Bikes you'd like to have a go on!

Bassjunkieuk

JonGinge wrote:

One for BJUK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/derby/hi/pe ... 997665.stm

*EARS BURNING* That is rather wicked! I did see a similar tandem somewhere that was modular so you could take it down to a traditional tandem, have 6 riders or anything in between :-) Sure it was being used for a charity ride......

Also on your comment earlier regarding the Lotus bike I did actually find a chap riding one once on a commute home! To say I was gobsmacked and slightly honoured was an understatement :-) Judging by the size of the rider he looked like an army man so might explain why despite the wunder-bike he couldn't quite keep-up with the whippet ;-)

As for bikes I'd like to ride:

TT Bike - Curious how much faster/efficient it would be then my traditional bike
High-end custom road bike - Cos I could!
Unicycle - To impress the kids
Penny Farthing - Looks scary......have seen video's of them racing.........and crashing :shock:
Proper 'bent, have ridden a small 3-wheeled one around Dulwich park and had huge fun but haven't tried a proper one!
Free-ride (all mountain?) bike - Love the idea of being able to take a bike ANYWHERE and for it to survive

SamWise1972

This was my bonkers TT bike (you can see why I didn't go far!). At least I made good money on it.



This was my shiny track bike.




And this is my tandem


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Clever Pun

lost_in_thought wrote:

Looks cool! And I would love to have a go on a proper, old-fashioned penny-farthing.

These are just disappointing and shouldn't be called a penny-farthing:

if you're not lunching at pizza blah then come on the next tweed run and there will be a couple there

bigmat

Would love to have a go on a pro-level TT bike, Scott Plasma or something like that.

@TGOTB, what bike have you got? Have been keeping an eye out but nothing has really grabbed me yet.

Other than that, when I was in India I quite fancied the idea of a rickshaw, found myself in the back of one a few times and had to resist the temptation to offer to ride the thing! (the traffic over there is proper mental , I just know I would have ended up hitting a cow or something...)

SamWise1972

The Rickshaws are cheap too; around £100 as I recall (bought there, that is). The fact that the drivers ride all day with people on the back and luggage, and yet have scrawny legs tells you something about the availability of protein. If I had their job on my diet, I'd look like Chris Hoy.

tgotb

MatHammond wrote:

Would love to have a go on a pro-level TT bike, Scott Plasma or something like that.

@TGOTB, what bike have you got? Have been keeping an eye out but nothing has really grabbed me yet.

I picked up an old-skool (circa 2000) Cougar a couple of months ago, for silly money. Not very glamorous, but easily upgraded to 10-speed, and gets me into the right position...

Aidy

Silly TT Bike
Bamboo framed bike
One of those bikes with reverse steering
Two wheeled unicycle
Moulton

... There's some more, which will come to me.

And for silly bikes I've already done...

Recumbent - done. Own one.
Unicycle - done. Own two.
Tandem - done.
Giraffe unicycle - done.

andy83

Mine arent very exciting but

A TT bike
Trek madone 6.9
and a recumbant

some very perculiar looking bikes further up

Aidy

Aidy wrote:

Silly TT Bike
Bamboo framed bike
One of those bikes with reverse steering
Two wheeled unicycle
Moulton

... There's some more, which will come to me.

...

A monocycle
A cargo bike
An artistic bike

itboffin

Well there was this one girl at uni :roll:

:P

Mikelyons

lost_in_thought wrote:

I want to try the one that's a pub on wheels...

Like this one ?
http://www.bierbike.de/

Saw this in action a few months ago in Germany.

Site is in german, but you'll get the idea.

Also saw a few cargo bikes in use on the footpaths along the Rhine on the same trip

like one of these
http://surlybikes.com/bikes/big_dummy_complete/


Would like to try one of those as well , even though I can't see myself having a real use for it

Mike

EKE_38BPM

itboffin wrote:

Well there was this one girl at uni :roll:

:P

Her name wasn't Chrissie, was it?

Fireblade96

A tandem.
Not just a boring standard tandem, I'd really like to try a mountain bike tandem like this:

Got to be grim on the uphills, and terrifying on the downhills... :?

