Lacoste Ad

[Happiness Stan]

Following from Hilldodgers 'Peregrin' thread. Hilldodger pointed out the mistakes in a 1895 catalogue (cranks on wrong side etc.). The latest Lacoste ad shows things never change:

Also came across a Lacoste Cycle helmet. I'm a sucker for tweed:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4398359957_c44166e42b_b.jpg

 

[TheDoctor]

I'm actually struggling with a reason why a bike wouldn't work with the drivetrain on the LHS. A freewheel wouldn't work, I suspect, but would a fixie be doable?

 

[Landslide]

Reverse-threads would be the wrong way round, so in theory could unscrew themselves.

Not sure what's going on in that picture - two bikes have LHS-drive, one has RHS.

 

[trustysteed]

it's just an ad for clothing, not bikes, does it really matter?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

it's just an ad for clothing, not bikes, does it really matter?

For pedants - YES IT DOES

 

[Happiness Stan]

it's just an ad for clothing, not bikes, does it really matter?

Of course not, but I wonder how they managed to f it up?

 

[TheDoctor]

Reverse-threads would be the wrong way round, so in theory could unscrew themselves.

Aye. So I'd need to get a tandem chainset - the sort at the front of a tandem that has cross-over drive? That's doable.
Mind you, some of the more hardcore threadlock would be cheaper

 

[trustysteed]

i see the problem. they've let kids draw the bikes and you pedants were suddenly interested!

 

[snorri]

Of course not, but I wonder how they managed to f it up?

The hint is in the caption on the left of pic., they're French.

 

[Landslide]

Mind you, some of the more hardcore threadlock would be cheaper

Big spanners.

 

[Norm]

Not sure what's going on in that picture - two bikes have LHS-drive, one has RHS.

Of course not, but I wonder how they managed to f it up?

At a guess, the image is a composite of three separate bike pictures. In the originals, the young filly riding solo was riding left to right so, when they flicked it for the final image, she appears to have the drive train on the wrong side.

It could, of course, be a bike with the chain on the left, but I reckon it's just a reversed image.

 

[2Loose]

The middle bike's rear wheel is awfully out of sizeperspective compared to the rest of the bike. With the chainset too, it is very odd the amount of effort that it took to get things that wrong.