Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

[novocaine]

They'd be rubbing on your chin though

That can't be real, Shirley?
anyway, doesn't it stop being aero when the wind is hitting your back?

yes it's real.
built to do 1 thing and 1 thing only, go ******* fast on the track. it was built for the pursuit. it did pretty good and there are a few examples of it being used in TT as well (which I think is what Woz is showing but having been stripped back to 1 gear and had different forks added). the TT bike used a more standard quill stem and bar on the top so it wasn't quite so extreme, it also had less "aero" on the tube set.

good article on a restored pursuit frame here

https://www.thespoken.cc/from-russia-with-love-rossin-ussr-team-pursuit

 

[moonlite]

For sale not far from me . . .

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

For sale not far from me . . .

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Retards r us fitted the bars

 

[Woz]

yes it's real.
built to do 1 thing and 1 thing only, go ******* fast on the track. it was built for the pursuit. it did pretty good and there are a few examples of it being used in TT as well (which I think is what Woz is showing but having been stripped back to 1 gear and had different forks added). the TT bike used a more standard quill stem and bar on the top so it wasn't quite so extreme, it also had less "aero" on the tube set.

good article on a restored pursuit frame here

https://www.thespoken.cc/from-russia-with-love-rossin-ussr-team-pursuit

His build thread is epic:
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/rossin-pursuit-build.268065/

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Does it have a stem or is the bar just resting against the tyre?

Not a tire, that's a chin rest

 

[Imlach]

Retards r us fitted the bars

Perhaps it's used as a very uncomfortable toddler seat?

 

[Imlach]

@Woz's dream bike

 

[Woz]

FFS. Already my pet hate of "wide angle bike portrait" has got me pouring another glass, and then I see pink toe straps which will put me in coma.

 

[Imlach]

FFS. Already my pet hate of "wide angle bike portrait" has got me pouring another glass, and then I see pink toe straps which will put me in coma.

The stem bottle cage mount will put everything back in order

Namaste

 

[Woz]

I'm sorry, but how can you live with yourself having a rear U brake gizmo jobby with a cable hanger off the seat-clamp like that.

I need to lie down for a while before I can comment on the front brake set-up. It's all melt-down for me.