If you could have one bike to commute on
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¡Bye Ya! wrote:gtvlusso wrote:My very own fixie (see sig) would be perfect - Although I must say that DDD's Lotus bike looks so well designed - it is a study in pure speed and exhuberence.
I don't think I would go with a carbon road bike....bit too aggressive for bimbling about the town on....and wit would get nicked.
I like the fixie. By the height of your saddle relative to the bars I guess you'd be flat out riding that thing. I favour the head first approach myself. And with the help of a declining top tube like yours; even better. What kind of frame is it?
Barron - British built Reynolds 531lugged Time Trial frame built by Barry Barron of Stowe in Lincolnshire in 1982 for a racer called Barry Frow.
It is a fairlylo pro frame and shoves you quite forward and head down on the riding position.
it is pretty nimble for a TT frame!0 -
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If I had the money to burn I would love one of these (minus the lady of course - Mrs Dave has her limits!). I would need top hat and tails plus a big old 'tash to carry it off properly though.
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-- Bristol Dave.
Penny farthing looks good.
I just checked out how much they cost ~170quid.
I wonder how it rides.0 -
The Hundredth Idiot wrote:Sweet - I love that sort of thing. Their randonee models are even nicer (IMHO). But, even if I was in the US, they've got a 5 year waiting list! :shock:
So maybe something from, say, Villiers Velo. Just need to save my pennies - x 200,000! BIt like using a Bristol for a commute rather than DDD et al's Subaru Impreza gadget fest.
Look at the lugs on that!
I do like the Villiers Velo bikes too, I'd love to see one in the metal. My favourite local builder is probably Robin Mather, especially some his lugged builds. He is a real artist.
I like the analogy to commuting by Bristol (or Impreza as it may be), spot on. While technically I love carbon superbikes, I do battle to get terribly excited by a plastic bike that has come out of a mould.David
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I'd love one of these, mainly because of the looks you'd attract , as people would expect it to fall apart like a clown car at any moment.
Bike/Train commuter: Brompton S2L - "Machete"
12mile each way commuter: '11 Boardman CX with guards and rack
For fun: '11 Wilier La Triestina
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lardboy wrote:I'd love one of these, mainly because of the looks you'd attract , as people would expect it to fall apart like a clown car at any moment.David
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Roastie wrote:lardboy wrote:I'd love one of these, mainly because of the looks you'd attract , as people would expect it to fall apart like a clown car at any moment.
I hope you offered him £50 for it?Bike/Train commuter: Brompton S2L - "Machete"
12mile each way commuter: '11 Boardman CX with guards and rack
For fun: '11 Wilier La Triestina
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lardboy wrote:Roastie wrote:lardboy wrote:I'd love one of these, mainly because of the looks you'd attract , as people would expect it to fall apart like a clown car at any moment.
I hope you offered him £50 for it?David
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Just one bike?
Dunno, something Audax-ish therefore 'guards, with strong but supple wheels, and totally ace brakes for those London Cab moments...possibly steel, why not? Perhaps I'd go to Argos or (drool) Roberts - the 953 Audax machine tested in C+ last year was (adopts his former Bristol accent) so utterly f'kin' gert lush it was untrue.
So a Roberts custom built Audax machine, in good old Reynolds something or other. With Campagnolo, just for a bit of extra class. And a lock you could secure the QE2 with .
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It's just a hill. Get over it.0 -
gtvlusso wrote:¡Bye Ya! wrote:gtvlusso wrote:My very own fixie (see sig) would be perfect - Although I must say that DDD's Lotus bike looks so well designed - it is a study in pure speed and exhuberence.
I don't think I would go with a carbon road bike....bit too aggressive for bimbling about the town on....and wit would get nicked.
I like the fixie. By the height of your saddle relative to the bars I guess you'd be flat out riding that thing. I favour the head first approach myself. And with the help of a declining top tube like yours; even better. What kind of frame is it?
Barron - British built Reynolds 531lugged Time Trial frame built by Barry Barron of Stowe in Lincolnshire in 1982 for a racer called Barry Frow.
It is a fairlylo pro frame and shoves you quite forward and head down on the riding position.
it is pretty nimble for a TT frame!
It's got pedigree! I'm impressed that it has such a history and likewise that you actually know it. I have a bass guitar like that, but no such wellbred cycles, alas.
My own tange prestige tt-style frame has a compact enough set of angles to make for a bit of toe jam if my foot rides too far forward on its flat pedals. I can see you've a bit more space pedal-to-wheel which, as you say, would freshen the handling nicely. Looking good.0 -
SecretSam wrote:
Oooh, yeah, baby.0 -
Condor Ti Fixie
problem would be where to lock it up...0 -
a bank vault
yeah, either that or wire it up to a 10kv line...
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Bassjunkieuk wrote:Rich158 wrote:NGale wrote:
I have simple tastes...
