Wheelie odd

Colin Blackburn said:

As I was waiting to get on the train at Newcastle this morning a you
lad got off the train with a set of bike forks with two wheels
attached. Each wheel (they looked 26"😉 was attached monoblade style to
the outside of each tine of the fork. I assumed he had bolted them
there as it made it easy to carry a fork and two wheels but might it
have been for something odder?

I used to work with a chap who raced in the 1950s. Apparently in those
days they would ride out to events on normal road wheels, carrying their
racing wheels (sprints and tubs) on wheel carriers on the front fork.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use them for real.

Mike

Colin Blackburn said:

As I was waiting to get on the train at Newcastle this morning a you
lad got off the train with a set of bike forks with two wheels
attached. Each wheel (they looked 26"😉 was attached monoblade style
to the outside of each tine of the fork. I assumed he had bolted them
there as it made it easy to carry a fork and two wheels but might it
have been for something odder?

It's a Segway for minimalists...

(dies)

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Colin Blackburn said:

As I was waiting to get on the train at Newcastle this morning a you
lad got off the train with a set of bike forks with two wheels
attached. Each wheel (they looked 26"😉 was attached monoblade style
to the outside of each tine of the fork. I assumed he had bolted them
there as it made it easy to carry a fork and two wheels but might it
have been for something odder?

Colin

tine ? blade ?

Mike K Smith said:

I used to work with a chap who raced in the 1950s. Apparently in those
days they would ride out to events on normal road wheels, carrying their
racing wheels (sprints and tubs) on wheel carriers on the front fork.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use them for real.

Sprint carriers. I used those in the late 1960s.

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Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

Martin Newstead said:

Colin Blackburn said:

As I was waiting to get on the train at Newcastle this morning a you
lad got off the train with a set of bike forks with two wheels
attached. Each wheel (they looked 26"😉 was attached monoblade style
to the outside of each tine of the fork. I assumed he had bolted them
there as it made it easy to carry a fork and two wheels but might it
have been for something odder?

Colin

tine ? blade ?

and?

Dave Kahn said:

Mike K Smith said:

I used to work with a chap who raced in the 1950s. Apparently in those
days they would ride out to events on normal road wheels, carrying their
racing wheels (sprints and tubs) on wheel carriers on the front fork.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use them for real.

Sprint carriers. I used those in the late 1960s.

Someone in one of our local clubs still uses them, as he cycles to all
the events he races