You Had One Job: Bikes for niches. Functional but not FBNPNA.

Let's have a thread for bikes that do one thing, and do it well. Everesting bikes, bikes for unusual commuting routes, bikes that cross Antarctica, bike-things that travel over water, bikes that carry 50l of water from a well every day, bikes for people with one leg, and so on.

Mike Curiak's Snoots. 70oz of liquid capacity, inside the frame!

Jean Naud cargo trike, raisable 3rd wheel, for trans-Sahara expeditions

Hank's 4wheel Antarctic superfatbike

And another Antarctic one, the first all-wheel-drive bicycle I've ever seen ?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pACop8Pjr74

You know there's a fatbike thread, right ;-)

what was the benefit of the 3rd wheel? more traction or loading capacity?

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both, yeah
lots of water needed in the desert = big frame to carry it
lots of rolling resistance with 3 wheels = disengagable extra wheel

good article here

Bikes custom made for the Canning Stock Route - 2,000 miles overland Australian route requiring up to 35 days of food and 5 days of water capacity !

Rob English very-custom Trans Am Bike Race bike

And these cool dudes in the Atacama

Clelands, purpose built for going up muddy hills/rivers in the Chilterns/UK with tenacity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1bYUSRhPRg

This ruddy-cheeked gentleman on a round-the-world unicyclepacking trip

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ok i'll stop now...sorry for the overbearing expeditionfatbike content, can you tell I want one

lolz

He has a whole page of them: http://www.englishcycles.com/cat/custombikes/nichebikes/

Great job!

The bike that caused strife in FBNPNA, an Everesting build:

Dear Susan dadbike for carrying children around:

Dear Susan removable mid-second trandem/tandem convertible:

36ers for giants

Still need justification for several of the component choices on that 'Everesting' bike.

Hutchinson's hour bike

always liked the drilled bars for this one

I don't disagree about the Everesting bike. I'd change a few things. Still, it's thought-provoking and I'd never really considered how you'd build a bike for that specific purpose

I was just about to post some hour record bikes. Here's an hour record Bullitt build

Wrong bike for your own thread. What part of that has been designed specifically for one thing? It's a cargo bike doing a stupid record. Might as well have an hour record on a sit up and beg Dutch bike.

Also, if you were going to do that the thing needs moar disc wheels and moar fairings.

I'm all for hour record bikes, particularly from the Boardman/Obree era as they were mad and designed for one thing and one thing only. I've seen those already though. Anyone got any other mad designs that arnt so famous?

Christini 2wd have been around for maybe 15 years, the concept has never really taken off and is fairly complex.
Might have an actual review in my back stash of MBA mags.
Only been attempted by a few so it's ultra niche. Would love a go on one.

Hanks bike took me back to early fatbikes :) still got a pair of 40mm rims for the Karate monkey when running 26x 3" Nokians on 40mm rims was semi fat if you couldn't afford a Pugsley. Back then players would weld together rims and cut and shut tyres and sew them up to fit. I like Hank, it's carrying on where that caper left off when Fat went mainstream.