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  • Started 5 years ago by dessert rat
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  1. dessert rat
    Member

    Whilst Google street-viewing downtown Khartoum earlier I came across this gem.

    - Double rear-shocks
    - DH forks
    - fat rear tyre
    - cup holder

    Looks all set for an afternoon at Glentress.

    Downtown Khartoum streetview
    Ready for anything

    Posted 5 years ago #
  2. dessert rat
    Member

    not that anyone cares, but the same bike appears in more than one pic on google street view - i suspect this is what the Google Streetviewer-taker was using.

    adapt to your surroundings

    Much better view of the cupholder in this one, plus his left crank appears to be a) cracked and b) physics-defyingly-offset.

    editing for spelling

    Posted 5 years ago #
  3. Frenchy
    Member

    his left crack

    Don't think I paid enough attention in Human Biology...

    Proper go-anywhere bike that.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  4. unhurt
    Member

    Whilst Google street-viewing downtown Khartoum earlier

    as you do... (OK, I admit to doing similar in parts of northern Canada - always a bit frustrating when it's just photosphere and you can't virtually poke about the streets though)

    Posted 5 years ago #
  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Liking the chain wrapped round the front of the frame. Could be;

    1) Decorative
    2) A weapon
    3) The leash for the dude's pet hyena

    Posted 5 years ago #
  6. gembo
    Member

    Rainy Season in Khartoum? I thought Google only took pics in sunshine?

    Posted 5 years ago #
  7. acsimpson
    Member

    Great infrastructure priorities. Get the bike parking sorted first.

    I'd be more worried about the frame in that picture than the crank.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  8. dessert rat
    Member

    only a few 100m to the West is this beauty

    Also a lovely looking location for a spot of wild swimming

    Any takers ?

    Posted 5 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    'Presidential Villas'. Very good.

    @unhurt is our resident wild swimmer? Views? Presumably the flying pylon is an artifact?

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. unhurt
    Member

    Can't recommend swimming there. Might accidentally slip between realities, and that's always uncomfortable.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. unhurt
    Member

    I had coffee too late and I'm not sleepy so I have been streetviewing at random (photosphere really, no real streetview coverage in Kazakhstan yet) and not only does Karagandy have an EcoMuseum, within it I have spotted a twin recumbent trike bike thing!

    https://goo.gl/maps/DF1XE832p4J2

    Quite pleased. May be up late.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. unhurt
    Member

    (Lots of interior photosphere stuff for some reason. Including this rather cool but also slightly creepy giant chess room at a school: https://goo.gl/maps/qi46c4mo6ey )

    Posted 5 years ago #

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