Bikes I likes

[MattiThundrrr]

But that Jeffrey Epstein reference ……..

Doesn't make me feel confident buying a kid bike...

 

[user 35233]

That is soooo phuncky! I love it. But that Jeffrey Epstein reference ……..

Checked. Mello room. I forget at fifty something that I may still be the least mature.

 

[Lowe Beau]

Checked. Mello room. I forget at fifty something that I may still be the least mature.

Oh I didn’t mean it in that way. I’m just implying that that guy…just did some really bad things to people. But I’m in no way trying to censor you by any means. No finger wagging here…

 

[MattiThundrrr]

This is a special thing. This might be the second oldest Brodie in existence:
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1986-brodie-115.461499/

 

[MattiThundrrr]

This is awesome. Repack on a prewar Schwinn

 

[Kevin B]

Very good video. Really put it in perspective when he said, "My brakes are fading heavily now."

 

[MattiThundrrr]

4,150 bikes later, this is what Paul came up with:

https://bikerumor.com/nahbs-2015-paul-brodies-winning-cityutility-bike/

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

"brakes are only good for about 4 or 5 seconds" then proceeds to hammer into the downhill. haha

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I guess I'm sounding a bit like a Brodie fan boy, but it makes me so happy that he's back at it

 

[Ulu]

4,150 bikes later, this is what Paul came up with:

https://bikerumor.com/nahbs-2015-paul-brodies-winning-cityutility-bike/

I think it was you that started me watching Paul Brodie. His videos are just wonderful.

 

[ingola]

I guess I'm sounding a bit like a Brodie fan boy, but it makes me so happy that he's back at it

But you are a Brodie fan boy

 

[Ulu]

Yeah, I'm surprised his avatar isn't Brodie, instead of some imaginary childhood villain.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

some imaginary childhood villain.

Watch out, he's older than you

 

[Ulu]

I used to watch Batman on TV in 1966. My little cousins used to dress up in “capes” and run around the house yelling things like BAMMO! KAPOW!

I am afraid that after the age of 12, it wasn’t as magical anymore.

I was a lot more interested in the movie cars themselves though. I had seen George Barris’s work for many years in the Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines that my dad used to buy.

Of course back then Barris was doing cars for rich play boys, and I was really more interested in the cars Ed Roth was building.

 

[ingola]

Yeah, I'm surprised his avatar isn't Brodie, instead of some imaginary childhood villain.

If you knew Matti the Joker is spot on.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I'll have a little bit of everything...

Well, almost everything

 

[MattiThundrrr]

This is cool. Matti like. Crazy that it's priced higher than a Kona bike from the same era

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-art-collectibles/gatineau/kona-mountain-bike-porcelain-sign/1655111660

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Holy smokes @ingola I think I found something cooler than that BSA...
WW1 Bianchi Spring Frame folding bike.
(Modelo Militaire Brevetatto)

Folks, that's a suspension fork and frame with bikepacking bags and swept back risers. From 1912. Modern bikes are a hundred and ten years behind this

 

[Ulu]

It wasn’t very long between the perfection of bicycles and the perfection of the motor car, both following from good old Eli Whitney. Interchangeable parts made it all work.

We went from thousands of years of horseback cavalry, to a very few years of bicycle cavalry, to the modern motorized infantry and air cavalry.

That was a very romantic time in bicycling.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh snaaaap. This one has dropped 500$

https://m.pinkbike.com/buysell/3589182/