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In some areas of collecting, "rare" automatically equates to "valuable". For example, if you're collecting Jefferson nickels, the common way to do so is to try to collect one of each year and mint mark. In that case, the 1950D is the rarest, and that makes it more valuable. Well, people...

Ideally, the two wheels would have to turn at different angles when steering. If they are just maintained parallel to each other, they won't all be rotating about a point. As to how much difference this makes, who knows. A tandem truck has the same issue with the rear wheels and seems to work...

The Rans company builds airplanes and recumbent bicycles. Per the website, http://rans.com/about-us.html , they were "Established in 1973 on the plains of western Kansas to build Sailtrikes"- which were tricycle sailbikes. There's a picture of one on that link.

Re: Omaru Cycle Works old bikes in New Zealand http://www.cokercycles.com (pneumatic 36" tired cycles) http://www.hiwheel.com (regular old style solid-rubber-tired cycles)

Does it have a pneumatic tire? Replica high-wheel bicycles are currently available, and go for $1200 or so new. I may be mistaken, but I think all of them had a fixed hub, not a coaster hub. Both the originals and all of the replicas have solid rubber tires. Coker introduced a smaller...

I put a generator hub and headlight on my bike for randonneuring. Disadvantage: Cost. I've got a $700 light on a $900 bike. That's a Sun Delux 20 or something like that, with an Edelux light. Advantage: You can ride all night, see the road, and not run out of batteries. Drag is so little, I...

Every once in a while, I've seen some sort of old pedicab pop up on Craigslist. Sometimes that style, sometimes, the rider-in-back style. Some things to consider. They're usually single-speed, so you're pretty well limited to flat land. They're made in China or some other faraway place...

I understand Coker actually came up with that tire size for the Wheelman bike, which was a penny-farthing style, then also made the unicycle and their Monster Cruiser. I say "made" because they sold them, but I think they just had the bikes made overseas. A couple of years ago, I saw some...

The old "can't go fast enough to get IN the draft!" problem...I've had that problem, too.

My current bike is a Raleigh Sojourn, other stuff has pretty much taken a back seat to it. I've taken up randonneuring in the last couple of years, and just recently got my Super Randonneur award and just this last week, finished a 1200k, the Texas Rando Stampede. So yes, I do a bit of road...

To put things in perspective here, I bought a new Raleigh Sojourn a while back. It came with Vittoria Randonneur Cross tires in 35x700 size. I now have 12,900 miles on that bike, am on my 3rd rear tire and 2nd front tire, and have zero flats in that time. So if you're trying to eliminate...

I live a bit over a mile from the bike shop. It's where I bought my Raleigh Sojourn. I started riding with their Saturday non-drop ride several years ago. (I haven't been on it much lately due to doing lots of randonneuring stuff on weekends!) A good shop, service dept has been booked up the...

I saw these a while back on another site. There was much discussion about whether some of them were photoshopped or intentionally piled up for the photo.

Do you mean the criterium races or the bigwheel races in between?

My Raleigh Sojourn came with the aged Brooks. Works fine, but I don't have any experience with regular Brooks to compare it to. On theft..just don't leave it unattended for long.

You may need to resize the pictures using your camera software, you don't necessarily need a 5 megabyte picture file. Try posting some on this thread and let us see what is happening.

On my good bike, I generally don't leave it untended, or if I'm on a randonneuring ride and other riders aren't along, I'll have a cable lock so at least people can't just hop on it and take off. When I go to the store with my Worksman or something, I'll take a U-lock. Yes, it can be cut...

Would this count? (Not mine, I've just seen pictures before.) http://steampunkworkshop.com/the-brass- ... -recumbent The main problem is that recumbents aren't cheap to begin with, so you hate to go messing one up if it's in any shape at all.

The rim itself doesn't look like Worksman rim. I'm assuming a 20" rim would be similar to a 26" rim.

One thing to note is that if you can't find gears just exactly the right size, you could raise that center gear a bit to adjust the spacing. That could be a real finger-removal operation, too. I remember Sheldon Brown commenting how one of the hazards of fixed-gear bikes was that they were...