vanhulsteijn - not strictly retro but....

[neuroportal]

First of all, I apologise for the pic. The cameraphone seemed to have a fit and not produce the image correctly!

This is the second unusual and interesting bike I have seen in the last two trips to Morrisons.

It is fitted out with 600 Arabesque. very arresting bike. The guy who owned this came up as I was taking a shot. He did the Cat and Fiddle the other week, so I dare say some of you have seen this already.

Worth a picture, I'm just sorry for the cut out part.

 

[swos]

Very strange but also nice bike

 

[Spokesmann]

The sort of bike only its designer could like....

 

[hamster]

Must flex like hell when you are pedalling hard seated... :?

 

[foz]

I kind of like it, in a strange way... did the owner tell you anything about it? tubing? maker?

 

[Carabo]

Van Hulsteijn make their bikes in their own workshop. Website doesn's say anything about what tubing is used. Very elegant looking bikes I think and certainly nonconforming. Seen their bikes around Eindhoven two years ago (prototypes I guess), good to see they're still going

 

[Carabo]

Links (not allowed in a first post)

Website:
http://www.vanhulsteijn.com/?gclid=CPmj ... oQ#/bikes/
Blog:
http://vanhulsteijn.tumblr.com/page/1

 

[Goldie]

Is the shiny bit up front the exposed fork steerer? I really like it; with all those sweeping curves, it looks very graceful.

Good work on just popping down to the supermarket on it too

 

[stevenc]

I saw one "in the wild" a few days ago. I had my doubts when I saw it on a picture but now I'm sure that I don't like it. The curves of the frame make it very retro yet the components are all of the flashy green hipster kind.

 

[Elev12k]

Is the shiny bit up front the exposed fork steerer?

I doubt and I hope it isn't. If so I would think you would have continious play in your headset and dirt and moist could enter easily into the lower cup. Moreover a not so stiff front end would be likely.