Imlach's Sweaty Hippie Funk Collection, adventure bikes, rusty rats, cruisers and other alt bastardisations of bicyclery

[Imlach]

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[MattiThundrrr]

What makes the stooge a tracker

Aren't speedway bicycles normally skinny tyred

I don't know really know. They claim it's inspired by them? I'm interested because it really looks like something we could be doing with some old Canadian bikes.

 

[Imlach]

I don't know really know. They claim it's inspired by them? I'm interested because it really looks like something we could be doing with some old Canadian bikes.

I imagine it's all just an offshoot of speedway riding. Was quite popular after the war. I know it was popular here too, probably originated in Britain?

 

[Imlach]

Not sure about the frame design but I imagine that was just to give it more of a MC look, kind of rough and tumble? Modern speedway bikes seem to be far more road adjacent

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

Happy new journey round the sun retrobikers hope everyone had a good Xmas ect this is my first post on Rb for 2024 and it obviously had to be one for this thread, so if it hasn’t popped up yet here’s a proper mullet

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

I would definitely snap that frame in 2 mins going down a kerb

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

Are trackers just a British term for the early botch pre mtbs

what did the repackers in the us actually call their bikes did the use the tracker name aswell or just klunkers

I don't know really know. They claim it's inspired by them? I'm interested because it really looks like something we could be doing with some old Canadian bike

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I imagine it's all just an offshoot of speedway riding. Was quite popular after the war. I know it was popular here too, probably originated in Britain?

I know @Nabeaquam (welcome back, old Dawg, get well soon) was working on a bike inspired by the post war crater racing done in Europe. He had information about it in the Netherlands and England. There's interesting stuff in the Stooge article and the thread here about young guys putting together their own rides and getting out in the woods. Some good history that gets overshadowed by the shameless self promotion of the Marin county crew

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Happy new journey round the sun retrobikers hope everyone had a good Xmas ect this is my first post on Rb for 2024 and it obviously had to be one for this thread, so if it hasn’t popped up yet here’s a proper mullet

Dude, when I couldn't sleep last night, I started wondering when the last time the FlyingCircus had been around. Probably eerily close to when you posted... I'm all weirded out!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

what did the repackers in the us actually call their bikes did the use the tracker name aswell or just klunkers

They called them klunkers. It's where that term originated. They also used the term bombers. The non MTB term for the fat tire style of bike they modified were called ballooners