+1
I've been commuting on my dream bike for the last 2 weeks It's not quite a 6.9 pro though, only a lowly 5.2
They had a 6.9 Pro out at Evans in Spitalfields when I was in there with my dad once, he nearly passed out when I turned the price ticket over
The Chap has had one now since December (in fact brought it the week I met him), and he would rather let me near his car before he would that bike. It is rather lovely though.
As for 'no taste' well that's opinion. I am a fan of Trek have been for a long time and always found them to be good bikes, so it's all opinionOfficers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men0 -
NGale wrote:The Chap
Has the 'Good Commander' had a Sean Coombs change Puff Daddy to P.Diddy? Or do you have a new boyfriend?Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
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Sorry guys.
A vision of beauty and the original dull family saloon that became something special. Anyone who's had a Golf GTi, 205GTi, Sunbeam Lotus, or any quick road car based on a shopping trolley, give your thanks to this and a mix of Ford and Colin Chapman.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
(It's a Lotus Cortina from the mid-60s for those who haven't clocked it)0 -
The Bat Bike. Now we're cooking on gas. Comes equipped with a Scooter-Dispersal System:
FCN 2-4.
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"It stays down, Daddy."
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¡Bye Ya! wrote:gtvlusso wrote:¡Bye Ya! wrote:gtvlusso wrote:My very own fixie (see sig) would be perfect - Although I must say that DDD's Lotus bike looks so well designed - it is a study in pure speed and exhuberence.
I don't think I would go with a carbon road bike....bit too aggressive for bimbling about the town on....and wit would get nicked.
I like the fixie. By the height of your saddle relative to the bars I guess you'd be flat out riding that thing. I favour the head first approach myself. And with the help of a declining top tube like yours; even better. What kind of frame is it?
Barron - British built Reynolds 531lugged Time Trial frame built by Barry Barron of Stowe in Lincolnshire in 1982 for a racer called Barry Frow.
It is a fairlylo pro frame and shoves you quite forward and head down on the riding position.
it is pretty nimble for a TT frame!
It's got pedigree! I'm impressed that it has such a history and likewise that you actually know it. I have a bass guitar like that, but no such wellbred cycles, alas.
My own tange prestige tt-style frame has a compact enough set of angles to make for a bit of toe jam if my foot rides too far forward on its flat pedals. I can see you've a bit more space pedal-to-wheel which, as you say, would freshen the handling nicely. Looking good.
Tange prestige sounds good - pics anywhere?
I wrote to Barry Barron and told him that I had bought the frame - I was using it for TT at the time, but have fixie'd it for commuting. He was quite impressed and proud that it was still running!
Funny thing with musical instuments and bikes - they become more than the object - my old Fender Strat is beaten to hell and abused, but I would never sell it as I love the sound! Same with my fixie as I love the design, colour, look and feel......Prob bit OTT!0 -
ChrisInBicester wrote:Lotus CortinaDavid
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You guys are OLD....
Sometimes I feel like getting my Dad to post on the site, he's in his 40s around your Age Group/generation....
Say, what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:You guys are OLD....
Sometimes I feel like getting my Dad to post on the site, he's in his 40s around your Age Group/generation....
Say, what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?
not sure i'm old yet but i remember milk at school and black and white TV though as i didn't watch much tv as a kid, and never have really, when i was a singlton i didn't bother with a TV which always got the TV licencing folk confused.0 -
Roastie wrote:ChrisInBicester wrote:Lotus CortinaDonDaddyD wrote:You guys are OLD....
Sometimes I feel like getting my Dad to post on the site, he's in his 40s around your Age Group/generation....
Say, what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?
Monochrome TV was great - Pogles Wood was an early favourite of mine. ATV existed but I don't recall watching it much back then [Blue Peter not Magpie type of thing...], and you had to have a different telly to get BBC2 when that arrived. My Grandad was the 2nd in the village to have colour, just in time for the Chelsea Leeds Cup Final replay.
School milk? I didn't like it much tbh - it was in cold pasteurized half-pints and we were more in the habit of scooping milk warm from the milk churns to pour over our weetabix before we went off to school. By bike obviously, or sometimes in the Land Rover if we'd had to round the cows up after they'd got out of the bottom field.
Eeeh. They wert days.0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:You guys are OLD....
what was it like watching Black and White TV's and having milk at school?
sometime i would get an extra 1/3 of a pint bottle coz the other kids didn't like it
of course b&w tv was more groovy in an op-art kinda stylee0 -
ChrisInBicester wrote:give your thanks to this and a mix of Ford and Colin Chapman.
and Jimmy Clark and his three-wheeling cornering.
For two weeks I had a no-holds-barred Wilier Le Roi, top end Ritchey everything, full last-years Record, Racing Zeros, the works. That was nice. I'd go with a Cento Uno Supperleggera now.0 -
I recall the milk was not so good in the summer as it used to warm up in the corner of the class room before we got to it.
TV's used to break down a lot more often, usually on christmas day.
Sorry what has any of this got to do with the topic, what ever that was?I ache, therefore I am.0