3 More Very Strange Bikes

Am Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:26:11 -0000 schrieb javawizard:

Quoted message said:

I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think
I should add.

I recently came across news about a bike that is apparently the longest
bike in the world:

http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/219007/
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&mode=&order=0&thold=0
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&imgid=5073&subtopic=110&photonr=1

The bike is 29.45 m long and weighs 500 kg. It was a record attempt by the
Radclub Altenstadt in Austria. They managed to ride it for nearly 100 m -
enough to get to the next pub :-)

Andreas

Andreas Schulze-Bäing said:

Am Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:26:11 -0000 schrieb javawizard:

Quoted message said:

I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think
I should add.

I recently came across news about a bike that is apparently the longest
bike in the world:

http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/219007/
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&mode=&order=0&thold=0
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&imgid=5073&subtopic=110&photonr=1

The bike is 29.45 m long and weighs 500 kg. It was a record attempt by the
Radclub Altenstadt in Austria. They managed to ride it for nearly 100 m -
enough to get to the next pub :-)

Just remembered an odd one I spotted in Leeds a few weeks ago, looked to
be about a 20 seater tricycle (2 front wheels, 1 rear) being escorted by
a fire engine, must have been a carnival thing.

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Andreas Schulze-Bäing said:

Am Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:26:11 -0000 schrieb javawizard:

Quoted message said:

I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think
I should add.

I recently came across news about a bike that is apparently the longest
bike in the world:

http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/219007/
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&mode=&order=0&thold=0
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&imgid=5073&subtopic=110&photonr=1

The bike is 29.45 m long and weighs 500 kg. It was a record attempt by
the
Radclub Altenstadt in Austria. They managed to ride it for nearly 100 m -
enough to get to the next pub :-)

Andreas

Tell homie to bring that thing here to San Pedro or San Francisco, I wanna
see him ride it down a hill.
http://sfblogg.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/stretchlimo.jpg
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Slack

javawizard said:

I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think I
should add.
Thanks,
- Jeff

A tiny little correction, if you don't mind, concerning the link "Svara
Citera". Where it says "Three pictures and short article in a non-English
language - possibly German or Dutch.", the language is actually Swedish.

The toplevel domain in the URL <http://www.hdk.gu.se/EXAMINA/EXA05/
dm3magka3.shtml> should give it away even if you don't recognise the
language 🙂

That bicycle confuses the hell out of me, BTW.

nmp said:

A tiny little correction, if you don't mind, concerning the link "Svara
Citera". Where it says "Three pictures and short article in a non-English
language - possibly German or Dutch.", the language is actually Swedish.

That bicycle confuses the hell out of me, BTW.

What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down?
There doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.

PhilD

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"PhilD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down?
There doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.

From the Swedish site in question:

Arthroped is a bicycle driven by both hands and feet, with a movement
recognized from the skier, skater, or sprinter. As an experience, bicycle
and body are one; control and movement are purely intuitive. To ride
Arthroped is to not have to choose between comfort and performance.

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UK

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http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html

mUs1Ka said:

"PhilD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down? There
doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.

From the Swedish site in question:

Arthroped is a bicycle driven by both hands and feet, with a movement
recognized from the skier, skater, or sprinter. As an experience,
bicycle and body are one; control and movement are purely intuitive. To
ride Arthroped is to not have to choose between comfort and performance.

I gathered as much from an online translation. But I still can't
visualise how the rider would even mount this particular beast.

mUs1Ka said:

"PhilD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Quoted message said:

What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down?
There doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.

From the Swedish site in question:

Arthroped is a bicycle driven by both hands and feet, with a movement
recognized from the skier, skater, or sprinter. As an experience, bicycle
and body are one; control and movement are purely intuitive. To ride
Arthroped is to not have to choose between comfort and performance.

Errr... because you have neither?