[Closed] Most mental bike ever witnessed?

I once saw a silly bike with funny sized wheels and two top tubes believe it or not.

I saw one like that today Swede.

And to make it worse it kept getting in the way. 😉

I hear that the drag coefficiency of a twin top tubed mtb is terribly slow around corners and the massive weight penalties of such a pig causes stalls and under steer. who would ride such an ugly duckling.

argument no good without pics!!!

Do it stu, do it!

there is always a few Clubbie specials out at GT I think this is worst as the pilots really think they are proper bikes in tead of BSOs made of monkey metal

there is always a few Clubbie specials out at GT I think this is worst as the pilots really think they are proper bikes in tead of BSOs made of monkey metal

What?

Intense M1, with some Fox 40 forks.
A good start, I think.

Then add in the following;
Conti 1" slicks
THE gold front and rear fenders

and, the piece de resistance,

a Brooks saddle.

BSO = Bike shaped objects
Monkey metal metal so thin uri gellar could bend it no problem

I saw a bso with a MX motorcycle fork and wheel on it - about 2 feet two long

I saw some guy on a MTB with 1 gear! I assume he was poor.

aah ok - the weirdest annoyingest bike I saw was a pink 29er singlespeed with mary bars, kept getting in the way on the uphills as the rider ran out of steam.

I was being followed by some odd thing today that was later described to me as an attention chariot?

Ego chariot mate not attention chariot. 😆

🙂 sorry

this is pretty mental!

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is that blue section a bit of a kiddies chute for a seat

Sounds like he was trying to recreate one of these (albeit FS):
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These old specialized's had a 24" rear as standard, often with monster t's on them. Used to really want one, but ended up with a Norco Team DH3, it has the same rear but set up for a standard 26" rim.

Crazy fork setup though.

Intense M1, with some Fox 40 forks.
A good start, I think.

Then add in the following;
Conti 1" slicks
THE gold front and rear fenders

and, the piece de resistance,

a Brooks saddle.

The perfect London commuter bike, surely?

Please tell me you saw such a thing in London; I saw a Santa Cruz Bullit with 1" slicks near London Bridge recently! Just wrong.

I freaked out more than a few roadies by doing 80 km of the round Taupo challenge on my be-slicked Coiler.

The perfect London commuter bike, surely?

Please tell me you saw such a thing in London; I saw a Santa Cruz Bullit with 1" slicks near London Bridge recently! Just wrong

Very rarely go to London, thankfully, but I have seen a V10 with slicks.
I think there's too much money down there, people just go into a bike shop and buy the most thing they can, thinking it will be 'best' without really considering what they need it for. 10 inches of suspension? That must be so comfortable riding round Hyde Park...

Yeah that Big Hit is close, but those aren't Super Monster T's are they?

Jordie; yep, it's a bit of a slide 🙂 the rest of the seat is a life jacket

We had the Spesh mentioned in the op at ours last summer, its truly a thing of hideousness. There was a Trek Fuel in the workshop a few months ago with a full Brooks springer saddle!

We do have someone who gets dropped off and sits on the deck all day next to his slick shod fully pimped out 224 waiting for people to say 'cool bike' to him. He later gets picked up by his so having not turned a wheel on it! wtf?!

Don't know if anyone else has seen him, but there's a black guy who rides around central London, on a top end road bike, in full 'team' lycra etc, all blinged up. I don't know if he races, but I've seen him a few times, he seems to find a spot and 'pose' for a while. He's a good looking bloke, and the first time I saw him, I thought it might be a fashion shoot or something, but there's no cameras around. It's a bit weird; he and the bike are immaculately turned out, in the most expensive gear, but there seems to be no purpose other than to look good. Ah well. He's not doing anyone any harm I suppose. I find it amusing, if a little bit daft.

There are some real monstrosities around London. Lots of really cheap bodged Appollos and the like, and plenty of stupid fixed gear bikes with silly narrow handlebars, being ridden by Camden Trendy types. There's another feller, has millions of lights and attachments on his bike; the thing must weigh a ton. I like to see a bit of eccentricity though.

I think there's too much money down there, people just go into a bike shop and buy the most thing they can, thinking it will be 'best' without really considering what they need it for.

I think this is true. More money than sense, some folk. And bike shops that are willing to part fools from their money. Still, it keeps the cycle trade ticking over, and it's all bikes, so it's all good.

I've seen people with 6" 'All Mountain' bikes at places like Swinley. Now that is silly.

