Other than a Viscount/Lambert , what do people ride?

BSA (think it's an R6) 3-speed with gear hub stamped March 1964 in 40-spoke back wheel, and Dynohub built into 32-spoke front wheel. Bought it as a hack and going-to-work bike in 1993. Now use it for canal towpaths and general knocking-about on.

Also have my eye on that 3-speed Viscount Pullman . . . and watching the price come gradually down!!

As you know, I have a 3-speed sit-up-and-beg mamachari. Shimano Nexus hub gear and front hub dynamo. Great bike for rain or short urban trips. On the heavier side, but love it to bits.

I quite like a Koga Miyata. Particularly when specs are good: TA chain set and Shimano 600 group set. Seen at a bike recently, but the frame was bent.

Oh, that would be exciting. Didn't know you were in Japan. How interesting. I have friends over there. Not sure if you knew that I worked in a bike shop here in London that only sells mamacharis, so I'm very familiar with their quirks. Fantastic sturdy bikes, and you're right, in Japan everyone rides step through. Although there are some very subtle differences--some bikes are indeed step through for men. :-)
Mine is a more 'modern' one, a Bridgestone Lococo. I test rode it over the weekend after servicing it (the shop sells second hand bikes), and promptly fell in love, so I didn't give it back.

Speaking of test-riding: I went to visit the shop I'll have an interview at next week. The owner looked at my brand-spanking new Viscount and asked if he could take it for a spin. Of course I let him, proud as. He really enjoyed it and was VERY impressed with the sharp brakes. I basically floated out of the shop.

I've been quite tempted to drop the seller of the Pullman a line and offer what I believe to be a sensible price...however, I have no shed space at all (and I have now moved on to my Son's shed which really isn't fair) . I do feel it is different enough to justify owning it and riding it just to go to the shops etc. I think it would be fun.
I think it's in York (?) which is also just a bit too long of a run to fetch on a Saturday morning, It would be more of a full day trip.

Let me see, excluding the Viscounts,the operational machines in my storage facility are;-
Tony Oliver road bike.
Tony Oliver tandem.
Ex's Tony Oliver ladies tourer.
Monoc road bike,Campag record 10. Not used much as a harsh ride,18mm tyres.
Kirk Revolution, the only mountain bike I've ever owned! Harsh ride, frame as stiff as!!!!!
Peter Ross Trice trike dating from 1989. Currently dressed up as my soap box racer.
W & E Pollard 531 frame tourer,usable but in need of another respray.
2 Clifton Cycles,'50's-60's bikes from a very small Birkenhead builder in the process of rebuild.
An F frame 1964 Moulton delux.
So many bikes, not enough decent weather to ride them!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers,
Pete.
Ps. I know I have a problem.
It's called storage.

Uhh, thanks, Bendo. Yes, that's a very typical mamachari, which I'd recognise everywhere now, though the basket is unusual. The same material is normally used for the mama bikes (with integrated child seat). Looks very much like a 26" bike. White-walled tyres are also rather typical, so is the skirt and chain guards. Looks in pretty good nick. Did you ride it? I'm soon getting a centre stand for mine, don't like the kickstand too much.
Did you know that they often have a two-material frame? Alloy and steel and they're glued together. This one looks like such a bike as alloy's TIG-welded with large, ugly connections.

Gee, do I sound like a show-off or what? lol That's four months of working exclusively on mamacharis. Forgive me.

Wow, so many new topics that I missed while being inattentive. I really like the idea of retaining the "old" as in Viscount but also mixing in the "new". Each have their pro's and cons. Bicycles are like ice cream. I've got my favorite flavors but there are so many to taste.

I've put way more miles on my Vitus 979 than anything else. Anodized aluminum is just a remarkably beautiful finish. Yes, it too has an aluminum fork. It's now my indoor winter sweat bike.
I've got a Kona Koa rigid mountain bike which I used primarily to haul my daughter around in the kid seat when she was little. Great fun!
I rode a Kestrel 500 sci carbon fiber tri bike for about 10 years (1999-2009). It handled poorly, was uncomfortable but at the time, the fastest bike I owned for racing triathlons.
I've since added a Trek Madone 5.2 which is a great riding, fast bike for the road and racing and a Motobecane Le Champion Sl Ti bike. I really like the ride of titanium and very esthetically pleasing with the brushed bare metal lugless frame.

Standardizing my fit and dimensions as close as possible has been the key to enjoying jumping between the different bikes. One thing that really makes the biggest difference in old vs new is not the weight or material or even shifting and gear range, but the handlebar width and drop. I've found the newer, wider (42 or 44cm) shallow drop bars to make a huge difference in comfort and stability compared to the old very narrow, deep drop standard issue Viscount bars. Putting the newer bars on my Pro and SS conversion have really made them the equal in comfort and fit to the newer bikes.

Made the wife happy with a new floor bike stand that holds 6 of the precious darlings in a little alcove area of the basement so they're no longer falling over on each other. I now refer to it as the "MAN ALCAVE". 

Tell her the bike on the turbo trainer will not be a Viscount. If that doesn't work,she should know by now that if you do use a Viscount
it'll be off to the pub before you know what's happened!!
That should sort it.
Cheers,
Pete.

The Viscount is my 5th bicycle ,
in order of purchase ...
Giant CRSA , bought for a LEJOG trip in 2010
Pashley Guv'nor , now converted to a 5 speed hub as I live close to the south downs I can't go very far without coming across a hill .
Specialized Rock hopper also because of the south downs ( will do the SDW this year )
1934 Raleigh Dawn 'X' for vintage rides I partake in
and now "Biscuit" my mystery Viscount

As some of you know I've had my Viscount from new 1978. My usual bike since 1999 is the Witcomb, a 1980s steel touring bike, bought second hand. Originally bought so that I had something to ride while the Viscount had its bottom bracket sorted (Argos in Bristol). Favoured for its load-carrying capacity, which became important in 2001 when the nipper was plonked in a child seat. I preferred a child seat secured to braze-ons over p-clips on the Viscount. Also I don't want to wear out the Viscounts 27" rims.
We also have a tandem, a beautiful Bob Jackson that was given to me! It looks very beautiful indeed since its refurb by Chris Hewitt, including respray in Leeds.

In a dark distant part of my mind that stores bike facts , I seem to think Viking had some link with Lambert right at the start?

Here's a recent 'resto' job I did on an early 90s Giant MTB. Someone had replaced the original wheels with a nice Mavic UST wheelset: fewest spokes I've ever had. Lots to like about it: steel, rigid box-crown forks, Deore groupset. I spent about 10x the purchase price updating the cockpit, rings, cables and so on. Learning about bar-end shifters was fun. 9 speed rear cassette feels pointless though (previous owner's upgrade). 8 would have been plenty.

Had thought it for my son to ride to high school next year, but alas! my grasp of MTB frame geometry was shaky. I looked at the short headtube and assumed it was a small frame. Little did I know they all have "small' frames! Even though it has a horizontal top tube so is not strictly speaking a 'compact' frame, this bike's geometry is nonetheless similar in that the taller rider is accommodated by how far out all the bits stick out of the frame: to whit—loooong seat post and massively long riser handlebar stem. It wasn't until I put the new cockpit in (with v short stem) and got my son on it, at which point I saw he still could hardly reach the bars, that I measured the top tube: 59cm! No wonder.

Anyway, now I have a fun little cyclocross/gravel™ bike which he will grow into one day anyway. Posca pen art by me, inspired by the scribblings of Dario Pegoretti. Some more pics here.