interesting bike sightings

[Trek420]

Seen on the way to work. I just love the colors:

[Trek420]

Another bike Friday:

[kmehrzad]

Saw this while visiting Toronto several weeks ago ... a modified Big Dummy, family style.

[Trek420]

If this is your bike "nice bike" Sort of a "poor man's Riv"

[OakLeaf]

Wish I'd got a better picture. And also one of the bike during a delivery, instead of after.



This bike belongs to the Continental Tire sportscar racing service crew. If you look closely you can see that the front end is made from a hand truck for carrying sportscar race wheels from the team garages to the tire tent and back. The whole front end tips back (just like a normal hand truck) and the truck handles serve as the handlebars for the bike. (It's possible the handles are modified for better ergonomics, I can't see them in the picture, and I had only a couple of seconds to snap this shot before the guy got on it and rode away.)

DH assures me that the race wheels and tires are very, very light, so handling the thing wouldn't be as impossible as I'd imagined.

I don't know much about car racing - it's not unusual for motorcycle racers and their crews to use bicycles to get around, as an alternative to pit scooters - but I've never seen a pedal vehicle being used to transport stuff at a motor race before, especially not a specially modified vehicle.

[Trek420]

Very nice beach cruiser sighted. Sorry it's sideways

[Trek420]

If this is your Bob Jackson bike with Brooks saddle and saddle bag .... I'm sorry about the drool.

[redrhodie]

He's probably used to the drool. That bike looks loved.

Just to throw a monkey wrench into the T vs pear saddle debate, I saw a road bike with a banana seat the other day (the kind that goes on a stingray). I love the guy who listens to his own drum beat. I also counted 16 bikes at the grocery store rack in my town. I thought that was interesting for my town.

[TsPoet]

This is a recumbent trike with a cargo extender, a child's seat, and a windscreen for the child (who's name is Axl, other people in the photos are my friend, John, my SO, Ian, and Adrienne, Axl's mom; bottom photo has Adrienne, Jim, and Axl's Dad, Robbert, who co-own's Terracycle and built up the trike).




Terracycle
http://www.terracycle.com/Merchant2/...gory_Code=cmon

[OakLeaf]

Just to throw a monkey wrench into the T vs pear saddle debate, I saw a road bike with a banana seat the other day (the kind that goes on a stingray). I love the guy who listens to his own drum beat.

Don't those things need a double seatpost? I don't even remember. How did he have it attached???

[redrhodie]

I have no idea. I didn't get a very close look. The guy riding it looked like an artist type, no doubt some creativity was involved.

[OakLeaf]

I had to look for a picture. http://www.cambridgebicycle.com/design/vintage.htm The front seatpost is pretty much normal (might have a different clamp, but that wouldn't be too difficult to find/shim as needed); the rear seatpost/sissy bar comes up from the rear triangle where rack bosses would be.

[redrhodie]

I had to look for a picture. http://www.cambridgebicycle.com/design/vintage.htm The front seatpost is pretty much normal (might have a different clamp, but that wouldn't be too difficult to find/shim as needed); the rear seatpost/sissy bar comes up from the rear triangle where rack bosses would be.

Yes, it was exactly like that yellow one on the green bike. I wish I had gotten a picture. I think it just attached at the front, and was not attached at all at the back. It looked very unstable and silly (which was probably the point). I suspect this wasn't for comfort on centuries...but maybe this is the answer so many of us have been looking for!

Now, if it only had a cutout.

[luv2climb]

Here's me riding a couple "tall bikes". These are homemade by one of my YouTube subscribers. He put on a tall bike show at our monthly Second Saturday art festival last month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIVHrvutps

Here's the rest of his tall bikes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xREtQv2hOyM

[bmccasland]

Getting on those tall bikes reminds me of trying to mount a 17-hand horse!