Agent57

Triumph Rocket III Roadster. Probably doesn't really count.

marcusjb

I'd love to have a go on a tall bike - maybe not this tall though.

dbmnk

dbmnk

Libraio

Tadpole trike
Track bike on a track
proper tandem instead of hire piece of cra..
a set of identical road bikes with campy, sram and shimano to see wat is the difference.

Rode a four person thing once, but we went down a big hill wich was rather scary.

And there is a chance you won't be seeing too many beerfietsen in Amsterdam because of someting with the law claiming it aint a bike. I think they just want to get rid of the Brittish bachelor parties.

Norky

Nothing terribly imaginative for me:
recumbent tadpole trike ( this one I quite like the look of http://www.icetrikes.co.uk/explore-our-trikes/vortex , or this http://www.innesenti.com/innesenti.com/MODELS.html )
a decent touring tandem, for more than five minutes, i.e. a few days' tour.
a low-racer recumbent
a track bike, or any fixed gear bike really
something steel, classic and beautiful

deptfordmarmoset

I'd like to have a go on one of these...



...mostly because it's got the most confusing ''Adaptive Pedalling System'' ( http://dreamslide.com/SITE/ENG/site/APSsystem.html ) I've ever seen. The pedals aren't independent but they don't go at the same speed either. Somehow this works and I saw some being used today but didn't get to try one out.

It might not be a bike though....but it's not anything else either. Not that I can put a name to, anyway.

Bassjunkieuk

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I'd like to have a go on one of these...



...mostly because it's got the most confusing ''Adaptive Pedalling System'' ( http://dreamslide.com/SITE/ENG/site/APSsystem.html ) I've ever seen. The pedals aren't independent but they don't go at the same speed either. Somehow this works and I saw some being used today but didn't get to try one out.

It might not be a bike though....but it's not anything else either. Not that I can put a name to, anyway.

That looks rather interesting and that bike at the bottom that they use for the demo looks like it would be the "perfect" folder as it's sans seatpost/saddle etc and already looks like it's based on a stripped down Brommie!

georgezippybungle

ndru wrote:

Bullitt bike, bakfiets cargo bike long.

I have been curious about these for ages so I went to Practical Cycles in Lytham St Annes at the weekend and rode a couple, taking my 16 month old daughter with me to fully test their usability.

http://www.practicalcycles.com/index.htm

I tried a bakfiets cargo bike, feels long as you are sat well back and couldn't do a 'U' turn without putting my feet down but stable and suprisingly easy to ride at a rate of knots, it felt very upright though after a road bike, and you'd not be able to fit a longer bar stem or it would foul the cover for the big wooden box, I then tried a Yuba Mundo which you can cover in child seats and this felt much more like a normal bike despite the length, the same U turn was managed without putting feet down. A bit less upright and you could change to flatter bars/longer stem if it suited your riding style, you could probably do mild offroading on it too whereas I'm not sure the bakfiets would manage that.

Obviously both bikes are heavy, expensive, and the bakfiets is wide as well.

I put small child back in the £10 ebay child seat attached to the worthless old steel raleigh racer and tore off up the road much more quickly than either long bike had done.
You'd really have to justify a need for one and live somewhere flat. I'd like one but manage with the old racer + child seat/trailer combo which is much cheaper and will go in/on the car.
If you were to try and take say a cargo bike on holiday (I always take bikes when holidaying in UK) they certainly wouldn't fit on either roofrack I have, you'd need a long one and it would take 2 of you to lift it up there.

Man at practical cycles was very courteous and helpful by the way.

Small child thought the whole experience was hilarious, so approval from that side but she likes eating sand so isn't to be trusted.

edhornby

I'm thinking about what bicycles I've been on and I'm scaring myself

tandem - yep, good fun
trike - adult, do proper rides on etc, yep, decent but odd to get round corners
tandem trike - uncle dennis owns one
unicycle - ok, gets boring after a bit
recumbent - mad down hill and really rips on the flat but a bit dull upill, you have to climb slow and lazy style cos you can't get out of the saddle therefore can't change pace
track bike at velodrome - big fun
4 wheeled multiperson bike, very heavy and slow
one of those 2 person sit side by side jobbies (when on holiday once), very strange and easily crashable, both riders have to be a similar weight

only thing to try therefore is a full on TT bike, a penny farthing, a 29er mountain bike, a 6in travel full sus mountain bike

I was going to say clown bike that falls apart underneath you but I've had that experience already :shock: