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The part I thought was rich was the juxtaposition of adding metal tubes inside the frame tubes for internal cable routing with using the anodizing process for decoration to avid the extra 'weight' of paint.
I had a specialized crux that took me a solid 2 weeks to figure out the loud rattling was coming from the cables banging around inside the downtube. Even on some rough gravel it would be incredibly annoying. Loved the ride but couldn't stand the noise.
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I thought rust on steel frames was bad, can you imagine having to deal with termites?
@@stevenkelby2169 Actually it depends on what type of stainless steel you have. The chromium in the steel alloy forms a layer of chromium oxide when exposed to air which passivates the outer surface from being attacked by oxygen any further. This is the same mechanism that occurs in aluminum. So one could say that both aluminum and stainless steel don't rust because they rust too well (or more like too quickly). In the case of aluminum it is the base metal itself creating the oxide layer so pretty much every aluminum alloy has this "rust free" property, but in the case of stainless steel it is the chromium doing the protecting. So if you have a steel with less chromium in it then the oxide layer won't be as dense and thus won't provide as thorough protection for the iron. But with enough chromium you can have stainless steel that can pretty much survive any chemical attack you might find in nature (I specify chemical attack because I know some ass hole in the future will just reply to this saying "oh ya well what about a volcano har har har"). This higher chromium stainless steel is the type you'd typically find used for chemical plants where they need tanks to store stuff like liquid oxygen or concentrated acids, etc. Of course a higher chromium content also drives up the price hence why a lot of consumer products opt for the lower chromium content in order to make more profit (because of course they do).
@@maxk4324 apparently ginger oil has a sever effect on stainless steel according to "Thomas&Betts 304 Stainless Steel Corrosion Compatibility Chart" (yeah, I ride my bike everyday in heaps of ginger, and that's a real problem /s) sulfuric and hydrochloric acids are also pretty nasty, but if that's a problem for your bike, you have more to worry about.
Thank you Alee, another top quality vlog. My favorite contraption is the Polar fat tires. 3 weeks ago just 400 meters from home a road hog hit me from behind at the end of my Sunday's ride. The crazed taxi driver forgot the right of way and didn't bother slowing down before the impact...Cycling the Antarctic or any other type of deserts, snowy or sandy, kind of appeals to me at the moment.
I'm honestly amazed at how many of these are thoughts I've had but someone actually made. Thanks for compiling this here, both informative and inspirational.
@@dernils6176 The strings have to be replaced way too often. But at least it's easy to do. You also get a ride similar to an oval chain ring with the asymetric power stroke.
It's nicely done indeed. The crank cam pathways are awesome. To some of the other commenters... sometimes, making something "the best" isn't an engineer's goal... it's rather to explore an alternative design approach to an old problem. Try something new to make a beautiful machine that's fun to use and look at.
love the lock in the breadwinner bikes. Locks are such a trial and it's such an eloquent way to integrate it. I bet a bike thief would spend a couple minutes working out how the bike is actually chained up! Frikkin awesome video Alee. super inspiring 'good tech'
bad side is a thief will try and jam it off regardless and then your looking at more than a callout to a locksmith. pretty though with the matching paintwork.
What a wonderful and fascinating range of beautiful engineering and design this video contains! Irrespective of one's preferences there's something amazing to catch the eye and fix the attention to! Those utterly beautiful wooden frames were my personal favourite and I'm happy to have found this channel. Subscribed!
I'm always a sucker for modular designs, so the modular tandem bike for 1-4 riders has got to be my favourite. Thanks for sharing; I've never seen anything like these!
Big fan of black sheep bikes here especially his forks. Also shout out to oddity cycles (another Colorado builder) I got a custom bar stem combo from him in January.
I really enjoyed this! I've done a fair bit of touring on a homemade bamboo and carbon fibre bike. Like you described the wooden bike: I have never ridden anything so smooth and comfortable, while staying stiff and responsive for efficiency.
Great video. I recently saw in St Mawes a touring tandem. The rear seat was upright as normal. The front seat was a recumbent position, feet further forward than the small diameter front wheel. I'm not sure who steered and braked. I suppose the big advantage is the rear rider has unobstructed vision over the top of the lowered forward person. I ride a Moulton APB. Just gotta love the unconventional inovations. Keep safe everyone.
Loved the woodies and the fat bike to the south pole (thanks for showing my airplanes in the background, KennBorek Air twin otters), and the rohloff stuff was totally mindblowing!,
I find myself asking... myself... why I haven't heard of Stringbike sooner. What an amazing concept. Thanks for a great video and the accompanying idea concept.
It's simply mindboggling what can be done with a basically very well known set of parameters. Leaf spring front forks? Who'da thunk? Okay, subscribed. Cheers from a boring derailleur bike rider in Vienna, Scott
I would insist on a 'quick-draw pump'. On a trip from Miami to Seattle I counted 23 dogs that were serious about biting my calf. The sum was actually higher, I only counted the serious ones. My air pump saved me every time.
Where there is will, there is a way. Or; where there is a wheel there is a way haha. Some amazing stuff has been invented, my favorite must be the fat bike with 4 wheels but I dont think I'll ever buy it.I might however have my saddle carved . Those saddles where beautiful. Thanks for making this content Alee.
I prototyped a version of that string drive in the 1990s in my factory where I built the Lahar WChamps and 2 dozen National winning framegearbox bikes. It had five moving parts, 800 percent infinitely variable ratios. Much lighter than derailers. Very low maintenance requirements, much lower than even gearboxes like the Rohloffs we used. Including with gold chains btw. It's not a new idea, but eliminating all future repair profits from the industry unfortunately has always killed the best stuff.
For lauhgs I made 2 reverse bells so that you can put one on top and one below both handles. Pushing the lever makes a different sound from releasing it so if you have 4 different bells you get to play tunes with 8 different sounds.
Fuel storage in tubes is surely the maddest thing going. So many Out There cycle nerds its incredible, inginuity is the mother of invention as they say. 🚲👍
Lots of interesting stuff in this video. I'm just in the exploratory phase for touring bikes. It's a different world than being a roadie with carbon fiber everything.
Woodies! I want. I want! And the string drive is second just because it’s unique. My only concern is the exposure to off road debris but this is easily solved. Thank you! Good to see you’re still rolling.
Rokon 2WD motorcycles explored liquid storage in the bike years ago. The primary way they did it was inside the wheel rims completely within the metal. And of course Bridgestone cycles used belt drives for years on their Albelt model before Gates marketed them. Ecclesiastes 1:9 ... "there is no new thing under the sun". (Tongue in cheek when it comes to bikes of course).
FYI for the nerds... you can make your own Ti shotglass bell with a few parts from the hardware store (hose clamp, threaded coupler, spring steel, brass pin) and throwing your local fabrication shop a few bucks to weld up a piece of tube with a threaded stud.
At a school in the Netherlands we have a Santos with the pinion 18 speed and rohloff 14 speed. ofcourse for educational purposes but its really fun to ride
"Bike nerd content" - this is the most fitting description for this video...😄✌️ The most crazy thing was seeing the rise of pedelecs the past years and another rider with a Rohloff Speedhub - he was only the second I saw the past 15 years in commuting traffic. 😉
Great video. Love the booze bike ha! Never heard of a string bike before too. Surely could be great for super remote touring as it's so easy to replace!
@@Cyclingabout I know. That's nuts. I wonder if theres any frames with built in solar panels yet.. always thought that's be useful on long tours! Or a whip out shower from the frame or slide out lounger chair.
I've seen panels integrated into a bike before... maybe Van Moof? The problem is there is very little surface area to get a decent amount of electricity... ok for a blinky light though!
CYCLINGABOUT must research now how the string integrates with the rear hub and offset cranks. I’d wonder about slippage in wet conditions and tuning. I love the idea of a balanced power train. Thank you for stealing yet another hour from my day 😉
Mash Code It’s a Hungarian thing... No slippage, the end of the strings are attached to the hub. There are two free hub bodies on both sides of the rear hub, locking and releasing with every crank revolution, giving an alternating pull/turn to the wheel.
the most crazy invention for a touring bike is "Bikepacking". Instead of two 20 liter panniers installed low down, which you can click off your bike and take to your hotelroom, you fasten 7-8 small bags, with velcro or screws all over the bike, totalling maximum 10 liters, given it a higher center of gravity, taking up space where your bottles should be or where you need to grab when lifting the bike and making it impossible to take your luggage to your room after placing the bike in the hotel storage. I still call it bike touring and use my panniers.
