What's the strangest bike you've ridden?

[ComedyPilot]

I can now add the 7 seat CoBi to my list, as well as a buddy bike.

 

[Arch]

Oh cool, you did that. I'd have liked to, but it clashed with work.

I did see their minibus and trailer though, parked up where we did our round yesterday.

Of course I'm an old hand on the conference bike, and many other oddities - not sure what counts as weirder than a Conference bike. The cyclemagic vomit comet* perhaps, I managed a few yards on that.

*Tadpole (two wheels at the front) upright trike, all wheels laced eccentrically, so that the hub of each moves up and down as it rolls - and not with all three in unison.

To most people, my Catrike is the strangest bike they've ever seen...

 

[XmisterIS]

I once tried to ride one of those circus bikes where the front wheel turns in the opposite direction to the handlebars ... I nearly smashed my cock, balls and teeth to buggery.

 

[Arch]

Oh, hang on.

How about the Wren - recumbent built on the carcase of a microbike. The only way to make a microbike any sillier...

 

[gaz]

A dragster a little like this which was fixed.

And a trials bike, not the most comfortable saddle

 

[palinurus]

I've never really ridden any very strange bikes. Strangest I've managed is a Hase tandem as the recumbent stoker.

It's strange at first being out front but not getting to steer.

 

[Ben M]

A tandem or a unicycle for me, nothing whackier =(

 

[XmisterIS]

I've never really ridden any very strange bikes. Strangest I've managed is a Hase tandem as the recumbent stoker.

It's strange at first being out front but not getting to steer.

An Excellent idea! The person at the back can use the one at the front as a battering ram for forcing a line through traffic, pedestrians, etc.

 

[palinurus]

Yeah, you don't want to be riding that with a sadistic pilot.

 

[Wobbly John]

- not sure what counts as weirder than a Conference bike. The cyclemagic vomit comet* perhaps, I managed a few yards on that.

*Tadpole (two wheels at the front) upright trike, all wheels laced eccentrically, so that the hub of each moves up and down as it rolls - and not with all three in unison.

(That's the vomit comet - not Arch on it)

Like Arch, I've tried lots of weird & wonderful bikes - I built several of them myself as well.

The weirdest - probably the backpedal tallbike:

Or the penny fakething:

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Then there's always the Wobblebike:

 

[Arch]

It's hard to compete with Wobbly John for velo-madness....

I never rode it, I'm too chicken, but my friend Tom (who made the Wren recumbent), also made the Bedstead Tallbike.

Yes, it's just a bedhead, with bits of bike welded on. I think he's in the process of dismounting here, which involved a bit of a leap. Getting on was a sort of clambering action...

 

[palinurus]

It's hard to compete with Wobbly John for velo-madness....

Hard? it's damn near impossible.

 

[Hilldodger]

Hard? it's damn near impossible.

Yeah, but it was me who made the Vomit Comet trike.

And we've made several reverse steer bikes at CM.

 

[Wobbly John]

Hard? it's damn near impossible.

At one of the Skyride events, someone said to me:

"Dude, you win...


...you win the game of Bike."

(Yes, I know he was quoting from another website)

I could have listed as the strangest bike I've ridden:

the Velocino:

The radiator bike

And one that's not mine - the MicWic, back-to-back tandem

It's hard to pick a winner

 

[Hilldodger]

At one of the Skyride events, someone said to me:

"Dude, you win...


...you win the game of Bike."

(Yes, I know he was quoting from another website)

I could have listed as the strangest bike I've ridden:

the Velocino:

The radiator bike

And one that's not mine - the MicWic, back-to-back tandem

It's hard to pick a winner

Yeah, the radiator bike. OK, you win.