Would you want one of these?

bones3027
bones3027 Posts: 152
edited August 2010 in MTB general
Found this whilst surfing last night. Thought it was a joke but after further investigation I think I want one( I'm military ) http://www.militarybikes.com/index.html
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    No, why would you want one?
    I never liked the fully suspended Klein Mantras first time round, now they've removed the URT rear suspension and turned it into a folding bike, I want it even less.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Hmm, it says

    "The Paratrooper® is a full size, 24 speed mountain bike designed to endure any terrain at high speed in silence with no heat signature."

    But I see it has a chain and gears, so it'll certainly not be silent.

    Surely it'd be better off with a belt drive and hub gears.

    Would work better in varied conditions (Desert particularly), require less maintainence. Be less noisy, and there's less chance of snapping a mech.

    MOD, if you're reading this, I'll let you have this one for free. All future design ideas will cost you.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Nah, what you need is a Marin full suss frame. No chainstays to cause chain rattle :wink:
    Then stick a stinger on it to prevent any further chain flappingnessissity.
    Then run a shimano hub, so it doesn't clickity clack.
    Then paint it black.

    Not, that I'm a government hired ninja or anything :wink:






    :lol:
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Nah, what you need is a Marin full suss frame. No chainstays to cause chain rattle :wink:
    Then stick a stinger on it to prevent any further chain flappingnessissity.
    Then run a shimano hub, so it doesn't clickity clack.
    Then paint it black.

    Not, that I'm a government hired ninja or anything :wink:






    :lol:

    Yeh, but then you'd not be able to find a plane powerful enough to shift it :wink:











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  • Joe_Pineapples
    Joe_Pineapples Posts: 1,718
    Ahh...a Klein Mantra, I knew that pile of pigshit reminded me of something.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Cat With No Tail wrote:
    Yeh, but then you'd not be able to find a plane powerful enough to shift it :wink:
    Ah, but we have.
    I mean, I have.
    I mean, they have.




    Er,...
    I mean, you're right :lol:
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    Could be worse, it could come fitted with an Atlas crank. They'd be able to hear you coming for miles around with that thing creaking and cracking away :P
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Or an orange 5 :lol:
  • 77ric
    77ric Posts: 601
    it's a re/de/un-branded hummer MTB, looked like shit then.

    hummer-bike-xtreme.jpg

    still looks like shit now
    Fancy a brew?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    77ric wrote:
    it's a re/de/un-branded hummer MTB, looked like shoot then.
    still looks like shoot now
    Which in turn was essentially a rebadged slightly modded mantra.
    mantra3.jpg
  • darren555
    darren555 Posts: 194
    I could just imagine a whole regiment being wiped out because one trooper decided to fit a Hope hub :shock:
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    Darren555 wrote:
    I could just imagine a whole regiment being wiped out because one trooper decided to fit a Hope hub :shock:
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  • sdalby
    sdalby Posts: 139
    I actually know someone who's got one of these. I've never looked at it closely as i just thought it was a standard piece of Halfords crap.
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  • Mr Wu
    Mr Wu Posts: 1,238
    Imagine the shame of actually being captured on one of these?

    You end up on Jillalabad tv with the usual ak47 wielding American spin doctor, sorry I mean Muslim extremist, the flag in the background, you sat there wondering if the short back and sides is comming..... Then they all turn and look at you, and laugh, laugh so hard that you've been caught on something so bad, they would rather travel by a three legged donkey.

    Fuk that. I'd rather walk.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Well, if it fills it's intended purpose, then fine. I dare say the bike I started out with wasn't that good.
  • captainfly
    captainfly Posts: 1,001
    A folding mountain bike for paratroopers is an excellent idea, compared to marching into battle the speed and energy expeniture gains make so much sense. But they do have to be somewhat disposable and come in at a certain budget, think WW2 glider than Blackhawk helicopter :wink:
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  • Shaggy_Dog
    Shaggy_Dog Posts: 688
    One of the reasons the Japanese army made such rapid progress through China was because every soldier was issued with a bicycle so they could cover large distances with lots of kit, when the tyres punctured they just removed them, the sound of 500 bare rims on gravel roads sounded like oncoming tanks, a lot of Chinese soldiers legged it.
    I had to beat them to death with their own shoes...
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  • Uncle Peter
    Uncle Peter Posts: 324
    What tyres for war?

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