I've seen people with 6" 'All Mountain' bikes at places like Swinley. Now that is silly.

stupid fixed gear bikes with silly narrow handlebars, being ridden by Camden Trendy types

Put slicks on a 6" bike though & it's perfect for 'Urban Assault' 🙂

backhander; it was a joke! I've ridden a full susser round Swinley, and it was loads of fun. Like I said, it's all bikes, it's all good.

Re the Camden Trendies; it's good to see that bikes are becoming more 'fashionable', but why couldn't they chose more suitable bikes?

I give you: The World's Greatest Madone

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Fantastic! Perfect commuter; great for trips to the shops.

How TF is that rear carrier attached? To the brake? 😯

It's obviously something to do with Treks...

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Lordy. That's like an exercise in 'how much wrongness can we get into one bike?'.

Re the Camden Trendies; it's good to see that bikes are becoming more 'fashionable', but why couldn't they chose more suitable bikes?

When the fixie craze goes, I expect the trendies/idiots will sell their bikes and not bother cycling any more. Back to taxis and porsches!

I love the way that the tyre is about 15mm from the crown on those Mag 21s.
Good job they probably don't work.

When the fixie craze goes

theres a crazy old huiy who rides around chiswick in a kind of 1940s school uniform on his shopper that has pannier, kickstand, baskets, rear view mirrirs and is bedecked with horse brasses

id try and get a picture but i dont want to upset him

Another spesh, it was a big hit in Les Gets, but it had the longest forks I have ever ever seen, and a modified mini moto shock or something, unsure what the forks where off but not an MTB, it was so flipping tall not sure how the bloke got on it.... means nothing wihout a picture I guess..

I hate the fakenger/plastic hippy types with city jobs. Pricks.

Why? its a city based craze/style being copied by city based people?
if the were trying to do a trail centre on one then that would be something to moan about.

had a tourist guy turn up to a club ride meet on a hire "mtb" complete with basket!wasnt fazed in any way buy all the other £2000 off road machinery and lycra.almost admire his lack of embarressment really

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tinsy, I've got a photo of that thing somewhere, I think the bloke rode it to the burger bar at the bottom of Chavannes, and would park it up, try to impress all the 14 year girls that hung about there. and that was it, I suspect it wasn't actually ridable off road.

Oh yes! Nearly there with that pic, but what I saw has you beaten on two counts:

1. Budget frame
2, Dangerously installed forks.

I'm sure yours will snap too though one day!

Re those Treks; first one, if I catch you I'll bloody kill you for doing that to such a specimen. Second one, doesn't look too mental, just a mishmash of bits, but nothing overly wrong. Those are the road forks that RS did aren't they, not Mag 21s? They had 15mm travel I think.

A bit off topic, but I'm surprised there aren't more suspension forks available for road bikes. For training long miles I'd have thought plenty would find a benefit, especially the way the roads are round here. I suppose you'd get bullied to actual death by the road equivalent of STW though.

My father in law has something like this

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But not ti, and crappily specced. It is an utter abomination. Virtually impossible to ride, definitely impossible to ride at over 17mph no matter how hard I tried, and it totally f*cked my back after only a 15 mile ride (that took about 2 hours of gruelling pain and concentration just to stay moving). Couldn't walk properly for two days.

FWIW at Swinley my Orange 5 is very very fast indeed, much more so than my Kona Heihei 🙂

Someone else on here might remember an old guy (easy 60+) doing the '08 megaavalanche on a carbon hardtail whippet XC bike, not the most mental bike ever but pretty insane given his surroundings, plus it was someone I could actually overtake!!!!

Thread revived to post this monstrosity:

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Road bike with Gravity Dropper seatpost, fairings, cable discs and a very strange chainring combination...

Crazy legs, that's not a fairing, it's a sail.

The keen eyed will also spot the bottle which, given it's position, is best described as a keel. Note also the Garmin GPS with depth sounder mounted on the handlebars (or "tiller" as it is properly known in the context of this cockpit), the reefable seatpost and the SPD adapted to accomodate a leg hewn from the jawbone of a whale after it's captain was dismasted by a cachalot in the South China Seas.

Basically, we're dealing with a boat here. It's the Pequod of the cycling world.

there must be a reason for it? riot bike perhaps?

i should realy post preston on here but he has had too much publicity this week ,,

That Giant, Perhaps the bloke lives where there is a ferocious headwind, so he ducks down behind the fairing, drops the saddle, drops into the teeny chainring...and there's a massssive hill