You are just a revelation. I don't know anything about any of these beautiful features on bikes but I can ride all day long and night. Have only had six bikes stolen this year.
@Cyclingabout Anodising is and electrolytic process used on aluminium to create a hard surface, colour can be added to the resulting porous surface. Hardcoating is darker. It is not a process to specifically add colour.
I like the convertible tandem since I broke up with my stoker! We had Rodriguez build us a wheel with a drag brake for ours. Nice people. Bike Friday also makes an extendible tandem/triple/etc. Also nice people.
I'd say that the quad fatbike is outdone by Maria Leijerstam's recumbent fat-bike, especially because it's a bike that you can just buy rather than being a specialized one-off kind of thing. It's not super cheap, though, coming in at ~$5k at the start.
Features getting seriously out of hand? Sounds like competition in the market is getting stiff! That has to be GOOD for the rest of us. When you can't improve the basics, it's time to add some bells and whistles.
@@Cyclingabout It's never too late! If it comes out in a couple years that'll do it for me. It's such unrepresented part of cycling! The hour record has been destroyed, the 24h, the TransAm race, it's a whole new world of cycling and I would love for a mainstream creator to present it to a wide audiance in the way you so gracefully do :) Couple mindblowing facts about the TransAM taken from cyclingtips: "Something to think about was that there was no sleep deprivation between Marcel Graber and Dave Lewis in the Velomobiles. They both got a good nights sleep every night. Marcel first took the lead on the climbs in the Rockies and came over the last mountain pass first. Then he rode the next 97 mile, 6,000' descent to Pueblo Colorado in 90 minutes. The next day he headed out to the flat terrain of Kansas and rode 373 miles in 13 hours."
@@Filte I'll explore these bikes in-depth, sometime in the next decade! I'd love to cross a continent or two on a recumbent and share everything I learn along the way. But for the moment I'm riding lots of off-road stuff, so my interest and research when it comes to travel is focused squarely on upright bikes. That said, if I ever take part in an ultra-endurance road event, there is a 100 per cent chance my bike will be a recumbent!
While I was heading home after a year cycling in Australia in 1994, I passed a couple in Fiji on a tandem who happenned to be from Montreal, 200km from my home in Ottawa who were heading towards the Nullarbor plain. I was envious because I hadn't had time (or equipment) to cover that. They were very well prepared. He was a fibreglass boat builder and had constructed a 22-litre custom fibreglass water tank that fit in the tandem frame with drinking hoses/bulbs for each of the riders. I'd love to find out who they were and how that trip worked out.
the famous Japanese wave saddle would look frellin awesome on my mtb, all the saddles look good, for me i like all the saddles as it's one part of the bike that is important but hard to customise on a permanent basis. that rear hub gear system would be awesome
Fun fact: You don't need any of this. Get a good steel frame that fits your size, good wheels, Schwalbe marathons, high-quality gear, something similar to Ortliebs and that's about it. Bike touring should be about experiencing yourself in this thing we call nature - not about the stupid fancy gear.
@@Cyclingabout You are right. I didn't mean to offend you but there is a certain equipment fetish in touring channels that gets on my nerves. Just ride your bike and have a nice time.
@@Cyclingabout Thats ok. I posted my original comment because I think the gear side makes a lot of people think that they can't afford touring. But I'm not trying to tell you what do make your videos about.
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I'm trying to think of the last time my cables were too noisy...
The part I thought was rich was the juxtaposition of adding metal tubes inside the frame tubes for internal cable routing with using the anodizing process for decoration to avid the extra 'weight' of paint.
Good thing is, if they are loud enough you wont hear the noisy traffic anymore
I must be going deaf, i never knew they made any sound at all.
oh ive had some rattlers. it is annoying. silicone though 🤷
I had a specialized crux that took me a solid 2 weeks to figure out the loud rattling was coming from the cables banging around inside the downtube. Even on some rough gravel it would be incredibly annoying. Loved the ride but couldn't stand the noise.
I thought rust on steel frames was bad, can you imagine having to deal with termites?
stainless steel doesnt rust
@@jakob6399 Yes it does. It just rusts less than non stainless.
