Just for fun. Bicycle Makes and Models you can think of... Also Tricycles,Tandems etc

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CaptainGoat

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Let me think of some makes...
Triamph, Raleigh, Cartwright and Sons, Dawes, Pashley, Bickerton, Marin, Muddy Fox, Falcon, Challenge by O'Brian, Emmelle, Bains, Elswick, Giant, Klein, Orbit, Voodoo, Thirteen, Carrera, Merida, Saracen, Peugeot, Land Rover, Ferrari, Tensor, Flying Pidgeon, Mountain Goat, Lotus, Cannondale, Real, BSA, Apollo, Chinelli, Birdy (Raise und Muller), Obama, Moulton, Hetchins, Mercian, George Long staff, Ken Rogers, Alpine Stars, Halfords, Thorn, Orange, Broadway, Kingcycle, Peer Gynt, Townsend, Saracen (Older 1930's frame builder. Different company to later Saracen), Scott, Bianchi, Boardman, Moulton, Mona, Calibre, Compass, Sun, Kuba, Sunbeam, Forme, Diamond Back, Orbea, Trax, Sonic, LTS, Universal, Fisher, Twentyfourseven....
 
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I forgot Scwinn.
I used to have three Raleigh Choppers and a Grifter. The grifter and two choppers were scrapped and the best condition chopper went for sale but didn't get a lot. (£35). A couple of months later they were going for £600 each and rose up and up from there!
 
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When I read the title of this thread, all I could remember was the turquoise bike I had when I was about 12, if that counts.

I have no idea what make or model it was, but it was bling-ed out to the max, with plastic neon caps on the spokes, a cool beepy horn, and colorful streamers flapping from the ends of the handle bars. :cool:

Either that... or my memory is totally off and I'm just remembering the bike the neighborhood kid down the street had and I wanted to make it mine! :p

P.S. Back when I was growing up, Schwinn was where it was at.

Of course, it was so long ago that the bikes had tires made of rocks and resembled something Fred Flinstone would ride, but hey! :rolleyes:
 
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Do you still ride it? :p
My first job was wmbarissing as every bike repaired or pdi'd had to be test ridden and it was my job to test most of the bikes. Some were tiny with stabilisers and it was embarrassing cycling them down the street and back! A few had 25" frames which I was sitting on the crossbars painfully riding them!
 
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seoulsearch said:
When I read the title of this thread, all I could remember was the turquoise bike I had when I was about 12, if that counts.

I have no idea what make or model it was, but it was bling-ed out to the max, with plastic neon caps on the spokes, a cool beepy horn, and colorful streamers flapping from the ends of the handle bars. :cool:

Either that... or my memory is totally off and I'm just remembering the bike the neighborhood kid down the street had and I wanted to make it mine! :p
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Do you still ride it? :p
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Of course I do.

Except that the neighbor kid is now a little older and bigger than 12, and it's getting harder and harder every year to push him off the bike when I want my turn. Grrrr. :mad:
 
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:p
I have a 1970's little kiddies bike. Even has its original book with it.
 
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The Huffy Sigma.


C'mon...how cool was it to have paper plates type rims in between the spokes?
It defined the 80's and the paper plate spoke rim era.

The decade of excessive plastic arm bracelets, crimped hair and goofy KMart bikes.



Rad.
 
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Trek Domane. Anyone watching the Tour de France?
 
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I bought a brand new mountain bike about 7 years ago and I think I rode it twice. Its a nice bike though. I just don't get around to riding it much... Its still like new in my garage. It has an aluminum frame with oversized downtube, shimano components, front suspension and its very lightweight. Its a Diamondback Sorrento.. and it looks just like this one..

 
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zeroturbulence said:
I bought a brand new mountain bike about 7 years ago and I think I rode it twice. Its a nice bike though. I just don't get around to riding it much... Its still like new in my garage. It has an aluminum frame with oversized downtube, shimano components, front suspension and its very lightweight. Its a Diamondback Sorrento.. and it looks just like this one..

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I used to sell those but the ones I sold were the earlier versions. Nice bikes. They were Cro-mo steel when I used to sell them and didn't have suspension forks.
 
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Maka said:
Trek Domane. Anyone watching the Tour de France?
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I watched the events on Sunday... The poor man in the crash etc... The racing though was amazing. I dont normally watch it as though I've competed in off road racing a decade or two ago, watching it isn't normally as exciting as riding.
How the one rider lead the hillclimb and still came in second(?) place. That was amazing! I think he was second....
 
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CaptainGoat said:
I used to sell those but the ones I sold were the earlier versions. Nice bikes. They were Cro-mo steel when I used to sell them and didn't have suspension forks.
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Thats interesting because my very first mt. bike was also a DB Sorrento that I bought in the early 1990's and it was chromoly and the same blue color. I was so surprised to see the new version when I went shopping for a new bike in 2010 so I had to buy it! :D (I sold the older one a long time ago)
 
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CaptainGoat said:
I watched the events on Sunday... The poor man in the crash etc... The racing though was amazing. I dont normally watch it as though I've competed in off road racing a decade or two ago, watching it isn't normally as exciting as riding.
How the one rider lead the hillclimb and still came in second(?) place. That was amazing! I think he was second....
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I enjoy watching, mostly for the commentary and scenery. It's really beautiful there. ^^
 
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You bought at the right time before the dreaded discs came along on the model.... V brakes or a good cantilever brake set up properly (As long as it isn't the cheap version!) have much better braking then a cable operated disc brake in most conditions. Hydraulic disc brakes are better but cable is easier and much cheaper to fix when things go wrong. Of course, the best stopping power is a hydraulic rim brake in most conditions as it has the leverage advantage of being in the outer edge of the wheel. The closer to the hub the braking surface is, the harder one has to pull the brakes in order to stop. (Remember this if you buy a bike! Also take note. Disc brakes have over 40 different types of pads which are not always available when one needs them so anyone who has a disc braked bike, keep a stock of spare pads!
Rim braked bikes rubber pads are nearly always available except a bike with rod brakes I have, but it doesn't need blocks at the moment as it is awaiting another rebuild! (Is a 1926 ladies bike built by Cartwright and Sons).
 
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