A Bike vs A Strida. No, not a bike, a A Bike, the roller skate on a stick from esteemed brain-box Sir Clive Sinclair. Suzi Perry and that bald bloke from the Gadget Show go head to head through the streets of blighty, to prove.... Annoyingly enthusiastic:

This is awesome! Thanks for the post! The paratrooper is definitely one of our most popular mountain bikes-everyone who gets one LOVES it! Tough, rugged, and ready whenever you need it Check out Montague Bike's Blog to pick your Paratrooper color! We're trying out a military "sand" color right now, but let us know what you think!

I think you should get out more. Preferably without the parachute. And anyway, your bicycles don't work under water like the Zig-Zag, do they? What Marine would want a sinking bike? And stop saying 'Awesome'. You're an adult now and it's annoying.

Annoyed by spammers, it is time to jet to Barcelona, in Yurp, to cycle into some pedestrians with a Br*mpt*n, spelled Br*mpt*m. It's almost, but not quite, worth watching for the cheesed-off body-language by the girl-friend when the feckless Br*mpt*naut arrives home.

If anyone from Br*mpt*n/m sees this and wants to write in to say their bikes are 'awesome', please don't; it's annoying.

If you read the Hub Gear vs Dérailluer thread, you'll know that keeping your chain lubed just makes it wear faster. Yep! That's right, silly. So, now you'll have to replace it.

There are endless chain removal viddies on Youtube, often made by the deranged. Here's one of the better ones. Use of the chain removal tool. If you didn't ever learn how the experts do it, now is your chance:

http://bicycletutor.com/chain-tool

But first, here's how to make it the correct length.

Now, watch how this guy does it. You want a scratched frame? You enjoy listening to profanity? Let's do it!

Tonight, the droolsome IF Mode bike from Pacific. Designed by Mark Sanders, they say.

Annoyingly , I haven't got one. And some say it's 'heavy'.

At last: ten minutes of how Schwalbe tyres are made. Thrill to shots of vulcanisation. Marvel at pictures of inner tubes. It's all utterly gripping, and annoyingly rubbery:

How Bromptons are made - with Spanish commentary. Annoyingly British, despite that:

A Dahon Jetstream, with millions of volts of Bionx electrification races a VW Passat in the Schwarzvaldekirshtorte, Germanee. There are annoyingly smug looks from all concerned at the end of the movie, and one has to wonder if the cyclist should be allowed out without his psychiatrist. Very German and oddly anal retentive.

There is a Belgian writer who really loves her bike . . .

Excellent Set of Videos here All of them !
thanks for those links

liked the SCHWALBE videos the most

the brompton video i've watched maybe a dozen times over the years

Continuing Le thread de la Velos de Yurp, here's the French take on a velo pliant, le Strada. Er, wait, I mean Strida. Er. How annoying. .. AND.. you can even get three Striadas in the back of a Renault Twingo, should you be unfortunate enough to own one. Oh dear.

The cadré is garanti á vie and it's disponible en huit couleurs. It plies en tois secondes! Alors!

Nice bateau.

...and proving that you can have your kayak and heat it, here is a Dahon tackling the rapids. Annoyingly nerdy, the clip contains non-bicycle content of silly fold-up boats.

"Phew!" you must be thinking. Is there no end to this stream of annoying nerdy viddies? No, there is not. Even in Death Valley, Br*mpt*n owners cannot eschew the need to nerd and fool around with huge cameras when they should be concentrating on not driving into huge trucks.

NB. Death Valley has been moved to California.

Continuing with our Yurp flavoured weekend in honour of the Tour de France, here's how long it takes to mate if you're Italian. It's all over in 15 seconds. How annoying.

Now, back in the USA, Tricia Wolfe wants to show you her Love. It's not as toe-tingling as you might expect, and you may find Tricia's hat, and indeed, Tricia herself, annoying.

We haven't looked at the Mobicky yet, in our world tour of folding bicycles. That's because they look like portable orchidectomy kits. Nevertheless, the Mobydickery appears to be speedy, even if if the front brake lever pulls annoyingly close to the handlebars:

With a break from posting stupid videos because I was watching the Tour de France in my spare time, your reward for patience is an introduction to Danny Macaskill. Young whipper-snapper Macaskill will make your eyes pop out with admiration. Annoyingly, he does not yet, appear to use a Raleigh 20:

Amsterdam! City of er, stuff! Here's a MU doing the tour. It's nice enough but is annoyingly interrupted by some sort of annoying monotonous computer-voice:

And now, proof that folderitis is an untreatable psychosis. The Lazy Random-eur (sp?) treats us to a tour of his man-cave, er; micro-apartment, which contains many thousands of folding bicycles. He re-affirms, I believe many times, that most of them 'belong to friends'. Sure, sure, we've all been there.

Contains the annoying phrase 'My hallway carpet is not awesome." Be warned. It's all VERY SCARY!

Death Valley is in California.

and you havent found this little gem yet ?

http://www.thorusa.com/dahon/current/kuku.htm

have fun .... yes I actually have ONE left ....maybe I keep it for myself :-0

Thor

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You will be suprised, nay AGHAST, to learn that a waft of editorial study is brushed over this presentément of the finest bicycle videos known to humanity, and that the inclusion of a stupid purple bovine product with huge testicles did not make it past the first water-cooler sessions. It's just too annoying: Mr Testis! Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Here then is a proper folding bike viddy, of the utterly bonkers Bickerton Bunch, riding their annoying bicycles on a wooden road. The viddy is enlivened by what might be a Moulton, mid-vid, but otherwise, the apotheosis of the Bickerton as anything more than a recycled bear-trap must be firmly discouraged.

Question; how many Bickertons can you get into a four-person elevator? The answer unfortunately, is here:

And: the final one for today: how to ride a folding bike while it's still folded. How annoying is that?

What a load of bull.........................

Is it fair game to post one's own video? It's not annoying in the least. At least not to me, anyway. :)

My son (he's the cute one in the back) and I on a Downtube converted to a recumbent with a Cruzbike kit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kt_d3fy_pU



Write-up of the conversion in full, annoying detail here: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ntube+cruzbike


Say, Snafu, how do you do dat embedding thing with the videos?

Sue might be asleep .. but here you go old pal!

Reeling from the shock of seeing the formerly sane Sesame Crunch dragging grooves in the tarmac with his gluteus maximus, we must now travel to Singapore. Here, bicycles are going to save us from Global Warming, and everything. The viddy makes salient points; bikes are not allowed on public transport during peak hours, which is like banning water supplies during a drought - and getting people out of their cars is nigh on impossible. That's quite annoying, actually. Not the car thing, the bicycles on trains thing.

Crouch End? No, it's not a medical term, but a London Suburb where LittlePixel (TM) lives. Here we see him riding like a giddy kipper through the streets of the Old Smoke, his contrails misting up the windshields of cars behind him. Naturally, he's doing this on a Raleigh 20, a re-cycled cycle he may have stolen from my mum.

Contains strange panting sounds, near-death-experiences as he scrapes past car doors, and annoying windy noises. Estimated speed? 60 miles per hour. That's quite annoying.

To London now, in our world tour of the Wonderful World of Folding Bicycles. Today, the London Cycle Hire Scheme launches, after weeks of hyperbole. For only several hundred pounds an hour, riders can hire a huge behemoth of a bicycle, stuffed with silly electronics. They're great, in every sense, although annoyingly, they don't fold: