interesting bike sightings

[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???