought it about 4 years ago from the roof of a passing car - literally! - but it's been stored in the barn (whose doors you can see behind the bike now) for the last 3 years at least. That's why it's so dirty! The frame is in two separate halves, left and right, which have no direct contact with each other. The places where they join, such as BB shell and head tube, they are connected by plastic tubes. There's a lot of flex in that BB! The wheels are for tubeless tyres, and their solid plastic spokes rather cancel out the supposed comfort of the frame. Unfortunately the rear tubeless tyre disintegrated and I've had to replace it with what was to hand - a tubed tyre can be fitted - which is far too wide.
In another couple of days it should be fine, though.
I know the original image was a bit small, but I couldn't work out how to make it bigger. How did you do it?
Well, I'm out in Portland right now and saw an Il Pompino earlier today, that's a bike that has travelled!
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.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/19/article-0-02B9E37A00000578-449_468x580.jpg)
LA GAZZETTA DELLA BICI: ONLY in Portsmouth, The Cervelo Tricycle....... (http://www.lagazzettadellabici.com/2010/04/only-in-portsmouth-cervelo-tricycle.html)
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...
I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.
An odd-but-stable-looking contraption doing a Trail-gator job of towing a laden child's bike, but looking like it was made out of a couple of half-BOB-Yaks - turning out of Chambers St onto South Bridge, northbound just after 5pm today ...That sounds like a Follow-Me "tandem". I asked velorution to supply me one, but after 3 phonecalls, I gave up and bought a trail-gator instead.
They are the second most popular weird kiddy carrying bike here. You are pretty much guaranteed to see a couple in the town centre on any Saturday.I guess Cambridge must be full of weird kiddies. :)
I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.
Was it black
and did it have wooden mudguards?
I saw a Pedersen at Stockwell on the way home.
Was it black
YesQuoteand did it have wooden mudguards?
Didn't see. I was at the lights going the other way. The chap riding it was well turned out, though, with a hat on.
I took a (very) few pics today, especially of the rusty ancient 'French' effect bike complete with its PBP number attached. Needless to say it finished before me!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/bike005.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/bike004.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/bike003.jpg)
Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:
Not that anyone would want to nick it...
Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/20101005093_G.sized.jpg)
The first case of DUI bars I've seen in Brum, and the only time I've seen them combined with bar-end shifters, for the ultimate in ergonomic fail. The brakes being on the wrong sides is just the icing on the cake :)
The rear wheel was locked to the frame, and it was resting on its propstand. Not that anyone would want to nick it...
Hang on, has that got a suicide lever on one side only?
Hang on, has that got a suicide lever on one side only?
I think that's just an artefact of my taking-a-photo-while-pretending-to-read-a-text-message technique. You can see the top end of one on the left lever, the rest is I think just hidden from view. I certainly don't remember there only being one, though I was somewhat distracted by the comedy shifters.
Ah yes, I spotted this outside Aldi earlier:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/20101005093_G.sized.jpg)
The first case of DUI bars I've seen in Brum, and the only time I've seen them combined with bar-end shifters, for the ultimate in ergonomic fail. The brakes being on the wrong sides is just the icing on the cake :)
The rear wheel was locked to the frame, and it was resting on its propstand. Not that anyone would want to nick it...
Hang on, has that got a suicide lever on one side only?
Whilst out with the CrinklyPride yesterday, at the lunch stop (Blacksmiths Arms in Naburn) we saw a "The Duet", it wasn't until we were leaving that I worked out it attaches to a section on the back of a wheelchair, making it into a tandem trike.
Looked like the Economy one on here : The Go Anywhere Wheelchair Bicycle Tandem: The Duet (http://www.frankmobility.com/duetfeat.php)
Pretty damned cool if you ask me :)
Saw a fantastic combo on Saturday near Motspur Park. A recumbent tandem towing a double seater trike tagalong.
Spotted by Shepherds Bush Green. Cruiser, but with reversed forks, drop bars, and reserved brake levers, and bar ends. I think they're homemade butteryfly bars.Little Cudzo asked "Is that a motorbike?"
(http://www.pbase.com/gchong2426/image/129313490.jpg)
(http://www.pbase.com/gchong2426/image/129313490.jpg)
Yesterday I saw a Dursley Pedersen, the frame looked to be made out of stainless.
My $DEITY that must have twitchy handling with negative trail!
On a train from Haywards Heath to Lewes on Saturday, a Dahon folder with (I think) 24" wheels, fitted with Raceblades
spotted this week outside Holborn station in London
(http://www.ealingbikehub.co.uk/temp/IMAG0065.jpg)
all-in-one frame was novel together with BMX style handbar,
anyidea what it is?
spotted this week outside Holborn station in London
all-in-one frame was novel together with BMX style handbar,
anyidea what it is?
Anything like this? (http://www.epxbikes.com/OwnersForum/tabid/121/aff/1/aft/82/afv/topic/Default.aspx)
EPX (no longer in business) used to make C/F (mostly) off road frames in Oz.
They did do a road model called a Reef (but that had conventional (http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25168&sid=28244fef41b073af537af20bb92c12df) seat stays)
I passed a recumbent tricycle in Battersea Park, not so unusual you might say, except that this wasn't the typical tadpole layout, but had a single steering wheel and two wheels at the back.
Seemed to be one wheel (right) drive.
Didn't catch the manufacturer, underseat steering layout as well.
I passed a recumbent tricycle in Battersea Park, not so unusual you might say, except that this wasn't the typical tadpole layout, but had a single steering wheel and two wheels at the back.
Seemed to be one wheel (right) drive.
Didn't catch the manufacturer, underseat steering layout as well.
Probably a Kettweisel(http://www.bentrideronline.com/reviews/KettWiesel/KettWiesel.jpg)
... a couple of very wide green plastic box trailers (is that to do with some franchise or something?), ...
A Pashley pdq trike? That's that way round, isn't it?
I think Darwin's Deli signature colour is black.It was a Roberts :)
Yesterday, in the melee of the A24/A3, we saw something interesting. Not an interesting bike, particularly, just a high end hybrid (though not a Koga Miyata or a Toutterrain, or anything like that). Nor was the rider particularly interesting (unless you find young, attractive, fit cycling women attractive. Err....). No, the interesting thing was the pannier.
It read 'LONDON TO CAPETOWN' etc etc etc.
Butterfly pointed out that heading north on the A24 wasn't the best direction to choose. ;D
In fact, once I got to Clapham, I did wonder if heading North at all yesterday was worthwhile.
I passed a recumbent tricycle in Battersea Park, not so unusual you might say, except that this wasn't the typical tadpole layout, but had a single steering wheel and two wheels at the back.
Seemed to be one wheel (right) drive.
Didn't catch the manufacturer, underseat steering layout as well.
