Nice recumbent. Seems legit...

notsoblue

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cruzbike-Recu ... 500wt_1160

Only three days left! I'm watching this one like a hawk...

SimonAH

Fantastic! Mad as a bucket of chickens!

rick_chasey

Is a bucket of chicken mad??

SimonAH

You stick a load of chickens in a bucket I reckon they'd get pretty darn ticked off.

And anyway, your chicken is your red-eyed insane serial killer of the bird world before you even consider enbucketing them.

essex-commuter

'Trumpet style bell', I'm up for winning this too. Bet you wish you hadn't posted the link now!

Kieran_Burns

SimonAH wrote:

You stick a load of chickens in a bucket I reckon they'd get pretty darn ticked off.

And anyway, your chicken is your red-eyed insane serial killer of the bird world before you even consider enbucketing them.

are you randomly making up words again?

notsoblue

Suddenly, I want some KFC.

gtvlusso

'Machine Washable' - apparently....

jonny_trousers

It's an upright recumbent! Sweet!

SimonAH

Kieran_Burns wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

You stick a load of chickens in a bucket I reckon they'd get pretty darn ticked off.

And anyway, your chicken is your red-eyed insane serial killer of the bird world before you even consider enbucketing them.

are you randomly making up words again?

You wait, it'll be absorbed into the lexicon and listed in the OED by 2015. Along with 'mantle' (to put together) and 'chillyfettlin' (to work on your bicycle in a shed during the winter months).

rick_chasey

SimonAH wrote:

'chillyfettlin'.

Surely that's throwing up after too much chilli?

veronese68

Excellent, a bucket of chickens is a step crazier than a hat full of frogs.
I thought it was a home made 'bent. But now I see you can by a conversion kit to 'bend any Y frame BSO.

gtvlusso

I wonder how it will fair on singletrack?!

veronese68

gtvlusso wrote:

I wonder how it will fair on singletrack?!

It'll be fine, buy it. I look forward to your report.

gtvlusso

Veronese68 wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

I wonder how it will fair on singletrack?!

It'll be fine, buy it. I look forward to your report.

May be a long wait for a report, speaking and writing after 'The incident' may be lost processes.......

I wonder is front wheel drive on a bike handles better in snow - like with cars?!

DrLex

notsoblue wrote:

[...]

Only three days left! I'm watching this one like a hawk...

Hopefully so that you can either have the purchaser sectioned or sell him a bridge or two?

graeme_s-2

gtvlusso wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

I wonder how it will fair on singletrack?!

It'll be fine, buy it. I look forward to your report.

May be a long wait for a report, speaking and writing after 'The incident' may be lost processes.......

I wonder is front wheel drive on a bike handles better in snow - like with cars?!

I'm going to say no, it won't. Mainly because on a bike all your weight is over the back wheel

t4tomo

thats not a recumbent, its a dual sus BSO with a seat on top of it with a crude conversion to FWD.

essex-commuter

t4tomo wrote:

thats not a recumbent, its a dual sus BSO with a seat on top of it with a crude conversion to FWD.

Is it?

Monkeypump

essex-commuter wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

thats not a recumbent, its a dual sus BSO with a seat on top of it with a crude conversion to FWD.

Is it?

Yes.

So, take a cheap, poor-quality, heavy BSO and add more weight, change the handling, centre of gravity and weight distribution (none of these, I suspect, for the better) and knock it out for nearly £400?

I think I'll give it a miss.

kelsen

Monkeypump wrote:

essex-commuter wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

thats not a recumbent, its a dual sus BSO with a seat on top of it with a crude conversion to FWD.

Is it?

Yes.

So, take a cheap, poor-quality, heavy BSO and add more weight, change the handling, centre of gravity and weight distribution (none of these, I suspect, for the better) and knock it out for nearly £400?

I think I'll give it a miss.

No it's not. It's a Cruzbike Recumbent. It says so in the description.

SimonAH

Hells teeth.

If you go to to the Cruzbike site and look at the Sofrider http://www.cruzbike.com/sofrider they actually market something verrrry similar to the eBay howler.

......and they sell a conversion kit http://www.cruzbike.com/conversion-kit to do what he's done for $400 plus the cost of your donor BSO.

My gabber is flasted.

veronese68

SimonAH wrote:

My gabber is flasted.

Yes, saw that. More importantly, as one of our resident strange contraption owning lunatics, have you ordered the kit? Or, as you is engineer are you going full DIY route?


(I was sorely tempted to write "as u r ngnr..." but couldn't textify DIY)

SimonAH

Well, I suppose if I converted the cab to a recumbent riding position it would dramatically reduce wind resistance - oh, wait...

Mind you, if one picked up girl passengers in their summer skirts and tilted back ones head? Knowing my luck though all I'd have as fares would be be-kilted Scottish rugby fans.

notsoblue

Monkeypump wrote:

essex-commuter wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

thats not a recumbent, its a dual sus BSO with a seat on top of it with a crude conversion to FWD.

Is it?

Yes.

So, take a cheap, poor-quality, heavy BSO and add more weight, change the handling, centre of gravity and weight distribution (none of these, I suspect, for the better) and knock it out for nearly £400?

I think I'll give it a miss.

Whoa there, calm down Bike Snob.

DrLex

SimonAH wrote:

[...] Knowing my luck though all I'd have as fares would be be-kilted Scottish rugby fans.

From Pink Ladies to pink laddies...

team47b

BSO?

Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, the surgical removal of both ovaries and both fallopian tubes.

Looks entirely probable on that machine!

nation

I like how whoever fitted the conversion kit reversed the fork in order to force everything together.

I confidently predict that will have no adverse handling effects whatsoever.

Initialised

Monkeypump wrote:

essex-commuter wrote:

t4tomo wrote:

thats not a recumbent, its a dual sus BSO with a seat on top of it with a crude conversion to FWD.

Is it?

Yes.

So, take a cheap, poor-quality, heavy BSO and add more weight, ruin the handling, bork the centre of gravity and weight distribution (none of these, I suspect, for the better) and knock it out for nearly £400?

I think I'll give it a miss.

*fixed*

EKE_38BPM

I've just spent a few minutes browsing the cruzbike site. Wow is about all I can say.

'Normal' recumbents are weird. Front wheel drive recumbents are weirder. Front wheel drive recumbent conversion kits for double bounce BSOs is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

mtb-idle

ur bik is saracin as da kidz say