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Is it some kind of bicycle variation on a bowsprit?


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 11:01 am
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The Denadgerer


 
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Fred


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 11:20 am
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Dangerous?


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 11:36 am
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It's a TJ (an appendage with the potential to be a massive pain in the bollox :o)   )


 
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The sudden stop testical remover


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 12:56 pm
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Is there any evidence that it is a bicycle component (other than the fact that someone has attached it to a bike)?


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 1:01 pm
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Is there any evidence that it is a bicycle component (other than the fact that someone has attached it to a bike)?

It was attached to a bike by somebody using tools. They must have thought it served a useful purpose.


 
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Vasectomy tool


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 1:17 pm
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Two in one baby seat mount and budget vasectomy weapon.


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 1:21 pm
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Tiller? Perhaps the owner sold his narrow boat & bought a bike?


 
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Desex bolt


 
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Tiller?

I have to admit that this made me laugh much more than it should.


 
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Because they could, for a laugh, in the hope of starting an internet meme, in response to one of those internet things like the one where you have to take a photograph of your cat with something on its head, only it is doing silly things with your bike.  All seem as plausible as explanations in which it serves some functional purpose.


 
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Sorry to spoil the fun....

http://www.ibert.bike/replacement-parts/mounting-bar


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 2:07 pm
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^ Chief's right you know. That there is a bona fide child seat mounting bracket, Bobike make something like it, but I can't now recall the exact model.

Popular in the Netherlands (the reference to rudder made me s****).  It has the dual purpose of preventing future requirements for the seat that was just removed!

edit: Ha! no sooner posted than remembered, but I find smashit's beaten me to it.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Forward-Facing-Child-Bike-Seat-Safe-T-Seat-Ibert/253054654110?hash=item3aeb3b969e:g:UFgAAOSwHptY9yEc


 
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Ok, that makes sense, it's for mounting a child to your handlebars. And I thought it was something dangerous.


 
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And I thought it was something dangerous.

Just wait until you attempt your local black run with a child on the front...


 
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Having a child on the bars is completely safe, if you compare it to doing laggan, on an ordinary.

and surely, nobody is that crazy?

Edit: the OP’s part is called an ex wife, obviously.


 
Posted : 29/03/2018 2:30 pm

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