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Worlds Weirdest and Largest Bikes

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ANSA.it - News in English - Underwater cyclist sets new mark

Trying to lighten the mood after the critical mass post.

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Bike fishing offers access to hard-to-reach places

I’ve been trying to pitch a ramble that’s half riding half fishing for a while now. Hopefully this will put some weight behind my argument.

this guy makes some cool bikes…new, but not particularly new-fangled. me likey!

my favorite of the bunch…

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Hackel Bury Fine Art - Seydou Keita

My wife really loves this photographer. There are portraits with bikes so I figured it’s relevant.

UPDATED!
here’s the newest and most likely the final build specs. Well, except for the gearing.

Frame- Bridgestone MB-2 93′
Fork- Ritchey Logic ( from MB-3 of same year)
Headset- Tange with Tange Head-Lock
Stem- Nitto mountain, 80cm
Bars- SIC race
Grips- A’me Americans, black/red
Levers- Dia-Compe SC-7’s
Seat- WTB laser sighted
Post- Kalloy 27.2
Pedals- KKT AMX
Cranks- Shimano LX, 175mm
BB - Shimano UN-54, 68X113
Chainring- Spot 34 tooth, 110bcd with gaurd
Chain- KMC NP-710, half-link
Brakes- Shimano
Cables- Jagwire
Rr. Hangar- Surly
Pads- Shimano
Fr. Tire- WTB All-Terrainasaurus 2.1
Rr. Tire- Bontrager 2.1
Fr. Rim- Salsa Delgado, 32 hole
Fr.Hub- Suntour XC pro, 32 hole, silver
Rr. Rim- Salsa Delgado, 32 hole
Rr. Hub- White Industries Eccentric ENO, 32 hole
Spokes- DT Swiss Competition 266mm, silver
Freewheel- Suntour 16 tooth

RobQ

So last night Hutch and I drove out to Johns house for Pump Track night. Damien also came out and rode it with us. It was a fun night with the four of us riding and taking pictures and laughing.
Since you’ve never seen it. Here’s the track…, it’s hard to really see it’s layout without an aerial view.

You can go around the track clockwise or counter-clockwise, either way is basically the same as far as effort. It’s just a preference of which direction you feel comfortable going around the berm. Which, if you want to make it up-hill and finish the lap, you have to go through at a pace I describe as “very frightened”…in other words, you gotta be Hall n’ Oats through that berm like a fighter pilot wondering if the tires will hold or if your gonna high-side it and shoot out into the yard at speed or just wash out and pile up into it. Here’s a close up…

The berm will hold you at speed…if you trust your tires…and technique. It feels like mach speed going through, but is really only like 15-20 mph tops. The idea is you have to exit the berm with enough momentum to pump up the whoops to the top of the hill. It’s hard. I can go around for a couple-three or four of laps in either direction, without pedaling…but it’s effort. I leave here tired and feel it the next day. It’s like a good day at a skatepark basically. Hutch has a blast and can make it down the hill into the berm either direction and hold his speed through the berm, even goofing off like this…

I got a bunch of good riding shots of Damien while we were there. Some will hopefully make it onto the Clark Custom website…, like this one.

and this one,

where you can see the dirt being thrown up from his front wheel barely holding it’s line through the turn. Ok, he actually shot up and over the berm close to the exit and right after shooting past me for this pic. I still think it’s rad. Damien was kind enough to get a few goof shots of me riding through the berm. Here’s my favourite one, he called it “Game Face”…,

I got as close to the camara as I could without head-butting it out of Damiens hand as I shot through the corner. I made a goofy face as I went by and tried to look directly into the lens. We ended the evening drinking brews up on the porch and ate brownie’s in a muffin cup with a Reese’s p-nut butter cup in the center…DOPE. Here’s the scene we gazed at while talking story and sipping beers. I call it JOHN 7:15 … it’s remenicient of a church pamphlet.

It was a fun time as usual, and hopefully this will inspire you to come out sometime and ride with us…and pick up a shovel of course too. Stay tuned for who will be the second person to make it all the way around the track. I’m proposing taking the chain off a bike to make it legit.
RobQ