interesting bike sightings

[ClockworkOrange]

Does this count?

Yes, he counts, I think he is quite cute!

Clock

[nic840]

Rode with a few friends at the Strawberry Fields Forever ride in Santa Cruz/Watsonville almost a year ago. There were so many unicycles...they were on the 65mi and 100mi routes! It was crazy! No gearing, fixed gear and huge wheels.
There were some good climbs too! Amazing!
Here is some video we took while riding...look at the unicycle guy we pass...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIJb5VtUdWA

We are looking forward to riding it again in a few weeks!

[ZenSojourner]

Are you talking about me? I wasn't sitting on handlebars.

The seat is quite comfy, and the two riders have independent gear shifting. Climbing is a bit harder than upright but that is true for any recumbent. The captain puts in more effort than the stoker (stoker is in front). It just takes a lot of trust being in front like that and not being able to steer.

I know you weren't really on the handlebars (didn't know it was you at the time though, LOL!), I was being a bit facetious.

It just looks so uncomfortable! How do you get any leverage to pedal like that? It's not the somebody-else-steering that would bother me, but the being-in-front-with-nothing-to-hang-onto!

I know you're used to it and probably very comfortable, but I'm not sure I'd have the nerve to try it myself.

[sundial]

2. a young woman riding a child's bike, wearing her flannel pyjamas and slippers, hair in curlers, coffee in one hand, cigarette in another. Had to look at that one twice!

Lol!

[sundial]

Does this count?

Didja ride?

[Tuckervill]

Well, THAT'S a double entendre!




Karen

[Mr. Bloom]

The 2007 IHPVA worlds in Zolder, Beligum:
http://www.rikkie-fotografie.be/foto...der/index.php?
And you thought a counterpoint opus was weird?

Where can you get the glasses that allow her to see forward while looking down???

[Tuckervill]

That looks like a man to me.

I was curious about the glasses, too.

Karen

[emily_in_nc]

Last summer I got to be part of an interesting bike sighting.

Cool! Is that a Counterpoint Opus? I've always thought they looked like a lot of fun. We've had both upright and recumbent tandems, but I finally lost interest in tandeming because I couldn't handle not being able to see where we were going! I am not sure I'd like the lack of handlebars, though...what do you do with your hands? I'd need dummy under-seat steering bars, like on our old Ryan recumbent tandem....

[ZenSojourner]

...what do you do with your hands?

Actually I've been picturing her with knitting needles or a crochet hook. Is there anywhere to put panniers to hold the unused yarn?

[msincredible]

Actually I've been picturing her with knitting needles or a crochet hook. Is there anywhere to put panniers to hold the unused yarn?

Love it!

I actually used my hands to take pictures during a ride, that was a novelty. During flats and downhills I didn't feel the need for leverage, but on climbs I did grab the seat bars on each side.

It is a very exposed position though, does take some getting used to.

It is a friend's bike, I know it was one of a handful that were custom built, unfortunately I don't really have many more details on it.

[ibcycling]

I ride with several recumbent, tandems, and even an Opus. Don't see many of these though.



It belongs to my old neighbor. They went across Alaska on it last year. Doesn't turn too sharp though. LOL

Lora

[msincredible]

There's someone who rides a penny farthing around Palo Alto (sorry crappy cell phone pics):




Interesting bike racks:




Bike taxis in Singapore (sadly when I tried to take one I was told 2 miles was too far for them to ride )


Child seat on Dutch bike:

[kenyonchris]

I saw 2 unusual bikes today. Not that weird, but weird enough...

Then, I saw a bike cop in my town. He was riding REALLY slowly. My friend's bf is a policeman, and his belt is heavy, I think over 20 lbs! I wouldn't want to ride with one. It's funny, he was turning left from the far right lane. I would have taken the lane .

I am a IPMBA bike officer (International Police Mountain Bike Assn)...we are taught to take the lane...and turn from as far right as is practicable.
My stuff weighs a ton. Vest itself weighs about 4 lbs. My belt has radio, flashlight, handcuffs, gun (with gunlight....the gun weighs about 1 lb and a half), spray, and baton. My extra cuffs hang on my vest inside my shirt, and my knife is in my pocket. In my shirt pocket I have cell phone, cards, notepad, and ID. In the bike bag I have ticket book, spare bike stuff, and water. The way we are taught to ride is really different from how I ride not on duty....in this crazy easy gear, we pedal a lot and go nowhere...the idea being that it is easy to balance when your center of gravity is over the pedals...when you are pedaling. And since we go pretty slowly through crowds and stuff, that is the stuff they make us practice. If I am in the park I ride like that, but if I am on the road I grab a few gears and ride like normal....albeit it is much harder riding that heavy bike with all that gear.

Now, funny thing I have seen.....a boy on a bike holding a chicken in one hand and a watermelon in the other...riding with no hands. I had no clue how he was doing it, but he was.

[Tuckervill]

Was the chicken alive?

Please say the chicken was alive. That would make the picture in my mind so much more hilarious.

Karen