Forgotten Bicycle Technology

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...and shoes that had kung-fu style separate big toe sections.

Nike Air camel toe...

Tuff top helmets - watch out for low bridges...

Yeah, they make a lovely "zzzzzzzz", Another company created a hub that had no number of pawl engagement points, something internally expanded and gripped. My friend used to ride trials pro after winning the trials comp at the bike show one year, he was sponsored by the hub company but I think he broke a few of them…

I think they were called Stealth or something, They didn't make a single noise.

P.s. Did your mate use to put Tar on his rims? made your pads grippy as fuck but made a hellish noise!

Tar + hydraulic brakes made a horrible noise.

The 72 pawl was good for trials I heard because of the huge number of engagement points reducing wasted crank movement.

I was always amazed at how fast trial riders could spin! 540s off a foot high bench from a standstill? I've seen friends who ride BMX do bunnyhop 540s on flat, but that's going with some speed into it, not to mention the rotation of whipping the front around during the bunnyhop. But just a standing 540? Hard as fuck.

Sinclair C5

Sorry, i totally think that would be the most fun ever for about 15 minutes, at least. With a bit of a respray....

Pedalling backwards to go up hill?

Still technically possible on fixed though.

There was an brand new clip for carrying your hockey stick on your forks for sale @ the bike jumble on Sunday. Mint still in original packaging.

I remember someone posted a pic of a rusty old one on here as a "what is it?" quiz question.

@ skully - I was posting forgotten technologies, not obsolete ones!

Have we done this?

Hopefully not a repost, sorry... This from http://www.sheldonbrown.com/shimano1982/pages/35.html - kind of the opposite of a fixed wheel.

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Crash on this and you will be in a whole world of pain!

There's one of these for sale from the Cambridge bikeman. Quick, snap it up!

Pedalling backwards to go up hill?

Still technically possible on fixed though.

Drew Buck rode one of those 1220km over 4 days in the Paris Brest Paris a couple of years back.
Onion Johnny on Vimeo

There's one of these for sale from the Cambridge bikeman. Quick, snap it up!

elephant and castle bicycle shop has two.

Not exactly a bicycle, but quite obsolete.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0373.htm

Oh no he didn't...

Oh yes he did...

what THE FUCK is that about? it's the most retarded thing i've seen today.

that's not forgotten, that never was! having at some point come to fruition must surely be a prerequisite for this thread, no? this thing looks like a whack student project.