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Strange Bikes

  • 23-02-2009 10:28am
    #1
    grundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭


    Greetings All,

    I was passed by two cyclists this mornign on bikes the likes of which I have never seen before.

    It was 1am and I was walking home from getting off a Bus at Busaras. I was crossing Sean O'Casey bridge and two cyclists ride past me on some really looking strange bikes.

    They had no seats, not was there any upright to insert a seat. In fact the frames comprised two curved bars formed in to a squashed eye shape linking the front and back wheels. The frame tubing was much thicker than on a normal bike and the wheels were smaller and wider. The bikes were ridden standing up.

    Does anyone know what kind of bikes these were? My immediate thought was that they were some kind of weird prototype being tested, but then I thought they might be some kind of exercise promoting bike due to them needing to be ridden standing up. Either way seeing them at 1am on a Monday morning was rather odd.


Comments

  • #2
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Lay off the shrooms


  • #3
    Gavin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭Gavin


    A jump/trials bike perhaps..?
    trials-bikes-3.jpg


  • #4
    grundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭grundie


    Gavin wrote: »
    A jump/trials bike perhaps..?
    trials-bikes-3.jpg

    That's it! Although the bikes I seen were a bit more 'curvy', they had the same basic shape.

    Thanks! I thought I was imagining it for a while.


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    What were the cyclists like on them? I suspect young lads into parkour would get bikes like these to do "cycling parkour", dunno what the correct term is.


  • #6
    grundie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭grundie


    rubadub wrote: »
    What were the cyclists like on them? I suspect young lads into parkour would get bikes like these to do "cycling parkour", dunno what the correct term is.

    They were both young, early 20s-ish. One was in jeans and jumper, the other was wearing BMX style gear, with knee pads etc.

    To be honest, I seen them coming from the direction of the point before I got to the bridge and my immediate thought was to wonder why anyone would be out cycling at that hour. As a result I made sure my laptop bag was secure.


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  • #7
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    There's going to be a 7-seater bicycle coming to Dublin in the next month or two. Probably for day tour hire.

    http://www.en.joytrip.eu/offer,7-seater_integration_bike.html
    http://www.rentoid.com/productdetail.php?id_item=10367


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