Probably a Kettweisel(http://www.bentrideronline.com/reviews/KettWiesel/KettWiesel.jpg)
I was hoping someone might take a guess at what it might have been. Unfortunately, probably not this, it had a much shorter wheelbase than the one in the pic. sort of regular bike length really.
Check my previous reply
Is this still describing the Kettweisel?
The Greenspeed Anura is also very similar...
I think Darwin's Deli signature colour is black.
You mean like this? London Daily Photo: The Pubcrawler (http://londondailyphoto.blogspot.com/2009/09/pubcrawler.html)
(I have a load more photos if you are interested)
One of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp1G3JoGcZU)?
And smiles are unusual in London Grin
not that unusual in London, but a nice smile from innocent no. 4:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/bikes/P1010941.jpg)
Sounds like a Hase Pino (http://www.bike123.com/images/hase%20pino.jpg), but I'm curious about the fairing.
Sounds like a Hase Pino (http://www.bike123.com/images/hase%20pino.jpg), but I'm curious about the fairing.
And that was the Halls.
Sounds like a Hase Pino (http://www.bike123.com/images/hase%20pino.jpg), but I'm curious about the fairing.There was one of those - or something very similar - on the FNRttC.
I imagine that Kettweisel is Dutchlandish for Catweazle (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/catweaz.htm)? :)Except Kettwiesel (note correct way round for i and e) is a German company.
Ah, that reminds me. One thing I saw a couple of times in Berlin (but not, sadly, when I had my camera to hand) was cycling pubs. That is, some kind of covered float with a bar on it, where the customers sat facing the bar and pedalled while they drank, with a (presumably sober) staff member steering at the front. I'm guessing it was some kind of novelty service available for stag parties and the like. Wish I'd caught it on camera.I saw a pair of 'em in Düsseldorf in July
Ah, that reminds me. One thing I saw a couple of times in Berlin (but not, sadly, when I had my camera to hand) was cycling pubs. That is, some kind of covered float with a bar on it, where the customers sat facing the bar and pedalled while they drank, with a (presumably sober) staff member steering at the front. I'm guessing it was some kind of novelty service available for stag parties and the like. Wish I'd caught it on camera.I saw a pair of 'em in Düsseldorf in July
Hase = HarePino and Trets not in my exhaustive German dictionary although they might be Umgangssprache.
Lepus = Rabbit (Latin)
Wiesel = Weasel
Pino = ?
Trets = ?
| Language | Translation |
| Filipino | Refined |
| Finish | Stack |
| Galician | Pin |
| Portuguese | Pin |
Dang! No animal link then. My theory hits a wall of FAILWell I always assumed there was some animal link because of Hase and Lepus so it's not just you!
Well, he bought it. And it's all my fault :)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5206027667_2f503ca282.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5206027667/)
Google Translate isn't a lot better assuming that they're German, but if you tell it to translate from Latin, it reckons that Trets is "Shall go through", which is interesting, and not entirely implausible. It still doesn't help with Pino however. It also suggests "Features" for Trets, if it's in Catalan, but that sounds less likely.
Well, he bought it. And it's all my fault :)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5044/5206027667_2f503ca282.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5206027667/)
Is that one of those city bikes with the built in lights? What's it like as a bike (i.e. to ride etc)?
Mrs Torslanda, of the horned helmet and heavy metal breastplate, has just branded them thus: not bicycles, just pieces of tube welded together.
Possibly the most expensive BSOs on sale . . .
Sorte Jernherst Trike. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steering. For sale in a 'discount' cycle shop. Definitely going to try to get a test ride.
Sorte Jernherst Trike. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steering. For sale in a 'discount' cycle shop. Definitely going to try to get a test ride.That's absolutely barking (and could be absolutely inovative, if they've overcome the steering issues). DO report back.
Sorte Jernherst Trike. Front wheel drive, rear wheel steering. For sale in a 'discount' cycle shop. Definitely going to try to get a test ride.That's absolutely barking (and could be absolutely inovative, if they've overcome the steering issues). DO report back.
...or just lethal, if they haven't. :-\
Rear wheel steering is generally a bad idea. The only place I've ever seen it used successfully at speed (ie faster than a fork lift truck) was on ThrustSSC, and the Mini that they used to test the rear steering system on.
I've also seen rear wheel steer HPVs crash quite spectacularly!
On Friday's commute in to work, I saw a Kingcycle recumbent near Stockwell. It was a bit tired, but still cool. You almost never see 'bents in Sarf Lahndan.
A Raleigh Wayfarer by one of the boats moored in Bristol docks. Not a particularly interesting bike of itself, but the frame was the spit of the Hero Hawk I had in India.
In the bicycle park at work today I noticed a Kirk Revolution.Those are the pressed magnesium frames from around 1987-ish?
We know someone who has one (but much prefers to ride his Colnago) ;D
We know someone who has one (but much prefers to ride his Colnago) ;D
Has anyone actually seen it out and about?
Today in the bike park at work I saw a Pederson.Your bike park seems to be an interesting place! :D
Today in the bike park at work I saw a Pederson.Your bike park seems to be an interesting place! :D
Raleigh moved out of TI stable in 1987. The demise of Raleigh as a manufacturer was probably largely instigated by a disastrous project to computerise their production control systems (possibly something to do with a management consultant not understanding the Garbage In, Garbage Out principle).It was a gradual process, with stages separated by years, which suggests that it wasn't related to a single problem - just decades of bad management. Look at the Sturmey-Archer debacle.
I loved switching my lights on as I rode along :smug:
You're possible thinking of Reelights (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/reelight/sl120-uk-light-set-ec008392) - they are low powered "be seen by" LEDs, but with the advantage of relatively simple installation (unlike a hub dynamo), no slipping on the tyre when wet (tyre driven) or running out of power (batteries). There are various models and styles available, so the ones you've seen may not be identical to these.Yes, that looks like it, though I've also seen other, more rectangular, designs of lights powered by the same device. Absence of tyre slippage is an advantage which had, er, slipped my mind. TBH I don't think I've ever experienced it, but then it's a long time since I've used a dynamo.
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You utter gits; that (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5187296673_9805d634e6_b.jpg) is either sheer arrogance or precision brilliance - couldn't get a gnat's bollox through there ;)
At UCL today, we saw a bike decorated with mussel shells in the spokes.
Also rode with a chap who had a Sonic frame. Anyone know anything of this make? He said the framebuilder used to work near (above?) Bikefix on Lambs Conduit St, London.
I had a Sonic MTB for a while; on skinny slicks it was the lightest and fastest road-going bike I've ever owned;
Yeah, no worries on having and riding uprights, I like 'em too. But calling it the fastest road going bike you've ever owned?
Yes, that's right. Looked like a mummy-duck with her ducklings. I almost said 'mother', but I realised it could be a carer of some kind.Lovely, and a predictable but understandable shame, respectively. (Though quite how understandable it really is, I'm not sure, if you trust someone enough to leave them in sole charge of your small children.)
What Butterfly does with her charges tends to be delimited by the neuroses of various employers.
I can't work out quite what's what with that pedal-powered vehicle (I can't even see where the pedals are, though I presume there must be some!) but I like it nevertheless.
Someone at work has ridden in on a brand new turquoise & orange cruiser - Brookes saddle, Sturmey 5 speed & hub brakes.
Someone at work has ridden in on a brand new turquoise & orange cruiser - Brookes saddle, Sturmey 5 speed & hub brakes.
Saw another cruiser on the way home - red, white & chrome with a fake 'tank'.
A Boris Bike on Queenstown Road, going southward, which is kind of unusual, since all the docking stations would have been behind him at that point, and getting further away.
In glasgow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24775321@N02/5571949987/) the other day.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5571949987_8b3d4148de.jpg)
At Frosts the fishmongers (where we later bought a slightly disappointing sea bass & some entirely satisfactory whelks) this afternoon:
An Orange X-1 but with a rigid fork and an aluminium bar where the shock should have been.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5635537469_9ce7b53ba6.jpg)
I think that it was the cunning use of exhaust clamps that really made it special:
I also saw a chap in Balham on a smart classic road bike - sort of greeny-blue with chromed ends and an Italian-sounding name, and dripping with Campag Record. I tried to remember the name, but, when I got to Tooting, i saw the clown with the tyre off, and I was a bit flabberbegasted. Anyway, I've seen this fast chap once before. He is extremely fit, and today was wearing a 'World Masters Championship' jersey. Very cool. I wanted to ride with him a bit longer, but he took a more marginal route across a congested Tooting Bec junction, and then I got stuck behind some cautious riders, so he was away. :-\
I must look out for him again and get what his bike is.
I just remembered. It was a Daccordi.
A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring. :)And another one yesterday!
A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring. :)And another one yesterday!
Yep, Lefty was the name, though the guy I spoke to said Cannondale make a few models with the one-sided fork.A Cannondale MTB with a one-sided front fork. A girt great tube with telescopic suspension. The rider said he doesn't notice its single-sidedness while he's riding, which is reassuring. :)And another one yesterday!
Cannondale Lefty. I've never seen one.
My guess is that they fold - the rear triangle rotating about the vertical section of seattube just in front of the bottom bracket.
Sounds like a Trikke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trikke).
I also saw a chap in Balham on a smart classic road bike - sort of greeny-blue with chromed ends and an Italian-sounding name, and dripping with Campag Record. I tried to remember the name, but, when I got to Tooting, i saw the clown with the tyre off, and I was a bit flabberbegasted. Anyway, I've seen this fast chap once before. He is extremely fit, and today was wearing a 'World Masters Championship' jersey. Very cool. I wanted to ride with him a bit longer, but he took a more marginal route across a congested Tooting Bec junction, and then I got stuck behind some cautious riders, so he was away. :-\
I must look out for him again and get what his bike is.
I just remembered. It was a Daccordi.
The second bike had a top tube but no down tube. ???
Any ideas?
The second bike had a top tube but no down tube. ???
Any ideas?
Some kind of folder, like a Swissbike? (http://www.evanscycles.com/products/montague/swissbike-paratrooper-2011-folding-mountain-bike-ec027630)
The second bike had a top tube but no down tube. ???
There's the Paris Galibier (http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/paris2.html), of course.
saw this in Itally in '05 whilst on hols in VW camper.
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/DSC00801.jpg)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/DSC00800.jpg)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/DSC00799.jpg)
Saw a GoCycle today. First I've seen.
motorbikes...
Saw this Schwinn cruiser on Coldharbour Lane on Sunday:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2735/5849703887_79c6717877_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5849703887/)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2713/5850298158_aa5b693c57_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbruce/5850298158/)
So, who's wine red penny was that leaning up against the lamp-post by the Pince Albert last night?
A bike like a trandem, but with four not three riders on the telly this evening in a news item about population increasing.Yes, M-Shed, down on the floating harbour. It's very interesting, all of it. The bikes are on the ground floor. The Thanet was certainly made in Bristol, I'm not sure about the others.
Cudzoziemiec, was that museum the new one in Bristol by any chance? I must pay it a visit some time.
That's a Foska jersey. Is that your auction then?Since the same message is appearing in practically every thread, perhaps it should be a 'Spam' jersey instead ...
There's a Kona Ute parked outside my hotel in Toronto most days with homemade wooden tandem kids' seat and leather double saddle bags. Had a nice chat with it's owner one morning
... And the CD was skipping dreadfully. ...
And the CD was skipping dreadfully.
To save money & effort & get better sound quality? Not in this particular case, but consider me & Mrs B: our car came with a CD player. It works. We have lots of CDs.And the CD was skipping dreadfully.
In a world of MP3 players, why would anyone still be using CDs in a mobile setting?
Beatrix has nothing to fear from this device. And the owner's taste in music is nowhere near as good as our Valiant's ;D
Last night, by the former Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, I saw a more mature chap on a red Pinarello fixed. Nice looking machine.
He was interested in my 'One Less Car' sticker.
Last night, by the former Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, I saw a more mature chap on a red Pinarello fixed. Nice looking machine.
He was interested in my 'One Less Car' sticker.
Shouldn't that be "One Fewer Car ;D
Nah, one car less. The big gorilla is both grammatically and aesthetically correct.
I'm not a gorilla, I'm a crested black macaque monkey, and there's no such thing as correct grammer or spelling in the monkey world. :P ;)
I'm not a gorilla, I'm a crested black macaque monkey, and there's no such thing as correct grammer or spelling in the monkey world. :P ;)
Written any plays lately ;D
Is DynaTech as a Raleigh sub-brand still in existence? There was one outside the Pubbe last night. The lugged aluminium frame looked a bit old-skool but on the other hand it has ten-speed Campag gearing.
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
That is a shame because it would suit you. Perhaps if you were to sell a couple of other bikes?
Someone commuting on a Pedersen this morning... :thumbsup:
I *so* want one - but Mr R won't let me.... :'(
That is a shame because it would suit you. Perhaps if you were tosell a couple of other bikesquit smoking?
Here's an idea you may not have tried. If you give up the fags, Mr R would be sure to let you buy a new bike... ;)
Not all Pedersens require sit up and beg positions. A friend has done 350-ish miles in a 24 hr TT on a modern Pedersen a decade or so ago.
Today I saw a Greenspeed tandem trike, ridden (driven?) by teamonster of our parish. Lovely machine!
...and a bakfiets, but with a wicker basket.
Then Trevor Innes on his personal Innesenti trike at HPC.
