Andrew Mitchell's bike

[Chris S]

Does anybody know what bike Andrew Mitchell was riding during the 'plebgate' incident? It didn't appear to have a derailleur.

 

[Sara_H]

It looked a bit girly to me!

 

[snailracer]

 

[sabian92]

Rear tyre looks a bit flat as well.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Pedals with his instep too. Terribly inefficient.

 

[Pottsy]

Two complete baskets on that bike.

 

[Boris Bajic]

With leather soles (which one hopes he has) it is hard sometimes to keep the ball of the foot over the fulcrum.

I think the bike looks an admirable workhorse for bimbling between various Whitehall departments and Smith Square. Rear guard and no front guard. Rack and basket but both looking slightly like an aesthetic afterthought and mounted at eccentric angles. Ridden hatless. Good for him!

The man may or may not be a cock (I suspect the former) but it is nice to see a senior politician on the government benches making an unshowy, unselfconscious, un-focus-grouped bid to travel more sensibly around SW1.

Call me naive for seeing it like that, but I've worked there and the majority do not do it.

 

[tug benson]

How the hell can`t he feel that he has a flat rear tyre

 

[snailracer]

Pedals with his instep too. Terribly inefficient.

Not at all, unless you like to stand up and pedal (which is not efficient to start with):

http://www.stevehoggbikefitting.com/blog/2011/04/power-to-the-pedal-cleat-position/

 

[thom]

With a basket on the front, why has he got a 2.5 kg lock hanging from his handlebar !?
But other than the rear tyre, looks a perfectly decent gentleman's bike.

 

[jay clock]

Hard to say, but saddle also possibly too low

 

[Cyclopathic]

Rear tyre looks a bit flat as well.

And there's some crap on the seat.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

With a basket on the front, why has he got a 2.5 kg lock hanging from his handlebar !?
But other than the rear tyre, looks a perfectly decent gentleman's bike.

quicker to hand for swinging out at the next pleb (or not) in his way

 

[downfader]

Does anybody know what bike Andrew Mitchell was riding during the 'plebgate' incident? It didn't appear to have a derailleur.

It could be a Raleigh or a Pashley. They both do models like that. Sometimes with a 3 speed 'archer gearset in the rear hub of the wheel, though this one looks like a 5 or 6 speed so no need for a front derailleur.

 

[simon.r]

Looks like a triple chainring: