Weird Bike Wednesday

Racing Tricycles? What the hell.

Well I’ll be damned, apparently it is a thing. A thing that dates back to the 1920’s according to http://www.tricycleassociation.org.uk/ and still happens today. It’s even kept up with the technology.

I’ve never been on one of these sweet rides but I imagine I’ll try to track down an even when I make a trip to Wales. In the meantime here’s some links to conversion kits and a few pictures of the best/worst of the best/worst.

http://www.trykit.com/

http://www.bikecare.co.uk/tribike.html

http://www.trikezilla.com/

 

Example of it being a thing.

 

Fixed gear, track trike?

So gross. So very, very gross.

 

You know what? Some where, there’s a girl that will ride this with me. She’s probably off somewhere yelling “ON YOUR LEFT!!1”

 

Reverse trike mixte with disc brakes.

I guess when I get old and can’t balance a bike this will be my preferred ride. Maybe not in the lavender though.

 

Weird Bike Wednesday

Time for more weird bikes, trawled from the depths of the interwebs.

It’s so very close but still so far to go. I love these Peugeot frames. I like the idea of the deep v’s but green? I’m going with green on my Peugeot but the frame is a collection of fall colors and the green will actually be complementary. Bullhorns at an awkward angle? Yellow chain? I’m ok with the yellow tires because I’m running yellow tires. It works with the Peugeot stripe color scheme. Kudos on two brakes!


This bike made it to a bike show display with that stem setup? Trim it. What is going on with those wheels? I’m sure there is some aero theory to them but they are just fugly. My research (Google > Passoni bike > Wheels, extensive research) tells me that there are only TEN sets of these wheels made. Thank god.


What. The. Hell. I’m guessing an internal geared hub in the back, but why the pie plate/dork disc? Seat tube all the way out. Stem way up. Handlebars at a goofy angle. No bar plugs? Don’t wreck or risk taking a plug out of you. Looks like a nice set of polished fenders. Someone was proud enough of this to pose it on top of a table to take a picture of it…or we’re they trolling? I can almost see this as a good city beater with some minor adjustments for the right sized person.

Weird Bike Wednesday

Every week I trawl the internet hoping to catch a few fine specimens of the “weird bike.” Every week I find the weirdest shit and distill it down and present it you. I”ll shut up now and get to the pics.

We got some kind of badass here. Wheel/tire/brake combo off a sport bike. Seriously, have fun losing races to slugs.

Someone please find photo or video evidence of this “bike” being ridden. They took the time to weld it up so there had to be some sort of proof that it can be used.

Weird Bike Wednesday

In this Weird Bike Wednesday, it’s only the best of the best in the Time Trial Commuter category. Somewhere, someone was late to work because they didn’t have a set of carbon wheels, or TT bars. Maybe their areo tuck wasn’t tucked enough? What the need is a TT Commuter. Racks, Zipps, lights, aero cross section everything!

I am a firm believer in the “do what you can, with what you have, where you are” motto but damn. The disc wheel, dynamo, shoulder carry bag, clip ons on flat bars, fender. So dreamy!

Fixed gear, step through frame and time trial bars. Let’s make babies!

I wanted to think this was a piss take but the fenders fit close and the brakes are correctly placed. “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... “

I see where I think this one was going but it came up short. I can only guess it was a Paris-Roubaix wannabe. The RockShox P-R is the giveaway, but the mismatched wheels and rack ruin it. TTCommuter.

Coors Light and a Pomeranian in the rack on the flat bars. Spinergy.

Winrar!

Weird Bike Wednesday

Bringing you the weird, the wtf and the “well, huh…”

“What I think I’ll do is start a fire in front of my bike. Should make it look more extreme.

I’ve complained about the saddle on my McFixie an awful lot lately but this bike absolutely wins the worst saddle category. And that lightweight, recyclable top tube. But what happened to the handlebars?

If you’re going to flip the bars that far just go ahead and make them full on felon bars. This bike has to be too large for it’s owner for the seat to be down that far.

A Nimbus 2000 it is not, but that steering mechanism looks like it just might work.

Back in the late 80’s some bike riders got the idea to recreate Formula One racing, on two wheels. Somewhat flat track, left and right turns. Here’s one example of the bikes that came out of that time:

I had an opportunity to ride one of these in my youth. Basically it was a 20” bmx bike, wheel covers, drop stem with flat bars, a huge chain ring and a wide range cassette thrown in for good measure. Oh yeah, and a body kit the likes of which wouldn’t be seen again until The Fast and The Furious. The bikes were fast but super awkward to ride. The racing was done in such tight quarters that the wrecks were more fantastic than the motorsport equivalent.

Which brings us to these nostalgia monsters:

This one obviously has aspirations of becoming a Cat6 Formula One Commuter racer…somewhere very dark.

It’s just bad. I heard it was solid bondo and added nearly 60 pounds to the already heavy BSO. Any aero qualities were negated by the serious obesity of this piece. But it gets better. Look closely at the hubs, they’re green. The pedals? Also green. Cranks too! Someone took the time to attempt to color match this. OVERKILL!!!

I’m going to quit bitching about other peoples bikes and go spend some time with mine. If you got one, ride one.

Weird Bike Wednesday

Another Weird Bike Wednesday coming your way. I mean, look at these shits! Two-wheeled trainwrecks, the lot. Also, it’s Saturday and I’m off schedule. I’ll be bringing you more in just a few days.

Geared, track bike, fenders, flat bars, 650/700 funnybike.

Full suspension mountain bike frame, disc/road wheels, suspension seat post. Wat?

Lured me in with nice welds, bare steel, foot retention, overall sedate look. Then, put on what amounts to no handle bars. I mean, tightest of gaps.

Another full suspension WTF’er. This time with megaspoke low rider bike wheels. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

I just threw up in my own eyes.

For when you absolutely have to Zipp down to the corner store as fast as possible.