Can't get more vintage than this... Medieval Bicycles!
07-06-09, 05:24 PM
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Can't get more vintage than this... Medieval Bicycles!
It has to be fake but wouldn't it be great if it wasn't?
https://riowang.blogspot.com/2009/05/...-libertas.html
https://riowang.blogspot.com/2009/05/...-libertas.html
07-06-09, 05:41 PM
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...I so want one, That looks awesome!
07-06-09, 06:05 PM
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The "archeologist stories" are as classic as the bike is vintage!
07-06-09, 06:10 PM
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handlebars need flipped...no white garage door...pedals aren't aligned to BF standards, neither are the valve stems...don't get me started on the chainrings being on the wrong side...
07-06-09, 06:51 PM
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I just wish I could find this in a higher resolution so I could wallpaper it.
07-06-09, 09:12 PM
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Even if it's fake I so want one, repop it damn it! Though back then i'm sure there was crazy inventors making stuff like this, who knows!
07-06-09, 09:23 PM
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I'm seeing bike polo being replaced by bike jousting by this time next year.
07-06-09, 09:29 PM
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mmm... imagine an HC climb on that monster.
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Left-hand chain and curved crankarms? Looks like the fixie riders and Hetchins were a couple thousand years too late.
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If you look closely, you'll note that the front brake is a disk brake. Of much more import, the pedal predates an invention yet to be made, as it appears to be mounted on a free-rotating ring, itself mounted excentric on the crank. So the whole thing is one great hoax, because that bike is a copy of the Templaar Knight reproduction of Joan of Arc's bike recently excavated at Glastonbury.
07-07-09, 06:01 AM
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It is nightmarishly ugly. In fact it may be the ugliest BSO* I've ever seen. Gives me the creeps.
*bicycle shaped object
*bicycle shaped object
07-07-09, 06:02 AM
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You know, he does have a point...
Originally Posted by Studiolum dijo
This post has been also quoted in the Bikeforum – thanks a lot! Bicycle experts have immediately discovered that on some images the chainrings are on the wrong side. However, as an art historian, I have to contradict. Chainrings are always on the correct side. On the side of the spectator.
07-08-09, 11:14 AM
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I've been told that DT Swiss spokes are made in an old chain mail factory that has been in business for several hundred years.
07-08-09, 11:40 AM
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