Spotted a wooden bike in the wild!

[HovR]

Spotted this beauty whilst I was away in Bulgaria, and thought some of you may be interested. The owner kindly stopped to allow me to take a photo!

 

[Saluki]

Wow, sculpture that you can pedal. Its gorgeous. Thanks for posting.

 

[Octet]

Amazing, did he make it himself?

 

[ianrauk]

wow! amazing!

 

[Gareth]

That is really nice; it makes my work-in-progress laminated plywood bicycle look rather drab in comparassion..

 

[smokeysmoo]

Do they do it in alu?

That looks very nicely, and very well made.

TBH from the title I expected something more like this!

 

[HovR]

Amazing, did he make it himself?

Unfortunately I have no idea! He spoke Bulgarian, and I definitely don't!

 

[smokeysmoo]

Това е срам.Щеше да е хубаво, за да разберете повече за прекрасния велосипед и как той дойде да има такова нещо

 

[HovR]

Това е срам.Щеше да е хубаво, за да разберете повече за прекрасния велосипед и как той дойде да има такова нещо

Google Translate says:

This is sram.Shteshe be nice to know more about the wonderful bike and how he came to have such a thing

It almost makes sense!

 

[Gary E]

Fantastic looking machine but why oh why would you make something so nice and then slap metal forks, handlebar and seat post on it??

Still 9.5 out of 10 though

 

[smokeysmoo]

It almost makes sense!

How weird is that? I copied and pasted it from Google translate having typed,

"That is a shame. It would be be nice to know more about the wonderful bike and how he came to have such a thing."

Wonder why it doesn't work backwards then?

 

[Octet]

Wonder why it doesn't work backwards then?

There is this app somewhere, which you enter a sentence in English and then it runs it through something like thirty online translators and shows you the end result.
You normally end up with some kind of nonsense that is nowhere near what you entered first time around

 

[HovR]

Wonder why it doesn't work backwards then?

I think it's questionable as to how well it works forwards in the first place!

 

[PpPete]

You don't need 30 translations. 3 will do
Years ago I used to sell metal tubing.

Seamless tubes ( i.e. made without welding) - via a couple of languages, one was French, I forget the other, comes back to English as "Tubes without knitting".

 

[samid]

Amazing looking bike, thanks for posting.