Goodbye gravel bike, hello recumbent

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  • Those disc brakes are totally bonkers and super cool! Love weird old bits like that.

  • That is so so class. Love it

  • Fixed it (I think)

  • You did, thanks

  • Some leftfield softride inspo here

    Grab life by the beam.

  • Bought some extra comfort for my mountain bike.


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  • Whist browsing the web for pictures of the Jones bars I came across this. Not exactly attractive looking, but gives an idea of how the Merckx frame I posted earlier could look like, although the seat tube angle on this is even slacker.

  • Looks like the kind of bike my 7 year old daughter draws.

    Love it!

  • I saw someone riding a semi-recumbent like that a few weeks ago, it looked pretty comfy. Mike burrows is an advocate of this kind of design for city bikes, too.

  • Here is another one. This time with drop bars. They are called Rans Bikes by the way.

  • Found this up for sale. Badly want it even though it is 2 sizes to small and a 4 hour drive away.


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  • Best thread on LFGSS. Hands down.

  • Dont know how I found this thread. But glad I did.

  • Thought I would post a picture of the Kestrel with the 3G's, before selling them on again. They were something of a spur of the moment purchase. Didn't really think the whole tubular thing through in that moment. Just doesn't seem very pratical though.

  • Instead I bought these :)

    Not much information on these online, but they appear to be first generation Mavic Cosmic Carbone wheels.


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  • I particularly liked the softride tandem. That is bonkers.

  • Hot damn, I know my way around older MTBs but I've never seen this. Pity about the size, it's really cool.

  • It's too bad they never made a clincher. 3Gs are the best-looking trispokes, in my opinion.

  • Don’t know why, but I always thought 3gs look shit when people had them on their sweet skinny tubed steel fixies, but they look amazing on a 396 (especially on a yellow frame, with the yellow decals on the wheels of course). Not quite sure why but it feels like the taper on the spoke doesn’t balance right with a lot of frames.

    Pizza life HED3* for me all the way tho ;-)

    *I vaguely remember seeing people reprinting decals using the specialized font so it said pizza life. This may have actually been a dream. The other variation was simply scratching the IZ off so it said SPECIAL ED.

  • Wow! Just wow!

  • I'm torn between these three

  • For the Kestrel? The Fir's wavy spokes would suit the wavy frame I reckon, but I love all 3 tbh.

    Those older 3g decals are super nice as well. Never seen those before.

  • Deffo the Fir!

    As @nefarious said, matchy spoks ftw.

  • It's here


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Goodbye gravel bike, hello recumbent

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