Other NAHBS goodness/oddness here;
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/north-american-handbuilt-bike-show-nahbs-2016.html

Including this, which should make the nichemongers have a little trouser moment;

Have to be honest, would love to try either of them! Or both.

Wrongy.

Is that a copy of Graeme Obree’s bike in the background?

Kuco – whatever it is, it’s just wrong.

Is that a copy of Graeme Obree’s bike in the background?

Think so, I read somewhere someone was doing it.

Yep.

http://cyclingtips.com/2016/02/nahbs-2016-rob-english-reinterprets-graeme-obrees-old-faithful/

He’s got an eye for a shape that English bloke.. Have you seen the Pink Roadie with 40c tyres??

Thanks for the link beej

Have you seen the Pink Roadie with 40c tyres??

The decent thing to do would be to include a link, but as we know you have brown sauce (*Shudders*) with pork pie, we can hardly expect much, can we?

Obree’s bike with English written on it, Oh the ironing.

I like that righty, and why-y notty.

thanks CFH, I was looking for work-avoidance surfing to do…
some lovely bikes in there

Escher would be turning in the grave!

Not going to be a lot done in the gladiatorial arena that is precision pneumatics today, not now you’ve posted that link.

I like that blue tourer, with the built in rack.
There’s a German outfit do one like that.

Escher would be turning in the grave!

Well we have special bikes now for turning on grave! so that shouldn’t be a problem.

Here you go, the pic of the English is about 5 in…

lazy mans link to road.cc

I like the Doug White bike from 1976.

Reminds me of an early Lambretta.

I’d be interested to see how the freewheel and disc mount are set up on that righty. Didn’t GT do something similar ages ago?

Millyard did too;

It definitely appears that the disc and freewheel are outboard of the stays.

wwaswas – Millyard did too;

That bike has so much unrealised potential.

It definitely appears that the disc and freewheel are outboard of the stays.

yup

In engineering terms, a single sider at either end is the worst possible solution though, surely?
Certainly with motorbikes, not sure if the compromises stack up differently with pushbikes.

Certainly looks pretty and it’s different, which is the point.
I’m glad someone does it.
🙂

Its a massive advertising platform not a best possible solution show.

Would this bike have got half as much attention had its been “normal”? probably not so its done exactly what it was supposed to do.

Good god what a pile of sh*t. Ugly as sin.

From an engineering point of view its a very elegant solution. Why have two of anything unless you need it? Clearly in this case they have acheived the desired stiffness without the need for two fork legs and chain and seat stay’s. Means you don’t have to remove the wheel to fix a puncture.

Lots of problem-solving needed for that righty – I like!

I really really want to ride this though:

36er with suspension!

The point on motorbikes was you could change a wheel without removing the chain, the wheel just attached to a hub like it does on a car.

I presume from the pics the wheel is on a ‘hub’ with an axle that passes through the frame, then on the other side you have another ‘hub’ with the disk mount and freewheel.

It’s no worse as an engineering solution, just the brief is solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

Love this too:

It’s no worse as an engineering solution, just the brief is solving a problem that doesn’t exist.

I don’t think anyone’s saying it’s the future of mountain biking tinas. It’s a fun/unique/fascinating project which I’m glad to see.

This won the “Best finish” award.

Stunning paint job.

But…..

NAHBS 2016 – Caletti takes home Best Finish award for amazing Road Race Special & more!

Or maybe they haven’t but it doesn’t matter as this is a show bike.

Which is why I said…

Certainly looks pretty and it’s different, which is the point.
I’m glad someone does it.

It also opens up the possibility of having an asymmetric tyre with a different width on each side.
🙂

Then;

Now;

The Righty is a show bike – it’s also a real bike. A quick Google confirmed it was commissioned for a customer (maybe not that actual bike but a pretty much identical one). No point a company like English in having a show bike that doesn’t work.

Looks smart if you ask me. I don’t understand the discs though. Would they be standard calipers? Upside down?

Edit: scrap that, I didn’t realise the one brakes posted was the same bike. And that’s a bit too weird for me. I’m out. Looks at the very least capable of cutting a toe off. If you ride bare feet.

That Caletti above reminds me of this posted on here by maximusmountain

Hideous. All of them.

WTFork?

Surely that should have a pull shock and the linkage reversed?

CFH – can’t unsee that stiff link in ALL the photos now!
Beautiful finish – not a fan of the logotype over the top though.

I personally wouldn’t go as far as the matching shoes 🙂

T(i)rike!

This, however, is making me feel all fuzzy….

Needs proper hydros, and skinwalls obviously, but overall yum.