@@stevenkelby2169 Actually it depends on what type of stainless steel you have. The chromium in the steel alloy forms a layer of chromium oxide when exposed to air which passivates the outer surface from being attacked by oxygen any further. This is the same mechanism that occurs in aluminum. So one could say that both aluminum and stainless steel don't rust because they rust too well (or more like too quickly). In the case of aluminum it is the base metal itself creating the oxide layer so pretty much every aluminum alloy has this "rust free" property, but in the case of stainless steel it is the chromium doing the protecting. So if you have a steel with less chromium in it then the oxide layer won't be as dense and thus won't provide as thorough protection for the iron. But with enough chromium you can have stainless steel that can pretty much survive any chemical attack you might find in nature (I specify chemical attack because I know some ass hole in the future will just reply to this saying "oh ya well what about a volcano har har har"). This higher chromium stainless steel is the type you'd typically find used for chemical plants where they need tanks to store stuff like liquid oxygen or concentrated acids, etc. Of course a higher chromium content also drives up the price hence why a lot of consumer products opt for the lower chromium content in order to make more profit (because of course they do).
@ actually its 11% and higher, but you're general point is right, sort of (see my other comment to steven)
@@maxk4324 apparently ginger oil has a sever effect on stainless steel according to "Thomas&Betts 304 Stainless Steel Corrosion Compatibility Chart" (yeah, I ride my bike everyday in heaps of ginger, and that's a real problem /s)
sulfuric and hydrochloric acids are also pretty nasty, but if that's a problem for your bike, you have more to worry about.
Thank you Alee, another top quality vlog. My favorite contraption is the Polar fat tires. 3 weeks ago just 400 meters from home a road hog hit me from behind at the end of my Sunday's ride. The crazed taxi driver forgot the right of way and didn't bother slowing down before the impact...Cycling the Antarctic or any other type of deserts, snowy or sandy, kind of appeals to me at the moment.
I'm honestly amazed at how many of these are thoughts I've had but someone actually made. Thanks for compiling this here, both informative and inspirational.
Wooden frame, carved saddle, string drive - something I would expect from Gilligan's Island!
The Professor 👍
That would be amazing
String bike is great. An engineer with time on his hands I think but beautiful engineering.
Until you show it some gritty mud anyway.
It think it's way too much clutter and the strings look cheap. Belt-driven looks much cleaner and his similar advantages.
@@dernils6176 The strings have to be replaced way too often. But at least it's easy to do. You also get a ride similar to an oval chain ring with the asymetric power stroke.
at least it's a great conversation starter.
It's nicely done indeed. The crank cam pathways are awesome.
To some of the other commenters... sometimes, making something "the best" isn't an engineer's goal... it's rather to explore an alternative design approach to an old problem. Try something new to make a beautiful machine that's fun to use and look at.
Thanks for the wake up. Seems the longer I live; less I know. An amazing bike lesson.
!!Stunning video!! Crazy bikes, favorite ones impossible to say really, the ingenuity of mankind still blows me away, and i am in my 63rd year of age.
"This poor guy" is the man, the legend, Eric Barone
love the lock in the breadwinner bikes. Locks are such a trial and it's such an eloquent way to integrate it. I bet a bike thief would spend a couple minutes working out how the bike is actually chained up!
Frikkin awesome video Alee. super inspiring 'good tech'
bad side is a thief will try and jam it off regardless and then your looking at more than a callout to a locksmith. pretty though with the matching paintwork.
I agree with so many people below... they are so many clever and ingenious people out there. Fabulous...
What a wonderful and fascinating range of beautiful engineering and design this video contains!
Irrespective of one's preferences there's something amazing to catch the eye and fix the attention to!
Those utterly beautiful wooden frames were my personal favourite and I'm happy to have found this channel. Subscribed!
Thanks! The wooden bikes are gorgeous, I was so impressed with the finish on the Renovo I rode.
As a tandem rider, I was blown away by the convertible two to one or even four ( utterly bonkers) to one cycle.
I liked that custom fork and bag design. And second favourite was strapless bags. Mmm. Thank you for your work.
ShedMan +1 for strapless bags. Nothing cleaner on your frame.
Thanks very much for the shout out for wooden bikes and for including Sojourn Cyclery in your video.
I'm glad you found my video! Hopefully I'll have a wooden bike in my stable sometime soon.
Your vids are all-round excellent. Thankyou.
Glad you like them!
Such an amazing video. Best bike vids on internet. Thank you!!!
I'm always a sucker for modular designs, so the modular tandem bike for 1-4 riders has got to be my favourite. Thanks for sharing; I've never seen anything like these!
