Unusual Bike!

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Happy to lend you my tweed safari suit if that's what's holding you back?

Didn't like it.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Didn't like it.

It's a bit like riding a sponge imo

 

[bikeworkshop]

The bike could do with some rationalisation:

A record racing chainset... looks like a ti r.mech, matching front, worth a few bob, but not really the bike for it.

I would assume it's come off something a little racier.

And operated by plastic huret levers?

Sacrilege!

The wheels look a size too small for the canti bosses - my guess is they're 26 × 1 3/8 (590) and should be 26x1&1/4 (597), which helps explain the uncomfortable mudguards.

The brake levers are a poor shape for those bars, and the toeclip- specific pedals lack toeclips.

Some of the frame parts look nice,
I would think a canti bossed frame with cable stops is likely to be 90s.

Fun to ride in a bike pageant for sure - and after all its the only properly long- lived alternative to the double triangle frame.

I'm sure there are a few LeJoggers who have had a great ride on them.

 

[LondonClassic]

Great for people with bad backs. I rode one around Herne Hill velodrome and it was . Like the idea of the touring equipped one @grantoury posted.

 

[moonlite]

Here's a bloke I saw riding one in Frankfurt

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

It's a bit like riding a sponge imo

I was expecting great things and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. To each their own.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Here's a bloke I saw riding one in Frankfurt

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Do you think he's wearing socks?

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Do you think he's wearing socks?

@Imlach The bars are upside down

 

[bikeworkshop]

@Imlach The bars are upside down

The bars are ok,
it's everything else that's upside down