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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby ZepinAtor » Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:17 am
Rear brake in the hands of the third rider...skids on every corner.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Marto » Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:40 am
From a gold mine of over-engineering and ugly, the left-handed cyclist:



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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Nobody » Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:47 am
That's because the captain doesn't have three hands. He needs both for the front brakes. Maybe it would benefit from dual slidepad brakes. Expect to see them on some Jamis 2013 models.ZepinAtor wrote:Dual front brakes...thumbs up for that one.
Rear brake in the hands of the third rider...skids on every corner.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby il padrone » Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:30 am
ZepinAtor wrote:Dual front brakes...thumbs up for that one.
Rear brake in the hands of the third rider...skids on every corner.
The braking system effectiveness of a tandem or triplet is very different to that of a single bike. There is less advantage for front braking over rear braking, as the bike is so long that you don't get noticeable weight shift across the wheels, and the rear wheel (when ridden with two) is always well-loaded. You'd be extremely unlikely to skid the rear wheel! The normal additional braking used for tandems is a rear wheel drum (a drum is better than a disc due to lower heat build-up in the larger mass of the drum). A drum brake can be used as a drag-brake on long descents. I operate mine using an old friction gear shift lever.

Dual rim-brakes on the front wheel would concern me. A significant risk for tandems is tyre blowouts, because on any long descent there is a very real risk of rim overheating and tyre failure. Rather my rear tyre to blow than the front.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby il padrone » Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:22 am
http://bicycledesign.net/2011/03/drymer ... ist-trike/

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Re: Ugly Bikes
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby find_bruce » Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:05 pm
JV911 wrote:isn't this Moser's hour record bike?
ugly but fastfatherofmany wrote:
It's is similar, but being a track bike, Moser's hour record bike didn't have brakes nor gears.
More likely to be a time trial bike - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/11521783@N ... otostream/
But you are still right, ugly but fast
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:57 pm
find_bruce wrote:More likely to be a time trial bike -
But you are still right, ugly but fast
Isn't that the core design parameter for ALL TT bikes?
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby jasonc » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:33 am
trying to look classic and failing miserably. colour scheme is also horrible

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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby find_bruce » Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:33 am
Marto wrote:It's back is broken!
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What's with the seat?
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Looking to add to your collection of ugly bikes, fleabay is your friend.
As voted by Marto back on page 3, you choose from the broken back bikemaster starting at just $25

or the "ready anytime" Giant Revive optimistically priced at $150

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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby il padrone » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:26 pm
Pedersen IGH

The pear shaped flanges [of the early Pedersen hub gear] required, it is said, twelve different lengths of spoke and although the company provided spoking charts they were not popular with wheel builders of other firms
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Trev Campbell » Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:38 am
longbody wrote:Now these are ugly:
I think I remeber seeing this one on telly. Didn't this guy try to set a new bicycle land speed record. It got towed up to a certain speed by a speically designed dragster and then released
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Re: Ugly Bikes
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby find_bruce » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:52 pm
jasonc wrote:am probably going to get reamed for this, but this posted in the bike gallery thread
It may not be to your taste, nor mine, but this scoot is the pride & joy of a new member here. Besides you could have linked to pretty much any Kestral triathalon bike to make the point.
Beside like Mulger Bill said, ugly but fast is the core design parameter for ALL TT bikes.
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby jasonc » Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:29 pm
find_bruce wrote:jasonc wrote:am probably going to get reamed for this, but this posted in the bike gallery thread
It may not be to your taste, nor mine, but this scoot is the pride & joy of a new member here. Besides you could have linked to pretty much any Kestral triathalon bike to make the point.
Beside like Mulger Bill said, ugly but fast is the core design parameter for ALL TT bikes.
absolutely. But this thread is about Ugly bikes. I see that and thought of this thread instantly. If you wish me to remove/modify my post, I will.

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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby il padrone » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:54 pm
Trev Campbell wrote:longbody wrote:Now these are ugly:
I think I remeber seeing this one on telly. Didn't this guy try to set a new bicycle land speed record. It got towed up to a certain speed by a speically designed dragster and then released
Didn't 'try', he succeeded. John Howard


Magazine article from Sports Illustrated, 1985
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby il padrone » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:19 pm

"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Mulger bill » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:33 pm

I have absolutely no idea why but something about that Kestrel TT jobbie of adrian d's that kinda blows me hair back...
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Re: Ugly Bikes
Postby Trev Campbell » Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:11 am
il padrone wrote:Trev Campbell wrote:longbody wrote:Now these are ugly:
I think I remeber seeing this one on telly. Didn't this guy try to set a new bicycle land speed record. It got towed up to a certain speed by a speically designed dragster and then released
Didn't 'try', he succeeded. John Howard, US Olympic medalist, was towed up to about 60mph (100kmh) and then set a new bicycle (motor-paced) speed record of 152mph (244kmh
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Magazine article from Sports Illustrated, 1985
Thanks il padrone, that photo with the dragster is the one I rememeber. my grey matter must still be working to remember that !!!
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Re: Ugly Bikes
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