Anyone remember any of this clown'sprevious offerings?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/401101800893
AS THE BIKE IS AN OFF ROAD DOWNHILL STUNT BIKE THE BRAKES CAN BE TURNED OFF OR ON
Eh?
He is mad. No more, no less.
£200 painted tyres. Where do I sign up?
Is it me or are there 2 rear brake calipers daisy chained together.....?
He may be a genius. Look at the drivetrain! And the thudbuster. And the shocks.
What the hell is going on there. What's the extra chain for? Is that a flux capacitor in the middle of the frame?
Brilliant.
Oh god two calipers on the rear wheel.
And is that a secondary set of dampers on the swingarm? That's not stock, right? 🙂
Is that a flux capacitor in the middle of the frame?
winner winner
AS THE BIKE IS AN OFF ROAD DOWNHILL STUNT BIKE THE BRAKES CAN BE TURNED OFF OR ON
Yeah, off at the top and on at the bottom.
100% feedback .. So all good 😆
The more you look, the more you think wtf, just shouting it louder and louder as the assault on your senses continues.
What the actual ****, Lana?
Oh there's more photos! Yes, two calipers daisy-chained. That's actually quite impressive.
Found the picture from the drive side so can actually see what the chain is doing. Is that a gearbox or something equally mental?
This certainly rewards further inspection, it's almost fractal. Batshitcrazyception, if you will.
The guy runs a second hand shop probably tried some of the crack that his customers bring the stuff the stole in for.
It's very colour coordinated.
Wait, hang on a minute...
how much of the stanchions remain in the lowers? No wonder the paint doesn't rub off!
I've only just noticed the front mudguard is mounted backwards with the hanging tag still attached.
Very amusing, but it does make you wonder where he [i]acquired[/i] it from.
Rotors are the wrong way round.
Were the photos taken in Cash Converters, right after they told him to **** off?
What is the shock doing that goes from the seat clamp?
Csll me a bodge sympathiser if you must, "is wrong that I sort of understand what they were trying to do?"
*in places
What on earth is that extra piston arm doing mounted behind the saddle doing?
This is glorious. I looked at it. Laughed. Decided to have another look and was lost in wonder and bemusement.
Love the twin floating brake arms for the rear Where one would have achieved the same result.
No idea what is going on with the drivetrain. Slightly impressed if it actually moves. Not that it appears to offer any benefits other than radness.
Is there some sort of sub-culture of impractical heavily customised bikes with dramatic paint jobs and useless bits stuck on that I'm not aware of, a bit like custom cars? Or did he just have a job lot of gas struts he wanted to find a use for?
Maybe we should all club together to buy it, just so we can figure out what the hell he's done to it. 😀
No dangfangled glitter fork. I'm out.
Not all of you - you could only make about 3 bikes out of that
I still love it. It makes me think of scooters covered in mirrors, or those mad japanese minivans with the huge bodykits- more sculpture than bike.
Noticed something else...
The rear brake calipers are attached with thumb bolts.
Also the "floating" calipers can't actually float as the QR skewer goes through the bit that the brakes are attached to.
It just keeps giving!
It's got 2 chains, 1 enclosed and the other linking to the rear wheel. Is there some sort of gear assembly in the enclosed one, it has a cable going to it. With 3 gears there.
That's modern art that is. The whole Ad and the creation in white red and grey.
Preposterously brilliant.
But the biggest question is, who will own up to being the bike specialist/specialised (sic) who guided the description and valued it for him?
No questions on the ad?
Surely there are many?
The description says " no ridiculous offers".
So if I offer the full asking price of £1600 it will get rejected?
Dual pistons are awesome. I now know why my tailgate doesn't stay open.
I'd happily pay a tenner to have a good look at it and a ride up and down the road. It's fascinating like one of those Heath Robinson pictures
HAS A BIT OF WEAR BUT NOT MAYOR
I can see Boris on that it being a clown bike.
Looks crazy - I'd piece to see it in the flesh though!
The pics seem to be taken in one of those cash convertor places, looks like it's traded in.
can't help but think someone has put an enormous amount of effort into that, which makes me think -
Who are they?
What other project have they got on the go that they traded this in to get funds for...
He's drilled the cranks too 😯
It shown as "sold". Not 'listing ended', "sold"
This really is the gift that just keeps giving.
There's not actually a cassette on the back. A full long cage mech but no cassette.
It's a geared hub in the frame, isn't it, driving a singlespeed rear wheel? I love the idea but the reality is disturbing.
I'm no engineer but it looks mental.
Listing has ended so maybe some crazy person has bought it...
So many questions!
Are there really 24 gears in that downtube gearbox/hub arrangement? If so, how?
How is it attached to the downtube?
Who machines a custom bracket for 2 brake callipers and then attaches the callipers with thumbscrews and replaces 1 rigid brake arm with 2 compressible gas struts?
It's such a weird mix of what appears to be intelligent engineering and stupid design.
There's not actually a cassette on the back. A full long cage mech but no cassette.
And it's connected to the shifter by the looks of it. Need more pictures.
I'd have bought it. Who ever did buy it must be crazy - who buys a 26" wheel bike in 2016? Madness.
Ah... If it's an 8 speed hub with a 3 speed cassette on the back that'd make... fingers... toes... BF's fingers... 24 gears!
The mountain biker's Banksey!
Dope. It says dope on it.
Amazing really, for £100 at a local machine shop, £10 at a nearby scrapyard and another £10 worth of rattle can paint you can add over £1000 to the price tag of a bike. Who's the lucky owner now I wonder ?
I made a generous offer of £18.59 but got declined.
must of gone for a little bit more
Rotors are the wrong way round.Were the photos taken in Cash Converters, right after they told him to * off?
A quick Google shows that the seller is indeed a Cash Converter franchisee so they didn't tell the seller to * off unfortunately for her. Going by the sellers name, [b]she [/b]is Spanish hence some of the piss-poor english, though better than my spanish.
Maybe it's a money laundering front?
😉
Holy S**t had a guy in the shop claiming to be the buyer and what did we think, we said get your money back after he showed us the pic on his phone, now I kind of want to see it in the flesh.
Aha, the thumb screws in the rear brake calipers are because the "...brakes can be turned on and off"! Quick release brakes, it's the future apparently.
If there's a gearbox on the frame why is there a derailleur with a cable going to it? Surely just a chain tensioner would suffice?
Looks Enduro weight ready to me
No spokey Dokeys, Im out :/