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one ugly bike
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updated 11 years, 11 months ago
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I’ve seen similar a few years ago. Didn’t really catch on as with a TT bike, your saddle height would, in effect, go up and down with any decent bump.
Plus, of course, it looks f’stupid! 🙄
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Can’t believe it, I first saw these about 14 to 16 years ago, never caught on as Steve said, however the ones I saw weren’t only TT bikes…………
Well, when I say saw, it was in a magazine……….. 🙂
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Wasn’t it called a Smart, or summat, Gunner?
Wouldn’t really trust sitting on that carbon fibre tree stump. I’d always be worried about it snapping and my jewels heading south! 😕
Talking about the ‘revolutionary failures’, remember the Kirk Precision frame? Made out of cast magnesium and tested on ‘Tomorrow’s World’ by running a lorry over it. Steve Poulter, a GB pro, rode one for a while. Very rigid and very light, but with no give or response.
Someone (I think it was John Herety) said that it was like riding a 5-bar gate with a wheel at either end! 😆
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Could have been called Smart, all I know is I didn’t really like the look of it.
What you’ve got to remember however is that when I saw these in the mags, it was before even front suspension became de-rigeur for mtb’s.
These were an early attempt at suspension and obviously people were very skeptical………..
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I remember now – called an Allsop flexi-tube. 😀
Suspension – I recently saw on Ebay one of those suspension quill stems. They were hinged at the join and had a hard rubber insert between both halves that you could change, depending on how hard you wanted the response to be. Called a Girvin Flexi-Stem, IIRC.
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Yep, I remember the Girvin Flexi Stem very well, retailed for about £90 back in the days. I didn’t have one, but remember that a lot of interest in them in the magazines back then, MTB Pro, etc., etc.
Lot of the feedback was that the disks cracked very easily, they were colour coded so that you could insert a specific disk to affect ride qaulity depending on terrain severity……………
This is what they looked like:
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😯 😯 😯
That’s not ugly – it’s fugly ❗
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Wasn’t it called a Smart, or summat, Gunner?
Alsopp??? (or similar?)
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Yup, Allsop – see my earlier post.
I did hear that this was made by the same Allsop that made those tape-head cleaners when we all used compact cassettes – or is this just another ‘urban legend’?
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Yup, Allsop – see my earlier post.
Sorry, missed that 😳
I seem to recall that road/TT & MTB frames were available 😕
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