By far one of the coolest touring videos I've seen , great job
Big fan of black sheep bikes here especially his forks. Also shout out to oddity cycles (another Colorado builder) I got a custom bar stem combo from him in January.
What a fantastic video this was, I need more of this! :D
More to come!
@@Cyclingabout pretty impressive, I'm gonna look more into the custom bars,thank you
Great video love your style and the videos you make. You've inspired my wife and I to sell our trimaran and to go bike touring for a while :-)
That's awesome, have fun!
I really enjoyed this! I've done a fair bit of touring on a homemade bamboo and carbon fibre bike. Like you described the wooden bike: I have never ridden anything so smooth and comfortable, while staying stiff and responsive for efficiency.
How many kilometres have your bamboo bike endured?
Homemade bamboo tourer all the way! 15,000km in 3 years and counting; both on and off road.
James at Blacksheep built my tandem and I absolutely love it!!!
Great video.
I recently saw in St Mawes a touring tandem.
The rear seat was upright as normal.
The front seat was a recumbent position, feet further forward than the small diameter front wheel.
I'm not sure who steered and braked.
I suppose the big advantage is the rear rider has unobstructed vision over the top of the lowered forward person.
I ride a Moulton APB.
Just gotta love the unconventional inovations.
Keep safe everyone.
That could be a Hase Pino, Bilenky Viewpoint or Circe Morpheus. The rear rider has all the controls and riders can pedal independently.
That polar bike is stunning!
That Kish is absolutely gorgeous, I had never heard of them, now I want/need one.
Loved the woodies and the fat bike to the south pole (thanks for showing my airplanes in the background, KennBorek Air twin otters), and the rohloff stuff was totally mindblowing!,
I find myself asking... myself... why I haven't heard of Stringbike sooner. What an amazing concept.
Thanks for a great video and the accompanying idea concept.
The stringbike is a really cool design! Glad you liked the video. 👍🏻
where has quarantine lead me today...
Just awesome! So glad I subscribed to your channel.
That four-wheel fat bike is cool. I don’t do anything like this I just ride around but it would be really cool to have a bike like that to ride with.
Can you do a video on what you pack in your first aid kit....what you pack for spare parts and tools (emergency stuff)?
This list is absolutely amazing. Will do futher watching/reading on some of the stuff shown here.
Lovely, specially the last Moots where one can store whiskey in the frame. ;)
If you store water however, frost will make your bike explode
The string bike really is next level. It's so weird but beautiful.
It's simply mindboggling what can be done with a basically very well known set of parameters. Leaf spring front forks? Who'da thunk?
Okay, subscribed. Cheers from a boring derailleur bike rider in Vienna, Scott
I would insist on a 'quick-draw pump'. On a trip from Miami to Seattle I counted 23 dogs that were serious about biting my calf. The sum was actually higher, I only counted the serious ones. My air pump saved me every time.
Loving your channel! Just got back into cycling in a big way, and you've been a huge inspiration.
I'm stoked to hear that! Good luck with your new life chapter that incorporates bikes. 😎
Where there is will, there is a way. Or; where there is a wheel there is a way haha. Some amazing stuff has been invented, my favorite must be the fat bike with 4 wheels but I dont think I'll ever buy it.I might however have my saddle carved . Those saddles where beautiful. Thanks for making this content Alee.
As a luthier, I'd love to ride a wooden bike. I'd prefer to use redwood or cedar since those aren't attacked by termites, though.
I'll definitely be adding a wooden bike to my stable in the future. I'd love to build one myself with the guidance of a reputable builder!
Fascinating, thanks for sharing.
I prototyped a version of that string drive in the 1990s in my factory where I built the Lahar WChamps and 2 dozen National winning framegearbox bikes.
It had five moving parts, 800 percent infinitely variable ratios.
Much lighter than derailers.
Very low maintenance requirements, much lower than even gearboxes like the Rohloffs we used. Including with gold chains btw.
It's not a new idea, but eliminating all future repair profits from the industry unfortunately has always killed the best stuff.
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The cup/bell is double functional and probably the cheapest item.
just playing through ,mate .Nice video
LOVE this episode. You are the man.
I ride on a brooks saddle and once broke in are the most comfortable. I didn't know they were also the most beautiful.
That string drive was an amazing piece of engineering....
