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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.
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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.
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One of the original Breezers?
merckx's hour record colnago
Shit, was I right?
[url= http://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/blog/psycho-ladies-bicycle-the-first-bike-for-women/ ]Psycho Ladies Bicycle[/url] perhaps? The first bike made for women.
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Not the most famous, but a pedersen needs to be on that list.
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Terry Waite's?
How about a Brompton and a Sinclair A bike?
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Just asked the nurse and she said 'Chopper? Can't thnk of another one, (sic) BMX?'
'that's all I need' I said.
So that's that settled.
UK ? Probably Chopper or Raleigh Shopper.
Worldwide ? Stumpjumper ?
Edit ...I'd dearly like to hope not though !!!
The best selling vehicle in the world is a certain bike. And neither is British or American,
Generally? Chopper or Penny Farthing maybe. Interestingly both bikes with mismatched wheel sizes. Moulton has to be in there right?
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The best selling vehicle in the world is a certain bike. And neither is British or American,
Oooh... *fires up google*
EDIT oooohhh.
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Why has that never come up in 'daft names for bikes' threads before?
Flying Pigeon
MR, is it a Hercules, the Indian brand? Or something similar sold in China.
Ask anybody.
What is this bike?
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Try that with any other bike
Flying Pigeon eh. School day.
John Tomac's drop bar Yeti has to be in there surely?
Has to be this one.
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An Ordinary isn't a bike, it is a style of bike - there are plenty of variants.
The most famous bike must be the Lotus. Instantly recognisable worldwide.
I'd say that the Raleigh Chopper would be second (if UK-centric), but it was derived from the Schwinn.
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Thank you google
Raleigh Activator 😈
Shurely?
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your Mum
^ harsh ^ 😆
Orange Five 😉
Got to be some sort of Schwinn Paperboy balloon tyred thingy in there somewhere.
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Don't know if there in yer book but the Raleigh three speeders built after ww2 and up to this day are both significant and a brilliant design.
Got to be some sort of Schwinn Paperboy balloon tyred thingy in there somewhere.
Hell yeah! Here's mine . . . freakin' deathtrap 😆
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And....
I was right about that saddle though...
So have I missed the answer?