Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
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Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
100 years ago Edward 'Ryko' Reichenback cycled 3000k across the outback over 4 weeks ... That'd be pretty good going by todays standards, he must have been pretty tough. He was 21 at the time ... anyway here is is.
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
He looks proper tough!
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
Why does he have a carburettor hanging from the crossbar I wonder?
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
Is that what powers that massive spot lamp?
Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
Check out those spindly cranks too.
Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
I think it's a stove. Primus made one that clamped to the top tube.Why does he have a carburettor hanging from the crossbar I wonder?
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
I imagine that's an acetylene lamp, so you're rightIs that what powers that massive spot lamp?
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
Frame bag, truss fork and dirt drops
No new idea is new in reality
No new idea is new in reality
Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
Rigid - and a truss fork at that, singlespeed, curvy handlebars.
See how far we've come in 100 years
Edit - damn beaten to it
See how far we've come in 100 years
Edit - damn beaten to it
Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
Did wonder if it was an acetylene pump/reservoir... image search revealed many similar bike lights but none with that 'remote' from the lamp. Still, in the vein of Ben & Ian's posts above, could be the 'next big thing' ; LED lighting? Pah, I've got 1000,000 lumen acetylene!
(And maybe not beyond the bounds of possibility : https://www.flickr.com/photos/cat_littl ... 824087501/
also see http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46193 for a novel way to keep them going when the water in the carbide reservoir ran out )
(And maybe not beyond the bounds of possibility : https://www.flickr.com/photos/cat_littl ... 824087501/
also see http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46193 for a novel way to keep them going when the water in the carbide reservoir ran out )
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
I wonder whether he's actually got a couple of items bolted on the TT? The bike on the left in the bottom pic clearly has a pipe running from the lamp to something behind the bars.
Could be.I think it's a stove. Primus made one that clamped to the top tube
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Re: Adelaide to Darwin 100 years ago.
No I know where Ive been going wrong Its not waterbottle that I need ... its a flask
2924 miles per Gallon