Especially not one which has the same name as a US brand - IBEX.To save money & effort & get better sound quality? Not in this particular case, but consider me & Mrs B: our car came with a CD player. It works. We have lots of CDs.And the CD was skipping dreadfully.
In a world of MP3 players, why would anyone still be using CDs in a mobile setting?
Back to the topic: a decent-looking & appropriately spotless MTB, black with a red & white badge incorporating the Swiss flag, of a brand I'd never heard of, & apparently sold by a shop in Luzern. Locked up outside Thornton's (for the moment - not shut yet) in Reading.
I'd never seen a Swiss MTB before.
Couple of days running I've seen a guy on a Buckley-Saxon fixed. Never heard of them, but turns out it was a bike shop in Castle Hedingham, Essex. The frame doesn't seem anything particularly special, but is a decently-made club rider's bike.
Couple of days running I've seen a guy on a Buckley-Saxon fixed. Never heard of them, but turns out it was a bike shop in Castle Hedingham, Essex. The frame doesn't seem anything particularly special, but is a decently-made club rider's bike.
I've seen him as well (it's unlikely that there's more than one of them in London)
A very rare Cleland http://www.james-walters.net/cleland/geoff-apps.html (http://www.james-walters.net/cleland/geoff-apps.html) on the Leicester Critical Mass ride last night :thumbsup:Off-roaders designed with mudguards as standard - very British! (or should that be simply, appropriate to a rainy climate?)
If the rider had a close-cropped white beard/moustache, then I know them very well indeed.Didn't notice, to be honest - was too busy trying to keep pedalling whilst doing a double take :)
Saw an interesting one on the way home this evening - a bike, with a wheelchair attached in a motorbike+sidecar type arrangement - looked to be propelled by the rider alone. ...
That's the one.Saw an interesting one on the way home this evening - a bike, with a wheelchair attached in a motorbike+sidecar type arrangement - looked to be propelled by the rider alone. ...
This (http://mobile.yorkadvertiser.co.uk/news/9096689.Side_by_side_on_a_bicycle_made_for_two/) one ?
Those are the people I know.They were going downhill - or about as downhill as it gets round here (I passed them roughly halfway between the bridge over the A64 and the side entrance to the college near the traffic lights). Initially I was more impressed with how stable it seemed, but that was before I saw how the wheelchair was attached to the rest of the bike.
I'm surprised at your 'moving at quite a lick' comment; Paul was originally struggling a bit on the bike. He has hardly done any cycling in his life. Being the 'motor' on the rig means he's pedalling double adult weight.
I'll send a message on facebook to them, telling them they had been spotted out on the outfit. They'll be chuffed.It was different enough to make me double-take and almost forget I was riding without gears, plus I like to see a good 'engineering solution' every now and again ;)
Spotted returning from the bikecheck at PBP:
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6086/6089016669_d83e9f1627_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6089016669/)
Lokks as if it could be. Very similar to the Hotta:
DIY frame?
DIY frame?No, it's a Corima Fox.
We've just had one of these early Dahon folders donated (http://www.icollector.com/images/1151/15240/15240_0264_1_lg.jpg)
A Pace MTB. Unusual square-section frame tubes, other than seat tube and head tube, but including the stays. Very shiny, polished aluminium I guess, though it was so shiny it could almost have been stainless steel!
In Kennington the night before last (forgot to mention it before, sorry), there was a shiny Cannondale singlespeed with shiny Campag Delta brakes.
He didn't stop. ;D
I saw a pedal powered pineapple on the A23 from Brixton today. A quick google and it turns out to be owned by someone I know!
http://www.bosi.webeden.co.uk/#/pedal-powered-pineapple/4531733934
There was one at the Blackfriars protest last week. I wonder if it was the same one.
Other than that, saw lots of fixies, lots of Bicing bikes (Barca's Boris Bikes) and another type of hire bike, which was BRIGHT orange....:thumbsup:
Minivelos are pretty common in the Far East. I'm not surprised they are showing up in Europe too.He says it takes up less room and is easier to walk around when parked indoors. I'm not sure that makes sense, as IME what makes a bike awkward in such situations is the sticky-out bits, ie bars and pedals, rather than wheels. It does make sense that it's easier to transport in a train, bus or car, though.
http://somafab.blogspot.com/2011/02/mini-velo-has-arrived.html?m=1
Spotted today at the start of my commute home in Ely, an Ainimal (http://www.airnimal.eu/Chameleon/) running fixed :D
M5 was also on the badge, or rather transfer on the "top tube". I think it said something like Speedmaster CityMate by M5, or maybe it was M5 CityMate by Speedmaster. Perhaps Speedmaster is a shop that sells them?Saw it again today, being pushed up Ninetree Hill. Didn't think to ask the owner about the Speedmaster name though.
Saw this outside work today. No idea what it was, just had to take a quick snap.
(http://richardpriddy.co.uk/IMAG0122.jpg)
Minivelos are pretty common in the Far East. I'm not surprised they are showing up in Europe too.
http://somafab.blogspot.com/2011/02/mini-velo-has-arrived.html?m=1
Spotted today at the start of my commute home in Ely, an Ainimal (http://www.airnimal.eu/Chameleon/) running fixed :D
I suspect he had riden from the station, so had come from Cambridge or that London.
Spotted today at the start of my commute home in Ely, an Ainimal (http://www.airnimal.eu/Chameleon/) running fixed :D
I suspect he had riden from the station, so had come from Cambridge or that London.
...and now he's selling it on Ebay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Airnimal-Chameleon-Ultra-2009-Ultegra-fixed-gear-folding-bicycle-/200684960679?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item2eb9c17ba7).
Saw a guy on a nondescript looking mountain bike wearing an unobtanium Reevu helmet earlier. It wasn't rower40.The problem being that you can't follow him to steal it, as he'll be watching you behind him. So you'll just have to wait for him to leave his bike unattended, affix an unobtrusive tracking device, and then find out where he lives.
Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
Payphone also added a train brake and pad, which he rigged with a brass tractor pedal he won in a poker match.Even their gambling is eccentric in Leftpondia!
And he even appears to have a Brooks saddle.Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
A pulsejet bike can never be wrong :D
Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
A pulsejet bike can never be wrong :D
Wrong, but so right (http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/technology/4271404)...
A pulsejet bike can never be wrong :D
But a turbojet is much more compact, and can be constructed from a car turbocharger (available from your friendly neighbourhood car breaker).
design (http://www.salvatoreaiello.com/main.shtml)
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4t-o7XY6M) kind of thing can be built. ;D
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
I like that!
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
This is wrong (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/fuglybrommie.jpg) on so many levels.
I like that!
'Ingenious rack'
'Thanks'
'Design it yourself?'
'Yeah'
'I'm impressed.'
