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Date: 27 Sep 2007 16:57:07
From: javawizard
Subject: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
did! It's at www.odd-bikes.com - Jeff
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 00:44:26
From: John Michaels
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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"javawizard" <javawizard@aol.com > wrote in message
news:1190912227.446952.278710@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's at www.odd-bikes.com - Jeff
>
The back to back tandem was at PBP. Lots of pictures of it. It looked
quite interesting. PBP probably offered the biggest collection of different
bikes. I don't you will find as many different styles as you do at PBP. I
think some folks just hung around during what was suppose to be the bike
inspection just to take different pictures of the bikes.
One of the more interesting bikes that frequents the Bay Area and was in
Paris was a Bamboo Calfee. It is a custom built bike. The claim is that
Bamboo has very good frame characteristics as far as shock absorption. At
PBP, he got more attention with that bike. I have never seen grown men drool
over bikes before.
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 20:55:35
From: Smitty88
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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Well, here's one of the more unusual cycles. It is actually propelled
by pedaling and steered by moving the palm fronds the rider has his
hands on. I watched him mount the thing at the 2007 Humboldt County
kinetic sculpture race (my son had an entry and I helped him).
The guy who made this one also had a wheeled upright gorilla and a very
weird robot-looking buglike thing that was propelled by levers moving
two legs forward, then the other two (the wheels only rolled in one
direction).
http://www.redwoodecotours.com/kinetic1/arcata-plaza/pages/P5264767.htm
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 12:30:12
From: Dorfus Dippintush
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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Smitty88 wrote:
> Well, here's one of the more unusual cycles. It is actually
> propelled by pedaling and steered by moving the palm fronds the rider
> has his hands on. I watched him mount the thing at the 2007 Humboldt
> County kinetic sculpture race (my son had an entry and I helped him).
> The guy who made this one also had a wheeled upright gorilla and a
> very weird robot-looking buglike thing that was propelled by levers
> moving two legs forward, then the other two (the wheels only rolled in
> one direction).
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> http://www.redwoodecotours.com/kinetic1/arcata-plaza/pages/P5264767.htm
I think I'd have to nominate the palm tree bike for first prize in the
Strange Bicycles category.
Who thinks up these things?
Dorfus
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 14:33:07
From: Hank Wirtz
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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On Sep 27, 9:57 am, javawizard <javawiz...@aol.com > wrote:
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's atwww.odd-bikes.com- Jeff
Every couple of months, the inventor of the sideways bike will post a
link to his site in this group, posing as a neutral observer, saying
something like "This is the neatest thing I've ever seen."
I'm sick of that guy.
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 13:19:56
From: Hank Wirtz
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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On Sep 28, 11:41 am, Smitty88 <snijuni...@comcast.net > wrote:
> Here is one of my favorites - a French tridem.
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> http://www.futurebike.ch/FB_Web_WM99/events/wm99/pictures.html
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> Steve J
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> javawizard wrote:
> > I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> > to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> > did! It's atwww.odd-bikes.com- Jeff- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
I would not want to be the captain on that team.
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 11:41:26
From: Smitty88
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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Here is one of my favorites - a French tridem.
http://www.futurebike.ch/FB_Web_WM99/events/wm99/pictures.html
Steve J
javawizard wrote:
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's at www.odd-bikes.com - Jeff
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 13:09:31
From: Kerry Montgomery
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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"Smitty88" <snijuniper@comcast.net > wrote in message
news:46FD4AD6.6050006@comcast.net...
> Here is one of my favorites - a French tridem.
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> http://www.futurebike.ch/FB_Web_WM99/events/wm99/pictures.html
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> Steve J
Does it have only one crank that all three share?!
A search for tridem resulted in this other site with strange bicycles,
including another view of the French tridem:
http://sumpfnoodle.blogspot.com/2007/04/die-27-verrcktesten-bikes-bilder.html
Kerry
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 11:02:55
From: xzzy
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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take a look at:
http://www.americanbamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BambooBicycle.html
"javawizard" <javawizard@aol.com > wrote in message
news:1190912227.446952.278710@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's at www.odd-bikes.com - Jeff
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Date: 27 Sep 2007 21:01:48
From: JeffWills
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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On Sep 27, 8:57 am, javawizard <javawiz...@aol.com > wrote:
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's atwww.odd-bikes.com- Jeff
Not quite a bike, but you missed: http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/cb.php
Ya gotta love Leatherette!
Other Jeff
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Date: 28 Sep 2007 08:06:32
From: doofy
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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JeffWills wrote:
> On Sep 27, 8:57 am, javawizard <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote:
>> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
>> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
>> did! It's atwww.odd-bikes.com- Jeff
>
> Not quite a bike, but you missed: http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/cb.php
> Ya gotta love Leatherette!
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> Other Jeff
>
Save the baby naugas.
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Date: 27 Sep 2007 13:59:28
From: Gary Young
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:57:07 +0000, javawizard wrote:
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's at www.odd-bikes.com - Jeff
The cargo-carrying Dutch bicycle is a Bakfiets, now being imported into
the US:
http://practicalpedal.com/summer2007/dutch.html
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Date: 27 Sep 2007 09:58:49
From: Tom Nakashima
Subject: Re: 20 Very Strange Bicycles
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"javawizard" <javawizard@aol.com > wrote in message
news:1190912227.446952.278710@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> I've compiled a photo list of 20 of the weirdest bicycles, with links
> to their respective websites. I hope you find it as interesting as I
> did! It's at www.odd-bikes.com - Jeff
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Good site.....I like that sideways bike.
-tom
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