What is a Toruing Bike?

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What is a Toruing Bike?

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Seems like Thorn have one for sale, must be unique

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/bikes/thorn ... -bike-new/

Toruing bike
Toruing bike

( just incase they read this and change the advert) THEY DID

seems a good deal by the way?
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Ethical bike made from recycled tofu?
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A bike with torus-shaped wheels, obviously.
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staple travel method for that itinerant tribe known as 'Toruegs' ?

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A bullfighting bike.
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A touring bike that hasn't been put together properly. Perhaps the chainset is in the wrong way 'round so it could be a BB shelling mishtake.

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It's a marketing ploy to get lots of people to click on a link, it'll never work...
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Cugel wrote:A touring bike that hasn't been put together properly. Perhaps the chainset is in the wrong way 'round so it could be a BB shelling mishtake.

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A touring bike is any bike that takes panniers or a trailer.......

I have toured on a Brompton, Airnimal, various recumbent bikes and trikes, my Thorn raven and on one short tour, a delivery bike!
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For going up all those west country tors obviously.
mercalia wrote:
seems a good deal by the way?

Looks your size as well mercalia.....
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Cunobelin wrote:A touring bike is any bike that takes panniers or a trailer.......

I have toured on a Brompton, Airnimal, various recumbent bikes and trikes, my Thorn raven and on one short tour, a delivery bike!
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High on a cocktail of flossy teacakes and marmalade
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Toru ; Japanese verb 'to steal'

A Toru-ing bike must be one ridden by robbers then.

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Have they sold it yet?

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so there must be more than one of them then?
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