The entirety of the conversation I had with a fellow commuter near Newington Butts. The bike in question was a deep shiny maroon with chromed lugs. Because the rider was a tall chap, it was of double top-tube design, with double seat stays. The rack was an integrated one, colour coded with the rest of the frame, brazed to the lower seat stays, coming around the higher ones to form a rectangle of narrow tubing with semi-circular ends and wires gridded across. There was an extra pair of rack stays brazed to the rear dropouts. Very stylish and distinctive.
Isn't it? I wonder now if he built the whole thing himself - perhaps with the help of our Bicycle Repair Man?He did tell me that he had built it, that much I do recall.
..... a French postie's bike.
Right how to describe this. (I wish I had had a camera with me but sods law prevails.) large white van in traffic jam. Mounted vertically at rear is a trike (sort of). The trike has handlebars, MTB type brake levers and a triangular large frame supporting a fabric seating arrangement I think stretched across the frame. This was at least five times larger than a normal 'seat' surface area. Around the perimeter of the 'bike' is a rail which is a bit a like a bumper car protector. All the wheels and 'bike' are within this boundary. To the rear and underside of the large triangular 'seating' area are two metal pads which appear to be for standing on. I have no idea what this BSO is for, but it sure looked interesting. If only I had my phone with me........
DO NOT TOUCH
(http://webringjustice.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cw.jpg?w=500&h=333)
One of these:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6911526571_4ba5a6ed0b_o.jpg)
Hanging on the wall in Corridori Cycle Sport (http://www.corridori.co.uk/) where I took tea this afternoon.
£12k a pop :o.
This morning, I saw two recumbents. One was orange (can you tell I'm an expert? :-[ ) and we saw that just off Brixton Hill. The second I saw at St George's Circus, and I think ot was going towards Blackfriars. It was flying a Jamaican flag.
This morning, I saw two recumbents. One was orange (can you tell I'm an expert? :-[ ) and we saw that just off Brixton Hill. The second I saw at St George's Circus, and I think ot was going towards Blackfriars. It was flying a Jamaican flag.
I see her around a lot, I think her name is Denise and she does or used to do some of the route marking for the Dunwich Dynamo.
It's a green bike from memory.
In Terence Conman's shop.
Interesting? Unusual? You decide. Don't even think of the price, it will hurt.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-tNiSbkunIrc/T2uaER-dQtI/AAAAAAAAgUM/WW3pe41IZac/s800/S0180518.jpg)
Near Brockwell Park, I came up behind a young man on what looked like an interesting bike. I noticed the centrepulls first, then saw the brown paintwork. It was a Carlton of some kind. maybe not top of the range, but certainly a nice looker (or, rather, would be if the paintwork weren't so battered*). I wonder if the chap had any idea what he was riding?Carlton Corsair I expect. 531 plain guage, just outside my price range when I started riding in the late 60s. As you said, nothing special.
I saw a lovely wooden bike in Brockwell Park yesterday. It looked nice and had a cyo :-)Maybe made by these people? (http://flatframesystems.com/)
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ETA: just had a look, it was one of these: http://www.rideblue.com/triadslle.php
I don't think so, it was more rounded.
*goes to investigate*
It was one of these (http://www.renovobikes.com/) :) Very lovely.
I don't think so, it was more rounded.I've got to admit those do look nicer than the ones I saw. It's the roundiness.
*goes to investigate*
It was one of these (http://www.renovobikes.com/) :) Very lovely.
Went out with the Retrobike (http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/) crowd yesterday - about 45 classic early 90's mountain bikes, being used as intended - being riden on singletrack. :smug:
At least 5 Kleins:
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn137/GA2G/Klein-Green.jpg)
A few Orange Aluminium O's
Parkpre's
Rocky mountains
AMP research B4 with experimental forks (like Girvins only stranger :o)
and lots more.
<has a major nostalgia moment> 8)
<has a major nostalgia moment> 8)
It's a good job I didn't post pics of the Klein Mantra with Lawwill leader forks...(click to show/hide)(click to show/hide)
:demon:
A friend of mine is frequently seen on his Colnago mtb.
In 1999 I lived in France where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. The bike shop over the border in Switzerland had a Colnago MTB. I'd never seen one and was tempted for the novelty value but my wallet saw sense.A friend of mine is frequently seen on his Colnago mtb.
Still with a Campagnolo groupset on it? They had a very brief flirtation with making MTB components.
It's not every day that you see a BMX bike fitted with a luggage rack and panniers, but someone round my way has one.
A friend of mine is frequently seen on his Colnago mtb.
Still with a Campagnolo groupset on it? They had a very brief flirtation with making MTB components.
My mate Nigel (notorious Nigel (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/4821964.Scooter_driver_in_court_after_one_too_many/?ref=eb)) once fitted gears to his BMX. But then he got bored with that, so he fitted a motor instead. It was scary as fuck to ride.
dclem says...
10:02am Thu 31 Dec 09
I think a nomination for the "Best of Darlington" awards is in order.
Very brief search:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_two_1886.jpgIs that the White House in the background? :o
Very brief search:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bicycle_two_1886.jpgIs that the White House in the background? :o
Wherever it is, the woman doesn't look very happy to be photographed awheel.
Not an interesting or unusual bike, but an interesting and unusual mudguard. Yes, mudguard. Well, mudguard fixing in fact. It was simply wedged between BB and chainstay bridge, then tied above the brake bridge with baler twine and jubilee clip, and finally had more twine running from the holes that normally receive the stays up to the saddle rails. As you can imagine, there was oodles of clearance all the way round - so much that I wonder if it really could have been an effective mudguard, but it was certainly eye-catching.
There appears to be a rather bling Colnago with a distinct lack of mudguards in the Den.Does it have a wet owner?
It is a rather nice Colnago, isn't it?Not as nice as a Master Pista X Light (http://bricklanebikes.co.uk/posts/57) but still very nice. Just don't tell him I said that
<snip>....Although I don't think there has ever been a bike with so few spokes in the Den before!
ISTR Wobbly John knew something about this last time it was mentioned
Last week (but the rider looked regular), outside the Crown at Pantygelli (http://www.thecrownatpantygelli.com/) - a Hetchins, mainly black, with a Sturmey-Archer 4-speed hub (the shifter is about the only useful identifying feature to have come out on the photo I grabbed)
I was rather put out that I was not the only person riding a rod-braked bike to the Buck in Maunby. ;DThat's pretty common on Indian bikes - perhaps you saw an Atlas, Safari or Hercules!
I didn't recognise the headbadge on the other bike, but it was also notable for its double top tube.
I rode the Elswick through central London in the rain, and home. I was an interesting experience. :o
Yesterday, whilst at the pub we saw a Pace RC-100 complete with Mahura brakes and age appropraite rigid forks, in yellow. My only disappointment with it was that it was the ano-grey colour and not the red one.
