What the flying gate is this?

[Jacomus-rides-Gen]

Seen today parked outside Sainsbury's, snapped a few shots on my mobile as I was nipping in on my lunchbreak.

 

[palinurus]

http://www.tjcycles.co.uk/

 

[Jacomus-rides-Gen]

How cool is that!

 

[Smokin Joe]

A pointless waste of steel, time and money.

 

[laurence]

ugly

 

[Lardyboy]

All the reviews I've seen of the original frame say that it's a bit of a dog. An unusual dog, I'll give you, but a dog all the same.

 

[marinyork]

It looks like it came out of a universe where the geometry is different to the one we live in. Cool. Nice snaps.

 

[Aperitif]

Wow!
Clever Trevor - a bike for blockheads maybe?

 

[Chuffy]

Hmmmmmm. Why?

 

[longers]

Shorter wheelbase? but what that implies I have no idea.

 

[Brock]

What the!?.. I don't get it.

 

[andy_wrx]

http://www.hetchins.org/jarvis-01.htm

 

[Brock]

http://www.hetchins.org/jarvis-01.htm

Ahhhh I see, thanks.

Edit: His 'lug cutting' page is fascinating too

 

[andy_wrx]

The lug blanks themselves may start out as castings or as pressed steel. If pressed steel, then these are stamped from flat stock and pressed round a mandril

- does he mean 'mandrel' rather than one of these : http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/mask/

 

[mickle]

Tom Board used to make them too, badged 'Paris'. Condor have one in the shop which they wheel out for shows.