[Closed] The Paperclip bike has competition....

"Dumpertruck full of WRONG, and a taxi, for Mr Tange"

(Great london fixie commutah, I reckon. ... but not a track bike, unless he's made some unbelievably stiff tubing there - I assume it's [i]that[/i] Tange)

Scaredy, you just know that someone, somewhere in an achingly trendy part of the East End of London is wearing their sister's jeans and frothing at the thought of being able to ride that. Perhaps to film themselves and then "drop an edit" of it.

The front end on the bike in pic#1 reminds me of...

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I like the cranks on the first one, but not a lot else. The riding position (are you meant to ride it or just look at it?) must be well old-skoool-tracky.

Do you steer with your feet on the top bike? No way could I get down low enough to steer with my hands! I like it though 🙂

i think the top one is a kind of 'how track bikes would look without UCI rules'

i like it, looks fast as hell

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

The top one is for ladies in big flowing dresses to ride.
The second one I can't quite work out, is it the b'stard child of a bike/farm gate/clothes dryer?

Top one is no worse than a Jones spaceframe

I have to say, I ****in' love the top one, I think it looks fantastic 🙂

The bottom one is, well, erm, eh? 😐

Tange have shown much more 'dissapointing' bikes than that at shows. I'd post more pictures but it would feel wrong.

"Top one is no worse than a Jones spaceframe" - visually no worse to many; structurally - waaaaaay worse for sure )

Botteom one is Paul Brodie's hand-made re-creation of a late 19th century bike. Ugly maybe, but it's fanatstic craftsmanship. Paul Brodie's a legendary frame builder imo. Kona / Joe Murray get all the credit for the original Cinder Cone and Explosif but iirc Paul Brodie was the real originator there.

Just buy a Pedersen and be done with it. Lovely bikes. Light as anything.

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^ they ride really nicely.. not seen a bar like that on them before tho.

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