Yesterday, whilst at the pub we saw a Pace RC-100 complete with Mahura brakes and age appropraite rigid forks, in yellow. My only disappointment with it was that it was the ano-grey colour and not the red one.
The RC100 was only available in grey. Anodising was introduced with the RC200
/nerd mode off
I have a very complete RC100s sitting in the loft which I must clean up and seel to someone who could use it at some point.
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.
I recall seeing it there some point last Fall.
That'll be autumn, will it? :P
I always thought 'fall' was American?
I always thought 'fall' was American?
It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).
I always thought 'fall' was American?
It is now, but they pinched it off us (it was used in English English in the Tudor/Stuart periods).
A very low, very sleek, blue, recumbent tandem.
An Itera.
Almost adjacent to Bikefix, and it looks like it's not turned a wheel in a while, so I'll be surprised if this hasn't appeared upthread...
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7228652180_d7a9f2d957_b.jpg)
I should think that quite a few of the bikes we see out and about regularly are worth £4k or more.
Merged with Metalastik in 1955
I saw two more handcycles in RP that evening - this time on the road crossing the park from Robin Hood Gate to Ham Gate.
This morning, I saw a Specialized StreetStomper - evidently a hybrid model, trading on the success of the StumpJumper and RockHopper. Pretty rare, I think, though not desperately exciting of itself. What was interesting was the horizontal dropouts, part of which was blanked off in the drive side only. I've never seen this before, and can't think what the purpose might have been.
Fixing puncture on my daughter's town bike last night - noticed the tyres; "John Bull tyres".
*How* old are the tyres on that bike? They are falling to pieces.
No. The early indexed mechs had quite strict restrictions on the relative locations of cassette and rear mech. Horizontal dropouts allowed too much deviation, so the driveside mold (cast dropouts) were modified to fix where the axle was located. The other horizontal dropout was not similarly modified because it allowed the wheel to be cocked to compensation for slight differences in chainstay length/ dropout position (manufacturing tolerances).
Proper pump pegs :thumbsup:
A fairly ordinary mountain-bikey hybrid - pulling a tag-along tandem trike! Empty, evidently returning from school.Probably a U+2
Mscharly got strong legs from pedalling. She could push me along all by herself when she was 5.woh! :thumbsup:
Dawes ?Lady Galaxy at KX
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0558.jpg)
Wait - what? Downtube levers, sure
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0560.jpg)
But STIs as well? :o
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0559.jpg)
And the stem, wherever it comes from, is ugly IMO.
Saw this Triumph earlier today:
...I couldn't tell whether the rims were alloy or steel, but there was no rust on them (they were shiny too!).
Saw the skeleton tandem and sw19cam also. Chuffed.Does this mean you were in Brizzle on Sunday? What were you riding (a recumbent I presume) and wearing? Then I'll try to work out if I saw you!
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It looks distinctly as if it's lost its mudguards. And as it has two brake levers but no rear brake, it must have lost its rear brake as well! Could be a dynohub at the front - or is it a hub brake? (in which case wheels are not original, which they might not be - rear looks like alloy on the photo and the front looks shiny like steel)Raleigh, & perhaps other British firms, used to fit hub brakes to some bikes for export. When I worked in Utrecht I bought an old export-model Raleigh with hub brakes from a local second hand bike shop. It's what got me into cycling as an adult, after not having been on a bike for years
A pair of Pacific folders. They fold into the bag at the back, which unfolds, IYSWIM, into about 25 x 25 x 90 cm or thereabouts. Engineering looks good on them, too. L/h one has the Shimano 2 speed kick gear, r/h is s/s
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nkiNX5dkREU/UAxQzROeXGI/AAAAAAAAiFc/-Vn8ZqXsjT0/s800/S0221242.jpg)
Interesting Graham Weigh
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0698.jpg)
OMFG how much more Nathan Barley can you get? Fixie (probably ss) overgrown BMXs :facepalm:One's collection of bikes is incomplete without one, so that is one addiction cured.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0675.jpg)
Saddle-less Itera on Lamb's Conduit StreetDoesn't that belong in the dead BSO thread?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0697.jpg)
Saddle-less Itera on Lamb's Conduit StreetDoesn't that belong in the dead BSO thread?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/London%20Walk%20July%202012/IMG_0697.jpg)
We have a potential winner, but I think only Fab Foodie has a photo of it. Parked outside Paolo's Cafe in Acton yesterday, and a real one-off.
This one:
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Sainsburys, North Cheam:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0685.jpg)
Closer to a motorbike, I'd have said - but interesting however you class it.
While wandering over to a local pizza restaurant in Stockholm last night, I came across this creation:I didn't know Dali did bicycles.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7924598652_91c42c8a5a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/)
IMG_0446 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
???
While wandering over to a local pizza restaurant in Stockholm last night, I came across this creation:I reckon it's a low stepover - I've heard of one before but never seen one - for people who can do a pedalling motion but can't use a normal or standard tep through frame (?lateral hip immobility)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7924598652_91c42c8a5a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/)
IMG_0446 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
???
Probably not him - this person was very very lean. Not rugby playing build at all.On way home last night I was overtaken by someone very tall riding a mountainbike. They managed an impressive turn of knots.
What was unusual was the amount of seatpost. Well over 2 feet of seatpost showing out of frame. The frame looked like a kiddies bike under this bloke.
You're from Yorkshire, was it Steve Bainbridge? Ex-British Lions rugby player, although he lives a bit further north than that these days. I've ridden with him and for someone 6'6 he has an impressive turn of speed on a roadified mountainbike (the only thing that can withstand his weight and strength).
ISTR a freakishly tall (6'11" ish) German guy who works/worked at the Computer Science department - you could easily spot which bike was his as it had several yards of seatpost showing. Depending on where you saw him it could have been him (or I could just be talking complete bollocks)Probably not him - this person was very very lean. Not rugby playing build at all.On way home last night I was overtaken by someone very tall riding a mountainbike. They managed an impressive turn of knots.
What was unusual was the amount of seatpost. Well over 2 feet of seatpost showing out of frame. The frame looked like a kiddies bike under this bloke.
You're from Yorkshire, was it Steve Bainbridge? Ex-British Lions rugby player, although he lives a bit further north than that these days. I've ridden with him and for someone 6'6 he has an impressive turn of speed on a roadified mountainbike (the only thing that can withstand his weight and strength).
While wandering over to a local pizza restaurant in Stockholm last night, I came across this creation:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8036/7924598652_91c42c8a5a.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/)
IMG_0446 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/7924598652/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
???
http://www.frankmobility.com/duetfeat.php
If only I'd had a camera with me . . .
