For Sale: Higgins Ultralite fixed gear trike

anyone interested?

i could drop price by 70 gbp if you have your own front wheel and saddle you'd like to use-

I think that we as a forum should club together to buy this for the use of injured forum members, until such a time as they are hale and hearty again.

I'd stick £20 in.

(As long as I got to borrow it when there were no injured amongst us)

apparently they used these on the track in europe in the 60s - think they'd let me on manchester if i set it up no brakes and fixed??

Worth a phone call surely?

This was on ebay recently Im sure!

me, crabtree, shoots and lebowski saw an old bearded guy riding round on a nice trike last summer when we rode to southend one saturday. he was real cheerful as he passed us but for some reason he seemed like he might have his wife's head in his pannier.

real nice trike btw way number6

thanks it's pretty nice i guess but just hanging around - no good to me - got to go. - i could justify taking maybe 10 days off work with the money - that's 20 extra half days of cycling - that's how i see it anyway - or maybe i'd blow it on two really big carouzing sessions - swaps p/x considered - beer/ diesel / food / bike(s) / fitted kitchen / plane ticket to AUS - / sturmey ASC - or the new replacement hub (about time)

yes it was on ebya - didn't make reserve (which i found out later was a little low anyway) one guy was crazy for it - but with no competitors in the bids could not make the reserve. - been in contact with him - thought he was going to take it off me but can't get any contact off him now - maybe he's dead?

I think it's awesome, too small for me though.

Someone buy this!

i'm going to be down in the urban death maze on july 2,3,4 - i could possibly bring down to deliver if anyone's interested?

i'm going to be down in the urban death maze on july 2,3,4 - i could possibly bring down to deliver if anyone's interested?

You're really trying to tempt us with this one ...

I really fancy a barrow, but I simply can't justify one either to myself or to my girlfriend. Nor can I hide one for long enough to get into 'Oh, that old thing? I've had it for ages' territory.

i'll chuck in campag front and rear mech to upgrade if it'll sweeten the deal - or i can convert to 21 gears with indexing on more modern 90s shimano gears - LX deore rear shifter - NOS 105 front shifter - exage sport / 105 or 600 shifters- and two extra freewheel blocks - one a wider ratio touring and the other more tight and racey

if anyone in london does facny it let me know as taking a bike on the train needs a reservation beforehand - i'm hoping they'll accept this as a 'bike' so i'd need to check on that too.

actually not convert but provide the bits on the side - i don't want to get into messing with the diff / rear axle assembly -

its just soooo tempting to have something just so crazy, and the offer of dragging it down too- surely you could ride it down, and save the train fare, I mean its downhill all the way....... ;-))

And changing to more gears etc etc, that PP is twitching

and its something I haven't got in the way of yet another bike....now if I can shift a 56cm Fort look a like big bore lo pro that is/was my pursuit bike........or an upgraded Giant OCR with a triple etc....

Who rides trikes? Is it just people with balance problems / inner ear problems I guess?

Years ago when I was time trialing trikes where used as well, or used by older cyclists but more often by one legged cyclists who where involved in accidents and had a leg amputated.

ive ridden one of these and until you master it,it will seem like the bike has a mind of its own,i thought the one i rode was fucking possessed.hi speed round corners you have to lean/offset your body weight or youll will crash .totally different ride to a normal bike

i really want this!! how much you want for it? you willing to come to london?

see post 34

oooooh tempting
cant really afford it and actually looking at the sizes its way too small

long stem, long seatpost and you're there - i bet the wheel base - and definately the track on these things is pretty much the same however big the frame is - and after that you can space 2 of the 3 contact points (you can even move the crank fore/aft and up/down a little) - according to sheldon all the old bikes were only higher or shorter - all the same length and just fitted with longer/ shorter stems - i'm 5'10" and ride a 56 top tube - as well you might want to be a bit more upright on this as you need some 'slack' in your arms to get the leaning around the corners.how big are you the crane?

reculver - you're right it's like being hypnotised that you can't ride - the guy who i bought it off was telling me how hard it was and i was secretly dismissive but when i got on - he was right - it's nothing like riding a normal bike - practice in a car park or something first

the front wheel on right now cost me 60 for just the ingredients and the saddle is sold
with a well cheapy saddle and old front wheel (you can replace for better items yourself)- and with the extra gear set i'll throw in- your choice campag or the shimano stuff - best i can do is 380.

pickup would be pretty specific i can't take it on the tube and i don't fancy riding around london to where i'm staying so euston on the afternoon of the 2nd - possibly pickup from st katerine's dock (tower hill) at some later time in those 3 days - but i'll probably have been mudered by then by the GF for leaving her on her own to the tube or making her march miles across town with the luggage as i wheel the trike to where we're staying - also i still have to check with virgin on putting it in the train.

anyone in the north west fancy it?

cornering

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the bike's gone now -

p.s. lockrings and track fork ends are overated

ha ha ha.