Interesting, Unusual or just downright weird bicycles...

[hartleymartin]

I've been trawling the net and some weird and wonderful stuff has been turning up. Please post up pictures of other interesting, unusual or just downright weird bicycles:


High-wheel tandem with independent all-wheel drive!


Front Recumbent Stoker


A new type of unicycle


You can gaze into your partner's eyes, but can you see where you are going?


Suffering gastric distress but don't want to miss that ride?

[Low Racer]

I want one. It's perfect introduction to recumbent cycling for my other half. I am willing to put up with the saddle for that experience.

[damhooligan]

[hartleymartin]

A Raleigh Twenty Tandem!

[sixx]

[greyhoundtom]

I guess that is one way of riding home from the supermarket after some mongrel has pinched your front wheel.

Tom

Mmm I wonder if there is a market for carbon fibre thongs with cleats.

[KenGS]

Steering would be interesting

[Max]

Steering would be interesting

Wouldn't it! I find it tough enough steering the trolley in an actual supermarket, what with the wheels that don't turn properly.. and there's always one that's gummed up with some identifiable goo!

Max

[il padrone]

Long-tom cargobike


Bikes with a view


Touring Tasmania by unicycle

[hartleymartin]

Touring Tasmania by unicycle

You know, if you could find a way to mount cranks on the new Sturmey-Archer S3X hub, you could actually get a geared unicycle! I have also seen someone do an adaptation of a unicycle into a (rather small) penny-farthing somewhere.

[il padrone]

You know, if you could find a way to mount cranks on the new Sturmey-Archer S3X hub, you could actually get a geared unicycle! I have also seen someone do an adaptation of a unicycle into a (rather small) penny-farthing somewhere.

Been done already, several times I believe.

[il padrone]

Mountain unicycling

[ColinOldnCranky]

The one wheel contraption withthe epicyclic drive is not really very new. In Italy I understand that monocycle is what I ride but in Oz it is generically referred to as a monocycle.

btw I saw a penny farthing in a museum in Florence that had something like a 70" wheel! It achieved this with linkage rods extending down to what would normally be the pedals so you didn't need a 70 inseam. Zero rake and trail so even after mounting it, no mean feat itself, it would be a devil to ride.

[il padrone]

I saw a penny farthing in a museum in Florence that had something like a 70" wheel! It achieved this with linkage rods extending down to what would normally be the pedals so you didn't need a 70 inseam. Zero rake and trail so even after mounting it, no mean feat itself, it would be a devil to ride.

The more reasonable variant on this wasthe Kangaroo Dwarf Safety



Geared chain drive to the big front wheel, keeping it smaller than the ~60" of a regular Penny Farthing, but still achieving the higher gear. Safer to ride and mount/dismount.

[hartleymartin]

Even better it has disc brakes and a bottle cage! Are those aero-bars?

It also has convenient foot-rests for when you want to coast!

[il padrone]

Zero Emmission Machines, 4-seater

When it comes to unicycling this guy is crazy!! Especially with the bridge-railing ride at the end



Much cred for his stunning skills though.

[il padrone]

A surprisingly good range of strange bicycles shown here in this clip of the 'Bicycle Race'

[cobba]

http://www.bikergo.com/
http://www.lucabike.com/