Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

more "stylish" over function....

The rear mudguard that manages to fail in its purpose of stopping mud whilst simultaneously partly obscuring the rear light is particularly impressive.

Although there is a dynamo, I'll give it that

I posted this as a wanted, but thought I would also post here to see if any of you wonderful functional people can help me out:

'Hello all

Moving house next week and was wondering if anyone has a bike trailer or cargo bike they might be willing to lend me for two days to save me the horrors of an addison lee van. Very happy to leave a deposit and bake a cake/quiche or similar by way of thanks.

I'll be moving from camberwell to peckham so someone south east would be ideal but I'm very happy to go further afield if someone is being generous enough to lend me something.

Thanks,
Alex'

theres a forum cargo bike

oh really - do you have any idea where it lives?

I know this guy, he (along with one other) designed and built it in less than 24 hours.
The 4 by 4 platform on the front is made from a bunk bed frame.

Sorry, should have posted in Cargo Bikes - how do I move it?

still functional.....i would the say the two threads overlap at times....

A little progress. Think i will swap the mudguards for the 50's alloy ones and find a canti mounted front rack for a bar bag.

^

Stunning, it just gets worse and worse the longer you look

It's fun. you know those motorcycles on pipeburn.com, they have style over substance and design correctness, it's a bit like that and i love it.

Pipeburn.com sounds rather unsavoury.
Boots sell creams that can help.

It's fun. you know those motorcycles on pipeburn.com, they have style over substance and design correctness, it's a bit like that and i love it.

So you'd pay more for something that doesn't work as well as the Indian Hero?

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/attachments/shifting-gears/1156977d1382591563-hero-cycles-launches-new-micro-finance-scheme-hero-jet-ss-bicycle.jpg

I'd love to try and order a Hero in the UK, it'd be a greater beater to lock up anywhere without any single shit given.

Or the Flying Pigeon from China;

http://press.emerson.edu/imc/files/2011/12/flying_pigeon_28inch_china.jpg

Rod brakes though >>>>>>>>

£14 though (the Flying Pigeon that is).

Fuck.

I like how rod brakes give you haptic feedback as to how true (or otherwise) your front wheel is.

I know a guy in Ramsbottom who has imported 50 bikes from India with a view to flogging them...

I know a bloke who knew some nice-but-dim posh blokes from Fulham in the 80s who were the sole importers and distributors of some Indian make of car.

He (my mate) bought a Hindustani Ambassador (I think?) off them before they went bust as the cars were shit.

Where was I going with this? Well I've sat outside that car, in a layby on the A1, smashing up cutlery with my bootheel to try and fashion a makeshift thingie to short a connection and get us home.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

There is a reason I moved here ..

I know a bloke who knew some nice-but-dim posh blokes from Fulham in the 80s who were the sole importers and distributors of some Indian make of car.

He (my mate) bought a Hindustani Ambassador (I think?) off them before they went bust as the cars were shit.

Where was I going with this? Well I've sat outside that car, in a layby on the A1, smashing up cutlery with my bootheel to try and fashion a makeshift thingie to short a connection and get us home.

The Ambassador was the one based on, I think, the Morris Oxford. The one that everyone was driving around in under Macmillan while wearing string-backed driving gloves.

I wonder if anyone ever got around to importing any of those Iranian licence built Hillmans, they sounded truly dreadful

I've turned my girlfriends old bike into a shopper. it's great fun to ride now. like a big bmx with a basket

Looks alot Like one of my old bikes

I've turned my girlfriends old bike into a shopper. it's great fun to ride now. like a big bmx with a basket

Here's mine, yours looks better though

My old one

really dig those converted mountain bikes. spotter posted my CP above. not yet finished.

has gone from this.

to this.

to this.

I've turned my girlfriends old bike into a shopper. it's great fun to ride now. like a big bmx with a basket

love it