Go on, what you got. Past or present.
Define ridiculous. I commute on my multi-grand carbon race bike, my disc-wheeled TT bike and my recumbent trike. I also have a proper commuting bike and a fixed road bike with mudguards. But they are all ridden to work (and some to post-work races).
I've ridden to work on all my past and present bikes. Fatbike felt the most ridiculous, riding though London. Perhaps even worse that there was a couple of cms of snow on the road, like I'd pounced on any opportunity to make it a worthwhile purchase.
Was handy on the 35mile ride home though, frozen mudpool hoofhole chunder and 4-5" of snow in places. Bloody great ride, that was!
Not particularly ridiculous as a commuter but perhaps the most hideous
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I think Jeremy Corbyn's bike has raised the bar significantly in this debate.
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Ridden all my bikes to work at least once I think, everything from silly light road bikes to silly heavy DH bikes and fat bikes.
Down to one bike, a Stooge Speedball, so used for commuting. Not really the right tool for the job but surprisingly fast and always fun
I can't post pics on this ridiculous forum anymore, but I'm currently commuting on a 1999 Trek 820 I bought from eBay for £20 about 18 months ago. It's been locked outside the entire time, has no front brake (but the cable is still hanging out the lever) and a seat that's ripped to hell. I look like a scally.
Everything from a fat bike to my endurosled via my skinny tyred SS. A good day would be me on the fattie meeting recumbent guy and unicycle guy on the way.
Saw a guy in a suit and brogues cycling a TT bike to work in Edinburgh once
Not the most daft, but I just bought one of those ofo's! 4 days on it so far.
Most daft was 26miles each way on the SS fatbike.
Also did it on the road bike, rigid 29er, cx and fixed cx, but none of those are particularly daft (apart from fixed cx which just doesn't work as a concept).
Watched a guy go down Broughton St (quite steep) in, what i assumed were, leather soled shoes on a fixie. He lost the pedals quite quickly and I'd say he was pretty glad of the front brake on his narrowest of narrow bars.
Nae pictures,but I commuted through central London for a few months on HPVs,a Kingcycle and a WindCheetah (both borrowed).
Cars gave me plenty space.
Daftest thing was probably a Cannondale Super V fitted with slicks.
Saw a guy in a suit and brogues cycling a TT bike to work in Edinburgh once
I think we've had this conversation before, but I ride into Edinburgh in office clothes on my TT bike when I'm going to the club TT after work. I'd guess the cyclist you saw is doing the same.
I don't think any commuting bike is really ridiculous if it gets you there. Those one with the electric motors are a bit dodgy, mind you...
Do a Ti Hei-Hei, SC Heckler, or Kona Humu beach cruiser count?
But the winner is possibly the chap I saw last autumn, about dusk, riding out from the city centre in rush-hour traffic, up in the air on a tall, large-wheeled unicycle. Wearing a business suit. Carrying a leather office bag. Barefoot. No lights (shocker!).
We are about 5km outside the central business district, in a very "non-suit" neighbourhood, and the bike lane he was using runs all the way into the CBD. So I reckon he'd genuinely ridden like that all the way from work.
And don't be me started about "Bongo-Bicycle-Boy". Yes, he holds bongos under one arm, which he plays incessantly whilst riding no-handed. And he passes my house twice a day. I wish I was joking.
lol at bongo boy 😅
