Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

oh dear!

http://www.contemporist.com/2015/10/13/you-ride-this-bike-lying-down-and-it-feels-like-youre-flying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+contemporist+%28CONTEMPORIST%29

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damn you! @HoKe

I'd love to have a go though.

two for tea and crabon for me!

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And the bar end shifters do whuhhhhh?

Wouldn't it make more sense to put the third brake on the front wheel?

Paging @mdcc_tester

Wouldn't it make more sense to put the third brake on the front wheel?

That would fly in the face of decades of tandem practice, it's unlikely that they've been doing it wrong all these years. Tandem rear brakes actually do something useful, unlike on solos where if the front brake is working properly the rear tyre is barely touching the ground.

Drag brake.

But why put it on the back wheel and not the front?

But why put it on the back wheel and not the front?

Because you don't want to be dragging your front brake through a damp downhill corner

Welcome to the 70s - probably earlier examples out there.

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probably earlier examples out there.

e.g. 1956

"Bellywhopper"

#newpagefail

Have we had this yet?

http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/11/08/bicycle-that-lets-you-to-play-records-on-its-wheels/

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Now it becomes clear. Everyday is a school day!

^^what's that coming out of the handlebar?

It's graffiti coming out of the handlebar.

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Rad.

Track grips and brake levers...

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Dandy light angle too.

That was good enough for about 50 years of time trialling

That was good enough for about 50 years of time trialling

Citation? We had half-taped with cotton, not grips. I didn't see slip-on tubular grips for road bars until Plastiche Cassano in the early 80s.