Unusual bikes you meet?

[2Loose]

From memory (it was a few years ago) it was a dark colour - I've not seen it since and it was on a road I travel several times a week. I think I'd have remembered if it was pink and yellow, that must be truly unique! Is it yours?

Unfortunately not, but it was a hell of a talking point when it turned up in the work bike sheds one day.

 

[Brains]

if they're working in the city, maybe the £2k bilke is their cheap crappy commuter bike?

you would love our City based company bike shed.
There are several >£3K all carbon road bikes, as well as a good selection of Touers, Audax and loads of Bromptons. Anything under a grand quietly sits in the shadows

(Before you get any ideas, the security is impressive, so people don't even bother to lock the bikes up)

 

[jonny jeez]

Plenty of recumbents, a trike, a velomobile, a tall bike, a rowing bike, a running bike, a left sided drivetrain bike.
and one of these

Saw a white one of those yesterday in Trafalgar square.

 

[simon.r]

There's a guy who rides around Nottingham on a bike which appears to have a hand cranked front wheel as well as having a conventional pedal driven rear wheel. I haven't seen him for a while but next time I do I'll take a photo.

It's been a while since I posted the above, but I saw the bike locked up in the city centre last night:

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's been a while since I posted the above, but I saw the bike locked up in the city centre last night: View attachment 27421

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I've seen one a bit like that which had started out as a bike but the owner had put a recumbent-style child seat just in front of the handlebars and equipped the front wheel with a cassette and dérailleur. So it was a two-wheel drive mixed-recumbent-and-upright tandem. But it was odder than that....

 

[Beebo]

It's been a while since I posted the above, but I saw the bike locked up in the city centre last night: View attachment 27421

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Why would you bother? How do you steer, pedal, brake and change gear?

 

[User28924]

I see a relatively elderly lady on a tricycle quite frequently, and my Mum has a shaft driven bike.

 

[Jezston]

I saw a bloke on the train the other day with a weird bmx / scooter hybrid thing. Basically looked like a short bmx but without the drive train, and with stunt pegs on the rear wheel that you stood on. According to the owner they are going to be 'huge'.

Not sure I'll be investing.

 

[wheeliebin]

I've seen one a bit like that which had started out as a bike but the owner had put a recumbent-style child seat just in front of the handlebars and equipped the front wheel with a cassette and dérailleur. So it was a two-wheel drive mixed-recumbent-and-upright tandem. But it was odder than that....

I've just got back from France where I overtook (in the car) a couple on what looked like a full size tandem towing a trailer, but the front position was recumbent. A bit weird I thought later, the upright rider on the back would seem to negate most of the aero advantage of the recumbent.

 

[Leaway2]

I've just got back from France where I overtook (in the car) a couple on what looked like a full size tandem towing a trailer, but the front position was recumbent. A bit weird I thought later, the upright rider on the back would seem to negate most of the aero advantage of the recumbent.

Is it so the rear rider's view is not not of a....... rear?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Is it so the rear rider's view is not not of a....... rear?

No, the front rider's head would be closest. Vision must be a bit of issue though.

 

[Jezston]

I've just got back from France where I overtook (in the car) a couple on what looked like a full size tandem towing a trailer, but the front position was recumbent. A bit weird I thought later, the upright rider on the back would seem to negate most of the aero advantage of the recumbent.

Benefits of a recumbent aren't just about aero though, are they?

Good if the front rider had a bit of a bad back I guess?

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Benefits of a recumbent aren't just about aero though, are they?

Good if the front rider had a bit of a bad back I guess?

S'why I bought the Catrike...shoulder injury was making upright cycling difficult for a while, I'd always fancied a 'bent even in the 90s when they were a much rarer sight, needed something I wouldn't have to re-learn to ride (and didn't fancy falling off on my shoulder)

As for the tandem, instant advantage would seem to be that the stoker has a better view than of the back of the captain's head...

The weirder version of this..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tandem_bear_5BBT_jeh.JPG

 

[Licramite]

bike parked outside local pub, I think was a folding bike, looked like an N shaped frame, belt driven autogear hub, never seen aything like that before, belt drive was most interesting.

 

[srw]

I've just got back from France where I overtook (in the car) a couple on what looked like a full size tandem towing a trailer, but the front position was recumbent. A bit weird I thought later, the upright rider on the back would seem to negate most of the aero advantage of the recumbent.

That's a Hase Pino. I'm told they're very comfortable, and they're one of the few tandems where the stoker (the person who's not "driving" - in this case the person on the front) has their own freewheel, so they can stop pedalling.