San Fairy Ann Cycle Club

Further to the 'New Bike Thread' and 'Show us your MTB's' elsewhere on the forum, I thought it might be fun to start a new thread
As we are all keen committed cyclists who would like to maintain (or even improve) on the high level of fitness we already posess, it would be interesting to see who hired or borrowed what bike, whilst they were away on their holidays.
My offering in the category, is one of many similar machines that was available to guests at our holiday destination. Afficionados amongst you will note that it was fixed wheel and needless to say had no brakes, no gears, and indeed the words Shimano, Campagnolo and SRAM were foreign in more than one sense of the word, (incidentally the seat post was also of fixed height and couldn't be adjusted).
John, I know that I ought to say right here that any comments re: I should have bought it home for club runs, or indeed my TT times would come down on it wouldn't be appreciated

Colin, your time trial times would come down on a unicycle! ... talking of which:

well at least Colin cant cheat by sitting on the edge of the trampoline John hahaha sorry had to point that out

Thanks Michael, I was hoping you wouldn't notice ... obviously the thought "There's no way that John can do that" made you look closely!

Actually if im totally honest i thought you were actually doing it i was quite amazed i had to look quite closely to discover your secret

I think I'd have missed it as well, must be these youngsters with their good eyesight!

Here are some pics of me and my brother on hols in France a couple of years ago on some "velo humouristique". Essentially there were a whole variety of pretty much unrideable bikes available for playing on. Off centre hubs, cranks on the back wheel, reverse steering, you get the idea. My particular favourite was the one my brother and I are riding. Sort of a push me pull you of the bike world. It wasn't easy, but we managed a couple of laps in both directions!

I think this "theme park" was called "Parc du Pierre Brune", but we renamed it "the park that health and safety forgot". I'm not complaining, but the whole park was full of dangerous and unattended "stuff" and there just seemed to be a refreshing theme of use at your own risk.

We had a laugh anyway. Sorry about the poor quality pics by the way, but you get the idea.

Haha! Those are brilliant - the French are pretty good at creating useless but interesting artefacts for the casual visitor I actually thought they were stationery items concreted to the ground - how can you possibly ride them!!???

I would post you a picture of the bikes that I used for a bit of (serious) mountain biking whilst on holiday in the South of France the last two weeks, but after me and my brothers had finished with them, most of the parts had fallen off, the tyres had either shredded or lost 90% of the tread blocks and we had decided that they really weren't designed for serious mountain biking and certainly weren't worthy of a photograph!

Word of warning to future holiday goers: if the marketing for your holiday says "comes with 4 fully functioning, road worthy adult bikes" make sure your expectations are low!

Colin - MY MAN, I knew you could be converted to the fixed wheel.

Here's my new winter commuter with uphill diesel assistance. No brakes and an interesting pedalling style but it was the stand that really hooked me. Photo taken after my first ride, before perfecting the pedalling and braking technique (hence the puddle).