Distinctive Bike Theft

[Chislenko]

This popped up on my feed today. The one thing they don't state in the report is why it is distinctive.

I expect they are thinking make, colour etc not the fact that the drive train is on the left.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/bianchi-road-bike-stolen-in-burglary-252448/

 

[Sittingduck]

Lol - can't get my head around that. Like looking at a Salvador Dali painting or some such
Decals are mirrored - like looking at yourself on an MS team meeting but how on earth is the drivetrain on the incorrect side, somehow it has been sucked into a vortex of weirdness.

Edit - picture taken of a mirror that is reflecting the image but even then... seems like witchcraft?

 

[cougie uk]

Yep. That's pretty distinctive. Although the US Track squad did have some LHS drive train bikes.

 

[netman]

Flip horizontal does this:

Looks better now

 

[DaveReading]

This popped up on my feed today. The one thing they don't state in the report is why it is distinctive.

Perhaps it's the manner in which it was stolen that's distinctive.

 

[Chislenko]

Flip horizontal does this:
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Looks better now

I'm getting more and more confused by the minute!!

 

[cougie uk]

Teeny Tiny frame there I think ?

 

[Cycleops]

Too distinctive to sell on. It'll be stripped and sold in bits.

 

[PaulSB]

Looks like a pretty distinctive bike to me, certainly one that would get noticed up here in the north-west. Perhaps they're ten a penny in Kent?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ah, an ihcnaiB

You don't see many of them around these days.

 

[Oldhippy]

Why is the drive train always on the right? I've always wondered but never wanted to ask.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Why is the drive train always on the right? I've always wondered but never wanted to ask.

I read a funny story (on here I think) of someone who recalled that their dad stripped down and reassembled their (simple, single speed) kiddy bike. He did a great job of it but put the drive train on the left, with the result that the freewheel would only engage by pedalling backwards.

 

[Sittingduck]

Because it looks disgusting on the other side (as this has proven)

 

[Oldhippy]

I know it will all go backwards on the left but why is it configured on the right and not left or either depending on preferences?

 

[roley poley]

I know it will all go backwards on the left but why is it configured on the right and not left or either depending on preferences?

I think the USA did a left drive train in the 2016 Olympics for some advantage or other but you would know it was yours if it got nicked