Nothing else like this, mate :)) BRAVO! ... over 10 years of documenting ? pfuah! 8-o
For lauhgs I made 2 reverse bells so that you can put one on top and one below both handles. Pushing the lever makes a different sound from releasing it so if you have 4 different bells you get to play tunes with 8 different sounds.
Fuel storage in tubes is surely the maddest thing going.
So many Out There cycle nerds its incredible, inginuity is the mother of invention as they say. 🚲👍
I saved this video even thought I did not see a single thing I am likely to use.
Lots of interesting stuff in this video. I'm just in the exploratory phase for touring bikes. It's a different world than being a roadie with carbon fiber everything.
Woodies! I want. I want! And the string drive is second just because it’s unique. My only concern is the exposure to off road debris but this is easily solved. Thank you! Good to see you’re still rolling.
I thought touring bikes where daggy. You just exposed me to a whole world of cool.
Reminds me of an old song against war: " What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING!"
i love that song
Rokon 2WD motorcycles explored liquid storage in the bike years ago. The primary way they did it was inside the wheel rims completely within the metal. And of course Bridgestone cycles used belt drives for years on their Albelt model before Gates marketed them. Ecclesiastes 1:9
... "there is no new thing under the sun". (Tongue in cheek when it comes to bikes of course).
Pair w Rolhoff. Interesting double tires on both sides for off path at beach but for the flat tire repairs.
Very amazing video. You put a lot of work into it 😎
FYI for the nerds... you can make your own Ti shotglass bell with a few parts from the hardware store (hose clamp, threaded coupler, spring steel, brass pin) and throwing your local fabrication shop a few bucks to weld up a piece of tube with a threaded stud.
No longer a cyclist but amazing to see how things have progressed since my Fat City Cycle days.
At a school in the Netherlands we have a Santos with the pinion 18 speed and rohloff 14 speed. ofcourse for educational purposes but its really fun to ride
Very excellent and informative. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! I have never seen any of these bikes so far!
"Bike nerd content" - this is the most fitting description for this video...😄✌️
The most crazy thing was seeing the rise of pedelecs the past years and another rider with a Rohloff Speedhub - he was only the second I saw the past 15 years in commuting traffic. 😉
Great video. Love the booze bike ha! Never heard of a string bike before too. Surely could be great for super remote touring as it's so easy to replace!
I didn't get a ride on the StringBike, but the bike nerd in me loves the out of the box thinking!
@@Cyclingabout I know. That's nuts. I wonder if theres any frames with built in solar panels yet.. always thought that's be useful on long tours! Or a whip out shower from the frame or slide out lounger chair.
I've seen panels integrated into a bike before... maybe Van Moof? The problem is there is very little surface area to get a decent amount of electricity... ok for a blinky light though!
CYCLINGABOUT must research now how the string integrates with the rear hub and offset cranks. I’d wonder about slippage in wet conditions and tuning. I love the idea of a balanced power train. Thank you for stealing yet another hour from my day 😉
Mash Code It’s a Hungarian thing... No slippage, the end of the strings are attached to the hub. There are two free hub bodies on both sides of the rear hub, locking and releasing with every crank revolution, giving an alternating pull/turn to the wheel.
We need another video of this
I need to see more pictures of that Firefly at 20 secs!
Full gallery here: www.flickr.com/photos/fireflybicycles/albums/72157709299462577
the most crazy invention for a touring bike is "Bikepacking". Instead of two 20 liter panniers installed low down, which you can click off your bike and take to your hotelroom,
you fasten 7-8 small bags, with velcro or screws all over the bike, totalling maximum 10 liters, given it a higher center of gravity, taking up space where your bottles should be or where you need to grab when lifting the bike and making it impossible to take your luggage to your room after placing the bike in the hotel storage.
I still call it bike touring and use my panniers.
I made a bras driking bell for my Brompton and use it in winter time. Cheers
Love it!
You are just a revelation. I don't know anything about any of these beautiful features on bikes but I can ride all day long and night. Have only had six bikes stolen this year.
@Cyclingabout Anodising is and electrolytic process used on aluminium to create a hard surface, colour can be added to the resulting porous surface. Hardcoating is darker. It is not a process to specifically add colour.
String bike takes it for me - hands down.
string drive, looks very clever indeed..
Anodizing also strengthens the aluminum to make it stronger than steel depending on the type of aluminum and the thickness of the anodizing!
Skip to 11:43 for the bike from the thumbnail.
Bless you
I like the convertible tandem since I broke up with my stoker! We had Rodriguez build us a wheel with a drag brake for ours. Nice people. Bike Friday also makes an extendible tandem/triple/etc. Also nice people.
Didn't know you can extend the Bike Fridays!
String bike was mind blowing.
I'd say that the quad fatbike is outdone by Maria Leijerstam's recumbent fat-bike, especially because it's a bike that you can just buy rather than being a specialized one-off kind of thing.
It's not super cheap, though, coming in at ~$5k at the start.
Features getting seriously out of hand? Sounds like competition in the market is getting stiff! That has to be GOOD for the rest of us. When you can't improve the basics, it's time to add some bells and whistles.
This was so awesome thank you!!!
Glad you liked it!
would never ride a wood bike, but quite cool!
Would love a video about velomobiles one day! :)
Ahh... unfortunately, I know so little about velomobiles & recumbents!
@@Cyclingabout It's never too late! If it comes out in a couple years that'll do it for me. It's such unrepresented part of cycling! The hour record has been destroyed, the 24h, the TransAm race, it's a whole new world of cycling and I would love for a mainstream creator to present it to a wide audiance in the way you so gracefully do :)
Couple mindblowing facts about the TransAM taken from cyclingtips: "Something to think about was that there was no sleep deprivation between Marcel Graber and Dave Lewis in the Velomobiles. They both got a good nights sleep every night.
Marcel first took the lead on the climbs in the Rockies and came over the last mountain pass first. Then he rode the next 97 mile, 6,000' descent to Pueblo Colorado in 90 minutes. The next day he headed out to the flat terrain of Kansas and rode 373 miles in 13 hours."
@@Filte I'll explore these bikes in-depth, sometime in the next decade! I'd love to cross a continent or two on a recumbent and share everything I learn along the way. But for the moment I'm riding lots of off-road stuff, so my interest and research when it comes to travel is focused squarely on upright bikes.
That said, if I ever take part in an ultra-endurance road event, there is a 100 per cent chance my bike will be a recumbent!
While I was heading home after a year cycling in Australia in 1994, I passed a couple in Fiji on a tandem who happenned to be from Montreal, 200km from my home in Ottawa who were heading towards the Nullarbor plain. I was envious because I hadn't had time (or equipment) to cover that. They were very well prepared. He was a fibreglass boat builder and had constructed a 22-litre custom fibreglass water tank that fit in the tandem frame with drinking hoses/bulbs for each of the riders. I'd love to find out who they were and how that trip worked out.
That sounds amazing!
gotta love the maths on that couplers stem lol
Insane bikes
the famous Japanese wave saddle would look frellin awesome on my mtb, all the saddles look good, for me i like all the saddles as it's one part of the bike that is important but hard to customise on a permanent basis.
that rear hub gear system would be awesome
at 2:30 is pretty much the cleanest weld I've ever seen.
I'm literally touring with my city-bike at the moment. It works fine...as long as it's flat-ish.
The tándem bike is my favorite
The shot glass bell is it !
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Welcome aboard!
@@Cyclingabout I'm very happy to be a part of your adventure, please also guide me as well. I'll be starting soon bicycling tour in India.
OMG how casual i am in cycling
wide gear range .
great vid as always !
3000%! 😎
So interesting, thanks for this!
Thanks for watching!
The convertible tandem bike!
Very random & cool indeed
What about that guy who Unicycled 2,500 Miles Across Southeast Asia!
Fun fact: You don't need any of this. Get a good steel frame that fits your size, good wheels, Schwalbe marathons, high-quality gear, something similar to Ortliebs and that's about it. Bike touring should be about experiencing yourself in this thing we call nature - not about the stupid fancy gear.
But this video was made specifically to show off the world's most outrageous touring gear!
@@Cyclingabout You are right. I didn't mean to offend you but there is a certain equipment fetish in touring channels that gets on my nerves. Just ride your bike and have a nice time.
@@nicosaameli8375 I love the gear related side of touring, but yeah, you definitely don't need it to see the world.
@@Cyclingabout Thats ok. I posted my original comment because I think the gear side makes a lot of people think that they can't afford touring. But I'm not trying to tell you what do make your videos about.