'Hirondelle' on the down tube in fancy script. Very elaborate lugs, lovingly lined. Reynolds 525 transfer on the seat tube, & Reynolds transfers on the forks. Smallish wheels, but looked as if built for bigger: loadsa clearance. Fattish tyres. Braze-ons for everything, including pump. Rohloff speedhub, 14 gears. Proper eccentric bottom bracket. Rohloff grip shifter held on bullhorn (cut down drops?) bars vertically with cable ties. Canti bosses, only front set used (brake lever on front right end of bar): no rear brake. Bars mounted on aheadset, behind steerer tube. Anonymous rack with no light fixing plate, & Cateye LD600 held on with two strips of insulating tape, covering part of the light.
A bizarre mixture of the sublime & the utterly crap. Broad Street, Reading, this afternoon.
How about a two-wheel drive bicycle (http://www.bikecommuters.com/2012/09/18/interbike-2012-tretta-2wd-assist-bicycle/)? Hope prospective owners like chain cleaning...
Previously mentioned odd mixture. Does anyone have any idea who made the frame?
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0508.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0509.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0510.jpg)
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/Bikes/IMG_0511.jpg)
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Very fancy lugs, eh?
No visible brakes
No visible brakes
There's a reaction arm for a (presumably) back-pedal brake on the chainstay.
Still not-road-legal though. What braking opportunities are there if the chain snaps? With full mudguards, the push-shoe-onto-tyre option is not available.No visible brakes
There's a reaction arm for a (presumably) back-pedal brake on the chainstay.
Well spotted. Still intrigued by this bike - will do some more digging as displacement activity later today.
Bike still there this morning, but in a different spot (one that I usually use >:( ). Couldn't tell if it had been ridden or the owner just moved it.
Still not-road-legal though.
Still not-road-legal though.
Not in the UK. But the light mounted on the left side of the fork shows that it wasn't designed for the UK.
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Still not-road-legal though.
Not in the UK. But the light mounted on the left side of the fork shows that it wasn't designed for the UK.
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Incorrect, you need two independent brakes in Denmark too. rules where changed around 10 years ago. But if you have a bike/frame from before that date one brake is enough.
So when I cycled around Copenhagen in the 1980s on a borrowed bike with only a back-pedal brake, it was legal, then?
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Incorrect, you need two independent brakes in Denmark too. rules where changed around 10 years ago. But if you have a bike/frame from before that date one brake is enough.
So when I cycled around Copenhagen in the 1980s on a borrowed bike with only a back-pedal brake, it was legal, then?
Denmark and several other countries like Australia only require 1 functioning brake. Single speed chains are a very reliable actuation mechanism.
Incorrect, you need two independent brakes in Denmark too. rules where changed around 10 years ago. But if you have a bike/frame from before that date one brake is enough.
A pity. I hated it.
A Moulton New Series Speed, complete with Rohloff, belt drive, carbon cranks & seatpost, left unlocked against a tree outside our local pub.
The saddle was an interesting contrast to the rest of the bike.
A brief "how much?" discussion decided on about £15k, though a post-return google leads me to suspect this may be an overestimate (the double pylon separable is the expensive one). Anyway, more than John's Blackbird.
For both legs you'd need a stepperbike:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY1Te5TYJ9E
Would that be the guy with one massively muscular leg?
He would do 2 or 3 pushes with one leg, then do a very neat little shuffle and then the same on the other side. His shoes were looking very second-hand by the finish.
It seemed like every time I went to get on my bike to leave a checkpoint, the kickbike was parked next to it. It seemed like most of a day before I got away from Alpo for good. He was bloody fast downhill. I was just faster downhill than him, but there was very little in it. Crouching below the handlebars really cut down his frontal area.
He would do 2 or 3 pushes with one leg, then do a very neat little shuffle and then the same on the other side. His shoes were looking very second-hand by the finish.
It seemed like every time I went to get on my bike to leave a checkpoint, the kickbike was parked next to it. It seemed like most of a day before I got away from Alpo for good. He was bloody fast downhill. I was just faster downhill than him, but there was very little in it. Crouching below the handlebars really cut down his frontal area.
I caught him on Roc Trevezel, but he was arriving at St Quentin just before me. Didn't he get into the kickbike as summer training for speed-skating?
It's a Kickbike (http://www.kickbike.com/). At the TdF Depart in London, they had a Kickbike demonstration race.
On my way home, as I was unlocking my bike in Epsom, a chap on an orange bike passed me. I then dropped my mitts and faffed a bit, but caught him up before the first roundabout on the A24. Steel frame (not an expensive one), flat bars, aged rider. But hey - fixed gear! Smallish chainring, but a shiny Miche hub, and he was riding not fast, but well. I stuck with him for a while, enjoying his enjoyment of riding his bike, then sprinted across the lanes to where I needed to turn right.
Oh hi! Yes, I hadn't clocked that the sprocket was that small, but your smooth cadence should have told me it was something of that order. Sorry for referring to you as 'aged' now :-[
I'll forgive you as you also referred to me riding well :) At least all those years on the bike have not been wasted! Well spotted for the fixed gear and Miche hub btw. It's relatively new as the old one wore out, hence still clean.
I was going to pass you as I caught up, but there was a car passing, and then I spotted the bike and I fancied taking a bit to have a closer look as we rode. What is that frame, by the way? Is it a Holdsworth (hence the orange)?
Probably - I bought it second-hand about nine years ago and honestly can't remember. It was resprayed that colour because I liked it rather than being authentic and was done by Mario Vaz who used to run their paint shop, I believe, so it probably was actual Holdsworth team colour.
I was on a Ridgeback Romany. And I don't ride through Epsom very often, though it's not far away. In fact, it was unusual for me to be on the A24 at all, so very lucky to see you in all!
Hope to see you again, though. :thumbsup:
Absolutely - and stay safe out there.
