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Isn't this
special? An international "forbidden" symbol with the
circle and slash over a traditional crankset. This was a sticker the
Alenax company handed out at the bike show, symbolic of the intense
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The
BodySail is our
most popular weird bike.
Is it just me, or does this
guy look a little out of control? Note
that in the largest photo, the negative has been reversed so the
brand name reads correctly through the sail, but it puts the cranks
on the wrong side of the bike. Could he have picked a cheesier
bicycle to use for his demonstration?
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Here
is former Giro d'Italia champ Francesco Moser shilling for a bike
whose name means "The Ant." The idea is that the bike comes
as a modular kit. You have tubes, wheels and joints that you can
combine in any number of ways to make several types of bogus little bicycles. |
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The Buddy Bike.
All the disadvantages of a tandem and none of the advantages! I love
the tagline on the last image of the couple riding into the woods.
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This must
be safer than regular cycling, since a helmet is apparently not
necessary. What happens when the
pedal hits the ground?
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The CS-30
Slope Indicator is a little pendulum with a pointer that tells you
how steep the hill is that you are either climbing
or descending. Because as we know, that is the only way one can
choose the proper gear.
No wonder it has taken the cycling world by storm. |
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The Power
Pedal
slides in and out on the crank, so it's shorter on the upstroke and
longer on the down stroke. Why does this remind me of a perpetual
motion machine? |
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The Erich Split Crank Set eliminates...well, you get the idea.
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Legacy 2 wheel drive! What a concept! It's going to take over the
mountain bike world, or at least it was in 1991. Wha hoppen? Well,
one thing that happened is that it didn't work very well. If the
front wheel and the rear wheel turned at different speeds, sometimes
things broke. But the brochure was beautiful.
This 1869 Dexter sold in 1997 auction for $24,150!
2007 RIGHTY from Cannondale
World's lightest road bike at 7.6 lbs.(3,451 grams)
World's Lightest Full Suspension at 14.9 lbs.
Note the eccentric hub in the rear. The hopping action of the cyclist propels the bike.
Not a bicycle. But, so unusual that I couldn't pass
