got a nice gift from a customer this morning.
a book called ‘fifty bicycles that changed the world’.
all sorts of bikes in it, from ordinarys to stumpjumpers and boardmans lotus.

so, which bike is the most famous?

Chopper

Assuming it’s u.k

Burner

chopper made the fifty.
no burner…sorry.

The Boardman/Burrows/Lotus must be up there. I’m struggling to think of any celebrity bike as there are for cars. Maybe Eliot’s in ET

penny farthing

Brompton?

Penny farthing, is the Honda RN01 on the list?

lotus, farthing, Brompton all in.
no Honda tho.

Is it hora’s Planet X road bike?

One of the Lotus bikes was outside our office door in an old job. Used to just stand and ogle it

saw that in the library the other day

the safety bicycle for making it accessible to everyone

safety bike

Just to be clear, you do have an answer to this question, don’t you? If you say no my head may well explode.

Post bike (there are probably several but there was stadard one, er once, wasn’t there?)

Please tell me the original Orange Clockwork’s in there, I’ve got very fond memories of mine.

no, no answer. I was just interested in what peoples thoughts were.
😆

team banana?

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH! BANG!

Obree’s ‘washing machine’ bike?

Lance’s Trek! 😛

Boris Bikes

If this is UK based.. Boris bike?

Edit: Beaten by 26 seconds.

Ragley Blue Pig 🙂

Palmers M1?
Original Specialized Stumpjumper?

My Ellsworth Dare

Is there a Moulton in the list Ton ?

The Boardman/Burrows/Lotus

^^ A guy used to ride one of those at the Eastway 10TT.
What a noise it made going past.

For sheer numbers of people who could point at it and tell you it’s name, I reckon it’d be close between a Penny Farthing and a Raleigh Chopper.

moulton m1 and am are both in.

the one the rider mended in a smithy in an early TdF then got DQ’d as someone else had been pumping the bellows and that counted as external help.

One with ET in the Basket

Diana Spencer.

Oh, sorry. You didn’t mean it that way, did you?

A guy used to ride one of those at the Eastway 10TT

I know Dr Hutch (Michael Hutchinson) bought one and TT’d on it. If it was going very fast it may have been him.

One of the original Breezers?

merckx’s hour record colnago

Shit, was I right?

Psycho Ladies Bicycle perhaps? The first bike made for women.