So where does it come from? Wiki says ??? Google just tries to sell me one (or more) from differing manufacturers....
Anyne know? Cheers, Dave C
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Where does the name Langster come from?
(21 posts)- Started 12 years ago by DaveC
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Very good Chdot... :D I'm still non the wiser. Was it named after and guy who refused to use gears or something???
Does it describe the style of frame??
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THere's a place in Austria called Langster. No idea if it's related to the bike.
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"I'm still non the wiser."
Me neither.
I'd always assumed it was 'obvious'.
As in - well known person or place or?
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It was a cross between Bernhard Langer the German golfer and Richard Sangster the race horse owner.
I thought all these names were just made up?
I would buy one for Balerno called the Lang Whangster
on topic - It is quite a heavy single speed and can take rack and mudguards but you would have to watch out for hills
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They call the kids bikes Hot Rocks....I always thought that was the holes in my t shirt after a night on the "tiles".
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I used to tell the kids not to wear the shell suits, very highly combustible if anything fell out and they were too zonked to notice but they never listened
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Cheers, Still non the wiser....
I was looking at Hotrocks last night on t'interweb. They cost a fortune new (for our 4.5 year old) only to have him grow out of it in a couple of years.
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I saw a Trek 60 Mountain Trail (20 inch wheels) on ebay @36* quid last night. I bid on it but it ended at 63* something. Plus 20* postage (it was 180 miles away). Shame really, my eldest loves riding off road but his heavy cheep full sus bike weights more than my Dawes Galaxy! [pound sign not working on citrix atm].
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Most gangsters in movies are wee guys. There must have been a tall gangster at some point and therefore you have the langster. 'Lang' as in the Glesgae long! How's that?
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I checked this last year when I considered a purchase.
I believe it was named after Don Langley.
He was a track racer, and then became a Spesh employee. No idea if it was his 'design' or not.
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I guess we'll never know.
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You can find confirmation that it's named after Don Langley in a Specialized catalogue from 2010 here where it says that it is "First bike named after a person working at Specialized (aka, Don ‘The Langster’ Langley)".
He's listed as their Road Product Manager so unlikely to have designed it but was maybe heavily involved in its design.
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gembo: "I would buy one for Balerno called the Lang Whangster"
Ha! I don't think that would be acceptable in the US though.
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+1 for a Lang Whangster. Speaking along the lines of locally-themed bikes, Whyte have a bike called the Portobello. But you could confuse that for a mushroom.
What other local features would the class name bicycles after?
West Coates Crescenter - extra fat tyres, long-travel forks and suspension seatpost?
Innocenti - aerodynamic frame for the freewheel game. Pucnture-proof, goo-filled tyres?
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The Drummond Placino - with square wheels to cope with the "road" "surface". Or at least take your mind off it.
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The 'Telford Red Line', with charred paintwork and dripping-burnt-rubber decorations like those heavily-dribbled bottle-candles in pubs.
A 'WoLbuster Special' with a giant metal train-style snowplough on the front for scooping dogs out of the way.
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The 'Telford Red Line', with charred paintwork and dripping-burnt-rubber decorations like those heavily-dribbled bottle-candles in pubs.
The frame could be cunningly fashioned out of smashed Buckfast bottles?
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Princes XT* - a tricycle shod with Pugley-width tyres, as 100% insurance against tram-related offs.
*X-track
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"Leith Walk Warrior" with huge 4.7" tyres (like the new Surly) to glide effortlessly over the crater-strewn bus lanes and right over the top of the double and triple parked cars; an air horn to help you to be noticed by u-turning private hire cars, buses, lorries and the multitude of jaywalking pedestrians; bull bars up front to clear determined peds out of the way and deal with abusive drunkards; power-assisted steering to execute the tricky manoeuvres necessary to reach ASZs without colliding with the vehicles cutting you up at the lights.
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Innertubester.
Each tube in the frame a different colour. The next time you need to refer to one of the tubes by handy colour, instead of the confusing terms like "top tube" (the one on top) or "seat tube" (the one the seat goes in).
Imagine how simple it would be to say "I've got a cracked yellow tube" or "do you have one of those thingummers that connects the whotsit to the widget on the purple tube?"
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