Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Is the pedals being so far back remotely comfortable?

Suspension forks seem inevitable given the very heavy bias of weight support to the hands. Mechanical disc brakes are as simple as v-brakes, and perform better while requiring less maintenance. I think they might as well drop the pedals and revert to a classical Draisine configuration, which is what I predicted as the next trend on t'other thread*

*damn, I was on trend for once and it got lost in the server fail.

pukes on cock

...might as well ...revert to a classical Draisine configuration, which is what I predicted as the next trend...
*damn, I was on trend for once and it got lost in the server fail.

MT i think you're an oracle, i will be the witness for your supernatural prediction powers
however, an appearance of *draisine *on SS forum twice within two days IS scary...

Is the pedals being so far back remotely comfortable?

no toe over-lap, innit?

Is the pedals being so far back remotely comfortable?

No! It would mean you are constantly falling forward and have fucked wrists within 10 minutes I would imagine.

Stretch it out, replace the cranks with bmx pegs and point it down a steep road = whole lotta fun!

No! It would mean you are constantly falling forward and have fucked wrists within 10 minutes I would imagine.

Correct, like the riding position on a sports/race motorbike, however the pain on a motorbike eases off as you get up to cruising speed and the wind lifts the presure off your rests. An unlikely scenario on that bike.

other great work by jruiter - the water bench - there's no boundary he won't dare to push. the bench world must be reeling.

a cafe racer which is on the slow side but turns quickly - he's killing it

Same design as the bike seat eh?

Is the pedals being so far back remotely comfortable?

no toe over-lap, innit?

No! It would mean you are constantly falling forward and have fucked wrists within 10 minutes I would imagine.

Correct, like the riding position on a sports/race motorbike, however the pain on a motorbike eases off as you get up to cruising speed and the wind lifts the presure off your rests. An unlikely scenario on that bike.

It was sarcasm but thanks for the answers :P

so basically they've built a unicycle and added a front wheel - groundbreaking that…

but a unicycle where it appears you cannot adjust the height of the seat either, it will kill peoples knees

Our target lived / worked in an inner city environment with minimal space...it would be made up of 29" rims, huge big apple tires

Doesn't a whole Brompton take up less space than a pair of Niner wheels alone?

I think he said it was a two speed gearing based in the bottom bracket (?) and of course then there's the mono fork.

quite right, internal gears inside the bottom bracket, has been around for a bit, it also mean you can ride it as a fixed wheel having it in the bottom bracket instead of the hubs (as far as I remember).

Wow! Far too technical for a drunk guy :-) I had to read that post twice

quite right, internal gears inside the bottom bracket, has been around for a bit, it also mean you can ride it as a fixed wheel having it in the bottom bracket instead of the hubs (as far as I remember).

Looks like a Schlumpf Speed-Drive, which I think has no freewheel system (unlike Truvativ Hammersmith[sic]), but the Schlumpf manual says

Fixed-gear bikes
The speed-drive mechanism is not designed to withstand high-torque pedal-
ing in both directions.

Assuming there is no freewheel, I'm guessing a skid would rip the BB out of the frame because the torque of the planetary gearbox is resisted only by a serrated threadless BB, not a solid connection like the Truvativ.

Wooosh!

other great work by jruiter - the water bench - there's no boundary he won't dare to push. the bench world must be reeling.

LOLz

I really want to take a photo but that faux-fixie skidder was jumping red light without looking, netherless a description is necessary.

a shitty yellow road frame that seen better day whose sticker has been removed and probably those cheap steel with front brake, singlespeed and a day glo yellow arrospok.

does not help that he dressed like a nodder and ride recklessly, probably brought it from Brick Lane.

This is probably a repost but shocking enough to be in here several times. It is so proud in its misguided attempt at sophistication. Bull horn brake levers on drops? BMX cranks? really?

It also looks like it has a fully vertical geared style dropout.

I think it got an eccentric BB which may explain the silly choice of crankset.

Fail in every flavour;

I think it got an eccentric BB which may explain the silly choice of crankset.

From the website it seems they do a SS an a tiagra geared version both using the same frame, no mention of eccentric BB.

Besides, eccentric BB systems use normal bottom bracket & cranksets. They just have rotating cups in the frame.