Interesting bicycles found on the internet.

[weeksy]

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bike-chec ... -bike.html

[Mr Moofo]

Perhaps technically brilliant - but with looks only a mother could love …

[Dodgy69]

Please view this ad:

1939 Royal Enfield Lady’s Three Speed Safety Model WLR LB,
https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/1939 ... 1456521514

Price: £ 75

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That gear change brings back some memories.

[weeksy]

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/a-deeper- ... -bike.html

[Beancounter]

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bike-chec ... -bike.html

That ^^^ looks better than the Trinity. Just noticed the tyres.

[weeksy]

They're the Schwalbe super tyres at the moment. Well thought of and regarded. My boy is still a Conti boy through and through though, it would take a lot to persuade him to change. Well, that is, on his DH bike... on anything else he quite frankly doesn't care even a little bit, or indeed notice. He just nails it into the corners on whatever is on there.

[weeksy]

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-rand ... -2024.html



electronic suspension changes !!!

[ChrisW]

That reminds me a little of that GT frame from the 90s - STS?

[weeksy]

I saw one of these today, it's very errrrm different

https://www.unno.com/mith



Only £13,000

[Mr Moofo]

I saw one of these today, it's very errrrm different

https://www.unno.com/mith



Only £13,000

That's a pig in turd's clothing

[weeksy]

This was found in Champery at the Euros.

IMG_20240809_125324 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20240809_125312 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

IMG_20240809_125307 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Apologies for photo quality.

German company and a prototype, number 2, but they think it'll be in production this winter.

[MingtheMerciless]

That reminds me (a bit) of the Empire Cycles MTB’s.

[Count Steer]

Makes cable routing a bit easier.

[weeksy]

Makes cable routing a bit easier.

And carrying mini rolls and Jaffa cakes

[weeksy]

[MingtheMerciless]

One winter ride on the Sarf Dahns would quadruple its weight!

[Mr Moofo]

Can you imagine the weight increase in mud ....

[weeksy]

This is the new 32" wheeled thing.... I can't fathom how they've managed to make it so bloody ugly !

I mean how do you put that up in front of the sales team and say "there you go guys, flog that one"

[Taff]

It looks like you need to be 6ft 13 just so that you don't smash your crotch on the seat tube every time you sling a leg over it.

It seems that this is the bike industry reinventing the wheel, again, just to flog more stuff. Anyone seen a fat bike recently? It was only a few years ago that they were the hot new thing that everyone must have.

[mboy]

It looks like you need to be 6ft 13 just so that you don't smash your crotch on the seat tube every time you sling a leg over it.

Read up about Dirtysixer as a brand... They exist exclusively for REALLY tall people... I know a guy who's 6ft6 and he ordered their smallest size, and it's still enormous. There are many, many ex NBA players amongst their clientele... The fact that, whilst ugly, the wheels look perfectly in proportion for a normal 29er trail bike in a normal size, should give the game away...

It seems that this is the bike industry reinventing the wheel, again, just to flog more stuff. Anyone seen a fat bike recently? It was only a few years ago that they were the hot new thing that everyone must have.

If we're referring more specifically to the fact that all the XC boys seem to want 32" wheels right now, then largely I agree with you (for crazy tall people a la Dirtysixer's clientele, then they absolutely have their place)... If I was the UCI, I'd absolutely go to town for 2026 to make World Cup XC courses so technical as to make 32" wheels a liability rather than a benefit myself... There is also the other fact that some people simply won't be able to run 32" wheels because they won't be tall enough to ride a bike on them, thus allowing the bigger wheels heavily biases the taller and more powerful riders and it doesn't reward skill... OK, we've been here before when 29ers were introduced, but as has been proven, 29ers work well even right down to all but the very shortest of people when designed properly. But from what I'm hearing, 5ft10ish seems to be a hard limit for riders to be able to ride a 32" wheeled bike on technical terrain, and even then they're a handful, and it's only once significantly over 6ft that they start to make sense... Will 2026 be the year that all of a sudden, a load of REALLY tall Pro Domestique road racers turn to MTB for the season, given everything is looking like it will weigh heavily in their favour this year?!?!