Parked behind the Colston Hall about an hour ago, a Thanet. Frame some variety of mixte, with a single top tube sloping down from the head bearings continuing as two slender stays to the rear drop out, but an additional 'down tube' consisting of two slim tubes running horizontally from the bottom of the head tube to the point on the seat tube where the top tube and 'mixte stays' cross it. The braking and transmission was really odd though. Both hub and rod brakes front and rear with the rod brakes seeming to be an addition - the front was made out of a length of copper water or gas pipe and the rear used a large spring which looked like it might have been more at home on a kickstand or holding a door closed. The gearing was an SA 3-speed but also antiquated 2-speed derailleurs front and rear. The chainrings had a fearsome difference. The derailleurs were operated by antique-looking short brass levers running in guides on the top tube. At some point the rear derailleur cable had broken and rather than replace it, it had been joined using a brass electrical wire connector! There was a hub dynamo connected to a large circular (hemispherical in fact) front light but no switching in evidence and there were brackets for battery lights front and rear as well as a modern Accor adjustable stem. Needless to say the whole ensemble was topped off by a tattered Carradice. Clearly a long-loved, much-bodged product of eccentricity. :D
He would do 2 or 3 pushes with one leg, then do a very neat little shuffle and then the same on the other side. His shoes were looking very second-hand by the finish.There's a youtube video here which features him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqZ_JfWyrE
I googled it and found that Mr Stone lives in Bristol and Thanet had a shop here.Parked behind the Colston Hall about an hour ago, a Thanet. Frame some variety of mixte, with a single top tube sloping down from the head bearings continuing as two slender stays to the rear drop out, but an additional 'down tube' consisting of two slim tubes running horizontally from the bottom of the head tube to the point on the seat tube where the top tube and 'mixte stays' cross it. The braking and transmission was really odd though. Both hub and rod brakes front and rear with the rod brakes seeming to be an addition - the front was made out of a length of copper water or gas pipe and the rear used a large spring which looked like it might have been more at home on a kickstand or holding a door closed. The gearing was an SA 3-speed but also antiquated 2-speed derailleurs front and rear. The chainrings had a fearsome difference. The derailleurs were operated by antique-looking short brass levers running in guides on the top tube. At some point the rear derailleur cable had broken and rather than replace it, it had been joined using a brass electrical wire connector! There was a hub dynamo connected to a large circular (hemispherical in fact) front light but no switching in evidence and there were brackets for battery lights front and rear as well as a modern Accor adjustable stem. Needless to say the whole ensemble was topped off by a tattered Carradice. Clearly a long-loved, much-bodged product of eccentricity. :D
You need to get sight of Hilary Stone's history of Thanet (I had a copy, but I don't have any idea where it is). There is mention of a customer called "Nutkin" who had some unorthodox (even by Thanet's standards) frames built by said firm.
Mr. Hilary Stone, editor of Cycling Plus magazine & vintage expert, has published a booklet, "Ease with Elegance"http://classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Thanet_home.htm
which charts the history of Thanet and offers illustrations
and analysis of this unusual marque.
It is available for £8 sterling plus £5 airmail
postage. Checks must be in Pounds Sterling.
Send to:
Hilary Stone
32 Heyford Avenue,
Bristol BS5 6UE England.
In Oxford today.Is it just me, or does that have a weird optical illusion effect whereby the rear wheel appears about 10cm closer than the front wheel?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/218k6hhqii3bstn/2012-12-15%2013.30.50.jpg
Curious frame design; a sort of trussed cross frame.
mrkwr otp
mrkwr is a forumite who went on a ride with me and a few others on Saturday. His Gazelle is a racy road bike (I didn't know till I saw it that Gazelle made anything other than the sort of practical round town bike in the photo you posted).mrkwr otp
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There have been several bike makers called Gazelle and more than 1 in the Netherlands.I didn't know that. I can only find one mentioned on Wiki, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazelle_(bicycle)) which says that Royal Dutch Gazelle is now owned by the same company as Cervelo - but that doesn't necessarily mean there aren't others, of course.
mrkwr is a forumite who went on a ride with me and a few others on Saturday. His Gazelle is a racy road bike (I didn't know till I saw it that Gazelle made anything other than the sort of practical round town bike in the photo you posted).mrkwr otp
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I saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
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And one from the AMS four-wheeled menagerie.
I saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
I think Reynolds 520 is cromoly. The 501 (also cromoly) frames they did were actually quite good if theey were the butted tubeset - same thickness and tensile strength as 531.
Without pictures I refuse to believe you have a bike that is pinker than the Mercian :PI saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
I think Reynolds 520 is cromoly. The 501 (also cromoly) frames they did were actually quite good if theey were the butted tubeset - same thickness and tensile strength as 531.
Reinvestigation reveals it is indeed 501 butted. And gorgeous lugwork, hidden under the PINK paint.
I see this every day, mainly because it is towed by my trike ;D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMG_5387.jpg)
Nigel
Hi Alexb, it is a Hasebike Trets trailer trike, pop the front wheel off and connect it as a trailer to back axle.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v425/inamini/IMG_5882.jpg)
Kim, there is an adult version of the Trets, that is if the Trets is too small when fully extended. The adult version is the Hasebike Kettwisel, if you look through this link, you will see that it can be attached directly to the rear of another Kett, or like the Trets you use a bar to attach it to the rear of an upright or tadpole trike.
Tow Bar: Follow me!
Lame name, fine piece of equipment: with the Tow Bar, even standard bikes can be used as towing vehicles for the KETTWIESEL - with a safety bonus: the integrated overrun brake works automatically. When the towing bike brakes, the KETTWIESEL brakes.
At long last.Without pictures I refuse to believe you have a bike that is pinker than the Mercian :PI saw a Reynolds 520 sticker on it, so nothing spectacular. Did I mention the colour? Pink.
I think Reynolds 520 is cromoly. The 501 (also cromoly) frames they did were actually quite good if theey were the butted tubeset - same thickness and tensile strength as 531.
Reinvestigation reveals it is indeed 501 butted. And gorgeous lugwork, hidden under the PINK paint.
At long last.
Laydeez and gennelmen, I give you
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The PINK bike.
At the weekend, we went to Whitstable. Enticed by old maps, we wandered into a shop onthe beach. Hanging up, there was an old tandem. The owner told us it was a Freddie Grubb, and he rode it a couple of times each summer. It had a Cyclo-style gear, and cantilever brakes, which he surmised had been added later, as had the fork. I think he was right about that. The rear wheel had a fixed sprocket on the other side.That'll be Bruce Williams you spoke to then. He's a keen cyclist and a good friend of mine. He potters around on a Bickerton folder.
On an adjacent wall, there was a fine solo machine, which he told us was a Hobbs. Very nice indeed. I think Butterfly has at least one photo, but it was in a dark shop against the light.
Hase tandem with the front half having a bucket seat, seems to have a seat belt:Is it just my eyes or can others see an absence of front pedals?
(http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/259/hase1.jpg)
The saddle looks like a Spa.
Moulton F coming off Tooting Common and disappearing into the mist...
One of the bicycles I saw on my ride home earlier in the week rally caught my eye - it was the seat stays. Pulled up next to the cyclist at a set of lights, saw he was riding a red Harry Quinn (don't see many of those about) which looked a bit ... big. Asked the rider the size. 28"! :o That would explain why the seat stays caught my attention.
I pass this most mornings on my commute:That is fantastic, I want. D'you reckon I could paint the bike one colour and then get that effect with tape or does it really need a proper two colour paint job?
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Uj2ElvUBjKs/UXgmdbUfRhI/AAAAAAAACCg/WNKzEKAB23g/s720/P1040022.JPG)
Ham, Pave.cc get a mention in today's Sunday Telegraph, in the Style magazine...
Great turning circle and it counts as a wheelchair so can be used on buses, trains etc.